Turns out there is a SoundEffect {} element in QML which doesn't suffer from this issue. I think the fact that Audio {} blocks the application for a bit is still an issue and should be fixed, but at least we know its ok to start loading the audio file on play() and it doesn't need to be realtime.
Turns out there is a SoundEffect {} element in QML which doesn't suffer from this issue. I think the fact that Audio {} blocks the application for a bit is still an issue and should be fixed, but at least we know its ok to start loading the audio file on play() and it doesn't need to be realtime.