SoundChannel:stop() don't stop always...

GregBUG

hey guys i'm "fine tuning" my game
but some time SoundChannel:stop() dosn't stop the sound...

i double checked my code but when game ends i use SoundChannel:stop()

to stop music channel but sometime it's not stop... (i seems random)

but it happens only if compiled and installed and real device (android);

on pc or wifi under android players it works fine...

it's possible that the player and the compiled game behave differently?

has already happened to someone?

thanks.

MikeHart

Sorry, i have no eclipse installed. Have to do this soon.

hnim

i built and installed music player example, and it works fine.

GregBUG

@hnim
yes me too...

the examples work fine.. also for me
it's in my game that don't work ...

hnim

sorry, i cant get that. it works fine when i change scene or press back button.
how do you loop background music? i use sound:play(0, 1000), is that enough?

GregBUG

yes i use the same... (

GregBUG

Ok. I tried to understand the problem ... because in my game some time sound do not stop...

i don't know if i misunderstood the use of play, stop and channel system
but....
if i use:

musicTrack = Sound.new("music.mp3") musicChannel = musicTrack:play()

music start and play ok...

musicChannel:stop()

music stop ok.

but if i start to play two or tree times the music channel with

musicTrack:play() musicTrack:play()

the music start to play 2 times
but

musicTrack:stop()

the music do not stop...

but if the channel is in play is not enough just say stop?

i coded a little example to test:

http://www.4shared.com/zip/bQxJiZcI/soundTest1.html

what do you think?

atilim

If you're creating multiple channels, then you should keep the variables of them separately:

-- create 2 channels musicChannel1 = musicTrack:play() musicChannel2 = musicTrack:play()   -- stop these channels musicChannel1:stop() musicChannel2:stop()

If you are doing this:

musicChannel = musicTrack:play() musicChannel = musicTrack:play()   musicChannel:stop() --> stop the 2nd channel musicChannel:stop() --> does nothing because 2nd channel is not playing already

you only stop the 2nd channel.

On the other hand, after your bug report, we've improved the mp3 playing on Android when there are multiple mp3 files loading simultaneously. And after this fix, I haven't seen any mp3 playing issues with your game. Thank you.

(I cannot connect 4shared.com, you can upload it somewhere else?)

gorkem

@atilim sending you the zip file now

atilim

thanks

GregBUG

thanks guys...

i don't know why but i was thinking that

musicChannel = musicTrack:play() musicChannel = musicTrack:play()   musicChannel:stop() musicChannel:stop()

refer to the same sound channel...
and that recalling musicChannel = musicTrack:play()
don't create a new sound channel but stop the previous and restart!!

but not why passing the channel to play() stop() etc. to avoid unwanted multiple channel play?

like:

musicTrack:play(musicChannel) musicTrack:stop(musicChannel)

?

atilim

Oh I see

But you can always stop the previous one and start playing again:

musicChannel = musicTrack:play() --> start playing musicChannel:stop() --> stop the current playing channel musicChannel = musicTrack:play() --> start playing again with the new channel