Problems with OGG and Global Events?

[Simflare]

Is anyone aware of Global Events behaving oddly with audio files or particularly OGG Files? I'm having a strange error and I can't figure out what the problem is.

I have the 4 level tracks playing one after the other in sequence, 1,2,3,4 and back to 1 again. It works perfectly fine on the computer, no hassles. As soon as I put it on the Android phone, it just keeps looping track 1 and won't change track. I have tried rebuilding it several times and doing a few different things to problem solve it, but it honestly works fine on the PC then stops on the phone. Here's a quick version of the code, all global events:

If Track Changer(Global Variable) = 1
&& Track 1 is not playing
&& Track 2 is not playing
&& Track 3 is not playing
&& Track 4 is not playing

Then : Play Track 1

If Track Changer = 1
&& Track 1 IS playing

Then : Change Track Changer to 2

Then when Track 2 is playing it changes the track to 3, etc. So the idea is when one song is playing, it changes the track changer so that as soon as it stops, the next one starts. It works fine on the PC, but not on the phone.

Any idea's?

EDIT
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The way I check if a track is playing is I use the 'Is a Sample not playing?' condition and then negate it, so if a sample is not not playing, then it is playing, so to speak. Perhaps Android doesn't deal with one of these conditions / events so well? It seems pretty straight forward though.

[Tendro]

I think there is an issue with the "is not playing" function on android.

I also had the problem that my menu soundtrack didn't stop when you start a game. I used "if inGame music is playing > stop menu music". Didn't work though... Made a workaround, but in your case I think there is none until it's fixed except defining the length of a track in a variable and counting down :P

I'm also using .ogg files.

[Simflare]

Thanks for the reply. Just as you were replying I added an update. Yes I used the 'Is a sample not playing' and then negated it to check if a sample is not playing. I'm wondering now, with your comment, if that's part of the problem. That would mean the track was never changing, because it was never succeeding in checking that condition. Hm... if that is truly the problem, which it sounds like it probably is, then it will require a work around. A counter of some sorts may not be a bad idea.

Possibly this should also be reported as a bug if that is the case.

[Simflare]

FIXED! It WAS the event 'Is a sample not playing'! For some reason that doesn't work with Fusion. I did as you suggested and created a counter, thank you very much for your helpful suggestion!

With the counter, rather than adding '1' 60 times a second, I added '1' every '1 second' so that way the maths is a bit easier and it probably saves on system resources. So for a 3 minute song, I just check from when the counter = 180. Works perfect on the phone! And it was actually really easy to implement. It now says:

Every 1 Second : Add 1 to Track Changer

If TrackChanger(Global Variable) = 1
&& Only one action when event loops

Then : Play Track 1

If TrackChanger = 1
&& TrackChangerTimer = 60

Then : Stop Track 1
&& Change Track Changer to 2

Then if TrackChanger = 2, play track 2, etc...

It involves less lines of code too so it's actually cleaner. It's probably more like what you might do in real programming too so it could be useful in that sense, as I want to pick up some more proper programming soon.

[Simflare]

I just wanted to add that my previous solution has not worked the best. Using the timer to add to the counter for some reason misbehaves. I have told it to add 1 to the counter every second, but somehow the counter and the timer are falling out of sync. The counter slowly creeps ahead of the timer, which means that songs end abruptly before they're meant to. I will attempt other work arounds. This is frustrating that the 'Is a sample not playing' doesn't work with Android.