I want the player to be able to switch between three mechanisms, each one with its own unique white noise that's supposed to drone on until it's turned off or another is switched on. The problem is that the way i have it coded, switching to another device causes BOTH sounds to play simultaneously and turning devices off only MUTES the sound instead of stopping it altogether. I can't use the “stop all sounds” block, because that removes the background music and might stop some very important sounds from playing. Is there any way i can fix this without having to split the mechanisms into three separate sprites?

You could create a clone that plays the sound and when the button is clicked to turn it off, delete the clone and its sound will stop playing.

See if this helps.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/319791773/


edit:
also created a version using only 1 sprite if you are comfortable with cloning.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/319797332/

Thank you so much! It took a bit of fiddling around, but I got it to work with all three mechanisms without compromising the original functions of the sprites! Your advice was very helpful!

You could have a variable called “sound playing?” so when a button is pressed or it receives a broadcast or whatever, it get's set to true. And when the other button is pressed, it gets set to false. Like this:

when I receive [ Change sound]
set [ sound playing?] to [true]

when I receive [ Change other sound]
set [ sound playing?] to [false'


Then you have a script like this:

if <[sound playing?] = [true]> then 
set volume to (100) %
  

else
set volume to (0) %
end

and you just have the sound playing forever on a loop. It may not be the most efficient way. But it works!

like this Make a sprite like sound stopper
and you can pick and you can pick any event block

stop all sounds

@bake121 I don't think that's what @riffsix wants. You should read his question more carefully.

Hi i want two sprites to use same buttons to play different sounds. so i want to code that when the sprite is hidden it doesnt make any sounds what can i do?
thanks,aarnafun

Play a blank sound. Mockup:

I want to make it so one of my sprites plays a sound while another doesn't. Is there any way I can do this?

Nice man really helped me @GABOCSB18