I want to have a WAV file that plays in the background looping, it is ambient city noise like cars beeping etc....

here is the code i have used to put the sound in and it loads the file and runs the script but wont actually play the sound thru the speakers


sound background = "background.wav";
var_nsave background_handle;




background_handle = snd_play(background, 75, 0);


any ideas?

hmmmm,are the speakers on?^^ try to use this:


background_handle = snd_play(background, 75, 0);
if(background_handle == 0)
{error("[censored], no sound!");}
then u see if the soundis played and stuff...

sound background = "background.wav";
snd_loop(background,75,0);

And be sure that WAV format is OK, check help for this.

Yes, use sound_loop and not sound_play if you want it looping.

Be sure to declare the SOUND and VAR_NSAVE handle variable outside of any function, but then call the snd_loop, from within a function.

i checked the sample rates supported in WED and converted my file to 22Kb sample rate rather than 16, also checked speakers were on!

But still no joy,

Then when i added this code:

if(background_handle == 0)
{error("[censored], no sound!");}

it displayed the error which i guess means it isnt playing the sound.


I have also tried using an MP3 file and a MID file but these two chuck up errors about the file type not being supported even though it says it is in the manual.


Im stuck here :-(

Cant really see whats wrong.

You have to use media_play/loop to use mp3s, mids, avis, and wmvs.

be sure that your wav file is in main folder or you have a path to it at the top of main script.
Try use more simple example without handle.

Before your main script write:
sound background = "background.wav";
and below main function write
starter start_loop
{snd_loop(background,100,0);}

and try to use another sound... f.e. one from templates and we'll see what happen.

Try to play a simple sound file in windows media player. If you here sound then your hardware is o.k. Else you don't have a sound cards

If everything is o.k. than check your wav file summary , and check what audio format you have. If it is a PCM than o.k. else maybe there is the problem...

Hey i had some problems with the sound to;
I had a cute little game I made for my mother (very simple: to pop-up all the baloons before the time runs out; you'll know where the baloon is coming from when you hear the sound coming from the left or from the right) but I couldn't make it play to the right side even if I put the balance to 100. After some time I realised that the problem is (I guess) the sound is mono; but when I reconvert it to stereo the engine shouts "Unknown sound format" or something like that what should i do?? THNX in advance!!!!

Raymaker... check the manual about WAV format (bitrate)