Plugin Sound not playing in Studio?

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#1

For some reason, this plugin script provided in the documentation doesn’t play sound in studio.

Is there something wrong with the script?

local SoundService = game:GetService("SoundService")

-- Create custom plugin button

local toolbar = plugin:CreateToolbar("Empty Script Adder")

local newScriptButton = toolbar:CreateButton("Add Script", "Create an empty Script", "rbxassetid://1507949215")

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

local function onNewScriptButtonClicked()

-- Create new empty script

local newScript = Instance.new("Script")

newScript.Source = ""

newScript.Parent = game:GetService("ServerScriptService")

-- Call function to play local sound

playLocalSound("rbxassetid://9114890978") -- Insert audio asset ID here

end

-- Connect plugin button to action function

newScriptButton.Click:Connect(onNewScriptButtonClicked)
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#2

Did you get an error or was there no errors?

#3

It doesn’t show errors in the output.

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#4

I am experiencing the same issue. No method I’ve tried has resulted in the audio being played.

#5

Have you tried to parent the sound and use play() although PlayLocalSound is suppose to work no matter parent

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#6

I figured it out. Sound behavior has been changed to only play in Run mode, not Edit mode.

However, if you parent the Sound to a plugin widget, then you can :Play() on it like a normal in-game sound. Create a dummy widget and parent to it.

-- Roblox decided that sounds only play in Edit mode when parented to a plugin widget, for some reason
local plugin = plugin or script:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Plugin")
local widget = plugin:CreateDockWidgetPluginGui("soundPlayer", DockWidgetPluginGuiInfo.new(
	Enum.InitialDockState.Float,
	false, true,
	10, 10,
	10, 10
))
widget.Name = "soundPlayer"
widget.Title = "Sound Player"

return function(soundId)
	local sound = Instance.new("Sound")
	sound.SoundId = soundId
	sound.Parent = widget

	sound.Ended:Connect(function()
		sound:Destroy()
	end)

	sound:Play()
end
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How to play sound in a Plugin?
My plugin won't play my song
#7

Do I save it as a plugin or do I have to just require it?

#8

store it inside the plugin and require it from there
instead of saving your plugin as a .lua script, save it as a .rbxmx file