How do I make all of the sounds mute/unmute?

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#1

I have a loading screen, and when it’s loading I want all of the sounds to be turned off to make it seem more like a loading screen. I don’t want the sounds to stop, I just want them to set their volume to 0 temporarily. How can I do that?

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#4

You’ll also have to add a DescendantAdded or something along the lines of that to mute new sounds.

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#5

Making this script was harder than I thought. This is my latest version. You can read what I did and why in the script comments.

local allSounds = {} -- Store sounds in table

local function resetVolume(sound)
	if sound.Volume ~= 0 then -- Do not save volume when it is set to 0
		allSounds[sound][1] = sound.Volume -- Save volume to index 1 of table
		sound.Volume = 0
	end
end

local function checkInstance(object)
	pcall(function()
		if object:IsA("Sound") then -- Detect if sound
			allSounds[object] = {} -- Create table for sound
			resetVolume(object)
			allSounds[object][2] = object:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Volume"):Connect(function()
				resetVolume(object) -- Reset sound when the volume is changed
			end)
		end
	end)
end

for _, object in ipairs(game:GetDescendants()) do -- Get every sound in the game
	checkInstance(object)
end
local soundAdded = game.DescendantAdded:Connect(checkInstance) -- Reset volume of sound added to game

task.wait(4) -- This is where you put your loading code stuff

soundAdded:Disconnect() -- Cleanup
for object, array in next, allSounds do
	array[2]:Disconnect()
	object.Volume = array[1] -- Reset volume to original
end
table.clear(allSounds)

I used :GetDescendants() to get every sound in the game. Note how I switch from using ipairs to next (which is the same thing as pairs by the way). This is because :GetDescendants() returns a table with proper indexes ([1] = part, [2] = part, [3] = part) whereas my table saved the sound as an index (sound = {}, sound = {}, sound = {}).

Edit: Here is a more simple (and arguably more efficient) version of the script:

local allSounds = {}
local connections = {}

local function resetVolume(sound)
	if sound.Volume ~= 0 then
		allSounds[sound] = sound.Volume
		sound.Volume = 0
	end
end

local function checkInstance(object)
	pcall(function()
		if object:IsA("Sound") then
			resetVolume(object)
			table.insert(connections, object:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Volume"):Connect(function()
				resetVolume(object)
			end))
		end
	end)
end

for _, object in ipairs(game:GetDescendants()) do
	checkInstance(object)
end
table.insert(connections, game.DescendantAdded:Connect(checkInstance))

-- Run your code here

for _, connection in ipairs(connections) do
	connection:Disconnect()
end
table.clear(connections)
for object, volume in next, allSounds do
	object.Volume = volume
end
table.clear(allSounds)
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#6

Thanks! Sorry it took me so long to reply.
One thing though, is that the script spams a bunch of errors called " The current identity (2) cannot Class security check (lacking permission 3)"

It printed out the error where you put this:

if object:IsA("Sound") then

end

I don’t know how to fix it though.

edit: I just wrapped it in a pcall function and it worked. Thanks!

#7

Honestly though, the easiest, quickest and most stable way of muting all sounds is to simply use a SoundGroup object. Assign all sounds to one new SoundGroup and then set the volume of the SoundGroup to 0 when the loading screen appears. That will mute all sounds, but they will still be playing.

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#8

Well I tried using sound groups before and I couldn’t get it to work. Also all of the sounds in my game have a different volume and they are in different models.

#9

Update: Moved the pcall function to the correct place.

#10

Different volumes won’t matter if the soundgroup is at volume 0. Any number multiplied by zero becomes zero.
Try looking into sound groups again, it’s a very important/useful feature for audio development

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#11

It matters when you want to unmute the sounds

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