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# Sound

The sound component plays a designated sound.

## Advanced Blocks

You can right-click any block to show an advanced version of the block.

These blocks will return an `error` output block. If there is en error with executing the block, the error block will return an error message. If not, the error block will return a null value.

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## Play

Play a selected sound. This can be an audio file that has been uploaded to your project, or a URL that streams audio.

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## Pause

Pause a selected audio file that is currently playing.

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## Resume

Resume a selected audio file that has been previously paused.

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## Stop

Stop a selected audio file that is currently playing. A sound that has been 'stopped' cannot be resumed using the [resume](/~/changes/wHhkjLVeheBnfbpghRnw/sound.md#resume) block.

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## Is Sound Paused?

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Returns **true** if named sound file has been partially played, then paused. \
Returns **false** otherwise.

## Sound File from Recording

Records for the specified amount of seconds, then returns the recorded audio.

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## Untimed Recording

The **start recording** block begins a recording.

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The **sound file from stopped recording** block will stop the recording initiated by the **start recording** block, and return the recorded sound file.

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