Hi, I’ve been working on creating an Offline Song App that uses mp3’s. It’s been around 2 months and I’ve been getting ChatGpt to guide me through what to do. I’ve had a 955 page conversation with it in regards to it. I finally got a 20 song Playlist going after alot of trial and error but then I also wanted for the user to toggle on and off for the same songs. This I found, didn’t quite gel with the blocks I’d already done. Nonetheless, the toggle blocks worked for the two screens I’d done them for, but for the rest of the app’s screens, the Playlist codeblocks ran the show well UNTIL I thought to add a screen at the beginning. Because of that, understandably, I probably wrecked whatever code I had in place on it seems, all of the block screens and then nothing played back. My fault but that was a long education. Now I’ve created only play single mp3’s when tap the button type set up, which is working very well. Nonetheless, I am still curious as to how to create a playlist. I followed the instructions that before I did but curiously, nothing played back. O.o I understand about uploading mp3’s to Assets, adding buttons to screens, adding the VIDEO (which is actually also the AUDIO) button to the screens then adding the Mp3 audios to the ‘source’ area on the right hand side. But I do not understand this ‘set Sound1.source to ‘song1.mp3’ (whcih sets the audio file to play and then I can’t also find the ‘call Sound1.Play’ which starts playing the audio. I can NEVER find the ‘Sound1.source’ - I can’t see it anywhere. Not to mention I can never find the ‘call Sound1 Play’ - I can’t see that anywhere either. This seems to be the last thing I haven’t grasped - no matter what I do. It just isn’t inside the Thunkable block screen? Is it because it’s 2025 and there are different instructions now? Thank you so much for your help! - Shelley
Maybe you can give a quick summary of the problem—someone might have a good idea to help out.
Above is a link to the Project. I was getting ChatGpt to coach me through the app creation. At one point, I had a Playlist of songs playing automatically which was great. At another point, I had two pages (possibly Screens 6 and 7) code blocked to do ‘toggle on/off’ re their songs which worked also. Next, I think I messed up by adding an extra screen to the beginning of the entire app project and then I moved a handful of things around in the Component Tree - somewhere around there, the app playback stopped working. The Playlist didn’t work and the toggle on/off song buttons didn’t work either. I ended up creating a new project and this time I didn’t add an extra screen at the beginning and I didn’t move things around in the Component Tree. I tried to copy the block coding as I believe I had it in the original app version but to no avail, no sound came out so, unless I deleted something along the line in the initial app, I’m not sure where I went wrong. Of course, I’ve started a new app project from those two and I have been successful at playback so far (wherein) the user presses on single audio buttons and the songs playback perfectly. I did note though, that on my mobile device (it’s not an Android, but an iPhone) the playback of audios sync into each other. Ok - so that’s another issue for another time. I believe I have the latest Thunkable app downloaded and will look into the issue re that BUT re the link above - that is the 1st app project I did and I can’t get any sound to play. By the way, just as a point to note, I have since found a website that joins songs together and this is how I will do a Playlist at this point in time BUT it would be nice to know how to make the Playlist in the link above, actually work again. Any pointers would help. I appreciate it! Thank you - Shelley