[Solved] Music looping delay

[Alfwin]

I'm using custom music in my map, and I want the same track to loop indefinitely. All the research I have done indicates that the trigger Sound - Play Music will loop the song... but it doesn't. Therefore, I have done as several sources have suggested and set up a trigger that looks something like this:

• Sound - Play (music)
• Wait - (length of (music))
• Trigger - Run (this trigger) (Checking conditions)

Which allows the music to loop. However, for some reason, once the song has ended there is a massive delay (several minutes) before it begins again, leaving the map in silence for quite some time. My question for you is this: What is causing the delay, and, more importantly, how may it be removed so that the music loops continually without stopping?

 

[PurgeandFire]

Looks like the same problem in this thread:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/.../gaias-retaliation-music-addon-issues-267024/

Try out the suggestions that Zwiebelchen made.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Make sure to play your music on the music channel and not the sound channel. Nothing irritates players more than having to hear the same song again and again while playing with the only way of stopping it being to stop all sound.

Wait - (length of (music))

TriggerSleepAction is inaccurate. The delay reported could be a result of that.

I also think the way WC3 processes music is such that it does not allow flawless looping. This would be because the music system might first buffer a couple of seconds worth of sound so that file I/O does not degrade performance.

 

[Alfwin]

Thanks, PurgeandFire, the problem was indeed the same as in that thread. The problem has been identified (wrong bitrate) and solved.

And the music is indeed playing on the music channel, so you needn't worry about that

 

[PurgeandFire]

Thanks, PurgeandFire, the problem was indeed the same as in that thread. The problem has been identified (wrong bitrate) and solved.

And the music is indeed playing on the music channel, so you needn't worry about that

Out of curiosity, what was the bit rate before and what did you set it to in order to make it work?

 

[Zwiebelchen]

I think it's not the bitrate that matters, but the sampling rate.
I think 44.1khz is the max WC3 supports. Most WC3 audio files are 22khz, though.

Reducing the bitrate will mostly reduce the sampling rate aswell for most audio compressors; so that's why it worked.

 

[Alfwin]

The original bit rate was 186kbps, and I changed it to 112kbps, which is the same as the built-in Warcraft 3 music.