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Script that loops several audio tracks?

Asked by 8 years ago

I made a simple one that just plays one track (with the sound added in workspace) and the localscript:

game.Workspace.Sound:Play()

Since players request more sounds, I tried this to add a few more in, but it didn't work out. I did also add the sounds and changed the sound name to Sound2, Sound3, etc.

game.Workspace.Sound:Play()
wait(141) --length of sound one
game.Workspace.Sound2:Play()
wait(114) --length of sound two
game.Workspace.Sound3:Play()
wait(75.5) --length of sound three
repeat

Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Answered by 8 years ago

From what I can tell your problem is that you're not waiting for the sounds to load.

To make sure the item you're requesting has loaded it's important to use WaitForChild.

I believe that was your problem. The rest is just optimization.

What your code is doing will work but it could get annoying adding the sound over and over again. Using a Loop, like a While True Do loop, could help with this problem.

To gain access to some of the sound events and such, I would suggest using alocal script. Now when using a local script it's important to remember to put it in the correct places. Local Scripts Do Not work in Workspace or ServerScriptService. You can place Local scripts here for replication in the future however. But for what I would suggest, you should place the local script in StarterPack. Anything you place in the StarterPack will replicate to the player. You could place the LocalScript in other places so long as it replicates to the player.

For simplicity, we will be putting all of your sounds in a table for easy access. Make sure to use WaitForChild(). Like so,

local SoundTable = 
{
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch1"),
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch2"),
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch3")
}

All you have to do with this setup if you want to add more sounds is to simply add them under the others. No more work needed.

Now, to make the sounds loop, I'll be using a while true do loop. These are the most simple. It will run through all of the code inside the loop Forever. until broken with a break. We wont be using a break however, because we want the sounds to loop forever. Here's more on loops. Now here's what the loop would look like,

local SoundTable = 
{
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch1"),
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch2"),
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch3")
}

while true do
    --code goes here
end

I wont go too far into detail about how tables work. Here's a link to the wiki for that. But basically we will be using TableName[ItemNumber] to be accessing the sounds. So say we wanted to access the second item in our table, we would use SoundTable[2].

We will also now be using a for loop. This loops through code for an amount of times. We want it to loop through our code for the number of items in our table. To do this we will be using the #. So lets say we did print(#SoundTable) it would print 3. Because there are 3 items in our table.

Here's what our code would look like now,

local SoundTable = 
{
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch1"),
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch2"),
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch3")
}

while true do
    for i = 1, #SoundTable do
        SoundTable[i]:Play()
    end
end

This almost works. However, we need to wait for the sound to end. To do this, we can wait for the event Ended to fire. To do this, we do the following,

local SoundTable = 
{
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch1"),
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch2"),
    game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Pitch3")
}

while true do
    for i = 1, #SoundTable do
        SoundTable[i]:Play()
        SoundTable[i].Ended:wait()
    end
end

Hope that helped!

Good Luck!

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Ah, my bold and highlight random words phase. User#11440 120 — 7y
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yoshi8080 445 Moderation Voter
8 years ago

I just organized your code and added a loop

local SoundOne = game.Workspace.Sound
local SoundTwo = game.Workspace.Sound2
local SoundThree = game.Workspace.Sound3

while wait() do
SoundOne:Play()
wait(141) -- or wait(SoundOne.TimeLength)
SoundTwo:Play()
wait(114) -- or wait(SoundTwo.TimeLength)
SoundThree:Play()
wait(75.5) -- or wait(SoundThree.TimeLength)

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Doesn't seem to work, I tried using a localscript and a regular script and I waited each time for 3 minutes and neither audios loaded, any suggestions on what else I should try? OpticUniversse 50 — 8y
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Not the greatest explanation /: User#11440 120 — 8y
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You're also not waiting for the sounds to have loaded and you didn't even end your loop. That would be fine but you showed no effort to even correct this mistake. User#11440 120 — 8y

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