Preloading sounds in script

So based on the audio scripting example, I have to manually (pre)load the audio myself in order to use it. In the example it's done like so

[audioSfx5, audioSfx7, audioEpicArpg] = await Promise.all([
		audioManager.loadSound("sfx5.webm"),
		audioManager.loadSound("sfx7.webm"),
		audioManager.loadMusic("epicArpg.webm")
	]);

You don't need to extend that code for every sound file - an array with just a list of filenames should suffice, and you could do something like build a map of filename to loaded audio from that.

I would say Construct's option to preload all sound is a pretty blunt instrument, particularly for large projects. With scripting it's easier to do better and do things like group sound files in to sets that are loaded and unloaded all together - in which case you'd need to write arrays of paths anyway. I guess we could add a script API to list all files the project was exported with, but then it won't reflect changes made after export, which I'm sure would end up tripping some people up.

Maintaining that for potentially 100s of files still sounds kind of like a nightmare. Couldn't the sorting/grouping be largely reflected by the folder structure? For example if I put a goblin on a layout I need all sounds that belong to the goblin which are all sorted in "enemies/goblin/..."

If I then had access to this folder structure I could just loop through all files inside that folder without having to maintain an extra list. I can do that additionally if I need to though or even tack on some extra files if needed.

But even getting an array of all files would suffice though since I can just run a filter over it to get all the file paths that contain "enemies/goblin/" and loop over that.