How would I make a "Skip" button for my playlist GUI?

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What do you want to achieve? I want to make a playlist GUI that allows you to rewind, mute, and skip songs that you don’t like. In this post, the main issue is the button to skip songs.

What is the issue? Since I have never actually coded this thing before I am clueless on how to actually program it. Here’s my code (most likely not what’s causing this)

task.wait(2)
while true do
	for num, song in songs do
	song:Play()
	muteButton.Activated:Connect(function()
		if muted == false then
			muted = true
			mute()
		elseif muted == true then
			muted = false
			unMute()
		end
	end)
	skipButton.Activated:Connect(function()
		skip(song)
	end)
	songDisplayerText.Text = song.Name
	song.Ended:Wait(3)
	end
end

Don’t worry about the mute button that works very well.

What solutions have you tried so far? Don’t ask why but I tried this monstrosity:

local function skip(song)
	local songPlaybackRegion = song.PlaybackRegion
	songPlaybackRegion = NumberRange.new((song.TimeLength - 1), 60000)
	local previousVolume = song.Volume
	song.Volume = 0
	print(song.TimeLength)
	song:Stop()
	wait()
	song:Play()
	song.Ended:Connect(function()
		song.Volume = previousVolume
	end)
end

I know it’s a work of art :slight_smile:
If you can help me solve this please reply down below!

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You can try to set the time to the full length so the event fires and plays the next song. I’m not sure if that would work though.

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I tried that before and if you do that it simply restarts the song (If I’m processing what you mean correctly)

5

It shouldn’t restart it if you change the song with the event, I’m not really familiar with sounds as I dont use these features too often

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Okay this is a lot for something that can be simple
the structure of your songs must either be

  • A list of songs inside a SoundGroup
  • 1 single sound object that changes SoundIds

If you want a rewind feature just do what the skip function does but instead its

SoundPosition = 0

local lastPlayed
local currentSound
local muted = false

--- put the button functions outside the loop because memory leaks and theres just no reason for them to be in the loop
muteButton.Activated:Connect(function()
	if not muted then
		muted = true
		mute() -- youll need to edit the mute functions to use currentSound as the sound object (or use soundgroups)
	else
		muted = false
		unMute()
	end
end)

skipButton.Activated:Connect(function()
	if currentSound ~= nil then
		Sound.TimePosition = Sound.TimeLength
	end
end)

task.spawn(function()
	while true do
		local Sound = songs[math.random(1, #songs)] -- Table of your songs
		if Sound ~= LastSound then -- Guaranteeing that the same song doesnt play twice
			songDisplayerText.Text = Sound.Name
		
			Sound:Play()
			LastSound = Sound
			currentSound = Sound
			Sound.Ended:Wait() -- Plays new song immediately once the song finishes **cant be looped
			currentSound = nil
		end
	end
end)