Play sample from expression

[AkaiR]

Hello everybody!

I've searched and searched and searched but I can't find a solution to my problem. There's alot of threads about this but no solution, it seems...

I'm trying to get my app to play samples from an expression because I have several different samples I want to play randomly ex: "sample"+str$(random(10))+".wav"

It just doesn't work, doesn't matter if I have added it to binary data or not, if I write the whole path that it was stored on my computer (as someone said you should) or if I just write "sample0.wav".

BUT if I choose to play it directly (not from expression) it works perfectly, which leads me to believe that that play from expression simply doesn't work on android. Is that the case?

[marbenx]

If you're OK with the files being embedded directly into the EXE/don't need them to play externally, you can do random sounds using loops:



This just runs a fast loop (once) with a random number in the name, and each loop plays a different sound

[AkaiR]

Thanks for the answer, nice way of playing random files using fast loops! But this is still what I want to avoid. I would like to have 1 line of code instead of 10. It's not that I mind if the sounds are embedded or not, I just don't want to add a line of code for each sound - that's why I wanna know if it works with "play from expression" on android or not.

[tk22]

If you're OK with the files being embedded directly into the EXE/don't need them to play externally, you can do random sounds using loops:



This just runs a fast loop (once) with a random number in the name, and each loop plays a different sound

Thank you! @marbenx ! Is "44100" the default frequency?

[AkaiR]

Anybody knows if this is possible or not?
Otherwise I'll go with @marbenx fine fastloop solution :P

[Fernando]

For this you need an extension which allow you to play sounds from assets, let me see if i post something for sale

[marbenx]

Thank you! @marbenx ! Is "44100" the default frequency?

that's the frequency of the particular sound files I was using in the game, if you open up a sound file in any sound editor it should tell you the frequency (or even fusion if you output the info to the debugger). the +RRandom(-800,800) is just to give a tiny bit of randomness to the sound each time it plays so even if it plays the exact same sound twice in a row it should be a little different

[tk22]

that's the frequency of the particular sound files I was using in the game, if you open up a sound file in any sound editor it should tell you the frequency (or even fusion if you output the info to the debugger). the +RRandom(-800,800) is just to give a tiny bit of randomness to the sound each time it plays so even if it plays the exact same sound twice in a row it should be a little different

Thank you for the detailed explanation now I get how it works!

[AkaiR]

For this you need an extension which allow you to play sounds from assets, let me see if i post something for sale

Yes, I would be happy if you know something that will work!