Getting notified when a sound is done playing in OpenAL

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Published on 2009-06-25T21:19:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 22:03 UTC
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I'm using OpenAL on iPhone to play multiple audio samples simultaneously.

Can I get OpenAL to notify me when a single sample is done playing?

I'd like to avoid hardcoding the sample length and setting a timer.

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