Re: Playing mp3 files as background
- From: "mixollagy fm UK" <mixollagyfm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:12:54 -0000
ah, no.
It's not my wav file, i was refering to yours, or maybe i have lost what your
saying here.
The goal of that email was to try and see if a timer would be able to loop it,
in theary, it should, but then again, there might be crossed wires here.
Regards: Jamie.
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Jaeger [simon4599]
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background
and the reason your wave file isn't looping properly is, mp3 puts a little
pause at the beginning and end of it, or at least the lamest of lame encoders
does, so you'll have to go in and re-loop the file in wave or ogg.
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: mixollagy fm UK
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:52 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
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HTH
inthane
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----- 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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