Playing a lwav file as background music

Hi all. My game is getting there, now. I'm trying to play a 15-second wav file as background music for the attract mode, but, being stuck in the attract mode loop, it just plays all weird and loopy.

Is there a way to call the sound file and set it off without hiding it in a loop?

Cheers.

I'm not sure what you mean by "weird and loopy", but I suspect that you might be calling PlaySound every time in your loop. Could that be it? Here's what should work:

snd = LoadSound("soundfile.wav") ; <--- Do this ONCE at the beginning of the program, i.e. not in a loop

And when the attract mode starts...

Playsound(snd, 1) ; <--- Do this ONCE at the beginning of attract mode

I'm also not sure what you mean by "setting of the sound file without hiding it in a loop"... If this doesn't work or you can't figure it out, perhaps you could post the basics of your code?

I was just writing this when Soja replied, I'll post it anyway if it helps....

cut and paste and put your sound file in....

Graphics 800,600
Global MySoundStarted = False
Global MyMusicLoop=LoadSound("YOUR SOUND HERE") 
LoopSound MyMusicLoop
MyChannelSound=PlaySound(MyMusicLoop,2);flag set to pause

SetBuffer BackBuffer() 

While Not KeyHit(1)
	
	If KeyHit(31) Then
		If 	MySoundStarted = False Then
			ResumeChannel MyChannelSound
			MySoundStarted = True		
		Else
			PauseChannel MyChannelSound
			MySoundStarted = False
		EndIf
	EndIf
			 
	Text 30,280,"hit  ESC to quit"
	Text 30,300,"hit  the S key  to turn the sound on and off"
	Flip

Wend

StopChannel MyChannelSound
FreeSound MyMusicLoop

End