Stopping a sound played on the 'audio' channel

[SethRiley]

Greetings (^_^)/

I have a sound effect, which I would like to have looped throughout a portion of the story. Since sounds on the 'sound' channel can't be looped, and I don't want to use the 'music' or 'voice' channels for this because they're in use, this sound effect is triggered with:

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play audio "sfx/02_3A.ogg" loop

This makes the sound effect loop seamlessly as desired.

However, how does one stop the sound afterwards? Ive tried "stop audio" as well as "stop sound", but the sound effect keeps playing.

The sound effect is affected by the 'sound' volume slider though, so Ren'Py does seem to treat it as a sound effect.

Does any one know of a way to stop a sound which is triggered that way?

[PyTom]

The audio channels are fire and forget. If you want something you can stop, use 'play sound' rather than 'play audio', then use 'stop audio'.

[Saltome]

Hmm... Maybe you can just define your own audio channel, and play it on there.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/audio.ht ... er_channel

[duck-and-wolf]

What if you want to stop the currently playing activate_sound or hover_sound?

[Remix]

You could move those sounds to another channel (maybe one you created yourself) that can be stopped by changing the config:

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define config.play_channel = "audio"

# The name of the audio channel used by renpy.play(), hover_sound, and activate_sound.

As mentioned though, the audio channel will complete any file played on it and as such is generally for short form sounds rather than long clips.