# Sound slows down the application

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-slows-down-the-application/272291>\
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**Created:** [October 3, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-slows-down-the-application/272291 "2008-10-03T15:51:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sound-slows-down-the-application/272291/1 "2008-10-03T15:51:16Z")

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I’ve met a problem: each time I play a sound using the play() function, it slows down my app. It doesn’t happen if I play cycled sound ( play(0, 1000), as for example).

As it seems it takes time to unpack mp3 into the memory. Can anyone help?