Music Files allowed for MMF2 Games.

[Smedwicks]

Just as the title says, what are the types of music files that are used for MMF2? And what would be the most recommended file type for a 16 bit game?

[Pixelthief]

.wav, .midi, .ogg, and many other less popular files can be played by the built in player. 3rd party extensions will let you play any music type file you want, really (mp3, etc)

[Smedwicks]

Is .org allowed by any chance?

[Pkeod]

Are you use .org is sound format!

The Onu suite of objects can play the most sound formats, I believe.

[Smedwicks]

Ok? So .org can in fact be played? If so, this is a great relief, thanks.

[Pkeod]

Detailed information for file extension ORG:
Primary association: Hollywood FX
Company: Pinnacle Systems, Inc.

Ok, it is a real format, just not exactly a popular one. Why do you need to be able to play files of that format? Why not convert them to something more conventional such as Ogg?

[Pixelthief]

Yes, in general, if you're using an unpopular format that could be converted to another more popular format, its a good idea. If your program specifically generates .ORG files it would be a different matter.... but then wouldn't you be programming the very means of processing them anyway?


I doubt any extensions you find will handle .ORG files in MMF2. Someone could create an extension to handle them, but its much more easy to just use a better filetype. If you can find a music player that can convert .ORG to .OGG or .MP3 or .WAV that would work best. Its doubtful that you'd even find that- you probably need whatever software it is that generates them, as it sounds like a more proprietary format



EDIT: I think I found what file type hes talking about. Apparently .ORG is the filetype output from some electronic keyboard recorders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4FM8he5G5c

There virtually no chance you'll find an MMF2 extension for that, but if you search around the websites & support for yamaha synthesizers I bet you could find software for converting .ORG into .OGG or even .MIDI, who knows.

[Jacob]

dBPoweramp might work.

[Smedwicks]

Well it's mostly just the fact that the program for music creation we're using makes .org files, but if I can convert it, I don't mind that either. Thanks.

[Pkeod]

The music program you're using can probably save files as wave, then convert wave to Ogg using any number of open source programs.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/