(solved) Checking if a specific sound file is playing?

[llplldll]

Im currently implementing some sound into a project Im working on.
I have a music loop that plays whenever a certain label is jumped to. The loop restarts every time I go to this label, however I don't want it to start over, if it doesn't need to.
My question is, is there a way to check if a specific sound/music is currently playing?

for example:

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if(musictrack1.ogg is not playing):
   play musictrack1.ogg

Im currently confused about how to express "musictrack1.ogg is not playing" in renpy
I feel like theres a "hard way" and "easy way" to do this. Ive already figured out I can just set a variable that tracks whats playing but I already have an entire project full of switching music tracks. Going through all of that won't be fun... : (
Im not very skilled at using renpy yet, as this is my first project, so I definitely think Im missing something that would be obvious to help accomplish this.

Thanks

[ArachneJericho]

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/audio.htm ... et_playing

There are other audio functions there. Because if conditions seem to be interpreted as python code, you should be able to use

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if (renpy.music.is_playing('music')): 

Edit: that only tells you if any music is playing not a specific track. Hmm.

[xela]

You could always create a special channel and check vs that...

[llplldll]

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/audio.htm ... et_playing

There are other audio functions there. Because if conditions seem to be interpreted as python code, you should be able to use

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if (renpy.music.is_playing('music')): 

Edit: that only tells you if any music is playing not a specific track. Hmm.

Yeah, thats as far as I got too, lol.
I wonder if it can check the file name though?? not the channel...

You could always create a special channel and check vs that...

True, but all of my music tracks are playing on the same channel, the songs change automatically when "play music" is used. I have multiple scenes branching into this one label, so song changes are all over the place.
I would have to go through the entire project and stop/start music channels so that they don't play at the same time. : (

[Alex]

Try to play your music using renpy.music.play with if_changed parameter set to True

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label label_name:
    $ renpy.music.play("musictrack1.ogg", loop=True, fadeout=1.0, fadein=1.0, if_changed=True)

so it should play your "musictrack1.ogg" on "music" channel and when you'll jump to this label again it should continue playing track.

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/audio.htm ... music.play

[llplldll]

Try to play your music using renpy.music.play with if_changed parameter set to True

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label label_name:
    $ renpy.music.play("musictrack1.ogg", loop=True, fadeout=1.0, fadein=1.0, if_changed=True)

so it should play your "musictrack1.ogg" on "music" channel and when you'll jump to this label again it should continue playing track.

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/audio.htm ... music.play

That's exactly what Im looking for, it works!
Thank you