Experiencing buggy audio behavior in music system

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#1

I am attempting to create a music system that just simply plays random sound ID from a list of music provided by a table.

-- all server-side
local soundInstance = Instance.new("Sound", workspace) -- I only parent so don't kill me for using second argument

local function playSong()
    local newSong = getRandomSong()
    soundInstance.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..newSong.Id
    if not soundInstance.IsLoaded then
        soundInstance.Loaded:Wait()
    end
    
    print("Loaded "..newSong.Name)
    
    soundInstance:Play()
    
    print("Song "..newSong.Name.." now playing..")
end

coroutine.wrap(function()
    local players = game.Players
    while true do
        if #players:GetPlayers() == 0 then
            players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
        end
        
        playSong()
        soundInstance.Ended:Wait()
    end
end)()

I am having the sound randomly pause when it ends (doesn’t even fire Paused event) and sometimes a new song plays before the current ends then goes halfway in. getRandomSong() just gets a random sound ID so not really anything new to have by showing it.

This bug is consistent in ingame testing and Studio testing.

Test File used:

SongTest.rbxl (18.5 KB)

#2

see if this works

-- all server-side
local soundInstance = Instance.new("Sound", workspace) -- I only parent so don't kill me for using second argument

local function playSong()
    local newSong = getRandomSong()
    soundInstance.SoundId = "rbxassetid://"..newSong.Id
    if not soundInstance.IsLoaded then
        soundInstance.Loaded:Wait()
    end
    
    print("Loaded "..newSong.Name)
    
    soundInstance:Play()
    
    print("Song "..newSong.Name.." now playing..")
end

coroutine.wrap(function()
    local players = game.Players
    while true do
        playSong()
        wait(soundInstance.TimeLength)
    end
end)()
#3

That does not work either but it seems that pre-loading many sounds seems to work much better.

However, Ended:Wait() was the culprit here as it would no matter in any case, yield infinitely and was unreliable.

Thus, the solution was to really just create pre-loaded sounds first then wait the time length of the song.

#4

Is the audio instance set to loop around when at the end? In that case, it doesn’t fire the .Ended signal.

#5

I don’t think it’s looped, that code is the full code and I am making an entirely new Sound instance in the code to use.