Play

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Description:

Plays the Sound. Sets Sound/TimePosition to the last value set by a Script (or 0 if it has not been set), and then sets Sound/Playing to true.

The impact of the different Sound functions on Sound/Playing and Sound/TimePosition are shown below.

Function	Sound.Playing	Sound.TimePosition
Sound:Play()	True	Last value set in Lua (default 0)
Sound:Pause()	False	-
Sound:Resume()	True	-
Sound:Stop()	False	0

Returns

Return Type	Summary
Return Type void	Summary

Code Samples

Sound Functions

This sample gives a simple demonstration of what each of the Sound functions (Sound.Play, Sound.Stop, Sound.Pause and Sound.Resume) do to Sound.Playing and Sound.TimePosition.

				
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			-- create a sound
local sound = Instance.new("Sound", game.Workspace)
sound.SoundId = "rbxassetid://301964312"

if not sound.IsLoaded then
	sound.Loaded:wait()
end

-- listen for events
sound.Played:Connect(function(soundId)
	print("Sound.Played event")
end)

sound.Paused:Connect(function(soundId)
	print("Sound.Paused event")
end)

sound.Resumed:Connect(function(soundId)
	print("Sound.Resumed event")
end)

sound.Stopped:Connect(function(soundId)
	print("Sound.Stopped event")
end)

sound:Play()
print("play", sound.Playing, sound.TimePosition) -- play true 0

wait(10)

sound:Pause()
print("pause", sound.Playing, sound.TimePosition) -- pause false 10

wait(3)

sound:Resume()
print("play", sound.Playing, sound.TimePosition) -- play true 10

wait(3)

sound:Stop()
print("stop", sound.Playing, sound.TimePosition) -- stop false 0

wait(3)

sound:Play()
print("play", sound.Playing, sound.TimePosition) -- play true 0
		
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Returns

void

Code Samples

Sound Functions