mp3s don't loop properly (small pause)

[LazyCoder]

Hi, I use mp3's rather than wavs in my maps to cut down on space. Only problem with this is that there is a slight pause at the beginning and at the end of my mp3s.

I'm using Audacity to convert sounds from wav, and ogg to mp3, is audacity adding in the pauses, or is it just mp3 in general?

 

[Zombie]

Try deleting a few milseconds from the end and the beginning of the file with audactiy. Or use wav. But it might be a WE bug.

 

[LazyCoder]

No no no, what I'm saying is that every time I save something with Audacity, it adds those pauses on. Removing them does nothing... (hmm, but i wonder if they'll stack...)

And I definitely can't use wav files, waaaay too big.

 

[TheDarkGiganotosaur]

I know this problem, it's the MP3 format itself.

The small pauses, as you call it, are referred to small silent gaps that the MP3 encoder generates each time we save a MP3 file. And I'm afraid there's no solution to this problem.

The MP3 format is only good for non-looping sounds and musics, because the only format that loops any sound and music perfectly is the OGG format. But unfortunately, WC3 does not support it.

 

[LazyCoder]

Aww that sucks... I hope starcraft 2 will have OGG support.