Previously, AudioServer would deadlock when trying to play another audio
stream, i.e. creating a queue. The m_pending_cond condition was used
improperly, and the condition wait now happens independently of querying
the pending queue for new clients if the mixer is running.
To make the mixer's concurrency-safety code more readable, the use of
raw POSIX mutex and condition syscalls is replaced with Threading::Mutex
and Threading::ConditionVariable.
Across the entire audio system, audio now works in 0-1 terms instead of
0-100 as before. Therefore, volume is now a double instead of an int.
The master volume of the AudioServer changes smoothly through a
FadingProperty, preventing clicks. Finally, volume computations are done
with logarithmic scaling, which is more natural for the human ear.
Note that this could be 4-5 different commits, but as they change each
other's code all the time, it makes no sense to split them up.
AudioServer loads its settings, currently volume and mute state, from a
user config file "Audio.ini". Additionally, the current settings are
stored every ten seconds, if necessary. This allows for persistent audio
settings in between boots.
This way we don't have to allocate this at runtime. I'm intentionally
not using static constexpr here because that would put the variable
into the .rodata segment and would therefore increase the binary by
4kB.
The old code also failed to free() the buffer in the destructor, however
that wasn't much of an issue because the Mixer object exists throughout
the program's entire lifetime.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
Because it's what it really is. A frame is composed of 1 or more samples, in
the case of SerenityOS 2 (stereo). This will make it less confusing for
future mantainability.
