Re: Playing mp3 files as background

  • From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:42:27 -0800

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


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      ----- 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

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