Audio Set Level at Play Not Working - Sugar Cube

Authoring Twine
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Sugarcube 2.31.1

I can’t get the audio level set when playback begins. This should play at 25% volume:
<<audio "track1" volume 0.25 play>>

The track plays, but the volume doesn’t respond.

Thanks, Ben

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How are you determining what volume level it’s playing at? I ask because, in some cases, the volume level might not appear to change much until it gets very low. To test that, try this:

<<audio "track1" volume 0.05 play>>

Also, do you have anything, like a volume slider, which might be changing the master volume (i.e. using the SimpleAudio.volume() function)? If so, that could be related.

If that doesn’t help, then if you can link to a simple sample demonstrating the problem, then we can take a look at it.

Hope that helps! :grinning:

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Thanks so much for the suggestion. Setting the level really low didn’t have an effect. Here is what I have:

<<fadein 3s (70/$wps) + “s”>> But none if it made a <<link[[difference.|Page 3]]>><<audio "track2" volume 0.05 play>><<audio "track1" fadeout>><</link>><</fadein>>

Thanks! Ben

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Are you trying this on a mobile browser? If so, then that’s a, by design, limitation of mobile devices—as noted in the docs.

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FYI - Your code is a bit garbled there due to a combination of using inline preformatting and the backticks in your code.

For multiple lines of code or code with backticks in it, you should use multi-line preformatting by selecting two blank lines and then clicking the “preformatted text” button (the </> button) and then putting your code inside that. Alternately, you could put three backticks on each of two lines by themselves, and then put your code on separate lines between them.

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Like this?



<<fadein 3s ` (70/$wps) + “s” `>> But none if it made a <<link[[difference.|Page 3]]>><<audio "track2" volume 0.05 play>><<audio "track1" fadeout>><</link>><</fadein>>
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I’m on a desktop.

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More or less, though you have some extra space at the top and I hope your code isn’t quite like that since this part:

<<fadein 3s ` (70/$wps) + “s” `>>

would be broken. I assume your actual code looks more like this:

<<fadein 3s `(70/$wps) + "s"`>>

Anyways, do you have a link to a simple HTML page which shows the problem? Since it’s a bit hard to debug if the problem lies elsewhere in your code.

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Your code blocked example includes curvy (typographical) quotes instead of standard quotes around the s character, and such quotes are invalid when defining a String literal.
eg.

this part => ` (70/$wps) + “s” `
should be this `(70/$wps) + "s" `
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What you suggest is as it looks like in Twine itself. It just reformatted everything when I used the text block.