How to get one audio track to stop playing when another starts playing (Minim)

amumu

I have two soundtracks- one named rain and another named heartbeat. The goal is to trigger these audio files when a key is pressed. My problem is that I need to ensure that when one is playing the other stops, and for some reason processing isn't recognizing the .stop() or .pause() functions.

I'm only a beginner with code, so if anyone can let me know what I'm doing wrong/how I can fix this, I'd appreciate it a lot!

    import ddf.minim.spi.*;
    import ddf.minim.signals.*;
    import ddf.minim.*;
    import ddf.minim.analysis.*;
    import ddf.minim.ugens.*;
    import ddf.minim.effects.*;

    Minim minim;
    AudioPlayer heartbeat;
    AudioPlayer rain; 

    void setup()
    {
      size(400, 600);
      minim = new Minim(this);
      heartbeat = minim.loadFile("heartbeat.mp3");
      rain = minim.loadFile("rainforest.mp3");
    }

    void draw() {
      background(0);
      stroke(255);
    }

    void keyPressed() {
      if (key == 'h') {
        heartbeat.rewind();
        heartbeat.play();
        if (key == 'p') {
            heartbeat.pause(); }
      }
       if (key == 'r' && !rain.isPlaying()) {
        rain.rewind();
        rain.play();
        if (key == 's') {
            rain.pause(); }
      }
    }

quark

Do not post the same discussion more than once! I have deleted the copy.

koogs

indenting your code properly shows a problem

void keyPressed() {
  if (key == 'h') {
    heartbeat.rewind();
    heartbeat.play();
    if (key == 'p') {
      heartbeat.pause();
    }
  }
  if (key == 'r' && !rain.isPlaying()) {
    rain.rewind();
    rain.play();
    if (key == 's') {
      rain.pause();
    }
  }
}

heartbeat.pause() is only called if key == h AND if key == p... can never be true. same for rain.pause()

you might want to move those two conditions outside of the two outer conditions.

koogs

or, if you want one to stop when the other starts then put rain.pause() after heartbeat.play() and heartbeat.pause() after rain.play()

amumu

That worked, thank you so much!