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Gyoergy
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Posted: 4th Dec 2005 22:24
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Hi,

I feel pretty stupid right now. But somehow a simple .wav sound does not get played. Please see the code snipet. When I press the left mouse button on the title bar of the main window, then it will start playing the sound, though.

to make things more complex:
if I choose a music .wav file it will not play at all with dbPlaySound. dbPlayMusic does the job fine for that music .wav file.

So, do I need to have some (mouse) input to play a sound with dbPlaySound? How big should a sound file be? How high should be the bitrate? How can I get the chimes.wav file playing?

many thanks,
György
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Gyoergy
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 09:17
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sorry. here is the code
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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 15:04
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Plays fine here when the escape key is pressed, and not when the title bar is clicked.

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Gyoergy
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 15:34
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Hi, thanks so far. I have entered a Sleep(1000); before dbPlaySound() then it works. I think it is some timing issue here... before the system is ready to play the sound.

Could you tell me, please, if you know any restrictions concering soundfiles for dbPlaySound. I know they have to be .wav files.

A very big .wav file will not play with above code. Thanks anyway. Is there any guideline, when to use dbPlayMusic and when to use dbPlaySound...? I am going to code a game using a lot of sound snipets, maybe 50. But there will be only max. of 5-10 sounds being played at a time.

thanks from Germany, Gyoergy
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Kaiyodo
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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 21:46
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This may or may not be related to your problem, but I found that using dbSync caused all of my 3D sounds to be played in 2D (all panned to the centre). When I removed the dbSync and added my own timing code the problems went away. There's certainly some timing issue with sounds in the 1.1.1 version of the SDK.

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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 22:03
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Shouldn't need a sleep command - worked for me without it.

Can you supply the very big file, and I'll see if I have trouble with it.

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