How do I add background music?

I really need background music, sound effects too!

Armouredank

Insert New Object > "Media" Audio

In your project folder on the right > Musicfolder or Soundsfolder you can import Sounds

I already imported sounds. But its not playing.

I already imported sounds. But its not playing.

Event sheet.. on start layout > play : your song name

I really need background music, sound effects too!

By the way, this may be early but put your music in the sound folder as well.

Intel XDK has a trouble of detecting anything in the music folder so all sounds in the music folder will not be played on a real device when you export the game.

after you have inserted Audio Plugin

then

on start of the layout >>>

sub event

if "BG_Music" is not playing > play "BG Music"

Note:

1) is not playing can be done by inverting the condition >> is playing

2) purpose for doing in sub event is, if we do only >> on start of the layout >> play "BG Music" >> This will play your music every restart of other layout and your "BG music" will play more than 1 time , depend on how many time you restart layout

after you have inserted Audio Plugin

then

>>>>>>>>>>>

on start of the layout >>>

sub event

if "BG_Music" is not playing > play "BG Music"

>>>>>>>>>>>

Note: is not playing can be done by inverting the condition >> is playing

This is neat, I always used "on start of layout -> Play X" but it didnt always work, thanks

Inverting? how does that work?

Wait a second. Is it because my sounds are mp3s?

It works fine for me

on start of the layout when "BG Music" is not playing than action will be fired and "BG Music" will play

after that on every start of the layout when "BG Music" is already playing than their is not action to be fired

So "BG Music" will play continuously

If you do not invert it every restart it wil play "BG Music" and "BG Music" will be playing twice, thrice at a single time

Wait a second. Is it because my sounds are mp3s?

DO NOT USE MP3s IN YOUR PROJECT

Why ?

read this blog Why you shouldn't use MP3 in your HTML5 games

Armouredank: Yes, it is likely not working because your sounds are MP3.

As you can see in the manual article about the audio object, sound format is supposed to be ogg and m4a.

Depending on your OS the conversion can be automatic, but MP3 is such a legal mess (read 1, 2, read about the HTML5 audio formats : 1, 2) that it was not recommended by Scirra.

Moreover, prefer importing music into the "Music" folder, not the "Sound" folder unless you know what you are doing (which, no offence, doesn't look like the case at the moment). Again, please refer to the manual (this article in this case).

Inverting is done by right-clicking a condition and selecting "Invert" in the appearing contextual menu.

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How to add instrumental (back music):

1- Go in the Event sheet

2- Click "Add event"

3- Click "System"

4- Under "Start & end" choose "On start of layout"

5- Click "Audio"

6- In the Add Action box that appears, under General click "Play"

7- In the "Parameters for Audio: Play" box that appears, choose the file in the Audio file drop-down menu.

8- in the "Loop" drop-down menu choose "Looping"

9- Click the "Done" button.