Overview

betterxSound is a maintained, drop-in replacement for Xogy/xsound. It keeps the original API — same exports, events, and resource name xsound — so you replace the folder and change nothing else.

Preview

What is fixed

• YouTube memory — mitigated, not magic. The leak is inherent to YouTube's embedded player and how CEF retains it; it cannot be made fully leak-free while embedding YouTube. This fork reduces it: the duration probe no longer spawns a second hidden player, players are pooled and reused across songs via loadVideoById (capped by youtubePoolMax), and an idle browser recycle reclaims memory when nothing is playing. Continuous / jukebox playback stays flat. A long-lived sound (a looped siren, a global stream, anything not destroyed) keeps a player alive, so memory still grows there — genuinely leak-free YouTube audio needs a server-side direct-stream extraction instead of an embed.
• Anti-abuse. The interact-sound emulator and crewphone trigger events are rate-limited, volume-clamped, and file/URL validated on the server, with an optional permission gate for server-wide broadcasts. Players can no longer spam sounds at everyone.
• Self-contained. howler (2.2.4), jQuery and DOMPurify are bundled locally — no CDN dependency.

Requirements

• A FiveM server (the resource ships everything else).

Credits

Original xSound by Xogy — https://github.com/Xogy/xsound. Licensed under MIT; this fork keeps the original license and adds its modifications under the same terms.