How to stop a :playlocalsound in a client event?

[Mrtgr33]

Hi I made a client event but I see no option to stop a :playlocalsound and sound:Play() doesn’t work in a client event. How to fix this? thanks for reading/helping

local function play()
	print("play")
	game:GetService("SoundService"):PlayLocalSound(script.Sound)
	game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent:FireServer()
	script.Sound:Stop() --doesn't work
end
game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent2.OnClientEvent:Connect(play)

[7z99 (cody)]

Sound:Play should work on the client, it’s possible you can’t hear it because of the sound’s parent or volume. Usually I put sounds that don’t need to be played in the 3D world in a ScreenGui. If you need a sound to be played in the world you could parent the sound to a part.

SoundService:PlayLocalSound is usually used for short sounds that need to be played on the fly and therefore aren’t stoppable. I noticed this when trying to implement sound effects, thought it was a bug but turns out it isn’t. :PlayLocalSound is something completely isolated from the sound instance. It sort of like makes an anonymous inaccessible copy of the sound, plays it, then gets rid of it.

How to stop a sound played with SoundService:PlayLocalSound(sound)?

I think PlayLocalSound is specifically meant for playing short plugin sound effects in the circumstance of a Team Create server instance such that the other studio clients won’t hear the sound, but that’s just speculation. My suggestion is to just use a different means of playback, like the standard :Play() call.

Multiple bugs w/ PlayLocalSound() - sound instances have incorrect properties, events not firing, & functions such as Stop() and Destroy() don't work

Thank you for bringing this up – the current documentation looks misleading, so we’ll work on getting that corrected. SoundService:PlayLocalSound operates by creating a “detached” copy of the sound’s playback, similar to using the PlayOnRemove property. By detached, I mean that it has no accompanying Instance. For triggering oneshot “fire and forget” sound effects, which might need to be played many times at once, it can be cumbersome to clone, play, and manage all those Sounds – that’s really…

[2jammers]

You should just play your sound in a client desired service such as starter gui or replicated storage. I have never had a time where I needed to use sound service.

[Mrtgr33]

So when the sound is in the StarterGui or the ReplicatedStorage the sound will be local? actually sounds quite logical because the PlayerGui, for example, is literally in the player. I’ll try it out.

Thanks for helping me!

[Mrtgr33]

thanks for your explanation! so there is no way to stop :playlocalsound, good to know.