Play a random audio clip when button is clicked

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1

I could not find any forum post related to my problem. I have a script that has no errors, yet, when I click the button to play a random sound, nothing happens. I have the script hooked up to an empty game object and I have the script and audio sources all hooked up there. I am using the right function in the OnClick() for the button but I’m confused on why nothing happens.

public class PlaySound : MonoBehaviour {
    public AudioClip[] clips;
	
	public void LetsPlay()
    {
        int clipPick = Random.Range(0, clips.Length);
        GetComponent<AudioSource>().clip = clips[clipPick];
        GetComponent<AudioSource>().Play();
    }
	
}

Thank you in advance.

2

Does this work? I guess you can do the same thing with clips, but i would use AudioSource

void Awake () {
	AudioSource[] audios = gameObject.GetComponents<AudioSource>();
}

 public void LetsPlay(){
          int clipPick = Random.Range(0, audios .length);
          audios [clipPick].play();
}
3

Okay so I fixed it. Apparently, I wasn’t supposed to put anything into the AudioSource once i put it into the Soundmanager.

4

Hi @Hydroid, I see you have solved you problem, however I went ahead and wrote a quick script which you can compare to. I’m just wondering why you have an array of AudioSources rather than an array of AudioClips? Hope this helps

public class Player1 : MonoBehaviour
{
    private AudioSource a_source;
    public AudioClip[] a_clips;

void Start ()
        {        
        a_source = gameObject.AddComponent<AudioSource>();      
        //can also switch add to get if object already has an audio source
        }	
	
void Update ()
         {
        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))        
            PlayRandomSound();        	
	     }

public void PlayRandomSound()
        {
        int selection = Random.Range(0, a_clips.Length);
        a_source.PlayOneShot(a_clips[selection]);
        }
}