Replaced race music sometimes stop playing

[Armelior_is_back]

Hello fellow mapmakers.

My problem is this : I've replaced all human musics (same with undead) with custom mp3. All 4 tracks have played at least once, so worldedit recognizes the files.
But sometimes after one is finished it just stops playing new tracks, and I don't think it's always after the same track/it's always after the 2nd.
Has anyone ever encountered this problem ?

 

[deepstrasz]

Do you use any triggers to play the music? See how Blizzard campaign maps do it.

 

[Armelior_is_back]

No like I said I replaced the race tracks (1,2,3,X) so that it plays without triggers.
I also use triggers to play music themes for cutscenes or special sequences but that works.

 

[deepstrasz]

I also use triggers to play music themes for cutscenes or special sequences but that works.

Does the music stop working before or after such music themes play?

 

[Armelior_is_back]

I don't think it's related. The music restart from where it stopped after a cutscene as usual. From the tests I made, a music theme is played only once and automatically stops after a cutscene transition (I don't have any trouble with those), a music automatically plays if there is no theme playing, except if you use a trigger to prevent it.
The problem is that the imported music tracks I use don't behave like the vanilla ones. I think it stops playing after the 2nd one but I'm not sure since I test the maps for different things at once and I'm not monitoring music closely. I will have to test that separately while reading a book or something

 

[deepstrasz]

Anyways, this is how Blizzard does it for their campaigns:

• Initialization
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Trigger - Run Init 03 Music <gen> (checking conditions)

• Init 03 Music
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Sound - Clear the music list
    • Wait 0.01 seconds
    • Sound - Play Blood Elf Theme, skipping the first 9.58 seconds
    • Sound - Set the music list to Music, starting with song 0

Also, try testing the music flow by accessing that specific map through the game, not editor (via test map).

 

[Armelior_is_back]

• Sound - Set the music list to Music, starting with song 0

that's the music list I was talking about, but you don't need the trigger

I never test my maps via the "test map" because it doesn't work for campaigns unless you have zero custom campaign unit/doodad/spell etc. That's one of the pains on working on campaigns instead of single maps (the other being the AI editor)

 

[deepstrasz]

Try the Blizzard way and see if it works. If not, maybe it's something related to the music file formats, bit rate and whatnot. Maybe you should convert them all to one standard .mp3 or .wav format.

 

[Armelior_is_back]

Yeah it's probably the file formats. Guess I'll have to use a sound file manipulation software.

 

[deepstrasz]

Yeah it's probably the file formats. Guess I'll have to use a sound file manipulation software.

Try Audacity, it's free and quite great for what it can do in general. It's more than perfect for what you need it for.

 

[Armelior_is_back]

I think I have that on my hard drive somewhere already... Anyway thanks.

 

[deepstrasz]

I think I have that on my hard drive somewhere already... Anyway thanks.

Better take a newer version in case yours is outdated. Also, see how the Warcraft III soundtrack is formatted so you'll know how to convert your custom imported music.