CDisc Music

🔊 Both voice plugins at once

A server with Simple Voice Chat and Plasmo Voice both installed had to pick one, and CDisc refused to start until it was told which. That was the wrong question: the two mods' users are different people, so choosing a backend was choosing which half of the server heard nothing.

Both are now used together. One jukebox is still decoded once, and a source is opened in every installed voice plugin, so whichever mod a player brought, the music arrives. voice-backend: auto does this by itself when both are present; multi asks for it explicitly, and naming simplevoicechat or plasmovoice still pins it to one.

Players who have both mods installed would hear the track twice, a few milliseconds apart — a flanging smear worse than either feed alone. So each listener is handed to a single backend and filtered off the others, reworked once a second as people connect and disconnect their voice mod. Nobody is filtered off a backend unless another one is already reaching them.

Simple Voice Chat starts later than Plasmo does, on its own startup event, so it joins a broadcast that may already be playing: anything mid-track gains its Simple Voice Chat source on the spot, with the distance, speaker settings and carrier it missed replayed onto it.

The cost is one Opus encode per playing jukebox per voice plugin. The track itself is decoded once regardless.

🎤 Lyrics stopped piling up over the jukebox (Issue #7)

Leave a song playing, walk away, come back, and the words over the jukebox were there twice. Then three times, then six: a stack of frozen lines from different points in the track, overlapping into an unreadable block that nothing short of a restart would take down.

A display entity reports itself invalid the moment the server stops ticking the chunk it stands in, which is what a jukebox's chunk does as soon as the last person walks far enough off. The hologram read that as "gone" and put up a replacement over the top of the one still hanging there — and read it the same way when the time came to take a hologram down, and so took nothing down. Either mistake alone leaves one more copy per trip away and back, for as long as the track keeps going round.

It now asks whether the display has actually been removed rather than whether it happens to be ticking, takes the old one down before putting any replacement up, and once a minute looks over the jukeboxes that are playing for words it is no longer holding on to and clears them. The same mistake was in the words above a carried jukebox and in the sample shown while a hologram's colours are being chosen; both go with it.