I'm an MMF2 Dev user. I could loop music in my games with the OGG format. I have a feeling Flash export won't allow this, and with MP3 files a "gap" is created at the end of the audio making a seamless loop impossible. I haven't tried the Flash runtime though so I'm just enquiring.
Also, I believe within Flash itself it's possible via ActionScript to stream audio from a URL to save on the SWF's file size. Is it possible to do this via MMF2? Thanks.
Since when does MP3 add a gap? If you mean Windows Media Player, that's just Microsoft being lazy.
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Loads of threads etc. about this issue. It seems there is code to fix it in ActionScript, but would it be so easy to do so with MMF2 I wonder?
In one game I had a short "motor running" sample for a driving car. The sample looped fine in MMF, but had a short delay in Flash. I made a long-playing version of this sample, which runs for several seconds before the loop restarts. It was neccessary, because the gap was annoying.
Hmm, I thought that would be the case. You see, I'm going to make an online quiz for my website and use MMF and Flash export. However, it's going to make a lot of use of small looping audio tracks. So if that's the case and there's no way to fix the gap in MMF's Flash export, I guess I'll have to use Flash itself even if it isn't my favourite software.The seamless music is pretty essential here.
Well, I don't want to buy Flash without knowing the loops will work properly. I've created an example file and I want to see if one of you guys, who has purchased the Flash support, can get this working.
The archive contains the MMF project and the necessary loops. I added the same loops in MP3 format as well since you might need that for Flash. I'm not sure. Right now the project loops the OGGs.
Get the archive here: http://www.outlawstar.co.uk/files/OLSQuiz.zip
There are two sound files, "get_higher_in", which plays once, and then switches to "get_higher_loop" which is the actual loop. One problem I have that is non-Flash related is that when I set MMF to switch from the intro to the loop there is a noticeable gap. The loop on the other hand loops seamlessly.
If you can fix the gap when it switches to the loop track and get it working in Flash, you'll have convinced me that the Flash exporter is worth buying! Seamless looping is essential for my future projects in Flash.
Here is your test file compiled as a SWF so you can see if it will be good enough for you.
www.flyinvinteractive.com/Flash_Quiz.zip
Thanks, I really appreciate you doing that. Unfortunately though the gaps are still pretty significant. I was thinking it might be possible if I have the music play on separate channels. For instance, if I create an expression to calculate the time the second track should play, just before the first.
I don't know if multi-channel audio is perfect in Flash, but I'll try to see if I can get this working with MMF.
Cheers Jeff.
Sorry to bump but I created an update ages ago and forgot to post it.
http://www.outlawstar.co.uk/files/OLSQuizNew.zip
It's not complete yet (outro not working) and can be slightly buggy, but it works. It uses separate channels to create the loop efficiently. I still worry that it won't be possible to create the working loop in Flash without gaps, though. If you can prove me wrong then please try, but I don't want to pay for the Flash extension yet until I get this working.
For the time being, the outro doesn't matter so you don't need to try to fix that. I'll probably have the main loop fade out when the track ends instead. I've included a couple of other tracks you can try out with it simply by editing the sample events.
Thanks again, would appreciate any help.
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