Audio or Music to continue playing between scene

[Haythamcrc]

Is there a simple way to have audio like a background music track to carry over to another scene without stopping or restarting? but in some scenes and change the music in other scenes, and Thanks

[Superrodan]

If you call the don’t destroy on load function on your music player, then it won’t be destroyed when you switch between scenes.

The only problem is that if you return to the scene where you started the music you will have two music players. The easy way to fix that is to do a check to see if your music player already exists when you load into that scene.

The below code is untested and surely has mistakes in it, but I tried to comment what I was doing so you could sort of get the idea of the logic involved. You would put this script on your music player. NOTE: The music player would need to be called something other than MUSIC at first for this to work.

EDIT: I just had to actually use this code in my own project and I found some bugs in it so I’m re-posting it here in case someone sees this and is still having the same problem of duplicate music players.

	public GameObject musicPlayer;
	void Awake() {
		//When the scene loads it checks if there is an object called "MUSIC".
		musicPlayer = GameObject.Find("MUSIC");
		if(musicPlayer==null)
		{
			//If this object does not exist then it does the following:
			//1. Sets the object this script is attached to as the music player
			musicPlayer = this.gameObject;
			//2. Renames THIS object to "MUSIC" for next time
			musicPlayer.name = "MUSIC";
			//3. Tells THIS object not to die when changing scenes.
			DontDestroyOnLoad(musicPlayer);
		}else{
            if(this.gameObject.name!="MUSIC"){
			//If there WAS an object in the scene called "MUSIC" (because we have come back to
			//the scene where the music was started) then it just tells this object to 
			//destroy itself if this is not the original
			Destroy(this.gameObject);
            }
		}
	}

[Reder13]

This is how ive done it for my main menu:

public class menuMusic : MonoBehaviour {

static bool AudioBegin = false; 

void Awake()
{
					if (!AudioBegin) {
					audio.Play ();
					DontDestroyOnLoad (gameObject);
					AudioBegin = true;
			} 
	}

void Update () {
	if(Application.loadedLevelName == "Upgraded")
	{
		audio.Stop();
		AudioBegin = false;
	}

}

}

and attach the audio to the same gameobject that contains this script.
just change the name of the level from “Upgraded” to whatever ones you want the
music to change on.