# Retrieving info for playing events

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/retrieving-info-for-playing-events/11844>\
**Category:** FMOD Engine\
**Created:** [March 7, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/retrieving-info-for-playing-events/11844 "2015-03-07T00:11:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![vectorunit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/439d5e/32.png) [@vectorunit](https://qa.fmod.com/u/vectorunit)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/retrieving-info-for-playing-events/11844/1 "2015-03-07T00:11:36Z")

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With the Designer API we were able to query which events were currently playing at run-time (EventSystem::getInfo). This allowed us to visualize currently playing audio events within our 3d game world. I was not able to find a way to do this with the Studio API. Is it possible?

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**Author:** ![geoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@geoff](https://qa.fmod.com/u/geoff)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/retrieving-info-for-playing-events/11844/2 "2015-03-22T23:53:42Z")

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You can iterate the loaded banks with:

- [System::getBankCount](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_System_GetBankCount.html)
- [System::getBankList](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_System_GetBankList.html)

Then you can iterate the event descriptions with:

- [Bank::getEventCount](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetEventCount.html)
- [Bank::getEventList](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetEventList.html)

Once you have events, you can find out what instances are playing with:

- [EventDescription::getInstanceCount](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetInstanceCount.html)
- [EventDescription::getInstanceList](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetInstanceList.html)

That will give you the instances which exist. You can query information about each instance, such as [EventInstance::getPlaybackState](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetPlaybackState.html) for whether it is playing, stopping, or stopped.

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**Author:** ![vectorunit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/439d5e/32.png) [@vectorunit](https://qa.fmod.com/u/vectorunit)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/retrieving-info-for-playing-events/11844/3 "2015-03-23T16:08:30Z")

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> [@](#):
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> You can iterate the loaded banks with:
> 
> - [System::getBankCount](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_System_GetBankCount.html)
> - [System::getBankList](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_System_GetBankList.html)
> 
> Then you can iterate the event descriptions with:
> 
> - [Bank::getEventCount](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetEventCount.html)
> - [Bank::getEventList](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetEventList.html)
> 
> Once you have events, you can find out what instances are playing with:
> 
> - [EventDescription::getInstanceCount](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetInstanceCount.html)
> - [EventDescription::getInstanceList](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetInstanceList.html)
> 
> That will give you the instances which exist. You can query information about each instance, such as [EventInstance::getPlaybackState](http://52.88.2.202/documentation/#content/generated/FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetPlaybackState.html) for whether it is playing, stopping, or stopped.

Perfect, thanks! Works great.