Opening fanfare with sound and animated scene, making sounds stop by clicking?

[sonictoad]

Here's the code I currently got in script.rpy before start:

#The "splashscreen" label automatically plays before the main menu.
label splashscreen:
play sound "STFANFARE.ogg"
scene splashph
with dissolve
pause (14.0) #Fanfare sound file is 14 seconds
return

I'm just using a placeholder image for now, splashph.png. Would it be better to use a GIF, MP4, or just a couple manual frames for the final animated image?

Next up, how do I make sounds...skippable by clicking?

for instance, if I just click past the fanfare, the image goes away and jumps straight to the main menu, but the sound keeps playing over the main menu music.

[hell_oh_world]

you cant use gifs inside renpy, videos would work, but there are certain video formats/containers that can only work https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html.
try putting `stop sound` at the end before the return to stop the sound, also better to play long tracks in music channel, so play music 'music.mp3', then stop music

[sonictoad]

you cant use gifs inside renpy, videos would work, but there are certain video formats/containers that can only work https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html.
try putting `stop sound` at the end before the return to stop the sound, also better to play long tracks in music channel, so play music 'music.mp3', then stop music

thanks! I'll try the stop sound command and experiment with it in other scenes, since I had the same issue with a phone ringing sound that was on the longer side. can also just change it to a music command.

hmm, based on the supported movie file types, I think displaying it as an animated background might be easiest. It's just a couple simple frames I can delay at certain points to make it fit the full 14 seconds.

[sonictoad]

Update: the "stop sound" command works like a charm! Makes those long sound files "clickable"