Detect end of music

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Grey Alien (Posted 2005) [#1]

I'm sure I saw someone ask a similar thing about playsound recently to no avail ... is there any way to detect the end of a music track so you can play another one! i.e. Use playmusic, when the track stops, play the next one. thx

Arem (Posted 2005) [#2]

if not channelplaying(channel) channel=playmusic("nextmusic.mp3") end if

Grisu (Posted 2005) [#3]

yepp, thats it. Or "channelplaying(chn)=0" See my game Cardwar that does this.

Grey Alien (Posted 2005) [#4]

Thanks guys, that's great!

Rob Farley (Posted 2005) [#5]

Just another thing, if you don't need the track to start the instant the previous one stops you don't have to poll the channel playing every game loop. I know it's obvious, but thought I'd mention it.

Grey Alien (Posted 2005) [#6]

thanks Rob but I do want it to play one after the other like a CD player. I might program a 1-2 sec delay between each track though. I presume the same command works for samples played with PlaySound too.

VIP3R (Posted 2005) [#7]

You presume correctly Grey Alien, as long as you assign them to a channel ;)