fix: Initialization needs to be reworked. MissingPluginException

[MichealReed]

Currently the path provider package is not working well for windows and is showing MissingPluginException(No implementation found for method getTemporaryDirectory on channel plugins.flutter.io/path_provider).

The loader_io.dart mentions

  // There is no way we can recover from this. If we have nowhere to save
  // files, we can't play anything.

This is not necessarily true, you still should be able to play sound bytes from memory with miniaudio. Is SoLoud using the filesystem to play buffered audio from bytes too?

[alnitak]

Hi @MichealReed.

The path_provider is used to temporarily store the sound files and load them from there. I have checked now that the latest version is used.

The audio buffer (ie setBufferStream) does not make use of the filesystem.

But the error you are seeing sounds odd to me. I recently tested on Windows, and I didn't notice that. I will retry later.

Anyway, have you checked that the build directory is really deleted when you run flutter clean? Sometimes I see that it is still there even after cleaning.

[MichealReed]

Yes, seeing this issue with path_provider across multiple projects. You shouldn't need to copy the files to temporary other than if you want to cache for replay. Miniaudio is very versatile, users can load a file from their own path and provide the bytes.