The Audio File Formats that Unity supports include .aiff, .mp3, .ogg and .wav
Depending on the nature of your audio clips, there are a few common ways to bring them to your game.
Playing Background music:
Simply add an Audio Source Component to an appropriate game object, then associate the AudioClip with the background music file.
Make sure
- Play On Awake is checked, so it starts playing when the game starts
- Loop is checked, so the music will start again from the beginning when it reaches the end.
Playing Sound when some events happen to the game objects
Besides adding Audio Source Component and associate the AudioClip with the background sound file, you need to make sure
- Play On Awake is not checked. The sound should only play when the event happens
- In the object’s script, get a handle to the object’s Audio Source, then play the sound using the Play() method.
Playing Sound and Destroy the same game object within the same frame.
It is common to have a game object play some sound effect before destroying itself.
However, doing this in the same frame means we won’t be able to hear the sound as the AudioSource within the destroyed object is gone as well.
One way to solve this is to use PlayClipAtPoint method instead.
All you need is a reference to AudioClip.
An Audio Source will be automatically created to play the clip, then get removed once the clip finished playing.
