Shortcut "PLAY" key for Library section?

It seems Animate cannot do this with default shortcuts and I couldn't find a method in the JSFL API to handle this.

The solution I found was to create a simple panel for Animate CC that gets the song url from the authoring environment. Then the SWF panel plays the song using ActionScript 3.

Download it here: Play Library Sound Extension.

For now, it only plays the songs if they actually exist in the original path from where they were imported. But I'll try to find some time to update the panel to play the songs without depending on it - if it's possible.

Installation instructions:

1. Copy the 'Play Library Sound.swf' and 'play_library_sound.jsfl' files to:

[INSTALLATION DRIVE]\Users\[USER ACCOUNT]\AppData\Local\Adobe\[ANIMATE VERSION]\en_US\Configuration\WindowSWF.

Example:

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC 2018\en_US\Configuration\WindowSWF

2. Restart Animate CC if it's opened.

3. Inside of Animate CC, go to Window > Extensions > Play Library Sound.

How to use:

1. Select a sound item in the library to play it.

For reference, here is the code:

AS3

import flash.events.Event;
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.media.SoundTransform;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.errors.IOError;
import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
var sChannel:SoundChannel;
var previousSoundPath:String;
var soundPath:String;
function start():void
{   
    ExternalInterface.addCallback('callMySWF', jsfl);   
    stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
}
function loop(e:Event):void
{   
    MMExecute('fl.runScript( fl.configURI + "/WindowSWF/play_library_sound.jsfl");');
   
    if (previousSoundPath != soundPath)
    {
        if (sChannel)
            sChannel.stop();
       
        songName.text = soundPath;
        playSound(soundPath);
    }       
   
    previousSoundPath = soundPath;
}
function jsfl(arg:String):void
{
    soundPath = arg.replace("file:///", "").replace("|", ":");
}
function playSound(path:String, volume:Number = 1, start:Number = 0, loops:int = 0):void
{
    if (sound) sound.removeEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorHandler);
    if (sChannel) sChannel.stop();   
   
    var sound:Sound = new Sound();   
    var sTransform:SoundTransform = new SoundTransform();       
   
    sound.load(new URLRequest(path));
    sChannel = sound.play(start, loops);
    sTransform.volume = volume;
    sChannel.soundTransform = sTransform;
   
    sound.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorHandler);
}
function errorHandler(event:IOErrorEvent):void
{
    if (soundPath != "Select a sound item in the Library.")
        songName.text = soundPath + " not found.";
}
start();

JSFL

fl.outputPanel.clear();
var soundURL = "";
function soundPath()
{
    var doc = fl.getDocumentDOM();
    var errorMessage = "Select a sound item in the Library.";
   
    if (doc.library.getSelectedItems()[0] && doc.library.getSelectedItems()[0].itemType == "sound")
    {
        fl.trace(doc.library.getSelectedItems()[0].sourceFilePath);
        return doc.library.getSelectedItems()[0].sourceFilePath;
    }       
    else
    {
        fl.trace(errorMessage);
        return errorMessage;
    }       
}
function callMyPanel(panelName, arg)
{   
    if(fl.swfPanels.length > 0)
    {
        for(i = 0; i < fl.swfPanels.length; i++)
        {
            if(fl.swfPanels.name == panelName)
            {
                fl.swfPanels.call("callMySWF", arg);
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    else
        fl.trace("no panels");
}
soundURL = soundPath();
callMyPanel("Play Library Sound", soundURL);

Regards,

JC

Here’s the link to all of the existing keyboard shortcuts in Animate: Adobe Animate CC keyboard shortcuts

and here’s the link to creating your own custom shortcuts: Keyboard shortcuts

you might be able to add a jsfl shortcut to do that.  otherwise, no.