SoundEffect Volume

Windows
1

This also refers to an older topic: SoundEffect & Volume

I’m currently playing a song in the mediaplayer and firing a SoundEffect whilst playing. For that I want two different set of volumes, namely:

SoundEffect.MasterVolume
MediaPlayer.Volume

However, just as the older topic indicates, it’s not working as I think it should. My current setup for playing a SoundEffect:

SoundEffectInstance i = FX.CreateInstance();
float test = SoundEffect.MasterVolume; // This will retrieve master volume for testing, it's set to 1.0f
i.Volume = 0.5f; // The volume for this SoundEffectInstance
i.Play();

The problem is as follows:
The SoundEffect seems to scale with MediaPlayer.Volume instead of SoundEffect.MasterVolume. Since I hear no soundeffects when the MediaPlayer.Volume is 0 even though the test from above indicates the SoundEffect.MasterVolume is 1.

I’m using MonoGame’s recent develop build, and this is a Windows application using DirectX.

2

Are your sound effects in mp3 or wave format? Its possible they were loaded as songs not effects?

3

The music (in mediaplayer) is .mp3. The soundeffects are .wav files. They are loaded from the SoundEffect.FromUri though. Does that matter?

4

Make sure the content type is set to the proper types in the project, such as music is a song and sound effect is effect. Play the sound effect with SoundEffect.Play() method. I had a similar issue while ago where my content type was all set to song and the media player was having issues playing properly.

5

I tried playing it as “SoundEffect.Play()” but that made no difference. For clarity, I’m not using any content projects, simply loading the music files from stream like so:

// Song
Song s = Song.FromUri(name, new Uri(path, UriKind.Relative));
// SoundEffect
SoundEffect s = SoundEffect.FromStream(path);
6

I’ve created a content project with the MGCB and converted both the .mp3 and the .wav files. I’m now loading in the sound files as follows:

Content.Load<Song>
Content.Load<SoundEffect>

This did not solve my problem. The SoundEffects still scale with the MediaPlayer.Volume instead of the SoundEffect.MasterVolume value. Is there a workaround for this problem?

7

I have the same problem. I found this:
github.com/mono/MonoGame/issues/2780 (sorry not allowed to link)
which seems to indicate that the bug was fixed, but I can confirm that the latest development build still has this issue.