How to avoid lag when using WWW class to download sound

Questions & Answers
1

i have the following code to load a sound from a server that works:

            string url = "some url";

            WWW www = new WWW(url);

            yield return www;

            atmosphereClips[scene][mood][sound] = www.oggVorbis;

But the problem with this code is that it lags a lot when it comes to "AudioClip someAudioClip = www.oggVorbis;" and it is not that big an ogg file that is being downloaded. I think it is because Unity

I have also tried to use WWW.audioClip which does not lag but as I have to download more than one sound in succession (to fill the atmosphereClips array) I don't think I can use that. I have not been able to detect when it was finished at least.

Hope someone has a better, more lag free way to do this.

2

from the answer:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/2422/yield-on-www-or-assetbundlerequest-or-both

i managed to prevent a lag when loading some audio with this (needs Unity pro for making asset bundle)

var Audiosrc : AudioSource;
Audiosrc = GetComponent(AudioSource);
var req : AssetBundleRequest; 

function Start () {

var www = new WWW ("http://path_to_Unity_assetbundle/tortoise02.unity3d");
yield www;

req = www.assetBundle.LoadAsync ("tortoise02", AudioClip);
yield req;

//Audiosrc.clip = www.assetBundle.LoadAsync ("tortoise02", AudioClip).asset; 
Audiosrc.clip = req.asset; 

if(!Audiosrc.isPlaying && Audiosrc.clip.isReadyToPlay){
Audiosrc.Play();

}
}
3

why dont you have that sound on client side, to avoid the Download, and avoid the bandwidth used for the download, i think that could help

4

The end solution proved to be to place the sound in the scene being loaded and only switch over to it when it had been completely loaded.