

The sound plays back on both RC and DS phones. You mentioned wanting playback on the RC phone. Hover the cursor over each Block for instructions. Review the optional green Blocks to adjust volume, rate and looping. Otherwise you'll get an irritating staccato of continuous starts.ħ. Hint: Windows Explorer gives an estimate of playback duration.Ī sleep() is essential if a gamepad button triggers playback in a repeat loop, since the loop cycles faster than a human releasing the button. If you require completion before moving on, determine how much sleep() is needed. This begins playback only the program will continue immediately. Don't use OR NOT opModeIsActive, since you haven't yet pressed START (to make the Op Mode active).Ħ. There's no pulldown, check the My Sounds tab to be sure.įor safety and convenience, add a secondary condition to the Repeat Until loop: OR isStopRequested. In any case you might want telemetry afterwards to indicate completion.Įnter the exact audio filename. The loop can remain empty, unless you want to include telemetry re. This block returns 'TRUE' when the preloading task is complete. There's one for the SoundResource class which contains this year's memorable (!) Skystone sounds, and the other is for your own previously uploaded sound files. Change the 'while' to 'until', and attach one of the preloadSound Blocks. Optional to preload the sound file, which theoretically improves response for larger files. Suggest doing this before waitForStart, to allow time to complete.ĥ. Open a Blocks Op Mode (old or new), look under Android, and SoundPool.Ĥ.

Leave that tab open, return to the first Chrome tab.

Use unique filenames don't upload hello.wav and hello.mp3.ģ. This open a new Chrome tab called My Sounds, where you can upload and manage sound files. In the top-level Blocks interface (list of Op Modes), click on " Sounds" at the right side of the screen. Many free websites can convert your existing audio file into those formats. A fun feature! Here's a general guide for others who may want to try this.
