So today I actually had cause to use an mp3 in my project, but when I ran it, Love gave me an error saying it couldn't load the file. I thought it was a tad odd, so I converted the MP3 into OGG Vorbis format, changed the code to read the .ogg file instead and ran that. Worked a charm. I'm guessing there's some sort of dependency Love is expecting for MP3s that I don't have? Or am I just doing it wrong, somehow?
if musicFile ~= "nil" then
gameMusic = love.audio.newMusic( musicFile ) -- Create the music
if gameMusic ~= nil then -- make sure it loaded
love.audio.play( gameMusic, 0 ) -- Play the music forever
else
errorMessage("Unable to load music... continuing...")
end
end
The specific error message is: Could not load music "sooh.mp3".
musicFile is defined elsewhere by the program. Any ideas?
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bartbes wrote:maybe the file was called .MP3? (uppercase) Because it sounds mostly like an uppercase-lowercase problem.
Nope. I double-checked and the case is correct. Both are .mp3... I don't mind, terribly.I consider Ogg a superior format. But I'm planning on my game being modular and it'd be nice to know if there are issues with the MP3 library on Ubuntu.
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Bug in SDL_mixer. It works on Windows only because I patched the DLL.
The bug applies to mp3 files with the "new" magic byte sequence. SDL_mixer does not check for this byte sequence, and tries to load the file with MikMod (which is the default).
Ah. Thanks. That's a thing that's good to know. I'll make sure to include that in the documentation and let people know it's an SDL issue, not an issue with the game.
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farvardin wrote:why don't you just use ogg instead of mp3 ?
That's what he did in the end, wasn't it?
Xcmd wrote:I thought it was a tad odd, so I converted the MP3 into OGG Vorbis format, changed the code to read the .ogg file instead and ran that. Worked a charm [sic].
That is indeed what I wound up doing. But for a project I have in mind, its necessary to know that Linux doesn't support MP3s due to difficulties beyond my control.
And the phrase "Worked a charm." is indeed correct, just not grammatically perfect, as few of my sentences are. I write like I speak, for the most part.
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