How to notify the main thread when playback is finished?

[ahmadharis4u]

I want the uninits to occur automatically from the Main thread after the playback is finished by the worker.
Is there a built-in provision to do so?

[mackron]

No, you need to manage that yourself. It's just standard multi-threaded notification stuff. Set a variable or signal some kind of synchronization primitive that the main thread is continuously monitoring. When the variable is set, or the sync primitive is signalled, have the main thread do the uninit process.

Alternatively, consider using the high level API which will allow you to skip the data callback completely.

[ahmadharis4u]

Thanks for the prompt reply.
Even with the high level API, we would need some kind of monitoring to know when the sound has reached its end, so we can proceed with the uninit, right?

[mackron]

You can poll it with ma_sound_at_end().