Zone music filename currently playing

[madanasta]

Hi all

I was wondering if anyone can think of a way to get the filename of the zone music file currently playing (e.g., have it displayed on the client or have it printed out as a result of some macro call). I can't seem to be able to find info on neither events being fired when a sound file starts/stops playing (which makes sense, I guess) nor some API call that would return that information. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

m

[Seerah]

You could always look here: http://www.wowinterface.com/download...Cataclysm.html

[madanasta]

While undoubtedly a useful list, I'm not sure if it can help me.

m

[Vlad]

No API to get the "currently playing" music BUT you could if the game uses the normal API calls to play music override the PlayMusic like:

local played = {}
local orig = PlayMusic
function PlayMusic(file, ...)
  table.insert(played, file)
  return orig(file, ...)
end

The table bottom result (like "played[#played]") is always the current playing file.

[madanasta]

Very interesting! Thanks, I will try that.

m

[madanasta]

Well, I overrode PlayMusic (as well as PlaySound and PlaySoundFile just to be on the safe side) and confirmed that my version is indeed running when I manually call it... but, unfortunately, the client does not seem to use it when playing zone music (even though calling PlayMusic will make zone music playback stop, so I guess it is the same audio playback infrastructure that's used in both cases). In any case, it was an interesting idea, thanks .

m

[Vlad]

I was afraid of that, the game usually uses their own interface hence we can't override the "core" version of the API but only the front end one that the interface uses, usually any API used in FrameXML can be overridden (and broken if secure/protected).