Is there a way to play a sound using a plugin?

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#1

Hello Developers!

I was recently working on a plugin that is basically all sounds. Nope you’re not gonna get the plugin name yet🤷‍♂️. And I wanted to play a sound once a button is clicked. I tried to clone the sound to workspace and playing it there, but didn’t work. Is there a way to “preview” the sound thru scripts?

Any Help is appreciated,
OceanTubez

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Play Sound from plugin during edit mode (similar to Properties panel)
#2

Try using SoundService:PlayLocalSound(Sound). (You put in a sound instance in the argument) Read more here: SoundService | Roblox Creator Documentation

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#4

Perfect. You just made me eat cake.

#6

Glad I could help! In the documentation page, it provides this function:

local function playLocalSound(soundId)
	-- Create a sound
	local sound = Instance.new("Sound")
	sound.SoundId = soundId
	-- Play the sound locally
	SoundService:PlayLocalSound(sound)
	-- Once the sound has finished, destroy it
	sound.Ended:Wait()
	sound:Destroy()
end

Which allows you to put in a SoundId rather than a sound instance. It just makes it a bit easier if you’re working with SoundIds.

#8

I don’t think the sound service works? Been trying it, and audio still doesn’t play. Keeping in mind the new updates to audio roblox just pushed out.

#9

I’m in the same boat. SoundService doesn’t seem to be complying :frowning:

#10

Sounds mounted under plugin guis (CreateDockWidgetPluginGui) play sounds.

#11

I’m using a DockWidgetUI, and it won’t work if you use CoreGui.

I wouldn’t recommend CoreGui anyway, since studio has way more features in DockWidgets.

#12

Thanks! I wish they mentioned this in the SoundService API :frowning: