# voice stealing not working? **URL:** \ **Category:** FMOD Studio\ **Created:** [June 27, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254 "2017-06-27T05:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simon\_kamakazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@simon\_kamakazi](https://qa.fmod.com/u/simon_kamakazi)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/1 "2017-06-27T05:54:13Z")
fmod designer had " steal newest" what is the equivalent in studio? no matter how i set the macro stealing/ max instances there is no way for me to stop a sound from re-triggering when multiple instances are played. even if i set max instances to 1 cooldown to 60 seconds and stealing to ‘none’ it will just interrupt the playing event and re-trigger, is this broken or am i not doing it right? ---
**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/2 "2017-06-28T05:42:56Z")
> [@](#): > > fmod designer had " steal newest" what is the equivalent in studio? > > no matter how i set the macro stealing/ max instances there is no way for me to stop a sound from re-triggering when multiple instances are played. even if i set max instances to 1 cooldown to 60 seconds and stealing to ‘none’ it will just interrupt the playing event and re-trigger, is this broken or am i not doing it right? Are you sure your game’s code is creating new instances of the event, and not recycling old ones? ---
**Author:** ![simon\_kamakazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@simon\_kamakazi](https://qa.fmod.com/u/simon_kamakazi)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/3 "2017-06-27T06:59:32Z")
[https://youtu.be/rDKBXyypAh0](https://youtu.be/rDKBXyypAh0) heres a vid showing the problem. basically i want the sound to play on the first light and ignore the rest. ---
**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/4 "2017-06-30T05:03:45Z")
Your current method of setting the event’s Max Instances to 1 and Stealing Behavior to None is correct, and will result in the behaviour you want. The reason why you’re not seeing the effect in your game is that, as of the time of writing (June of 2017), certain changes to your FMOD Studio project do not immediately propagate to your project during live update. In order to ensure that changes to stealing behaviour propagate to your project, you must close your game, save and rebuild your FMOD Studio project, ensure that the new built banks are copied to where your game expects them to be, then begin playing your game again. ---
**Author:** ![simon\_kamakazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@simon\_kamakazi](https://qa.fmod.com/u/simon_kamakazi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/5 "2017-07-06T04:51:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Your current method of setting the event’s Max Instances to 1 and Stealing Behavior to None is correct, and will result in the behaviour you want. The reason why you’re not seeing the effect in your game is that, as of the time of writing (June of 2017), certain changes to your FMOD Studio project do not immediately propagate to your project during live update. > > In order to ensure that changes to stealing behaviour propagate to your project, you must close your game, save and rebuild your FMOD Studio project, ensure that the new built banks are copied to where your game expects them to be, then begin playing your game again. actually even after saving, rebuilding, pasting the banks, and restarting the game it dosnt have the correct behavior, it will always cut the previous sound even if set to ‘none’ im on version 1.08.10 and unity integration. ---
**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/6 "2017-07-10T07:45:54Z")
When you build the project, are you selecting “Build…” or “Build All Platforms…” from the menu? ---
**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/7 "2017-07-10T07:47:02Z")
I’ve not been able to reproduce this issue while testing with FMOD Studio 1.08.10. I therefore suspect the issue must be specific t certain projects. Are you able to send us a project containing an event that exhibits the issue? ---
**Author:** ![simon\_kamakazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@simon\_kamakazi](https://qa.fmod.com/u/simon_kamakazi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/8 "2017-08-22T13:21:43Z")
when i build i press ctr alt b, yes i can send u the project file , where should i send it? ---
**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/9 "2017-08-23T00:28:52Z")
You can send files to [support@fmod.com](mailto:support@fmod.com). ---
**Author:** ![daudioguy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/daudioguy/32/415_2.png) [@daudioguy](https://qa.fmod.com/u/daudioguy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/10 "2020-02-04T18:18:39Z")
I have the same issue. I’ve set the event macro on a mixer group to 1 voice and stealing:none. I would expect that if another event belonging to that group was invoked it would not get started. This is not the case. I am testing from FMOD. The editor and the sandbox have the same behavior. This is with 1.10.14 version of FMOD. ---
**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/11 "2020-02-10T05:19:34Z")
> [@daudioguy](#): > > I’ve set the event macro on a mixer group to 1 voice and stealing:none. I would expect that if another event belonging to that group was invoked it would not get started. This is not the case… This is with 1.10.14 version of FMOD. Thanks for the bug report! This issue has already been fixed in more recent versions of FMOD Studio. ---
**Author:** ![TomassoAlbinoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@TomassoAlbinoni](https://qa.fmod.com/u/TomassoAlbinoni)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/12 "2022-11-11T12:08:07Z")
> In order to ensure that changes to stealing behaviour propagate to your project, you must close your game, save and rebuild your FMOD Studio project, ensure that the new built banks are copied to where your game expects them to be, then begin playing your game again. Is that still the case (Live Update not updating stealing behavior), and if not, what version changed it? ---
**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 7:00am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/voice-stealing-not-working/13254/13 "2022-11-15T07:00:08Z")
> [@TomassoAlbinoni](#): > > Is that still the case (Live Update not updating stealing behavior), > and if not, what version changed it? Live update does update _some_ stealing behavior, but not all. Specifically, changing the stealing mode to “none” does not correctly propagate to the game. This is a bug, and present in our bug tracker. I should also mention that reducing max instances below the number of already-playing instances will not cause any of those instances to be stolen in most stealing modes. This is not a bug; it occurs because max instances never changes in real time in a released game, so stealing modes do not need to take that possibility into account.