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## Adding Music & Sound Effects

### Music

To play background music (which loops until you stop it), you use the play statement:

    play music "ominous.ogg"

To use fade-in or fade-out (in seconds):

    play music "ominous.ogg" fadein=2 fadeout=2

To stop the background music, you use stop statement:

    stop music

### Sound Effects

To play a sound effect, use the play statement:

    play sound "bang.ogg"

There's a Ren'Py function to stop sound, but there's usually no reason to use it.

### Voices (Voice Acting)

If you want to add voice acting to your visual novel, you'll need to put each screen of dialog into a separate file, and name them in a way that you can figure out which line of dialog they go with. Then, before each line of dialog, put a voice statement:

    voice "bob203.ogg"

    bob "I love ice cream."

    voice "nancy218.ogg"

    nancy "I love ice cream too."

    voice "bob204.ogg"

    bob "I also like cookies."

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