On: Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance

[hxii]

The audio was sourced from pixabay, and is not looped.

The start and end points have gain faded in a curve, to avoid any clicking especially since the audio samples are not seamless.

Previously a second buffer was used for crossfading, but it doubles the memory consumption with very little benefit.

I was toying with the idea of synthesizing audio from smaller samples directly, but that's an idea for the future :)

[safaelmali → hxii]

Thanks for explaining! The memory tradeoff is interesting. Do the fades create a noticeable dip between samples, or do the other ambient sounds mask it?

[hxii → safaelmali]

The curve on both ends is very brief (20ms, so 40ms total) and is more to deal with any abrupt clicking.