Music help

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-04-25 03:51:27
User: firstdreamding [] (age: 1285 days 🔥; posts: 0)}
Hi! Does anyone know how sounds work in this engine? I read the documentation and it seems like you are supposed to put it in the resources in ultLITI but that doesn't seem to be functional. If you put it in a sounds folder in the project and run Resources.sounds().get("filename"), it can't find the file. Does anyone know why?

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-04-25 08:58:05
User: steffen [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1568 days 🔥; posts: 100)}
You don't have to add Sounds via the utiLITI editor. This just provides you with the possibility to load up all the resources (including Sounds) with one line of code.,
In general, the way you load the Sounds, depends on your project structure. I've updated my answer from ~~~~this forum topic to reflect the latest changes to the API.
## Updated Answer:

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Just a clarification: It doesn't necessarily have to be a folder called ~~~~sounds
The most important thing about assets in general (images, fonts, sounds, textfiles, ...) is that the path that they are retrieved by should be relative to the application folder. All the folders that contain such resources should be defined as ~~~~src classpath entries. During compilation, the contents of these files will then be copied to the respective output directory and thereby be available on the root dir. Thereby, you never have to specify the base folder (e.g. sounds, resources) when accessing assets via ~~~~Resources.fonts().get(String) or ~~Resources.images().get(String).
****~~Example from a ~~~~.classpath file:****
~~```xml~~<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <classpath> <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/> <classpathentry kind="src" path="resources"/> <classpathentry kind="src" path="maps"/> <classpathentry kind="src" path="sounds"/> ... </classpath>```` **~~\*\*~~Example files: \*\*** (assuming ~~~~sounds, ~~~~audio, ~~~~resources and ~~~~misc are source folders) ~~~~sounds/test.ogg -> ~~~~Resources.sounds.get("test.ogg") ~~~~audio/music.ogg -> ~~~~Resources.sounds.get("music.ogg") ~~~~resources/sprites/logo.png -> ~~~~Resources.images().get("sprites/logo.png") ~~~~misc/my-font.ttf -> ~~~~Resources.fonts().get("my-font.ttf") ~~~~resources/localization/strings.properties -> ~~~~Resources.strings().get("my-localizable-string")`
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