Audio stops playing after loading my game from the main menu scene

Question

When I pause the game, the audio pauses too, but I created a "go back to menu" button, it goes to the main menu but when I hit start again and the game starts running, my audio is dead, I can not hear anything.

Here is my code:

using UnityEngine; using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class pausemenu : MonoBehaviour { public GameObject pauseMenu;

 public bool isPaused;
 
 void Start()
 {
     pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
 }
 // Update is called once per frame
 void Update()
 {
     if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape))
     {
         if(isPaused)
         {
             ResumeGame();
         }
         else
         {
             PauseGame();
         }
     }
      
 }   
 
 
 public void PauseGame()
 {
     pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
     Time.timeScale = 0f;
     isPaused = true;
     AudioListener.pause = true;
 }
 
 public void ResumeGame()
 {
     pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
     Time.timeScale = 1f;
     isPaused = false;
     AudioListener.pause = false;
 }
  
 public void GoToMainMenu()
 {
     Time.timeScale = 1f;
     SceneManager.LoadScene("menu1");
 } 
 
 public void QuitTheGame()
 {
     Application.Quit();
 }
   
}

Answer 1

In the PauseGame() function you are setting the AudioListener.pause to true. So, in the GoToMainMenu() function set the AudioListener.pause to false.

Answer 2

If you pause your game and call PauseGame() AudioListener.pause is set to true .

If you resume you correctly set AudioListener.pause to false .

However, if you stop your game (by going into some main menu) and start a new one (or the previous one) the static bool AudioListener.pause is still false because of your pause menu intervention.

Even if your starting setup results in pausemenu.Start() getting called when starting a new game, this will not affect AudioListener.pause . You have to explicitly call pausemenu.ResumeGame() .