Legacy GM Trying to play audio files in succession

[Waylander]

I'm looking to play a succession of audio files one after the other and I'm having a tough time trying to figure out how to do it. The audio_create_play_queue function looks like it might be what I want, but after reading up on it, I'm not too sure.

Anyone have any advice? It doesn't need to be fancy.

 

[HayManMarc]

Maybe this? (I'm asking because I'm not sure if this is the easiest or most relevant way.)

audio_create_play_queue

 

[Waylander]

Yea, that's what I mentioned I was looking at. But looking at the documentation on it has me wondering if it is what I need or not. It might be, and I might not be thinking about it in the right way. So if anyone thinks that'll suit my purpose, I'd love some advice on how to use it in this way.

 

[flyingsaucerinvasion]

I have a piggyback question (one I asked a while ago but got no answer), is there a way to play several sounds in sequence with no delay between them? I.e. the listener would not hear any seam in the transition between one sound and then next (assuming the sounds were designed to match at their end points).

 

[HayManMarc]

I know there's a way... let me find the link.

 

[HayManMarc]

@TehPilot & @TheFugue did it in the last GMC Jam. Here's TheFugue's post mortem: https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.p...m-1-discussion-thread.2174/page-26#post-38024

Perhaps one of them can enlighten us?

(EDIT: Or not... they layered music. I don't know if they made one track follow right after another in the way you're talking about. Perhaps the implementation is similar.)

 

[Waylander]

I am wanting to play an audio file for each string in a list. As of right now, I have a for loop looping through my list and inside that loop is a switch containing each possible string (which is just a word). Naturally when I want to simply play an audio file for each string, it plays them on top of each other because it loops so fast. I'm trying to figure out how I can pause or wait a short amount of time after playing each file before it loops again. I've tried creating my own timer but I can't figure out how to implement it correctly. I've wondered if alarms might work here but for the life of me, I haven't been able to get one of those to work outside of a tutorial to save my life.

 

[HayManMarc]

I'll look into this and see if I can make something.

 

[Waylander]

Thank you!

 

[Aura]

https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.p...ss-start-and-ending-segments.7252/#post-52228

 

[HayManMarc]

This was easier than I thought, but probably not what you want now that I see Aura's post. Anyway, here's a build -- it's very simple and extremely bare bones. It sounds seamless to me. *shrug*

 

[Waylander]

Aura, I read your other post and it sounds exactly like what I need. Can you offer some advice on how I can use it to "stitch" together some audio files? Looking at the code in the help files isn't proving very useful to me (but I've also never done anything like this before, though).

HayManMarc, I'll check out your code .

 

[flyingsaucerinvasion]

I've looked through all the audio buffer functions and related ones, and I don't see any way to get an existing sound into the buffer.

 

[Waylander]

HayManMarc, I've created another post specific to creating an audio buffer (per Aura) so I can explore that option, but I've looked at your code and it is incredibly simple, it works, and I might try to implement it while waiting!

 

[HayManMarc]

HayManMarc, I've created another post specific to creating an audio buffer (per Aura) so I can explore that option, but I've looked at your code and it is incredibly simple, it works, and I might try to implement it while waiting!

Good! That's a relief.

 

[Waylander]

Trying to get it to work in my program right now, but I keep getting an out of range error somehow (which didn't happen in yours). Problem is that my debugger is SUPER slow for some reason which makes stepping through a program impossible. So I'm trying to track down the cause of the issue.

 

[Waylander]

I got it to work! Just had to make a small adjustment since I had to implement it slightly differently than you did. Thank you VERY much! Now to try to figure out how to get a bit of silence between the audio files. I might just resort to having about a half a second of silence after each audio file so it'll take care of itself.

 

[HayManMarc]

I cut all the extra silence from each of the four tracks in Audacity. You could just add some silence to yours also using Audacity. It's a great sound tool, if you're not familiar.

 

[Waylander]

Yea, I can use audio tools pretty well. Was just wondering if I should go that route or do it somehow via code and perhaps a 0.5 second silent audio file plugged in there somewhere.

 

[HayManMarc]

You could do it that way, or just delay the code with a variable that counts steps. (1 second = room_speed)