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[Raptisoft]

Hi all,

Can anyone suggest to me a good way to serialize the state of a BASS channel?

I'm playing some game music, and I have certain game events timed to happen when certain parts of the music are hit, for emphasis (you know, like a big drum clash, and an enemy appears).

When I serialize the game state, I also want to serialize where the bass music is, and what its attributes are, so that when I re-load the game, I can fire up the music in the exact same state it was when the game left.

How would you recommend I do this in the least hacky way?

[Ian @ un4seen]

If you have an ID for each audio file (eg. perhaps an array index), I guess you could just store that ID (rather than the filename) with the playback position and the value of any attributes (eg. VOL/PAN/FREQ) that you're adjusting. You can then apply those stored values next time.