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Why does this pick 10 different songs, then plays one?

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This should pick ONE song, and then play that ONE song, but instead it loops for like 10 songs and plays then for a second then PLAYS a normal song, why?

while wait() do
		local pickSong = songs[math.random(1, #songs)]
		
		local sound = Instance.new("Sound", script.Parent)
		local songName = "$$"
			
		local asset = game:GetService("MarketplaceService"):GetProductInfo(pickSong)
		songName = asset.Name		
			
		remotes.Events.PlaySong:FireAllClients(pickSong, songName) 
		--print"YES"
		sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..pickSong
		wait(sound.TimeLength)
	end
Anonymous

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It takes a little bit to find out the TimeLength of a Sound if it has not been loaded before, so it just returns 0 as the TimeLength.

Try using PreloadAsset to load the Sounds before they are played to prevent this issue.

local ContentProvider = Game:GetService("ContentProvider")
ContentProvider:Preload("rbxassetid://121321") --Preload whatever asset(s) you need.

Remember to wait for all the assets to load too, using the RequestQueueSize property.

local function WaitForAssetsToLoad()
	-- Yields until all requested assets are loaded.
	while (ContentProvider.RequestQueueSize > 0) do
		wait()
	end
end
WaitForAssetsToLoad()
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