Playing and Pausing multiple audio clips

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Hello!
I am pretty new at unity and c# and struggling on how to use two (or more) separate audio clips on my GameObject.

I have a sort of “footsteps on grass” sound that is playing when:

" float orizzontale = Input.GetAxis(“Horizontal”);" is > or < than 0 and stop when it’s 0.

Now footsteps in the grass is working fine: It stops and it comes again … but when I jump I can’t hear sound.

I think the reason is that i put AUDIOSOURCE in pause or stop. How can I pause just a clip and not the whole Audiosource?

void SuoniPorco(float orizzontale) {
    
            if (orizzontale < 0 && !suoni.isPlaying && !porcoInVolo || orizzontale > 0 && !suoni.isPlaying && !porcoInVolo) **//If my player is moving and is not jumping, then ...**
    
    {
    
                suoni.PlayOneShot(cammina); **// Play Sound Clip Until ....**
    
            }
          
    
            if (Mathf.Abs(orizzontale) < 0.001 || porcoInVolo) **//Player is not moving or he's jumping** 
            {
    
                suoni.pause();  **//If so ... PAUSE this clip**
    
            }
    
    **// IF player Jumps ... then PLAY a JUMP sound**
    
            if (porcoSalta) {
    
    
                suoni.PlayOneShot(salto);
                porcoSalta = false;
    
            }
    
         }
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I’ve found a solution, but I don’t know IF this is the right way to do:

I dragged my TWO (by now!) sounds into the Hierarchy and then, in the code I created a:

public AudioSource[] sounds;

I DID NOT assigned that “sounds” variable to the AudioSource Component (why? I had an error!) … I did not code this line:

sounds = GetComponent<AudioSource>(); // I do Not have this line in my code

Then, back in the UnityEditor, I set the array size to 2 and then dragged two AudioClips from hierarchy.

and so, I can access to sounds separately:

        sounds[0].Play();
        sounds[1].Play();

or

        sounds[0].Pause();
        sounds[1].Pause();

I don’t know if this is the right way to … probably not … but now my two sounds work together well! :slight_smile: