ALLEGRO_SAMPLE(3alleg5)

✨ ALLEGRO_SAMPLE ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro reference manual — section 3alleg5, and today's main character is literally the sample. let's get into it 💖

💅 NAME 💅

ALLEGRO_SAMPLE — it's giving Allegro 5 API, no cap 🌈

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro5/allegro_audio.h>

typedef struct ALLEGRO_SAMPLE ALLEGRO_SAMPLE;

like, that's the whole vibe. two lines. iconic. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so an ALLEGRO_SAMPLE object is the lil container that stores everything you need to play pre-defined digital audio. that's its whole job and it does it slayfully ✨

inside it's holding:

• a user-specified PCM data buffer — the actual audio juice, chosen by you, not by the sample 🧃
• plus all the info about its format, aka the data length, the depth, the frequency, and the channel configuration 🦋

and here's the part that lowkey ate: you can have the same ALLEGRO_SAMPLE playing multiple times simultaneously. same sample, many plays, all at once, no fighting, no drama. multitasking queen fr fr 👑💅

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• ALLEGRO_SAMPLE_INSTANCE(3alleg5) — go read that one too bestie, it's the sibling, iykyk 😌

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