[SOLVED] Defining what song title shows up in the music room?

[bluebat]

Hey Lemmasoft, I've run into a snag with trying to make a music room for my project.

I've gotten as far as making it so the music room displays the song's filename on the screen while it's playing using this:

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$ playing = renpy.music.get_playing("music")
    if playing is not None:
        text playing xpos 0.5 ypos 0.5
    else:
        text "Press play!" xpos 0.5 ypos 0.5

But of course that understandably comes out looking like "soundfolder/gamemusicfolder/songtitle.ogg". I'd like it so I could define what each file being played displayed as, so it would show up as something like "Song Title - Artist" instead of the file's path. After much googling and experimenting I've had no luck, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[Ocelot]

One possible approach would be to create a dictionary mapping files to song names:

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# Somewhere where you define variables
define song_list = {
    "soundfolder/gamemusicfolder/songtitle.ogg" : "Song Title - Artist",
    "soundfolder/gamemusicfolder/anothersong.ogg" : "Another Song - IDK Who",
}

# Then in your screen:
text song_list.get(playing, playing) xpos 0.5 ypos 0.5

This will show name of the sont if it exist in the song_list dictionary, or raw path if it does not.

[bluebat]

One possible approach would be to create a dictionary mapping files to song names:

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# Somewhere where you define variables
define song_list = {
    "soundfolder/gamemusicfolder/songtitle.ogg" : "Song Title - Artist",
    "soundfolder/gamemusicfolder/anothersong.ogg" : "Another Song - IDK Who",
}

# Then in your screen:
text song_list.get(playing, playing) xpos 0.5 ypos 0.5

This will show name of the sont if it exist in the song_list dictionary, or raw path if it does not.

This worked perfectly, thank you so much for your help!