How do I make a wait script wait a sounds timelength?

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#1

Recentely I was working on an audio vizualizer game. What I was trying to do is once a sound finishes playing it gets deleted. As the audio vizualizer script runs on

 local Sound = game.Workspace.Sound.PlaybackLoudness

so it is dedicated to one object called “Sound” but once it finishes playing, the player writes in a new ID for the song and an instance causes a new “Sound” to happen. And since a new sound is made the vizualizer cannot decide which PlaybackLoudness to choose so the frame just glitches out and becomes tiny.

So what I am trying to do is to make a script that will remove the sound when it finishes playing.

VIZUALIZER SCRIPT:

    local Frame = script.Parent
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game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function(Doge)
 local Sound = game.Workspace.Sound.PlaybackLoudness
 Frame.Size = UDim2.new(0,Sound,0,Sound)
 
end)

Audio ID script:

local soundTextBox = script.Parent

soundTextBox.FocusLost:connect(function(enterPressed)
	if enterPressed then
		local ContentProvider = Game:GetService("ContentProvider")
		local sound = Instance.new("Sound")
 		sound.SoundId = ContentProvider.BaseUrl .. "asset/?id=" .. soundTextBox.Text
		sound.Parent = game.Workspace
		while (ContentProvider.RequestQueueSize > 0) do
			wait()
		end
		sound:Play()
	end
end)

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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#2

Events have a :Wait() function that yields the script until the specific event fires, so just:

sound.Ended:Wait()
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#4

This is absolutely the best answer and hey what’s up Blokav, but if you want to wait the TimeLength, why not just do wait(Sound.TimeLength)? Or better yet, include the PlaybackSpeed for further accuracy wait(Sound.TimeLength * Sound.PlaybackSpeed)?

#5

That would definitely work, but I personally find an event-driven structure more reliable than using the wait function, whose actual duration may vary slightly depending on the speed of the game.

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#6

That’s exactly what I did before. Did not work.

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#7

Sorry to bump this up, but I am in need of finding the timelength in my script, however I’m doing wait(sound.TimeLength) and I was wondering if anyone has found a way to make it work?

At the moment whenever I try to identify the TimeLength, by doing:

music = script.Parent -- The sound
timetowait = script.Parent.TimeLength

while true do
music.SoundId = "rbxassetid://" -- The actual asset ID is within the script
wait(0.1)
print(timetowait)
wait(10)
end

It comes up with 0, I have no idea why this is happening and have tried all solutions on this post.

Again, sorry to bump the post up

#8

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Try moving the “timetowait” variable being defined to after the sound has loaded, that may fix it.

#9

Unfortunately it still returns it as 0

#10

Found a fix! You have to wait until the audio has finished loading, and then like you said, to move the “timetowait” variable being defined to after the sound has loaded.

I’ve completely redone the script, however you can look at the new one here if anyone has the same issue.

local audio = script.Parent.Sound

while true do
	
	audio.SoundId = "rbxassetid://" -- Put in sound ID after ''rbxassetid://''
	
		if not audio.isLoaded then
			audio.Loaded:wait()
		end
	
	TimeWait = audio.TimeLength
	print(TimeWait)
	
	audio:Play()
	wait(TimeWait)
	print("Audio has finished playing, restarting.")
	wait(1)
end