SDL_CloseAudioDevice(3)

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version 3.4.18 · 9 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 SDL_CloseAudioDevice 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the SDL_CloseAudioDevice(3) manual page — this is the one where we say bye-bye to an audio device we opened earlier 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

SDL_CloseAudioDevice — close a previously-opened audio device. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_audio.h>

void SDL_CloseAudioDevice(SDL_AudioDeviceID devid);

like look at her. one line. no return value. she just does it 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the vibe here is: if you opened an audio device, you gotta close it once you don't need it anymore. the application should close open audio devices once they are no longer needed. don't just leave it hanging there, that's not main character energy, that's just rude 😭

and here's the part you actually need to know: this function may block briefly while pending audio data is played by the hardware. not forever, just briefly. and it's doing that on purpose — so that applications don't drop the last buffer of data they supplied if they're terminating immediately afterwards. it's literally her being nice to you. she's making sure your last little audio crumbs actually get heard before she dips 🎧✨

so yeah, it might take a hot second. that's the feature, not a bug, no cap.

💜 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 💜

  • devid — an audio device id previously returned by SDL_OpenAudioDevice(). like, you can't just make one up bestie, it has to be one you actually got handed back from opening a device. use the real one or she's not gonna know what you're talking about 🙈

🔥 THREAD SAFETY 🔥

it is safe to call this function from any thread. ANY thread. all of them. every single one. she's not picky, she's not gonna make you come back on the main thread, she's just ready whenever you are 👑

⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this function is available since SDL 3.2.0 — so if you're on anything older, no she's not there yet, sorry bb 🌈

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • SDL_OpenAudioDevice(3) — the one that started it all. you literally cannot close a device you never opened, so go read her first 🍓

and that's the whole page, bestie!! close your devices, keep your buffers, live your truth 🧚

this has been a Simple Directmedia Layer production, served to you fresh from SDL 3.4.18 — SDL_CloseAudioDevice(3), mwah, periodt 💅💖

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