Stop Music loops

[vision]

Is there a way to stop music from looping. I just want the music file to play one time then stop. or a way to adjust how many times a music file loops.

 

[mersox]

I guess you could add some silence at the end of the track and have OpenBOR loop only that silent part over and over.

 

[aL BeasTie]

music in scenes has this option, but the flag doesn't work in stages unfortunately.

music		[path] [loop]		# BOR/OGG file to play

 

[Bloodbane]

Why don't you use an entity to play the music with script?

 

[vision]

dont know how to write script.

 

[maxman]

What Bloodbane means is a simple scripting of using playing music thanks to NickyP for his playmusic tutorial. You better use @cmd and playmusic for playing.

playmusic
playmusic(name, loop)

~Play a bor music.
~'name' is the path.
~'loop': 0 means dont loop, 1 means loop.

Here's an example I had with my old Dragon Duo which I got playmusic. The one highlighted in red below is a loop. You can put to 0 if you like for not looping. You don't need to put animationscript or script or whatever script line in the character header from the scripts folder. You can make a blank one by making the entity with type none and a blank image for frame if you like to make empty one.

name bpaul2
type text
health 1

anim idle
@cmd playmusic "DATA/music/story.BOR" 1
offset 0 240
delay 4
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend05.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend04.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend03.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend02.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend01.gif
delay 300
offset 0 240
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy100.gif
delay 200
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy101.gif
delay 300
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy102.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy103.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy104.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy105.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy106.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy116.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy107.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy108.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy109.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/billy119.gif
delay 4
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend01.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend02.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend03.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend04.gif
frame data/chars/misc1/billys/bend05.gif

 

[Bloodbane]

Or you can parse the script in level text directly like this:

spawn Empty
@script
void main()
{
    playmusic("data/music/stage1.bor",0);
}
@end_script
coords 285 100
at 0