AudioClip "Load in Background" in Inspector obsolete too?

[Peter77]

5.6.0f1 changelog mentions the following change:

Audio: AudioClip is now always loaded on a separate thread, resulting in improvements to Scene loading time. This is because the rest of the Scene can be loaded while Audio Clips are decompressed. AudioClip.loadInBackground is now obsolete and no longer used.

The AudioClip Inspector still displays a “Load in Background” option, just like in the documentation here. The documentation also mentions:

Load in Background - If enabled, the audio clip will be loading in the background without causing stalls on the main thread. This is off by default in order to ensure the standard Unity behavior where all AudioClips have finished loading when the scene starts playing…

Is the “Load in Background” option in the AudioClip Inspector obsolete too or still used? If it’s obsolete, do you think it makes sense to remove the option from the UI and update the documentation accordingly?

[LeonhardP]

Hi Peter,
This feature is not stable yet and will be removed again.