Sounds

Hi I was just wondering if there is a way to place sound files in some sort of array, or have a function to play random sound files?

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Most people tend to avoid sound questions on this site for some reason. I don't, because I'm a sound guy myself.

However, I don't know the answer because I haven't studied arrays yet. It's on my to-do list.

For functions, you can always put sound event in a function. However, for random sounds, check out these search results...

https://www.scirra.com/forum/search?q=random+sounds.

Thank you so much, I appreciate the link. I tried out Yann's example using "choose" and it worked like a charm. I now need to do a bit of poking around to find out how to keep a chosen sound file from being chosen twice in a row. I think I've seen it applied to sprite creation, so probably works for sounds too.

I don't remember what is my example but you can keep a list of sound, and pick randomly without repetition like that:

+System: On Start of layout
   -> Array: set size to (0,1,1)
   -> Array: push back soundA.wav on X axis
   -> Array: push back soundB.wav on X axis
   -> Array: push back soundC.wav on X axis
   -> Array: push back soundD.wav on X axis
   -> ...

+On whatever
   local number randomIndex = 0
   -> System: randomIndex = floor(random(Array.Width))
   -> Audio: play sound Array.At(randomIndex)
   -> Array: delete at index randomIndex)

Wow Awesome Yann!

I'll give it a try.

For your soundplay list. I'm not because I haven't played with sound much, but I assumed that sound files had both a name(unique) and tag(shared?). So that if you play by tag it would then just play all of them with the tag.

I guess the best way is to experiment with that