Keep metasound playing while game is paused

Development Audio
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I have my background music playing via a metasound, with changes triggered on a Custom Game State blueprint that monitors the Meta Sound Output Subsystem. When I use the Set Game Paused node, it pauses the music playing via the metasound. Is there a way to keep the music running instead?

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Create a SoundClass and set Is UISound = True.
Set the created SoundClass to MetaSoundSource, and the sound will play even when paused.

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Hi, on that game state blueprint playing the music, flag the audio component to persist across level transition. this should also take care of the paused game case.

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thanks so much! this seems to be doing the trick for me. I had already built a sound class, so that was the requisite checkbox. ahhhhh so nice to have music in my pause menu!

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I think this probably would work but as it happens I don’t use the spawn sound node, it’s a component I added instead. small difference I could have adapted, but the above did the trick in one click so I went with it. Thanks for this option though too!