quickmusic: modular loading of music audiobundles - Guides -

Quickly load and play randomised music playlists in audiobundle form

You might be interested in reading this guide if you:

want to play your own music on any scene
like to change and load different music collections
have it or plan to have your music as an assetbundle for super quick loading (which is now super easy to do)
like to read guides and/or want to make your VAM experience even better

At least read this stuff to get the gist:

Outside VAM:

copy your music into assetbundle form (aka audiobundle)

In VAM:

add a AudioSource atom in a scene
name the AudioSource atom as quickmusic
load the atom preset shared in this guide
- the AudioSource preset should be placed in the folder Custom/Atom/AudioSource
configure the preset appropriately (see instructions below) and save your new quickmusic preset
repeat for as many presets as you wish to make

Cool stuff, now you have quickmusic presets that you can load and change on demand, randomised or not, with as many playlists as you decided.
All you need on a scene is to:

have or add an audiosource atom called quickmusic
load a preset of yours

By default the music auto starts, but I expect you'll want to have a way to jump to a different track. You just need to trigger the first plugin (SequenceChoice), which can be done with UIAssist (globally), or per scene with a button you add.

If you made it this far it means you are very interested, very confused, or both...

So I reward (or punish) you with how everything works:

You like that, don't you?
Come on... admit it!
If you are reading a guide, you like this technical stuff.
The nerdier the better

Single source playlist

On the left you have the included base quickmusic preset.

load the audiobundle in plugin #2
go to plugin #0, open the single choice there and edit the trigger to PlaySpecific/Random[your music folder name]
Save the preset

Multi AB folders/sources playlists

On the right you have an extended base quickmusic preset with more SoundFromAB plugins and multiple choices on plugin#0.

add more SoundFromAB plugins to load multiple audiobundles in them
go to plugin #0, edit the first choice trigger to PlaySpecific/Random[your music folder name] of the first SoundFromAB plugin
duplicate the choice and change accordingly to all remaining SoundFromAB plugins*
save the preset

* If you have audiobundles with music separated into folders, you will need to include choices in plugin#0 to play from those different folders.

Need a picture to explain the above text? No problem, here you go:

What about the plugin in the middle (EventAudioQueueEmpty)?

You don't need to do anything there. Its purpose is to audostart the music and make sure that there's always something playing. See the diagram on top, it triggers the plugin Sequence Choice when the audio queue is empty.

Credits
MacGruber, the Logicbricks magician