Check if sound currently playing

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OS Win10
PsychoPy version 2023.2.1
**Standard Standalone? Y
What are you trying to achieve?: play sound if sound not currently playing

What did you try to make it work?:
if sound.AudioDeviceStatus().active==0:
clip.play()

What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:
nothing happened, and print(sound.AudioDeviceStatus()) clearly shows that audiodevicestats always shows that a sound is not playing. Is this just for microphones or does it need a list of device parameters? is there a way to tell if a sound is currently playing yet?

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Hey there,
Did you take a look at status
https://psychopy.org/api/sound/playback.html#psychopy.sound.backend_ptb.SoundPTB.status

and _checkPlaybackFinished():
https://psychopy.org/api/sound/playback.html#psychopy.sound.backend_ptb.SoundPTB._checkPlaybackFinished

It should give you a solution to your issue.
Chen