How do I keep music playing on external player?

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@Wes_Savage, You could use a text to speech component, and when it hears the text to speech, set player stop

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TIM you have great insight and I like this "bend" attitude. I would like to ask a bending question :slight_smile: I perfected playing sounds, while at the same time, playing music. Next problem I would like to conquer is changing the volume of the "sound" separately from the "music".

What would be ideal is to be able to lower music volume (which I easily do with Taifun's extension, while at the same time raising the volume of the "sound". There seems to be no way of doing this.

Q: Is there some way to play a sound in the ringer channel so that I can cause this to happen? Any ideas very much appreciated.

Thank You

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Thank you Brady. I did think of that but for my application text-2-speech is not "coherant" enough. Sometimes real human speech is necessary.

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It may be worth increasing the amplitude of the "sound" file using audacity (or another sound manager) so that it just plays louder....?

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Yes I already did that but the separation between the two still is not enough. The ringer channel volume is seperately adjustable using Taifun's settings

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If you have your player and your sound in the same app you could do this:

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sigh I am so close to perfection :frowning:

I cant use the player because it will stop my external music app.
Another solution would be if there was a way to pause external music players and then resume them from within my app.

Forgive me? I am also a "bender" of many years and perhaps a far too determined person.

I assume there is no way to force my sounds into the ringer :frowning:

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I assumed you had made the turn and either moved to using a separate AI2 app as your audio player, or better still combined the two apps into one!

You could try with activity starter ? You may need an external audio player that accept commands using the activity starter. (This will require digging around in lots of android developer documentation!)

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:frowning: thought of that too but this is for several people who are not all using the same player.

Thank You very much... at least I got to bounce this off a very knowledgeable person.

Also I did design a perfect sound player that works pretty much the same as the AI music player. "playing" individual words sounds great and can be a very good way to create a language teacher.

Thanks again TIM