How to get the Name of an object?

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#1

G’day. I created a script so that I can play background music in my game. Now I created a TextLabel that should display the Name of the Song that is currently playing. But I dont know how I should get the name of the song. Can someone help? Below is the script:

local SongsFolder = script['Songs']
local TextFrame = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild('ScreenGui'):WaitForChild('Frame'):WaitForChild('TextLabel') 

while wait() do
	for i,v in pairs(SongsFolder:GetChildren() ) do
		v:Play()
		v.Ended:Wait()
		v.TimePosition = 0
	end
end

TextFrame.TextLabel = "Now playing" --- Add the name of the song
wait(5)
TextFrame.TextLabel = ""

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#2

Simply store the sound instance in a local variable then show it’s name:

local SongsFolder = script['Songs']
local TextFrame = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild('ScreenGui'):WaitForChild('Frame'):WaitForChild('TextLabel') 
local songPlaying -- instance of playing song

task.spawn(function() -- prevents infinite loop from yielding code
while wait() do
	for i,v in pairs(SongsFolder:GetChildren() ) do
		songPlaying = v -- sets songplaying to v
		v:Play()
		v.Ended:Wait()
		v.TimePosition = 0
	end
end
end)

TextFrame.TextLabel = "Now playing "..songPlaying.Name --- Add the name of the song
wait(5)
TextFrame.TextLabel = ""
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#4

Alright, thanks. It should work when it is in StarterGUI, right? Since I just tried it in-game, but it isnt working.

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#5

Yeah it should work, is there an error or nothing?

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#6

There’s two ways of doing this.

  1. Renaming all the sounds to the title of their soundId, and just using the .Name property of that Sound object.

  2. Using MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo() to get the name automatically. This would look something like: (keep in mind SoundIds usually have “rbxassetid://” at the front, so you’d have to remove that and then use tonumber on the rest of the string to turn it into a number)

game:GetService("MarketplaceService"):GetProductInfo(1847254112).Name
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#7

No need to remove rbxassetid:// you can string.sub(SoundId,14,string.len(Sound.id))

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#8

In the console, it just says:
Stack Begin
Script: … (To lazy to write the whole script location)
Stack End

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#9

Very helpful thank you. Go to view > output and enable that, then you can copy errors more easily. Or you can provide an image.

#10 
  12:54:59.813  Infinite yield possible on 'Players.TtvRaucra:WaitForChild("ScreenGui")'  -  Studio
  12:54:59.813  Stack Begin  -  Studio
  12:54:59.813  Script 'Players.TtvRaucra.PlayerGui.BackgroundMusic', Line 2  -  Studio - BackgroundMusic:2
  12:54:59.813  Stack End  -  Studio
  12:54:59.813  Infinite yield possible on 'Workspace.LightStorage:WaitForChild("EntranceZone")'  -  Studio
  12:54:59.813  Stack Begin  -  Studio
  12:54:59.813  Script 'Workspace.TtvRaucra.LightingOptimization', Line 36  -  Studio - LightingOptimization:36
  12:54:59.813  Stack End  -  Studio
  12:55:00.677  :: Adonis :: Requiring Alerts Module by ID; Expand for module URL >   ▶ {...}  -  Server
#11

Not that, what’s above stack begin? Like above above.

#12

Try removing a .Parent in that line, you are indexing player with ScreenGui, it should be the PlayerGui

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#13

A small part of what is above it. All the Sound IDs that failed to load are not those who are in the Background Music Script by the way.

  12:54:53.647  Stack Begin  -  Studio
  12:54:53.647  Script 'Workspace.SCP.SCP-939.Animate', Line 14  -  Studio - Animate:14
  12:54:53.647  Stack End  -  Studio
  12:54:53.647  Infinite yield possible on 'Workspace.shelter_blast:WaitForChild("DoorOpened")'  -  Studio
  12:54:53.647  Stack Begin  -  Studio
  12:54:53.647  Script 'Workspace.Doors.shelter_blast.DetectCut', Line 1  -  Studio - DetectCut:1
  12:54:53.647  Stack End  -  Studio
  12:54:53.665  GroupID Morphs loaded.  -  Server - Attire handles:25
  12:54:53.682  Failed to load sound rbxassetid://5475286926: Unable to download sound data  -  Studio
  12:54:54.021  Animation Spoofer cannot run while game is running  -  Client
  12:54:55.008  Failed to load sound rbxassetid://5475286926: Unable to download sound data  -  Studio
  12:54:55.076  Requiring asset 6381249088.
Callstack:
cloud_6380577372.Tubemaker.Tubemaker, line 24
  -  Server
  12:54:55.512  Failed to load sound rbxassetid://9174711793: Unable to download sound data  -  Studio
  12:54:55.683  Failed to load animation - sanitized ID: rbxassetid://12933085934  -  Studio
  12:54:58.135  GroupID Morph System loaded.  -  Server
  12:54:58.136  GroupID Morphs completed.  -  Server
  12:54:58.209  require(assetId) cannot be called from a client.  assetId = 6381249088  -  Client
  12:54:58.209  Stack Begin  -  Studio
  12:54:58.209  Script 'cloud_6380577372.Tubemaker.Tubemaker', Line 24  -  Studio
  12:54:58.209  Stack End  -  Studio
  12:54:58.277  TransitArms  -  Server - TransitSystem:96
  12:54:58.281  TransitGate  -  Server - TransitSystem:97
  12:54:58.308  TransitArms  -  Server - TransitSystem:96
  12:54:58.309  TransitGate  -  Server - TransitSystem:97
  12:54:58.386   ▶ [SlaveClock][GetTime] - Slave clock is not yet synced (x8)  -  Client - SyncedTime:86
  12:54:58.452  Failed to load animation - sanitized ID: rbxassetid://11898686078  -  Studio
  12:54:58.553  PlayerLoader successful  -  Client - PlayerLoader:35
  12:54:58.588  Section four complete  -  Client - Menu System:76
  12:54:58.603  Failed to load animation - sanitized ID: rbxassetid://11898686078  -  Studio
  12:54:59.813  Infinite yield possible on 'Players.TtvRaucra:WaitForChild("ScreenGui")'  -  Studio
#14

Okay, I think vector4_new solved your issue, I was lazy. By the way the error part should be red. Something more like this:
image

#15

Still not working. I believe it could be because of my Main Menu but idk.

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