Assign Music/Sound

[Queener]

Is it possible to assign sound onto button and play music on background without having to open the mp3 via media player?

[Melba23]

asianqueen,

Look at the Sound UDF - it allows you to play mp3s directly within AutoIt. I am listening to my background player as I type.

M23

[Queener]

works, but the form froze. I'm creating a survey form and while user is doing the survey; the music plays. The form windows just keep cycling with the background music on. Any click will make it none responses and end up closing it.

 

[EDIT]

nevermind... got it...

_SoundPlay($sound, 1).... I just remove the 1 and it stops that cycling.

Edited November 1, 2013 by asianqueen

[Melba23]

asianqueen,

And I am supposed to suggest a solution based just on that description?

If you post the code you are using I will look at it for you and see what I can come up with.

M23

Edit: I see our posts crossed. Glad you got it sorted.

Edited November 1, 2013 by Melba23

[Queener]

Now for the loop;

I tried

If _SoundStop($sound) Then
    _SoundPlay($sound)
EndIf

 

But it doesn't work... I even tried if true statement, but still doesn't loop. Any idea?

[Melba23]

asianqueen,

Check if the current file has ended - if so then restart it:

If _SoundStatus($sound) = "stopped" Then
    _SoundPlay($sound)
EndIf

M23

[Queener]

Can you confirm it's working? Cause that didn't work on me. I created a label to see if the text did have the following text and it did. As soon as the text change from playing to stopped, it changed to playing again, but no sound.

$sound = _SoundOpen("bk.mp3")
 
$Status = _SoundStatus($sound)
 
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel($Status,40,30,50,15,-1,-1)

If $Label1 = "stopped" Then
_SoundPlay($sound)
EndIf

[BrewManNH]

You've been doing this long enough to know that you can't read the contents of a control the way you're doing it. $Label1 is never going to contain the word stopped, it will only contain the control ID of the label control.

If you want to monitor the _SoundStatus, why are you looking at the label and not using the $Status variable, which quite clearly contains the text in your label?

[Melba23]

asianqueen,

Why is there a label in ther?

You do it like this:

#include <Sound.au3>

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "On_Exit")

$aSnd_ID = _SoundOpen("M:\Downloads\Tardis takeoff.mp3")

_SoundPlay($aSnd_ID)

While 1
    If _SoundStatus($aSnd_ID) = "stopped" Then
        _SoundPlay($aSnd_ID)
    EndIf
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

Func On_Exit()
    _SoundStop($aSnd_ID)
    Exit
EndFunc

M23

[Queener]

It still doesn't loop with the code you given. It plays and when the song ends; thats it. The reason I'm using a label is because I wanted to see if it actually display playing or stopped which it does display playing or stopped. So I use the command to play the song again if the label = stopped. Which that didn't help either.

Done. EDIT: (I have to add a stop then play again to make it work.)

#include <Sound.au3>
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "On_Exit")
$aSnd_ID = _SoundOpen("bk.mp3")

_SoundPlay($aSnd_ID)

while 1
    sleep(1)

if _SoundStatus($aSnd_ID) = "stopped" Then

_SoundStop($aSnd_ID)
_SoundPlay($aSnd_ID)
EndIf
sleep(10)
WEnd

Func On_Exit()
    _SoundStop($aSnd_ID)
    Exit
EndFunc

Edited November 3, 2013 by asianqueen

[Melba23]

asianqueen,

 

It still doesn't loop with the code you given

Obviously it does for me when I use one of my mp3 files or I would not have posted it.

Can you post the mp3 file you are trying to play (send it by PM if you would prefer). Perhaps there is something funny about that.

M23

[Melba23]

asianqueen,

That is a most peculiar mp3 - it will not restart until it has been closed and reopened like this:

#include <Sound.au3>

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "On_Exit")

$aSnd_ID = _SoundOpen("M:\Downloads\bk.mp3")

_SoundPlay($aSnd_ID)

While 1
    If _SoundStatus($aSnd_ID) = "stopped" Then
        _SoundStop($aSnd_ID)
        _SoundOpen("M:\Downloads\bk.mp3")
        _SoundPlay($aSnd_ID)
    EndIf
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

Func On_Exit()
    _SoundStop($aSnd_ID)
    Exit
EndFunc

I will look inside it later and see if I can work out why it does this.

M23

[Queener]

yeah I scratch my head why it's not looping until it comes in mind that I tried to stop the play then play it again. It's a good catch =)

[Melba23]

asianqueen,

I recoded the mp3 and it works fine now - there must be some encoding glitch in the file you are using. If I find the time I will have a deeper look inside the original and let you know if I find anything.

M23