Bug I cannot assign AudioClips to scripts that have an AudioClip component

I don't know why, but for some reason in Unity 2020.3.19f1 (I know I know, I probably should update but I first want to see if this issue can be fixed) I cannot assign AudioClips through script. If I add a public AudioClip clip; to my script, and then in the inspector drag any audiofile to it, it just seems like nothing happened. If I click the little dot, same issue.

If I add an AudioSource to my script, and then try clip = source.clip; I get an error like this:


In short, what the hecc is going on with my Unity? Why is it going bonkers saying it cannot convert AudioClip to AudioClip? I genuinely have never seen such a stupid error message lol

Anyways, I'm sure I am doing something wrong but I genuinely cannot find what and having tried for an hour to find anything via Google and it just comes up short, no one seems to have this issue. Everyone seems to just be able to drag audiofiles to a script that has an AudioClip component on them

Thanks in advance for any reply, I appreciate it, this'll help me so I can continue.

 

Never mind, I finally figured out the issue
And it turns out, it was just me having made a dumb mistake :')

I had called the script AudioClip without thinking, so it obviously overrides the standard behaviour that Unity normally has when calling an AudioClip. Just a dumb mistake haha

 

Ah, yep! I just did that to myself this morning...

It's a very easy mistake to make, especially as you add more and more non-namespaced classes to your project (or bring those namespaces in with a

using

statement. It can cause weird problems in random places as your definition suddenly gets into a fight with the existing one.