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Hi,

Should be a bit of a basic one this; sorry if I've missed something obvious in the documentation.

I have a single music track that I want to play from start to finish and then stop. By default the music seems to loop continuously - how can I prevent this?

The .loop property only seems to deal with the looping of a single track in the playlist, not the looping of the playlist itself.

Thanks,

Chris

ig.Music seems to be intended for continuous play. While I agree with you there should be an option to "stop and wait for instruction" after a song ends, there does not appear to be such an option out of the box. You could create this yourself. However the easiest solution may be to simply play a song as an ig.Sound instance instead. This would accomplish the same thing, wouldn't it?

Thanks for the quick reply!

You&039;re right - this could indeed be accomplished with an ##ig.Sound# instance. The main reason why I chose ##ig.music## is because I want an easy means to stop any music that is currently playing from various menus within the game.

This can be done easily by simply calling ##ig.music.stop## - is there an equivalent function I can call to stop all currently playing instances of ##ig.Sound##?

Oops... formatting fail

Just keep a pointer such as ig.game.current_song which holds whatever ig.Sound is currently playing. Then you could just call stop on it the say way you call stop on ig.Music.

Thanks a lot - makes sense!