A question about music

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Keisser
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A question about music

Post by Keisser »

Greetings everyone.
I have music files in a folder and I want them to constantly play at background, so, when one ends, another one starts playing. Unfortunately, I don't see any possibility in Love2d to detect the end of sound file. Is it even possible?
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Re: A question about music

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If it's not looped, it stops playing at the end. As in, the playsate changes to "stopped". You can detect this and play the next track.
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Re: A question about music

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Re: A question about music

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Well I created this code and it does not seem to work properly.

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local music_volume = 0.5
--local sound_volume = 1

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music = love.audio.newSource("music/mus_"..math.random(11)..".mp3", "stream" )
----

if music:isPlaying( ) == false then
	math.randomseed( os.time() )
	math.random(); math.random(); math.random(); math.random(); math.random()
	music = love.audio.newSource("music/mus_"..math.random(11)..".mp3", "stream" )
	love.audio.play( music )
	music:setVolume(music_volume)
end
Music starts at the beginning of the game but as soon as it ends, nothing happens.
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Re: A question about music

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Simply put

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if music:isPlaying( ) == false then
	math.randomseed( os.time() )
	math.random(); math.random(); math.random(); math.random(); math.random()
	music = love.audio.newSource("music/mus_"..math.random(11)..".mp3", "stream" )
	love.audio.play( music )
	music:setVolume(music_volume)
end
into love.update()
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Re: A question about music

Post by zorg »

People, people, no need to reinvent the wheel if you only want a track to loop from start to end, there's a method for that: Source:setLooping

Example:

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music = love.audio.newSource("music/mus_"..math.random(11)..".mp3", "stream" )
music:setLooping(true)

-- Then call music:play() somewhere in your code that's not the update function.


Edit: I seem to have misread the actual issue; this only loops one track. I will give an edited version of Andlac'syour code since it's bad to use the lua random generator when löve provides a better one.

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if not music:isPlaying( ) then
	music = love.audio.newSource("music/mus_"..love.math.random(11)..".mp3", "stream" )
	-- ^ or love.math.random(1,11) if you lack a mus_0.mp3
	music:setVolume(music_volume)
	love.audio.play( music )
end
Last edited by zorg on Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: A question about music

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I put the code into love_update() and nothing is playing now. This neither works when I have it in a separate .lua file nor in main.lua.
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Re: A question about music

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Keisser wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 5:02 pm

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	math.randomseed( os.time() )
	math.random(); math.random(); math.random(); math.random(); math.random()
lmao
I put the code into love_update() and nothing is playing now. This neither works when I have it in a separate .lua file nor in main.lua.
This would be the perfect time to post the exact code that shows the issue that can be run with a minimum amount of effort for anyone else trying to reproduce it.
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Re: A question about music

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Yeesh, that guy's a grump allright.

The proper spelling is "love.update". The "update" function is in the table "love". Make sure you never define another "love.update" function, it'll overwrite the last one.
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Re: A question about music

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raidho36 wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:50 am Yeesh, that guy's a grump allright.
Wut? Nah. A grumpy response would have been a link to How To Ask Questions The Smart Way without further comment. Also, please don't assume my gender.
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