# Tapping an icon that plays a sound - limit its play?

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/tapping-an-icon-that-plays-a-sound-limit-its-play/2644406>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [October 14, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/tapping-an-icon-that-plays-a-sound-limit-its-play/2644406 "2023-10-14T23:30:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![gregsemailhelper209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee7513/32.png) [@gregsemailhelper209](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gregsemailhelper209)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/tapping-an-icon-that-plays-a-sound-limit-its-play/2644406/1 "2023-10-14T23:30:44Z")

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Hello:

I have a button on my app that when tapped searches for a sound file that corresponds to the number of the item in the quiz. The user listens to the file then answers a multiple choice question about it.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/f/f/ffc5d7baa0bca65ba8747bcdc5c7f70f188ea001.png)

I discovered today during testing that if I tap the button multiple times, the sound file plays on top of itself over and over again. It’s pretty annoying. I would like to set the blocks to use this kind of logic:

When G3soundclickr click  
do If → sound file is already playing, do nothing  
Else → play sound from the database.

I am confident this feature exists, but I am not able to intuit it from looking at the various blocks. Any thoughts? Thanks

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/tapping-an-icon-that-plays-a-sound-limit-its-play/2644406/2 "2023-10-15T01:02:00Z")

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Yes, this was noted months ago but has not been addressed yet: [No way of knowing if sound playing is done · Issue #1235 · thunkable/thunkable-issues · GitHub](https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/1235)

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**Author:** ![gregsemailhelper209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee7513/32.png) [@gregsemailhelper209](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gregsemailhelper209)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/tapping-an-icon-that-plays-a-sound-limit-its-play/2644406/3 "2023-10-15T15:32:01Z")

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thank you as always.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/tapping-an-icon-that-plays-a-sound-limit-its-play/2644406/4 "2024-01-13T15:32:01Z")

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