Play List Action

[COLOR="Red"][B]Warning/Caveats[/B][/COLOR]

The soundfile [B]must exist[/B] on the specified path.

ENSURE you use [B]an appropriate & unique name[/B] for your sound clip, otherwise you'll possibly overwrite someone else's clip. i.e. Don't use song1.wav, song2.wav, etc.  ;)

Prefix the clip with your mission name. e.g. MyRescueMission_song1.wav, MyRescueMission_song2.wav, etc

Suggest adding a common subfolder, and that we all adopt that as a common standard. e.g. Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Sound\Mission_Playlists

And that you place your soundfiles in mission specific subfolders. e.g. Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Sound\Mission_Playlists\MyRescueMission

In six months time, or whenever, a user may find themselves short on diskspace, and don't know which files to delete.

Ensure your soundfile is an appropriate format, (radio quality, as maximum), and of a smallish size.

Nobody wants to download 600MB of your favourite music. :D

You can play a clip indefinitely by repeating it, using multiple calls in the playlist.

See example clips in Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Sound\UIMusic

Microsoft ADPCM 11.025 kHz, 4 Bit, Mono is NOT supported, hence in the example I've posted, the odd sounding thunder, & speeded up dialog on the second playlist.

PCM 22.050 kHz, 16 Bit, Mono, and MP3, WMA, are not supported.

Testing your playlists. If you fire a playlist, then exit or reload the mission, before the playlist is completed. The interupted track & remaining playlist tracks will continue to play !

Example Code

It plays two different short playlists, using sounds & UIMusic which already exist in your FSX.

A 5 second timer activates -

a) the first playlist.

b) a 60 second timer, which then fires the second playlist.

NB

For readability this code is laid out in order of firing, and will work as is.

If added to a mission, the OPT will re-order it.

On screen notices & timers are included for test purposes.

       <SimMission.TimerTrigger InstanceId="{A8498446-0335-4E76-BB37-82B9AEAD1A76}">
           <Descr>_Init_TTimer_S5</Descr>
           <StopTime>5.000</StopTime>
           <OnScreenTimer>True</OnScreenTimer>
           <Actions>
               <ObjectReference id="_Triggered_TTimer_S120_AA_On" InstanceId="{35CE0E66-F666-4E9C-8CCD-929C54BCE3C7}">
               </ObjectReference>
               <ObjectReference id="_First_PLAYLIST_DIALOG_AD" InstanceId="{D3BDAB41-B690-499F-B63D-1ECDAB56C1AA}">
               </ObjectReference>
               <ObjectReference id="_First_PLAYLIST_AP" InstanceId="{6DA689F9-67C1-49BD-AD95-3A633E428709}">
               </ObjectReference>
           </Actions>
       </SimMission.TimerTrigger>

       <SimMission.ObjectActivationAction InstanceId="{35CE0E66-F666-4E9C-8CCD-929C54BCE3C7}">
           <Descr>_Triggered_TTimer_S120_AA_On</Descr>
           <ObjectReferenceList>
               <ObjectReference id="_Triggered_TTimer_S60" InstanceId="{860011FB-F217-4FEF-BE94-C33C4F648AE9}">
               </ObjectReference>
           </ObjectReferenceList>
       </SimMission.ObjectActivationAction>

       <SimMission.DialogAction InstanceId="{D3BDAB41-B690-499F-B63D-1ECDAB56C1AA}">
           <Descr>_First_PLAYLIST_DIALOG_AD</Descr>
           <Text>5 second Timer activated _First_PLAYLIST_AP</Text>
       </SimMission.DialogAction>

       <SimMission.PlayListAction InstanceId="{6DA689F9-67C1-49BD-AD95-3A633E428709}">
           <Descr>_First_PLAYLIST_AP</Descr>
           <PlayListItem>
               <Descr>PlayListItem 1</Descr>
               <SoundFileName>MRSDAHL.wav</SoundFileName>
               <RandomizeInList>True</RandomizeInList>
           </PlayListItem>
           <PlayListItem>
               <Descr>PlayListItem 2</Descr>
               <SoundFileName>backcourse_marker.wav</SoundFileName>
               <RandomizeInList>True</RandomizeInList>
           </PlayListItem>
           <PlayListItem>
               <Descr>PlayListItem 3</Descr>
               <SoundFileName>UIMusic\FSX08.wav</SoundFileName>
           </PlayListItem>
       </SimMission.PlayListAction>

       <SimMission.TimerTrigger InstanceId="{860011FB-F217-4FEF-BE94-C33C4F648AE9}">
           <Descr>_Triggered_TTimer_S60</Descr>
           <StopTime>60.000</StopTime>
	    <Activated>False</Activated>
           <OnScreenTimer>True</OnScreenTimer>
           <Actions>
               <ObjectReference id="_Second_PLAYLIST_DIALOG_AD" InstanceId="{7808D1CE-FFDB-4727-A05E-093DB452DB0C}">
               </ObjectReference>
               <ObjectReference id="_Second_PLAYLIST_AP" InstanceId="{E768BFC8-F32E-450D-B095-C23F819AFD31}">
               </ObjectReference>
           </Actions>
       </SimMission.TimerTrigger>

       <SimMission.DialogAction InstanceId="{7808D1CE-FFDB-4727-A05E-093DB452DB0C}">
           <Descr>_Second_PLAYLIST_DIALOG_AD</Descr>
           <Text>60 second Timer activated _Second_PLAYLIST_AP</Text>
       </SimMission.DialogAction>

       <SimMission.PlayListAction InstanceId="{E768BFC8-F32E-450D-B095-C23F819AFD31}">
           <Descr>_Second_PLAYLIST_AP</Descr>
           <PlayListItem>
               <Descr>PlayListItem 1</Descr>
               <SoundFileName>thunder\xthun4c.wav</SoundFileName>
           </PlayListItem>
           <PlayListItem>
               <Descr>PlayListItem 2</Descr>
               <SoundFileName>lessons\atpding39.wav</SoundFileName>
           </PlayListItem>
           <PlayListItem>
               <Descr>PlayListItem 3</Descr>
               <SoundFileName>UIMusic\FSX03.wav</SoundFileName>
           </PlayListItem>
       </SimMission.PlayListAction>