Gideros Player (2015.04.08) Not Functioning

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  April 2015 edited April 2015

  I think it's something to do with the end of the music being missed for the repeat - maybe looking for an exact number when it was missed because it may increment fractionally? (that migth explain why its different on some devices - the floating point might operate in a slightly different way?) - Doesn't explain why the completed event always works though.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  April 2015

  So the next thing is that wav (aka sound effects) files and mp3 (aka background music) is handled in different ways.
  
  Honestly I know very little on how sounds are handled in Gideros, but I think on Android mp3 files are played via media player:
  https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/android/GiderosAndroidPlayer/src/com/giderosmobile/android/player/GGMediaPlayerManager.java
  
  So need to make sure this is a mp3 specific problem
  
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  April 2015

  If you are feeling like diving into, then all audio related code (including android) is here:
  
  https://github.com/gideros/gideros/tree/master/libgid/src

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• antix Member

  April 2015

  @ar2rsawseen - I converted my music from MP3 to WAV and it plays and repeats on the Nexus7 now, so yep it seems MP3 specific.
  
  In the meantime I suppose I will just convert my MP3 files to WAV files and have a bloated app

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  April 2015

  No - use the routine I showed you - using the complete event - that works for me.

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• antix Member

  April 2015

  @SinisterSoft - Okay if I just use your code as it is and run it, it plays and repeats fine. If I modify it (adding the "self." to everything) and place it into a class, it plays once and then I get the "nil value" error when the Event.COMPLETE event fires.
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2015

  @antix, in your test code, don't it miss self in third parameter of addEventListener in
  self.playingMusic:addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,self.restartMusic,self)
  

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• antix Member

  April 2015

  @hgy29 - SOLVED! Okay awesome stuff mate. I suppose I should ask why it needs the 3rd parameter?

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2015

  @antix, it depends wether you already figured out or not :P
  As in C++, first parameter to every (non static) class method is the instance on which to perform the method (aka self (or this in C++)). This is implicit when you call instance:method(), but event handler code won't know...
  The ':' function call syntax really means 'implicitly add instance as first parameter to the call'. instance:method() is the same as instance.method(instance).
  

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• antix Member

  April 2015

  @hgy29 - Ahh, okay thanks so much! I won;t forget that in future I think

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• ChrisF Member

  December 2015

  Great thread, just ran into this myself - still an issue but the event routine works

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• antix Member

  December 2015

  I would like to see this issue resolved also

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  December 2015

  @antix, which issue? New players should work

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• ChrisF Member

  December 2015

  Looping of MP3 did not work for me, had to do the whole
  'self.playingMusic:addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,self.restartMusic,self)' thing

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  December 2015

  I think it's a problem with the actual media player within Android - that's why it's different per device model/mp3 file. It only affects MP3 files as far as I know.
  
  The solution is use the completed event to get it working again.

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• totebo Member

  August 2017

  Hey guys, I'm back on this chestnut again. It bugs me a little more for every game I release; there is a small gap when looping mp3 files on Android. Any workaround for this, or should I just stop whinging?

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017

  No gap for me, tested on a few devices.
  
  Make sure there is no blank sound at the end of the mp3.
  

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• totebo Member

  August 2017

  You rascal! There is no gap and it loops smoothly on iOS. Could you send an MP3 loop that works so I can check with that?

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  I'll try dig one up for you.
  

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