[BUG REPORT] Looping audio won't stop playing inside the editor

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So I’ve just added a looping sound effect of city traffic to my game. Its set to not spatialize and also there’s no attenuation so it plays everywhere. Problem is when I’m in the editor, the sound is also playing everywhere which gets really irritating while working on the map. I turned off the real time preview but this doesn’t stop the sound. I also tried pressing STOP on the sound itself and the cue file in the content browser and this didn’t work either. Finally I rebooted the editor and the sound is still playing so I had to set the volume multipler to 0 just to get it to stop! I want it to play when I use PIE but NOT in the editor itself. How do you do this?
Disabling sound in the editor preferences didn’t help either.

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I can’t be the only one with this issue am I?

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Hello TorQueMoD,

I have a few questions for you that will help narrow down what issue it is that you are experiencing.

Quick questions:

  1. Can you reproduce this issue in clean project?
  2. If so, could you provide a detailed list of steps to reproduce this issue on our end?
  3. Could you provide screen shots of any blueprints or assets that may be involved with this issue?
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hmmm… seems that its not happening in a clean project. Any idea how to get it to stop in my current project?

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Hello TorQueMoD,

Suggestions:

  1. Could you try verifying your engine?
  2. Could you try removing your sounds and then re-importing them into the engine?
  3. Could you try deleting your save and intermediate folders?
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Thanks for the suggestions Rudy. I’m days away from reaching a first playtest milestone so I’m not going to mess with anything right now for a more simple problem. I’ll try these steps after the weekend though.

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Hello TorQueMoD,

We have not heard back from you in a few days, so we are marking this post as Resolved for tracking purposes. If you are still experiencing the issue you reported, please respond to this message with additional information and we will offer further assistance.

Thank you.

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Thanks for the suggestions. The sound has finally stopped looping!

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Hello TorQueMoD,

I am happy to hear that your issue has been resolved. I will be converting my suggestions to an answer. If this was not what helped please provide more information on the solution and I will be happy to up date the thread.

Make it a great day

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Could you post what you tried that worked to resolve this? I am also experiencing issues with looping sounds that don’t stop when I call stop on them.

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I too cannot get looping sound to stop playing in the editor. Its insane and makes no sense.