How to Play a Sound from an Array from an Overloaded Method?

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I have

public AudioClip[] toPlay;

We call:

playMySound(toPlay);

The method:

public void playMySound (AudioClip sound){
	for(int i = 0; i < soundSource.Length; i++) {
		soundSource*.audio.clip = sound;*

_ soundSource*.audio.Play();_
_ }_
_ }*_
I get the following errors:
error CS1502: The best overloaded method match for myAudioScript.PlaySound(UnityEngine.AudioClip)' has some invalid arguments**_</em> <em>_**error CS1503: Argument #1’ cannot convert UnityEngine.AudioClip[]' expression to type UnityEngine.AudioClip’
If I have:
public AudioClip song;
There aren’t any errors and it works fine, but obviously I cannot have an array.
Please help me to understand this better.
What is the proper syntax for this?
Thank in advance.

2

I think your problem is that you are calling playMySound with an AudioClip array when playMySound only takes a single AudioClip. This is why when you change “song” to be “public AudioClip” instead of “public AudioClip” it works.

So, in order to fix your code to work with an array, you need to do the following:

        public AudioClip[] toPlay;
        
    //Since toPlay is of type AudioClip array and the variable needed by playMySound is of type   
    //AudioClip you need to choose which AudioClip in your array you want to pass to playMySound  
    //you do this by the below method  
    playMySound(toPlay[0]);
    //The number can be any size as long as it corresponds to an object in your array and should never exceed the length of the array itself 
    //Also remember that arrays count up from 0 so the first object in your array will be number 0
        
        public void playMySound (AudioClip sound){
            for(int i = 0; i < soundSource.Length; i++) {
                soundSource*.audio.clip = sound;*

soundSource*.audio.Play();*
}
}
More info on arrays can be found here:
_*http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Array.html*_
Hope that helps! If this didn’t answer your question, please let me know!