About FMOD_INIT_THREAD_UNSAFE

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When the Core thread safety is disabled with the FMOD_INIT_THREAD_UNSAFE flag and the funcForDifferentThread() is called “from different threads multiple times”, will the below pseudocode work?

class MySound {
	float curVol = 1.0f;

	MySound() {
		FMOD_System_PlaySound(TRUE);

		FMOD_Channel_SetVolume(curVol);
		FMOD_System_CreateDSPByType();
		FMOD_DSP_SetParameterFloat();
		FMOD_Channel_AddDSP();

		FMOD_Channel_SetPaused(FALSE);
	}

	~MySound() {
		FMOD_Channel_Stop();
		FMOD_DSP_Release();
	}

	bool decreaseVolume() {
		curVol -= 0.1f;

		if (curVol <= 0)
			return false;

		FMOD_Channel_SetVolume(curVol);
		
		return true;
	}
};


void funcForDifferentThread() {
	pthread_mutex_lock(&myMutex);

	MySound mySound = new MySound();

	soundList.add(mySound);

	pthread_mutex_unlock(myMutex);
}


void backgroundThreadFunc() {
	while (true) {
		pthread_mutex_lock(&myMutex);

		foreach(each in soundList) {
			if (each->decreaseVolume() == false) {
				soundList.remove(each);

				delete(each);
			}
		}

		FMOD_System_Update();

		pthread_mutex_unlock(myMutex);

		sleep(2000);
	}
}
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Hi,

Yes, your pseudocode should work. As long as you are mindful of keeping calls from a single thread at a time, you should be okay. Information about thread safety can be found under White Papers | Threads and Thread Safety.

Hope this helps.

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