Cocos2d When The Loading Screen Scene is loading music

Question

When the loading screen loads objects like music cutscenes, the idea is to preload the objects, so... what should happen next? Do I transfer the objects to the next scene? or these special objects, media objects or even just images of the sprites, do they have to be part of a Singleton? According to my logic, singleton is a simple solution, that can I use whatever was preloaded in the loading screen to take to the game. The only drawback is that I have to keep management of these objects to unload them when out of the game scene.(its just an example, but its really close to what my game is doing).

The thing is, i believe there is a more elegant solution to this problem. Anyone has any suggestions? or tell me if my method is wrong?

Answer 1

in Cocos2D, doesn't the music continue to play until you pause or stop it?

If I want to change music between CCScene I usually do something like:

_dir->Instance()->getAudioEngine()->stopBackgroundMusic();
_dir->Instance()->getAudioEngine()->stopAllEffects();

// click!
_dir->Instance()->getAudioEngine()->playEffect("click.mp3", false);

...do whatever

Edit:

I dont use the shared director. I created my own director object with everything I need as member variables.

I load my music like this:

void AppDirector::createAudioEngine()
{
    CocosDenshion::SimpleAudioEngine* ae = new CocosDenshion::SimpleAudioEngine();

    ae->preloadBackgroundMusic("Tallahassee.mp3");
    ae->preloadBackgroundMusic("bigcountry.mp3");

    ae->preloadEffect("click.mp3");
    ae->preloadEffect("tap.mp3");

    ae->setBackgroundMusicVolume(0.5f);
    ae->setEffectsVolume(0.3f);

    setAudioEngine(ae);
}

Edit 2:

I do this:

AppDirector* AppDirector::Instance()
{
    if (pinstance == 0) // is it the first call?
    {
        pinstance = new AppDirector; // create sole instance
        pinstance->initInstance(); // setup everything we need.
    }

     return pinstance; // address of sole instance
}

void AppDirector::initInstance()
{
    createFileUtils();

    createDirector();

    // set some defaults
    setIsHUDDisplayed(false);

    createTouchDispatcher();

    createAudioEngine(); // created and preloads music and sound effects.

    createOpeningScene();
}