Playing a sound without a while loop ?

[Mind Calamity]

Um.. This is probably a stupid question, but the tutorials use a while loop which seems to play the sound (by checking it's status ??), and removing that stops the audio from being played...

So, how exactly should I go about playing sounds ?

In other words... This works:

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sf::Music Music;
        // char* song = "D:\\song.ogg";
Music.OpenFromFile(song);
Music.Play();

        // Without the line below it doesn't work...
while (Music.GetStatus() == sf::Music::Playing) {}


And it also prevents anything else to be executed before the sound/music ends playing.
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[Laurent]

No you don't need this loop to play the sound, it is played in a separate thread so the main one can do whatever it wants.

You just need to make sure that the sf::Music instance lives as long as you're playing it. If it is destroyed before, obviously the music will stop

[Mind Calamity]

Well, that worked, I put it into a pointer, thanks for the tip, and the quick reply.

Here's the working code:

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sf::Music* Music = new sf::Music();
Music->OpenFromFile(song);
Music->Play();

[Laurent]

Don't forget to delete it when it's finished.