Sound lenghts

[NarGalloth]

Hi.
I'm having a little problem with some sounds that I'm using in my campaign...
Most of them are music tracks (MP3) for various parts of the levels... But I realized that some of them, in the Sound Editor, seem to be longer than outside the editor.
For example, one of them, outside lasts 264 seconds... but the Sound Editor marks near 600 SECONDS. However, when I listen the music in the Sound Editor, it sounds for its 264 seconds, and the rest is silence, but the Sound Editor still appears to be reproducing something.
I'm having trouble with triggers because of this problem.
Someone knows how to solve it? Thanks for reading.

Note: Please, sorry if my english is bad...

Regards

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try re encoding them, it could be that the MP3s have padding data which players ignore (cause its empty) but the game does not.

 

[ThaAthael]

If that doesn't help, you still can use
play sound - skipping the first X seconds and
(timer length)
sound - stop sound immidiately

 

[NarGalloth]

@ThaAthael: That won't work, I've already tried it.

@Dr Super Good: You may be right... But I've been looking at the features of the sounds, and the transmission speed of some of them was 192 kbps, while the others have 256 kbps or 320 kbps... Could this be the problem?
Re encoding them could solve it?

Thanks for answering

Regards

 

[Dr Super Good]

MP3 I blieve can support a variable bitrate. During times of silence, less than 1 kbps is needed as the sound wavefor is very simple (constant). However during times of complexity (lots of high frequency and frequency change) more bits are needed.

What could be happening is the game thinks that the filesize / some bitrate gives the length of the song when actually the bitrate varies (thus it uses far more at times so is much shorter).

You could always trigger a solution I guess.

 

[NarGalloth]

I don't really know what was happening.
Anyway, I re encoded all the sounds at 192 kpbs and now works correctly. The Sound Editor marks the correct length.

Thanks for your support

Regards