Load audioclip from folder on computer into game, in runtime

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Hello I want the player to specify the music in the game, and for that i need to load it somehow from a folder on the computer. Specificly i want to load all audioclips of mp3 from a specific folder. Probably the same as the game folder, then import them into the game somehow. I've been researching a bit and found this: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WWW.GetAudioClip.html

But how does one use this correctly and actually set some kind of prefix to the correct folder?

UPDATE:

Unity doesn't support mp3 it looks like so i converted to .wav I found a post on unity forums and here is my code. Note that his still doesnt give me anything, i dont get an error but the debug message is empty so it doesnt find the file correctly?

Any help is welcome

     public AudioClip[] clips;
     private string musicDir = "C://Users//Ägaren//Documents//FluxClips";
     AudioSource source;
 
     void Awake ()
     {
         source = GetComponent<AudioSource> ();
     }
 
     void Start ()
     {
         //AudioClip selectedClip = clips [Random.Range (0, clips.Length)];
         WWW audioLoader = new WWW ("file://" + musicDir + "//clip.wav");
         AudioClip selectedClip = audioLoader.GetAudioClip (false, false, AudioType.WAV);
         source.clip = selectedClip;
         Debug.Log (source.clip.name);
     }

Answer 1

@fluxhackspro - thanks for the reminder on how to load from the file system - I thought I'd throw this out as a possible answer as well with the updated UnityWebRequest/UnityWebRequestMultimedia object with an async example:

 async void Start()
 {
     // build your absolute path
     var path = Path.Combine(Application.dataPath, "Audio", "sounds", "myAudioClip.wav");
     
     // wait for the load and set your property
     CurrentClip = await LoadClip(path);
 
     //... do something with it
 }
 
 async Task<AudioClip> LoadClip(string path)
 {
     AudioClip clip = null;
     using (UnityWebRequest uwr = UnityWebRequestMultimedia.GetAudioClip(path, AudioType.WAV))
     {
         uwr.SendWebRequest();
 
         // wrap tasks in try/catch, otherwise it'll fail silently
         try
         {
             while (!uwr.isDone) await Task.Delay(5);
 
             if (uwr.isNetworkError || uwr.isHttpError) Debug.Log($"{uwr.error}");
             else
             {
                 clip = DownloadHandlerAudioClip.GetContent(uwr);
             }
         }
         catch (Exception err)
         {
             Debug.Log($"{err.Message}, {err.StackTrace}");
         }
     }
 
     return clip;
 }

Answer 2

Answer by mgstauff · Nov 15, 2020 at 07:41 PM

For runtime loading of audiofiles from filesystem you can use AudioImporter: https://github.com/Hello-Meow/AudioImporter

Use the bass audio library plugin to support more formats.

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Answer 3

Answer by Flavosky · Feb 08 at 10:29 PM

Hello everyone,

I would like to add Audio Importer to a Game Object and when I right click on it, that opens the Audio Importer Browser. An idea ?

(I am Sound Designer and C# is pretty difficult to me so.. :/)

Thanks a lot !

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