How to make only one song play at a time

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1

so im making an asym game where different music plays all the time but i want it so that when one song starts all the other songs mute until the song ends, or smth like a layer’d music system where each song is given a layer and when its playing any songs under its layer are muted, say a chase theme with layer 2 starts, the bg theme with layer 1 mutes.

2

You could try making it so it sets the volume to 0 and setting it to the amount you want depending of the layer. I did this for one of my asym games.
Just set volume to 0 to the other songs and the playing one gets it’s volume higher

3

how would i check which layer songs are playing?

5

You would make lists of all this stuff so you know by what song is playing what layer it is and every other song. From a client script you can check if a song is playing with song.Playing ..
That will be true of false.

6

For this, group all the songs into a Folder named MusicFolder (or anything else, but then you have to change the name) and put this script in the instance that also has the new Folder as a child.

It should look like this



Instance
  |_ this script
  |_ MusicFolder
      |_ your songs

Here is the script you can try using:

local musicFolder = script.Parent.MusicFolder -- if you need you can change the hierarchy 
local songs = musicFolder:GetChildren()


local songLayers = {}
for _, song in ipairs(songs) do
    if song:IsA("Sound") then
        songLayers[song] = song:GetAttribute("Layer") or 1
    end
end

-- Function to play a song and mute lower layers
local function playSongWithLayer(song)
    local currentLayer = songLayers[song]

    
    for otherSong, layer in pairs(songLayers) do
        if otherSong ~= song and layer < currentLayer then
            otherSong.Volume = 0
        end
    end

    song:Play()
    song.Ended:Wait()

  
    for otherSong, layer in pairs(songLayers) do
        if layer < currentLayer then
            otherSong.Volume = 1
        end
    end
end