Is music playing

[Two Tales]

How do I script to tell if music is playing in the music channel/folder.
I'm trying to do something like: If music playing {do nothing} else {aSomething.Play();}
I've tried playing around with the IsPlaying property and with Type property after looking in manual. But my experiments are failing.

[Khris]

Let's say you have a global AudioChannel* variable named  bgm.
Once you do

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  bgm = aSomeBackgroundMusic.Play();

you can now do something like

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  if (bgm.IsPlaying) ...

Here's a thread about having a piece of music play continuously in several rooms: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50363.msg

[Crimson Wizard]

If you need to know if *any* music plays, then

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bool IsSoundTypePlaying(int sound_type)
{
     for (int i = 0; i < System.AudioChannelCount; i++)
     {
          AudioChannel *ch = System.AudioChannel[i];
          if (ch.IsPlaying && ch.PlayingClip.Type == sound_type) return true;
     }
     return false;
}

Usage:

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if (IsSoundTypePlaying(eAudioTypeMusic))

[Two Tales]

Thanks to both of you. This is really helpful.