Feature request: Playing audio from byte[] or Stream

[sedmelluq]

Feature request: Playing audio from byte[] or Stream

[p0thi]

I just want to give an example why this can be usefull:
I am storing small audio files in a mongoDB database. It takes some time to get them back out of the database.
Then i store them to the drive to pass them to lavaplayer so it can read them back in.
For an audio file with a duration around 3 sec it takes 3 -4 sec to load. With an InputStream (the way I get the files from the database) it could be much faster.
(To be honest i dont know, if the file has to be downloaded completely in order to start playing, or if it could start reading the bytes from the InputStream while it already plays.)

EDIT:
I just tested it. it takes so long, no matter what source i choose. But only when the bot has to open an new audio connection.
Any solutions for that?

[LorisFriedel]

Hello @sedmelluq ! I am also interested in a way to play audio from an InputStream, is there any workaround we can use until this is potentially implemented as a LavaPlayer feature ?
Thanks for your amazing work anyway!

[MrTroot]

I'd love for this to be an option. Many text-to-speech services return their data in InputStream format, and there's currently no way to plug this into lavaplayer that I can find...

[alula]

You just need to implement proper AudioSourceManager, then register it in your bot...

Look here: https://github.com/sedmelluq/lavaplayer/tree/master/main/src/main/java/com/sedmelluq/discord/lavaplayer/source