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Nunez12
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i just bought darkbasic, the computer language one, well i was just going through the tutorials, well anyways i was on the one that teaches you how to put music files in, well, can i put wav files, i tried and it says RUNTIME WARNING, MUSIC CANNOT BE LOADED. Well, can i only use midi files or is there someway to do wav also, please help me, even though i'm a huge beginner.
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Posted: 30th Dec 2005 05:46 Edited at: 30th Dec 2005 05:47
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for wav & mp3 files use this :

for midi files use


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andre
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dude i dont have the software and i now that.

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but he did not know or he would not have ask

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Posted: 30th Dec 2005 11:55
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I thoughts mp3's could also be loaded as a music file...

http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com/?f=features
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Posted: 30th Dec 2005 15:45 Edited at: 30th Dec 2005 15:56
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In simpler terms (if that can get any simpler) the list in Sven B's link shows:

Sound can load:
*.wav
*.mp2
*.mp3

music can load:
*.mid
*.rmi
*.mp2
*.mp3
*.wma
*.s3m
*.it
*.xt (whatever these things are)
*.mod (Again, not sure specifically what they are other than music that DBC supports)

as you can see, only waves and midis are specific. if neither work, open it up with sound recorder, and re-save your sound as 16-bit (preferably mono, but that shouldn't matter)

mp2 files need to be loaded with "Load animation" IF they contain any video.

Edit: Sorry, almost forgot - I've now underlined 2 formats, if you don't have the enhanced version, these are all you can load...

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I have noticed that the manual itself is has very few references on types allowed for each load command.
here is a good list though -
load sound - supports .mp3,.wav,.mp2
load music - supports ->.mid and those listed above
load ojbect supports .3ds ,.x
load image supports .jpg,.bmp,.png
load animation supports, .avi,.wmv
load bitmap supports .bmp
if I left out anything and you know that DBC supports it, then please post it so everybody will know.

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In other words, the basics.

I am no noob.
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Load music can load anything that you have a DirectShow filter for (i.e., stuff that can be played in Windows Media Player).

If you install http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm for example, then you can load .ogg files in with Load Music.



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the interesting thing about that is , that if you have to have a plug in to be installed other than what the system supports, then the user of the program will then have to download the plug-in to just to get to use the program you just made ! imagine making a that the user download 3 or 4 extra plug-ins from sources other than the game creator. I can only imagine how many people would download and play it.

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You include the appropriate files with your program, like when using DLLs.

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yes you could do that. however,.. If you intend to do this you should probably write the authors of the plug-ins first to request some kind of distribution license for the simple fact that distribution of a copyrighted item is subject to international copyright laws ect,...

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Excellent point; i thought it said it was GPL'd, but it isn't and there isn't any links to the source code.

Hehe, I remember when someone e-mailed me off these forums asking if they could use my 'accidental polygon flight simulator' in part of a screensaver

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Quote: "If you install http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm for example, then you can load .ogg files in with Load Music.
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I've had the Ogg Splitter/Vorbis Decoder for about a year now, and never knew that...

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Brand new post (since edit post won't alert viewers the post has changed)

This ogg music thing is a DB Pro thing only - at least I couldn't get DBC to accept the ogg file.

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I would like to add that if you use mp3 or midi files and are looping it , that programs suspend for a brief period of time when they start the loop over. a good example of this is included in the my projects folder that comes with dbc (the one called tank). if you play the game long enough it will appear to freeze and lock up - then continue like nothing was wrong.

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@SimSmall: Sorry, I should check stuff before I post it

Got DBP recently and I knew it worked in there... Still, DB uses the DirectShow filter set (afaik) so why doesn't it pick it up...?

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ok , i did some more research , in regards to my earlier post in this thread besides .bmp,jpg,and png the load bitmap command can also load the following formats :
.DDS .DIB .PCX .PSD .RLE .TGA .TIF
it is my guess that load image also supports loading of all these file types

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AWESOME!!! I never knew mp3s work!!!!!!!!!1111oneoneone


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yes , they work, as easy as

however, as posted above, if you it loop continually then the program appears to lock when it starts to loop again. I believe this is a bug in the codec itself but could also be because it might be reloading the file. either way , there is a work around to this but will have to do a little more testing.

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