A question about music

[sphyrth]

I think I was able to reproduce the error. You put the important section of code into love.load() instead of love.update().

This is the barebones of what the guys are trying to explain:

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As a programming preference, I don't like getting a "newSource" everytime the music stops. I'd rather have all the music stored in an array instead.

[CrimsonGuy]

^In general loading any type of resource (music or images) on every tick of the update will lead to a big performance hit.

[pgimeno]

Well, music is not stopped at every tick, so it should not do that. But loading the next song on the fly could lead to pauses in the middle of the game, which is a good point by sphyrth.

[zorg]

So in the end, a baseline could be something like this:

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local music = {}
local music_volume = 0.5
local current_music = 0
local count_music = 11

function love.load()
	
	for i=0,count_music-1 do
		music[i] = love.audio.newSource("music/mus_".. i ..".mp3", "stream" )
		music[i]:setVolume(music_volume)
	end

	music[0]:play()

end

function love.update(dt)
	if not music[current_music]:isPlaying() then
		current_music = (current_music + 1) % count_music -- from 0 to 10
		-- current_music = love.math.random(0,count_music-1) -- if you want to shuffle
		music[current_music]:play()
	end
end