Bug AudioClip.GetData() crashes in the Editor

This has been a long-running bug for me, of which I have reported multiple times over the last three years. It is a bug that only affects ECS projects, and now with ECS being well into production status, I'm hoping someone will finally take this seriously.

The issue happens simply by calling AudioClip.GetData() inside a baker or baking system that runs during background subscene import. The crash logs errors about FMOD not being able to find some kind of audio device (seems to be slightly different on different machines) and performs a fatal abort. It doesn't happen all the time, and more frequently occurs on some machines than others and also occurs more frequently after a domain reload. Because of all this, I suspect there's a race condition deep within the engine/editor related to audio.

Happens on the latest LTS and pretty much every single version prior.

 

IN-18952 is one of the reports. It should link to the others. However, if you need something simpler and more up-to-date with the latest ECS version, I can try to put something together.

 

Weird. It shows up for me:


I'm not having a good week this week and it may be a few days before I can get you the smaller repro. But this crash happens in a publicly distributed GitHub repo package, so I will ask the community to post their bug reports here in the interim.

 

My report number for this is
IN-56643 - Rebaking a subscene with an audio source using GetClip
It happens inconsistently so may need to make code changes and reimport couple times

The scene is called TestBed, don't think i mentioned that in report

 

I had a little more time today than I thought I would, and managed to put this minimal repro together: IN-57217.

This popup shows when it crashes:


If for whatever reason you can't access the bug, PM me and I will send you whatever info you need (project, crash dumps, ect).

 

Is this fix going to land in a 22 LTS? If so, any estimate which version it will arrive in?