Sound playing question

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Hey all,
I have an app where I want to play a sound, have it finish, then play the next sound. Right now if I put two sounds next to each other in the code, the second one is the only one I hear. Is there a way to have it finish the first sound before playing the second? I’m using the sound.Play function right now.

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You could thread your sound play functions so that when the sound has completed it sets a flag to indicate it’s done and then moves on to the next sound. You’d have to implement a timer that would monitor the indicator to see when it was set to finished and then it would execute the next sound in your list, also in a thread. You could even make the sound file itself a parameter in the function you’re going to be executing with in the thread so that you could have have DRY code. Just an idea anyway…

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if You know the length of sound1 ( seconds) you can do:

sound1.play Timer1.period = 5000 // here the length of sound 1 (sec * 1000) Timer1.Mode = 1

and in Timer1 Action:

sound2.play me.mode = 0

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[code]Sound1.play

While Sound1.isPlaying
Wend

Sound2.play[/code]

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[quote=111566:@Roger Clary][code]Sound1.play

While Sound1.isPlaying
Wend

Sound2.play[/code][/quote]
This will effectively lock up the whole application, though.

After Sound1.play, I’d kick a Timer off, which checks the .isPlaying property every second and when it becomes false, it plays the next sound.

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…which will result in a possible gap of up to a second between sounds. The solution all depends on the needs of the OP. That’s why multiple answers are good and disparaging answers is not.

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I was not disparaging your answer, I was merely point out that the operating system will very quickly consider the application as “not responding” if put into a while… wend loop as you suggested.

You could of course reduce the Timer to a fraction of a second, so that the second sound will kick in without a perceivable delay.

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Oh, you guys…no disparaging answers detected here, just the same great help I usually find at this forum. Axel’s method worked quite well, it turned out. Thanks all!

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