Question on Audio play an Requested Channel

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#1

Hi Everyone…

I have a Warning on Console…

Audio error: Requested Channel (29) is in use…

Is there a way to avoid that?

The app works fine… but I don’t hear the sound effect on that channel…

If I don;t use the channel, like [   audio.play ( sound  )

Then the sound is too lound…

1.- Should I re Record the sound at a lower volume…?

2.- or is there another way to do this in Corona?

Thanks for your time…

Victor

#2

Hi Victor,

When you use audio.play(), it returns the number of the channel that it plays on. So, if you don’t specify a channel, this is very useful to gather the channel number, then immediately after, you can set the volume on that specific channel:

[lua]

local thisSound = audio.play( mySoundHandle )

– Variable ‘thisSound’ now represents the channel it’s playing on, so adjust the channel’s volume

audio.setVolume( 0.5, { channel=thisSound } )

[/lua]

Hope this helps,

Brent

#3

Thank you Brent, this works really well…

Let me ask you a question… this sets the volume for each channel

if I want to set the master volume , like the final output

should I do that in the main.lua?

and if yes…

what do I do?

#4

Hi Victor,

You can set the master volume by not specifying a channel table. Just like this:

[lua]

audio.setVolume( 0.2 )

[/lua]

Brent

#5

Thanks a lot…this is great!

#6

Hi Victor,

When you use audio.play(), it returns the number of the channel that it plays on. So, if you don’t specify a channel, this is very useful to gather the channel number, then immediately after, you can set the volume on that specific channel:

[lua]

local thisSound = audio.play( mySoundHandle )

– Variable ‘thisSound’ now represents the channel it’s playing on, so adjust the channel’s volume

audio.setVolume( 0.5, { channel=thisSound } )

[/lua]

Hope this helps,

Brent

#7

Thank you Brent, this works really well…

Let me ask you a question… this sets the volume for each channel

if I want to set the master volume , like the final output

should I do that in the main.lua?

and if yes…

what do I do?

#8

Hi Victor,

You can set the master volume by not specifying a channel table. Just like this:

[lua]

audio.setVolume( 0.2 )

[/lua]

Brent

#9

Thanks a lot…this is great!