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Guys, is there a code that would allow an animation to play ONLY when the player is in 'Play' mode? I want to create a cool 'No Album Art' animation, but I don't want the thing running when the player is stopped or paused----only when playing.
I'm not talking about the visualization, but an animation that I create. If I've overlooked this code in the Help section, please point me to it. Thanks everyone!

Trigger the play/pause/stop buttons to start/stop the animation. That's my idea off the top of the head, at least..

Yeah what he said. However, that could cause a couple problems though. You will have to have the animation either playing or stopped initially when Xion loads. So if it's stopped by default but Xion loads in a playing state, clicking pause would then pause the music but trigger the animation to show. So it's not a concrete method in that sense as it could become opposite in certain circumstances...

My suggestion would be to have a layer above the entire animation which is basically just a merged screenshot of the animation area without the animation, and name it "indi_pause" so that when the player is paused, the layer unhides and covers the animation (even though it's still running underneath it.) Hoping that made sense...

Figured it out myself guys...."animation delay indi_play" for the animation group. Works like a charm! Thanks, though, for getting back to me fellas.

Damn...well, yes that's obviously going to work. I just figured you'd tried that already which was why you were asking for an alternate solution LOL. Sorry man, there's a few keywords which don't work on certain things and I lose track of what does/doesn't. In any case, indi's are always your friends Glad you got it sorted!

Thanks Lance, and yes every thing's sorted now. I don't know why I didn't think to try "indi_play" from the start, but I had completely overlooked it.
Thanks again for responding! Also, thank you Logokas!