Problems loading sound files

[exzantia]

Can anyone help me out with loading sound files in Lua? Every time I attempt to load a sound file it just gives me an error:

"error: index.lua:142: error loading sound"

142: a_sound = Sound.load("a.wav")

Do I need to do something to t he wav file to make it compatible?

I amn't too sure of what I am doing but I would really appricatite some help, this is for a graded project and I need to have sounds working in 4 days!

[ShUr1k3n]

1st -> See if that file exists...(the directory, etc)
2nd -> Is that the only sound that u are loading?
3rd -> The size of the sound (shouldn't be very "large")

Check these 3 steps.

If you still having problems, post here some part of ur code!

Regards,

ShUr1k3n

[Shine]

Do I need to do something to t he wav file to make it compatible?

Yes, save it as normal PCM (you can convert it e.g. with the Windows sound recorder). Any special Microsoft codecs or other formats are not supported.

[exzantia]

Yay!

That got it working for me :)

Thanks Shine

[ZORDAK]

hi

Im using a 1.3 wav file pcm 8 bit mono, i getting this error trying to load it.

LuaPlayer's Mikmod has a critical error:
_mm_critical 0
_mm_errno 14
Unknown module format 3 [unknown (0x7C4)] luaplayer 840 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 450 [unknown (0x7C4)] luaplayer 840 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to luaplayer.exe.stackdump

The problem is when i use

Music.volume(128)
Music.playFile("Data/Mus/track.wav", true)


Using wav files it crashed but if i use the play method ...

musica= Sound.load("Data/Mus/track.wav")
musica:play()

it sound fine, the problem is that i want use the wav file for a background music, and i cant get it looping infinite and stopping when i want.

How i can solve this?

Thanks in advance.

[Kameku]

Couldn't you just toss in an if statement checking to see if it's playing?

Like:

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if not music:playing() then
 music:play()
end

I dunno.

[EDIT] Just checked the wiki, and you can just put

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Sound.load(filename, [bool loop])

So, maybe

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musica = Sound.load("a.wav", true)

[ZORDAK]

Using the loop works fine, but how i stop the playing?

Using musica.stop() dont work, i getting this "loop in gettable"

[Kameku]

Try using a colon instead of a period.