Re: Playing mp3 files as background
- From: "mixollagy fm UK" <mixollagyfm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:18:15 -0000
Hi simon,
Thanks for your reply.
The problem of looping the wav file, would be easy if you did indeed put it in
a .exe file instead of a .dll, because then you have just 1 .exe file and any
other .dlls you require to run your program.
The reason why i recommend you putting files like .wavs in to a .exe file is so
that then you don't have to mess with putting files in to a dll, then call them
from a dll, thus it saves you from adding a .dll file, and may save you some
space when the program is installed.
Let me know if the timer code works, or if you have found another way of how to
do this.
Kind regards:
Jamie.
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background
Jamie,
There are two Simon's on the list lol. Me, and the one whose post is below
yours.
I'm the original poster of the question, and so the one who has the loopy
problem.
Cheers,
Simon Cowan, (lol just so there's no mix ups)
----- Original Message -----
From: mixollagy fm UK
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files as background
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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