Add silence padding after transmission breaks

Prevents unwanted interpolation/distortion of audio by sending silence
packets after pausing or ending the audio stream.

discord/opus.py

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ class SignalCtl(TypedDict):
 
 _log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+OPUS_SILENCE = b'\xF8\xFF\xFE'
+
 c_int_ptr = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int)
 c_int16_ptr = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int16)
 c_float_ptr = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float)

discord/player.py

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 from .enums import SpeakingState
 from .errors import ClientException
-from .opus import Encoder as OpusEncoder
+from .opus import Encoder as OpusEncoder, OPUS_SILENCE
 from .oggparse import OggStream
 from .utils import MISSING
 
@@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ def _do_run(self) -> None:
         while not self._end.is_set():
             # are we paused?
             if not self._resumed.is_set():
+                self.send_silence()
                 # wait until we aren't
                 self._resumed.wait()
                 continue
@@ -744,6 +745,8 @@ def _do_run(self) -> None:
             delay = max(0, self.DELAY + (next_time - time.perf_counter()))
             time.sleep(delay)
 
+        self.send_silence()
+
     def run(self) -> None:
         try:
             self._do_run()
@@ -800,3 +803,11 @@ def _speak(self, speaking: SpeakingState) -> None:
             asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(self.client.ws.speak(speaking), self.client.client.loop)
         except Exception:
             _log.exception("Speaking call in player failed")
+
+    def send_silence(self, count: int = 5) -> None:
+        try:
+            for n in range(count):
+                self.client.send_audio_packet(OPUS_SILENCE, encode=False)
+        except Exception:
+            # Any possible error (probably a socket error) is so inconsequential it's not even worth logging
+            pass