hahahaha, that's me too! Ooh! This looks interesting! Now what did I come here for again? ... But I'll definitely have to have a look at that, if that works then it's yet another hurdle overcome. Allrighty then, let's see if we can get this there mp3 file converted. Cheers, Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: inthaneelf To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:42 AM Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background lol, lots of stuff there, I tend to get focused and miss things myself, either that or get distracted with something other than what I wanted, and then forget to get what I originally went there for, grins I'm inthane!, I'm an elf!... ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:56 PM Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background lol I go there all the time and I missed that also? Typical of me. Thanks elfers I'll take a look see now. Cheers, Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: inthaneelf To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background Codex is available from: www.jfwlite.com for free on there programs page, HTH inthane . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at: http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com . to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at: http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Jaeger [simon4599] To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:02 PM Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background It does. It's hard to say what, but something about GoldWave converts the files in such a way that ComAudio usually will not decode them. If you have soundforge or even CDex, you may want to try those. ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 5:58 PM Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background I'm using goldwave. I figured it'd just convert over normally. Hmm, I've got a lot to learn here too, it seems. Cheers, Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Jaeger [simon4599] To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background some files, in general, have trouble playing with ComAudio. Also, mp3s do not loop, and if you converted it from the laready converted mp3 to an ogg file, it definitely isn't going to loop. What program are you using to convert this file? ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:55 PM Subject: Playing mp3 files as background Hi guys, This is sort of related to the COMM Audio question that was asked earlier, but there are differences so I'll start a new topic just to be safe. I'm writing a game that needs background music, among other things. Well DirectSound, (version 8 with vb6 in my case), doesn't like to play mp3 files, so I'd like to use COMM Audio. In the documentation for for the library it says that it has trouble with some mp3 files, (my background music is one of them), so I switched to an .ogg file. That is to say I converted the file. Thing is I'm still having the same problem. Lots of very jumpy, rhythmic, but jumpy white noise. While you can dance to it.. bearly, grin, it's not something I'd want to put in a professional game really. So to my question. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so what did they do to fix it if anything? I have thought about converting the background music to a .wav file, which I know do play ok as the other sound effects play wonderfully. The only issue I'd have there is download size. I'm scared to think how big the file would be if I had to convert 10 levels' worth of music to .wav on top of all the other files it needs. Can we say order on CD? *grins* Anyway thanks in advance for any help with this. Regards, Simon