# love.sound.newDecoder

Attempts to find a decoder for the encoded sound data in the specified file.

## Function

### Synopsis

    decoder = love.sound.newDecoder( file, buffer )

### Arguments

`File file`
  The file with encoded sound data.
`number buffer (2048)`
  The size of each decoded chunk, in bytes.

### Returns

`Decoder decoder`
  A new Decoder object.

## Function

### Synopsis

    decoder = love.sound.newDecoder( filename, buffer )

### Arguments

`string filename`
  The filename of the file with encoded sound data.
`number buffer (2048)`
  The size of each decoded chunk, in bytes.

### Returns

`Decoder decoder`
  A new Decoder object.

## Function

Removed in LÖVE 0.7.1
This variant is not supported in that and later versions.

### Synopsis

    decoder = love.sound.newDecoder( file, buffer, rate )

### Arguments

`File file`
  The file with encoded sound data.
`number buffer (2048)`
  The size of each decoded chunk, in bytes.
`number rate (44100)`
  Samples per second, or quality of the audio. Use either 44100 (good), 22050 (medium) or 11025 (poor).

### Returns

`Decoder decoder`
  A new Decoder object.

## Function

Removed in LÖVE 0.7.1
This variant is not supported in that and later versions.

### Synopsis

    decoder = love.sound.newDecoder( filename, buffer, rate )

### Arguments

`string filename`
  The filename of the file with encoded sound data.
`number buffer (2048)`
  The size of each decoded chunk, in bytes.
`number rate (44100)`
  Samples per second, or quality of the audio. Use either 44100 (good), 22050 (medium) or 11025 (poor).

### Returns

`Decoder decoder`
  A new Decoder object.

## See Also

- love.sound
- Decoder

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Category:

- Functions