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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Wav doesn't even loop seamlessly

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nz0
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Posted: 1st Dec 2011 00:42 Edited at: 1st Dec 2011 01:32
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So no MP3 seamless looping? Fine.
I only have short pieces of music in this game so I can put up with WAV for my looped music... but no - this doesn't even loop [seamlessly].

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Posted: 1st Dec 2011 02:19 Edited at: 1st Dec 2011 21:03
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Something that might help you solve this: There's a ~40K memory leak each time the WAV loops. At least with the WAV i`m using - 2203KB

[edit] KB!

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Posted: 1st Dec 2011 20:47
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2203 MB? Thats a pretty big wav file there, unless you mean kb. So far, I haven't had many real problems with sound playback, but I have seen several posts about similar issues. Have you tried a smaller file? The largest I have used so far is about 5mb. I haven't noticed any gap between loops as of yet, at least on windows. I haven't tested much on other devices.

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Posted: 1st Dec 2011 21:02 Edited at: 1st Dec 2011 21:07
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Sorry, yea. 2203Kb

This is on Windows, let alone a device...
I've edited the post

Don't forget - I'm only using WAV for looping music because of the MP3 issue. The music is only 25sec long...

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Posted: 1st Dec 2011 21:21
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You could try .ogg for looping purposes. Had problems in DBPro too with wave files, but .ogg files looped seamlessly.

Hope this helps.

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Posted: 1st Dec 2011 21:24
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@Slayer: Not really. OGG wouldn't be much use/guaranteed on other platforms.

As it happens, I tried to play WAV with playmusic, but it actually loops perfectly with playsound.

I'll still log the memory leak bug on the list though, but I can get away with playsound I think..

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I think your best bet unless this is fixed is to work out exactly how long the clip is and use a timer to decide when to play the sound again. Audacity gives a pretty accurate sound length.


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Posted: 1st Dec 2011 21:34
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Playsound() works fine now I tried it
This issue was limited to playmusic()

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2011 09:33
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WAVs should be played only as sounds, MP3's only as music.

It says in the help file:

LoadSound() - The filename of the sound file to load, must be a WAV file.
LoadMusic - Recommended to be MP3s, excepts Bada, where you should use OGGs

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Posted: 3rd Dec 2011 11:05
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This issue is already logged as a bug.

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