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MP3 question

by Travis Vroman · in Torque Game Engine · 05/23/2003 (8:50 pm) · 2 replies

How can I get an mp3 to play in my game menus? How do I do this. FYI I am a TGE licensee.

-T
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Torque Owner Ben Swanson
#1
05/23/2003 (9:22 pm)
You have to use WAV with OpenAL or Ogg with Ogg Vorbis, there is no MP3 support. Ogg is a better format anyways, plus there aren't the nasty liscensing issues that come with MP3.

Torque Owner Leslie Young
#2
05/24/2003 (11:11 am)
Yep, go with Ogg, anycase ...
Head over to ... to get a too lto convert WAV and MP3 to OGG
the to get it playing you should do something like this:
in one of your scripts like client/scripts/audioProfiles.cs

new AudioProfile(MenuMusic)
{
    filename = "~/data/sound/music/menumusic.ogg";
    description = "AudioMusic";
    preload = false;
};

and to play the song you would use the next call:

alxPlay("MenuMusic");

simple enought :)
Just check if your version of Torque have the Ogg streaming stuff else search in the resources for OGG streaming or something and implement that resource.
If you have engine/audio/vorbisStream.h file, the Ogg Vorbis streaming is in your copy ( I don't have the latest head so I don't know if it's in there)

EDIT: Forgot to mention...
This is the Ogg Vorbis site http://www.vorbis.com/
and here you can find file converters
http://www.vorbis.com/download_win.psp
OggDrop is easy to use.