How to get the Android Runtime music playlist in semi-random order??

[Robotica]

Hi clickers,

Does anyone have an idea how I would be able to get a random music playlist that would play over all frames...


Here's what I need it to do exactly...

Track1 should always be first.
Track2 and Track3 should be randomly selected but then followed by the other.

So in conclusion I need the songs to always play in 1 of 2 random patterns...

Pattern 1:
track 1, track 2, track 3, then loop this order...

Pattern 2:
track 1, track 3, track 2, then loop this order...



CURRENTLY, for the time being... I have two .ogg files with the tracks placed in order within the ogg file... all 3 songs in both patterns and I'm just using RRandom (1, 2) to select ogg file 1 or 2:

ogg file 1:
track 1, track 2, track 3 (then I have it loop 100x)

ogg file 2:
track 1, track 3, track 2 (then I have it loop 100x)

this currently gives me the order that I need but since I have two LARGE ogg files... instead of 3 single track files... I am finding my .APK file size to be 51MB and I know I can reduce it to about 43MB if I can find a solution for the above mentioned question...

Am I looking too much into this and 7MB file size shouldn't matter anyway?

If you've released an Android App before and have experience with this then your feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks guys!

[Sparckman]

You can do that with global events
Here is an example:
http://community.clickteam.com/threads/87232-Global-Events-Example

[Bree]

Hello!

I did something similar in my game, I hope this helps a little. So the way I did it is make 3 groups.

Group 1 was my Randomizer

Group 2 was Playlist 1

Group 3 was Playlist 2

Randomizer Group had something like this in it:

On group activation, or other trigger set Global Value to Rrandom (1,2)
Global Value = 1 Activate Group Playlist 1
Global Value = 2 Activate Group Playlist 2
Deactivate group Randomizer


Then in my Playlist Group I did this:

Play Song1
Once Song1 is finished playing play Song2
Once Song2 if finished playing play Song 3
One Song 3 is finished activate Group Randomizer and Deactivate Group Playlist.

Then it repeats with the Playlist Group 2

Maybe there is a better way to do it but hopefully gives you some ideas! :-)

After I typed this Sparckman replied, so he probably has a better example

[Robotica]

Thanks for the replay Sparckman and Beejers! Appreciate it.

[Robotica]

Hi Beejers! I really like your idea behind the playlist. I created two playlists in the Global Events... but for my samples... I do not see "Sample has just finished playing?".... where is that located, Please? Thanks!

[Bree]

Hiya! So Looks like I got mixed up on that part.

So for sample what I did is say under the Sound -> Samples section is choose is specific sample not playing or you can be more generic and say is sample not playing. Then from there say Play the next song

[Robotica]

Great, thanks!