How to play a sound using a data pointer which holds Audio File data ?

[ahmadharis4u]

I was looking under examples, but could not find anything which uses a data pointer to init/play sound.
---Task to do---:
I have an audio file read completely in a data pointer and would like to play sound using this data.
I get the idea (not sure if it's correct) that I would need to use data_source APIs, but getting confused how to do it.

Any hint or example will be appreciated.

[mackron]

Use a decoder. The ma_decoder object is a data source and can be plugged into any function that takes a ma_data_source parameter:

ma_decoder_init_memory(pData, dataSize, &decoderConfigOrNull, &decoder);

[ahmadharis4u]

Do I need multiple decoders if I need to play multiple sounds?

[mackron]

Yes. The file data (pData in my example code) will not be copied with each decoder. They just reference it so it shouldn't be too memory intensive.