What do I need to do to load sounds if I disable resource manager?

[GasimGasimzada]

I want to disable resource manager because I have my own resource system and I want to integrate miniaudio with it. So far, I have found that the ma_decoder can be used to read audio files without needing the device or engine. This sounds great but I checking the sound related APIs (e.g ma_sound_init_*) and they all require either a filename, which is used by resource manager internally or a data source.

Is there a way for me to generate to read the file using ma_decoder, create a data source, store it in my custom resource registry, then use that data source to create sounds without relying on the resource manager at all? If yes what would be the process to convert a ma_decoder to a data source?

[GasimGasimzada]

I figured it out. ma_decoder is a data source and can be passed to ma_sound_init_from_data_source

[mackron]

Yep, that's correct. A ma_decoder itself is a data source and can be plugged into anything that takes a ma_data_source* as a parameter.