Looping Audio Files at Specific Points

[negiman4]

Okay.... I need to know how this is done! How exactly are audio files "tagged" to loop at *specific* points in the file? Is it done inside the file itself or is the game told using a script to loop at that point? And how do you do it? I'm pretty new and I want to add music of my own. In most games, there's usually that first segment of the song that is played but is never played again during the time the song is executed. Only a portion of the song is repeated. But, when I import custom music into rmxp, the WHOLE song is played and automatically looped to the beginning. I want it to loop to a certain point.

 

[Ellie]

It's done in the file, and I believe only certain types of file can do it. I don't know anything more (but google might help).

 

[Brewmeister]

You can set loop points in both midi & ogg files, if you have the right software to do it.

The easier way...

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=55486

 

[seven]

I remember you can do this for OGG files: click.

That works in VX. For XP, you might be able to use the same method with FMOD (brewmeister linked to it).

 

[negiman4]

I appreciate the responses lol ^^. Now, I know .ogg and .mid and .wav files can be looped internally now. I don't know how to do that though haha ^^; and I can't find any tutorials on how exactly to do that. As if everyone should know... Well, I went with that "easier" way that you mentioned, but I realised I don't know how to put the script in! Well, I know how to put it in the game, but I don't know how I can get the game to access the script! I'm completely new to RGSS (I AM learning though) and I don't know how the game would access the code if I don't have anything pointing or referring to it. I know that much from another scripting language. If nothing refers to it, then its just a piece of code that sits there doing nothing. Am I right? Doesn't this apply to RGSS too?

 

[zeus81]

There exist another simpliest solution, with this little code:

class Game_System

  alias old_bgm_play bgm_play

  def bgm_play(bgm)

    me_play(bgm) if (!@playing_bgm or @playing_bgm.name != bgm.name or

      @playing_bgm.pitch != bgm.pitch) and !Dir["Audio/ME/#{bgm.name}.*"].empty?

    old_bgm_play(bgm)

  end

end

Then you have to cut the opening and the loop into two separated files with the same name.
You put the opening in the ME folder and the loop in the BGM folder (which you will play).
I think that it loops better with ogg than mp3.

 

[negiman4]

Whew, thanks! It worked! (Yeah, took me a while to figure out that I didn't need the class command and the last "end" command there ^^; Here I am, making an entirely new class...) In the end, I couldn't code the ogg file itself to loop . But that's ok. the only problem I'm having now even with that script is that when transitioning from the ME Intro to the BGM main portion, there's a very definite skip. lol it was rather loud too. That's understandable, though. I can't ask for perfection. It's a great script and thank you so much! I'm gonna try to fix the skipping on my own with some other scripts, now that I know how to put them in (haha)