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I've been trying everything to make it so each state has background music that plays on a loop.
However, when ever I try to have the music play on each individual state, it plays the first one briefly, then leaves it on the second one. I can only assume that it's because all states are loaded and played at once.

So, does anyone have any ideas on making this work?

Also, I imagine I'll come to a similar issue when it comes to sound effects, so I need some ideas on getting these things implemented, and I would love some help.

I'm pretty new to java and the slick things, so the more detail, the better.

Thanks everyone!

Make sure to play and stop the music in the enter and leave methods off your states.
The init method of all your states are called once just before the game loop starts, so its no good starting music there.

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enter and leave methods?
Which ones are those?

They aren't required methods, so most likely you haven't put them in your state file. Like your init is going to hold your fuel right? Like the gas container of a car if that makes sense. It is always going to be there unless you get a new car and you can fill it up with so much. Your enter is like the gas pedal which requires the state to be opened to start the music when the state appears. Your leave method is like turning off your engine. Also instead of gas pedal lets say ignition. When you turn off your car you don't wanna continue hearing your engine right. Hopefully this source code will make more sense:
You don't need those 2 variables, but they are there if you wanna use them.
This will tell us to stop playing the music when we aren't in the state. This isn't the best, but hopefully I kinda explained it to you.

No errors, but the music doesn't seem to play.
I have the music initialized in my variable list like so


I then have this in the init method


and then the 2 methods you've suggests done almost identically.
Am I not importing the music correctly?

try this

yeah, that's what I have.
It seems the methods just aren't being called at all for some reason.

Test whether they're being called by printing to the console in each of the 2 methods. Maybe they're getting called but you play the music somewhere else.

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Upon doing this I noticed the message is printed twice.
So I moved the chunk of code to a different state, and the music stops and starts like it should then.

That still puzzles me, though, as to why the statement was printed twice on the other state. The reason responsible for it seems to by why I can't have music on it.
Strange.

guess its fault is your set up of the game. do you have added the states twice in the main-class or is there anything else what you call twice related to the states?

edit: its enough to add the state. you dont have to call the init method explicit.