Game crashes when sound tries to play sometimes on Linux

[susy-bakaa]

Hello, I've been running this plugin on Linux for a decent while and never had any issues before, but today suddenly I started noticing constant crashes while progging DSR. My Dalamud and game would crash everytime someone died and right before the sound from this plugin managed to play, I looked at the log and it seems to indicate some exception inside the NAudio library? I have never had this happen before despite using this plugin for month+ now on Linux. Today it just suddenly started crashing. Any ideas?

Here's few of the crash logs if they are helpful. I've tried everything I can think of and not seeing anything super obvious in the codebase myself that could be causing issues on Linux.

[codelastnight]

I'm sorry - i somehow totally missed this issue. I don't play on linux so i personally can't say much. another user had a similar issue #9.

are you still having these issues? It's definitely something between DirectSoundOut and reading .mp3 files i believe. (.wav files seem fine..?)

wine just released an improvment to their handling of windows audio, maybe you could try this?
https://linuxiac.com/wine-11-4-released-with-directsound-performance-improvements/

i should add a note to the README about outstanding issues on linux

[codelastnight]

something that could be done, which i havent had time much to do these days is to switch to a audio service that doesnt use Naudio.

see this issue:
naudio/NAudio#1077

someone made an audio player that supposedly should work with all platforms here:
https://github.com/LSXPrime/SoundFlow

[susy-bakaa]

Hey, still had the issue last time I tried the plugin about a month ago, can give it another go to see how it is right now. I got the issue with both .wav and .mp3 files personally and from what I researched myself it appears to be an NAudio issue as you described. I tried briefly looking into if replacing NAudio would be viable, but didn't do any work or further testing with any alternatives.

[codelastnight]

Ok chill... once i have time to do this I will try implementing Soundflow. I might ask you to test that out whenever it happens

[bugQ]

Until I bothered to check the crash logs, which led me to this issue, I used the plugin for months and had random crashes usually during very audibly & visibly busy content (EX trials & post-DT dungeons). Based on said crash logs (e.g. dalamud_appcrash_20260216_174011_594_252.log), I can confirm that it is an NAudio issue. I wish I had more time to spare to help with dev but I can also help test

[DaBultz]

Ok chill... once i have time to do this I will try implementing Soundflow. I might ask you to test that out whenever it happens

Would you be open for others giving it a shot? i'm on Linux and have a local forked version of this plugin running where i've replaced NAudio with SoundFlow, I would be more than happy to open a Draft PR, to get it into a production ready state.

EDIT: I can confirm that SoundFlow works on Linux, NAudio did not play any audio for me (but didn't crash)

[codelastnight]

Ok chill... once i have time to do this I will try implementing Soundflow. I might ask you to test that out whenever it happens

Would you be open for others giving it a shot? i'm on Linux and have a local forked version of this plugin running where i've replaced NAudio with SoundFlow, I would be more than happy to open a Draft PR, to get it into a production ready state.

EDIT: I can confirm that SoundFlow works on Linux, NAudio did not play any audio for me (but didn't crash)

That would be great! I would love to see this. A note - I'm going to be offline for the month of may, so I'm not too keen on merging in such a big change right now. However, if you can open a PR within the next few days I can merge it into a separate branch to build into a custom repo for testing.

I'm in particular a little weary of this issue LSXPrime/SoundFlow#106, but only testing will tell how much of an issue this will end up being...

[DaBultz]

We will see if it becomes an issue, but i will open a PR with what i have, it was done quick and dirty, so there's some stuff i would like to finish before it gets merged, like error handling etc. just so you can ask for changes early on + i'm not sure if it works exactly the same way as NAudio, due to being unable to test with NAudio.

[codelastnight]

Hi @sussy-baka @bugQ

I unfortunately left for vacation before I could prepare a custom repo, but please check out @DaBultz's PR to test Linux compatability... I'll try to merge this in when I get back in june