[Openal] Playing a source with no buffer

[Daniel PEACOCK]

I agree that this sounds like a bug.  What OpenAL device are you using, and
on which soundcard and OS?

Dan
Creative Labs, Inc.

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I ran into something unexpected while streaming in a wave.  What happens is
when the source is created it queues a request in another thread to stream
in the wave data from the harddrive.  However the user is free to call Play
on the source at any time, even before any data has been streamed yet.  So
the problem is when it calls alSourcePlay on a source with no associated
buffer.  What I’m expecting is that it will change to the AL_PLAYING state
immediately, but then the next time OpenAL updates it will realize it has
no data and cycle to AL_STOPPED, the same behavior as if it had run out of
data in an associated buffer.  Instead it stays in AL_PLAYING indefinitely
while, of course, not actually playing any sound.

So I don’t think this should be desired behavior.  It seems to me either
the state should cycle to AL_STOPPED (or even AL_INITIAL since there’s no
sound data for the source yet) or this should be an invalid operation and
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