Re: Playing mp3 files as background
- From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:07:15 -0800
been there myself, and yes it is great, a bit long winded getting through the
links on the page when you do a search, but other than that a good place,
probably have around 90 file sets I've gotten from there for games that might
be modified into accessible games and such.
I usually go to the bottom of the page and page up until I get to the search
results myself, there was a link that appears above the results that I have
used to insert f7 to then arrow down, but it's been a while and I can't
remember off the top of my head what the link was, *sigh* me and my terminal
case of CRS... anyway
laters,
inthane
----- Original Message -----
From: mixollagy fm UK
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background
guess you could setup a timer, so if your in vb 6, we could do this.
Public wav As Intiger.
Private Sub Frmmain()
wav = 1
End Sub
Private Sub Timer(click)
wav = wav +1
If wav = 30 Then
'we play the file again and reset the wav var to 1 again.
'call the wav procedure here, what ever it might be, playwav_Click() for
example.
wav = 1
End If
End Sub
You can use a .rez file, it's just getting around the resource editor.
I did see a tutorial on how to do procedures, it was dead simple, it's just a
simple procedure, but you need to navigate the resource editor.
Put in to google, plannet source code, it's plannet-source-code.com, tuns of
code and projects to download and mess with, it's a good site!
Kind regards: Jamie.
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon
To: programmingblind@freelistsorg
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background
Hi there,
Yeah I thought of using a resource file and doing it taht way. I'm back to
using DirectSound8 directly now, as aposed to using it through COMM Audio. So
not sure if you can use a .rez file with that. I'll give it a go though.
Converting to wave I can do, sadly though it still doesnt' loop. So perhaps
it's the file in the first place. I'll stick at it though and see waht we can
come up with. The file I'm using to test though won't be the eventual file I'll
be rleasing the game with. This is just for test purposes only, and to learn
the techniques needed.
Ah well, back to it for me then.
Cheers,
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: mixollagy fm UK
To: programmingblind@freelistsorg
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background
Hi there.
If you converted the .mp3 to wav files, if you know how to, you could use
the resource editor to put the sounds in to the .exe file, so there is only the
1 .exe file and no files with it, because all of the music and affects are in
the actuall .exe file, also stops people from trying to copy the music and
affects, i guess.
Kind regards: Jamie.
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon
To: programmingblind@freelistsorg
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background
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@freelistsorg
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@freelistsorg
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@freelistsorg
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@freelistsorg
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@freelistsorg
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@freelistsorg
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@freelistsorg
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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