Looping music with intro in XNA using SoundEffect

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Published on 2010-05-11T16:17:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 17:14 UTC
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I have two sound files:

Sound A is an 18 second intro designed to be played once
Sound B is a 1 minute looping track

I'd like to play Sound A once, then once Sound A is done, immediately play Sound B and keep looping Sound B until I tell it to stop. This is supposed to be looping town music in an RPG.

I've tried doing this in code using just SoundEffect, but there's a tiny yet noticeable gap between the end of Sound A and the beginning of Sound B. Even if I put monitoring code watching Sound A's SoundEffectInstance.State in the Update() function, I haven't been able to start Sound B exactly when Sound A finishes so that it's seamless.

I'd prefer to use SoundEffect because I can load WMA files rather than being stuck with WAVs in XACT.

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