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playlooped won't stop

So I was using playlooped() and I noticed that if I did stopmusic() it didn't always stop the music. Actually sometimes I could hear multiple songs playing at once. Does anyone have any ideas how to get songs to stop?

can you not index them by doing playlooped(1) and stopmusic(1) :0?

What format are the music files?
Wav are treated as sound effects and are therefore unaffected by stopmusic(), for those you would have to use stopsound("filename");.

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Originally Posted by Elk (Post 1737848)

can you not index them by doing playlooped(1) and stopmusic(1) :0?

Not sure exactly what you mean by indexed?

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Originally Posted by ffcmike (Post 1737849)

What format are the music files?
Wav are treated as sound effects and are therefore unaffected by stopmusic(), for those you would have to use stopsound("filename");.

There mp3 format, tho I didn't know that for wav. Will keep that in the mind for the future. Another thing I noticed was sometimes it plays the music very faintly then if it plays again it plays a louder version over the old one. Also I am only able to test only my mac at the moment and I know I get the same kinda bug on GK as well sometimes. Logging on other servers does not help and neither does reconnecting.

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Originally Posted by scriptless (Post 1737851)

Another thing I noticed was sometimes it plays the music very faintly then if it plays again it plays a louder version over the old one.

It sounds as if playlooped() is being invoked from a level NPC rather than a weapon?

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Originally Posted by ffcmike (Post 1737852)

It sounds as if playlooped() is being invoked from a level NPC rather than a weapon?

I am invoking it from a weapon npc actually, not a level npc. As well as invoking stopmusic() from a weapon npc too. The script I'm using is

PHP Code:


		
			
//#CLIENTSIDE
function onPlayerEnters() {
  temp.song = getmusicfilename(); // current song playing
  if ( player.level == "desert2.nw" ) temp.song = "stef49.mp3";
  if ( player.level == "level2.nw" ) temp.song = "npulse_svrvilla.mp3";
  
  // only play song if not already playing
  if ( getmusicfilename() != temp.song) {
    stopmusic();
    playlooped(temp.song);
  }
}

It looks as if getmusicfilename() may be acting faulty. You could try out-putting it's value for debugging to see if it's somehow being reset, and if necessary store the current playing song in a variable instead.

I actually use stopmidi() even though it's supposedly the same function as stopmusic() and kept just for compatibility purposes, does this work better?

Also while this is not the problem here player.level is an object, to compare it with a string it's better to use "player.level.name".

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Originally Posted by ffcmike (Post 1737854)

Actually stopmidi() doesn't work any better for me. Regardless of what getmusicfilename() returns I would still think that adding a stopmusic() to a onCreated() of another weapon would have stopped it, but it didn't.

As for the player.level being an object. I knew I should have been using player.level.name.. but I guess I never thought of player.level as an actual object itself, thats neat. I'll change that right away but still looking for ideas on the music. Would love to test out on PC to see if it's maybe a mac bug or for everyone.

Also, I am very disappointed that midi no longer work with graal.. they were so awesome :(