How to randomly pick and play music?
This script randomly picks a song and is supposed to play it, but i get an error saying "Line 5: attempt to index global 'songplay' (a boolean value)" Any way to fix this? Also, i have a script that will enable this after a certain time.
local songs = game.Workspace.IntermissionMusic
local song = songs:GetChildren()
local picked = song[math.random(1, #song)]
songplay = picked:clone().Parent == game.Workspace
songplay:play()
wait (125)
songplay:stop()
Thanks!
2 answers
You're trying to do too many things all at once on line 4.
What you've asked your script to do is this: "Make a clone of 'picked' and then tell me if the Parent of that clone is the workspace and assign that boolean value to 'songplay'." What you want is this:
songplay = picked:clone() --assign the clone to 'songplay'
songplay.Parent = workspace --assign the parent of the clone to the workspace
songplay:play() --continue on with the rest of your script as normal
Consider looking through the Sound API. It has events like Ended and properties like TimeLength, which you might want to make use of.
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Your problem is line 4: the way it's set up, it's saying "Clone's Parent == Workspace," not "songplay is a song clone, now after set the parent." You're essentially doing on line 5 BOOL:Play(), when that's not possible.
The solution would be to separate the two: take out the .Parent == game.Workspace, b/c it's not setting the parent, and == means to compare two values.
local NewSong = RandomlyPickedSong:Clone() -- The Parent comparison to the Workspace is on the next line now, and is no longer a comparison. NewSong.Parent = game.Workspace -- Sets the parent, instead of comparing the two & giving a value. NewSong:Play() -- Uppercase the first letter in "Play," "Stop," and "Pause," as it's much better to use.
Now, as to how I concluded this, if you'd've printed line 4, it would've looked something like this:
print(songplay) --> false
Believe it or not, this was very simple. XP Dw though, sometimes I miss stuff like this too. :)
Now to recap on ==, it means to compare (two) values, like if value2 == value2 then; the == operator is commonly shown to be used in if statements, b/c it's an operator used to compare (two) values; try to remember this if you can't remember: = means to set a value, while two of them together means to compare values. :)
Here's an example of the == operator, and how your script interpreted it:
local String = 'I\'m in a string! :D'
local CompareOperatorExample = String == 'I\'m in a string! :D'
print(CompareOperatorExample) --> true
CompareOperatorExample = String == 'I\'m alive! :D'
print(CompareOperatorExample) --> false
-- This can also be done w/ a if statement as well:
local String = 'I\'m in a string! :D'
local CompareOperatorExample = String == 'I\'M MAGIC!'
if CompareOperatorExample then
print('MERASMUS') --> [Prints nothing]
else
print('NO MAGIC 4 YOU') --> NO MAGIC 4 YOU
end
-- You can also check if a value doesn't compare to another, by using the "~=" operator; "~=" means "value1 doesn't compare/ equal to value2," or to put it simpler, the opposite of "==":
local String = 'I am alive :)'
local CompareOperatorExample = String ~= 'I am alive :)'
print(CompareOperatorExample) --> false [in contrast, if you had used "==," this would've returned true]
Hope this helped you in any way! :D
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