I use audio component to play a sound wave. However once the program is running in the background, the sound will be lost playing in both editor and packaged program. How can program play the sound when it is running in the background.

Any luck with this one? I’m looking for a way to do the same thing too.

There’s an editor setting for Allow Background Audio, is there nothing similar that can be used for actual packaged games? There are any number of scenarios where it would be useful to not have the game become muted when tabbed out, and it seems like this behaviour can cause certain audio loops to …

It works for me. [image] How can I keep Audio from losing focus when not in Editor? Audio This has been moved to the Engine.ini file as of 4.6: GConfig->GetFloat(TEXT("Audio"), TEXT("UnfocusedVolumeMultiplier"), UnfocusedVolumeMultiplier, GEngineIni); In the DefaultEngi…

It is not a solution, it is some raw redundant poop. Intuitive solution anyone would expect - single node in Blueprint. 1/5 for Epic on this one.

Well after all there is a cheap simple Blueprint node solution: Fab

In case anyone wants to turn this into a setting to be tweaked by the player. In your DefaultEngine.ini you can define the default value for this as already mentioned. [Audio] UnfocusedVolumeMultiplier=1.0 Then, I had to use FApp to actually correctly change the behavior at runtime: void URRGam…

the sound is lost when program run in the background

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Joneshong (Joneshong) October 1, 2022, 3:06pm 4

It works for me.