Gramophone issues

[Gilbou]

Do you put all files inside the folder and not within folders inside ?
What are the name lengths of those files to play ? Do you keep them short and without spaces (_ instead of spaces).
Where do these come from : some clean MP3 encoding with slow ripping (slow ripping + LAME) ?

[frau kaleun]

They're all .ogg files, all placed simply in the Gram folder (no subfolders).

The files are named 001.ogg, 002.ogg, 003.ogg, etc. Right now there are only about 20 files total in the folder, because I did a reinstall a while back and have just started putting stuff back in there. I actually had more files in there before then and it was working with no problem.

The largest file in there currently is the ogg file of TarJak's Radio Deutschland, which I know played fine at least once after I first added it. Now it's either one of the files that's getting skipped or else things freeze up before it comes around in the playlist, I'm not sure which.

Some of them are .ogg files from Jimbuna's music packs or other collections I've d/led from here. Some are files I already had or found here or elsewhere and converted from mp3 to ogg using dBPoweramp. They all play fine when I open them outside the game.

I may just clear out everything except a couple of the tracks that I know have played through on this patrol without any issues and see what happens.

[ryanglavin]

Well, I used to use your sound Mods Frau, and I think it is Radio Deutschland messing with Jimbuna's music pack. I Had to disable one or the other and it worked.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by ryanglavin

Well, I used to use your sound Mods Frau, and I think it is Radio Deutschland messing with Jimbuna's music pack. I Had to disable one or the other and it worked.

That's odd, because I'm pretty sure I had RD and some of Jimbuna's files in there before and I wasn't having this problem.

Although I didn't enable any of them via mod enabler, just extracted the files to a temp location and selected what I wanted and put it in the Gram folder manually.

What's strange too is that at least one of the tracks that gets skipped over every single time is the second movement of a symphony, and the other three tracks from it play fine - they were all mp3s that I had and were converted to ogg at the same time using the same process. So that issue can't be caused by some oddity in the one file versus the other three. Unless that one file just happened to get corrupted in the conversion process and the others didn't. But that file is not one that causes a freeze or crash, it just never plays. And it doesn't freeze up at the point where it should be playing, just skips it and plays the next file.

Anyway - I'm going to experiment with taking everything out of there except the ones I know are playing okay.

[ryanglavin]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

That's odd, because I'm pretty sure I had RD and some of Jimbuna's files in there before and I wasn't having this problem.

Although I didn't enable any of them via mod enabler, just extracted the files to a temp location and selected what I wanted and put it in the Gram folder manually.

What's strange too is that at least one of the tracks that gets skipped over every single time is the second movement of a symphony, and the other three tracks from it play fine - they were all mp3s that I had and were converted to ogg at the same time using the same process. So that issue can't be caused by some oddity in the one file versus the other three. Unless that one file just happened to get corrupted in the conversion process and the others didn't. But that file is not one that causes a freeze or crash, it just never plays. And it doesn't freeze up at the point where it should be playing, just skips it and plays the next file.

Anyway - I'm going to experiment with taking everything out of there except the ones I know are playing okay.

Maybe you should try to uninstall the music, than make them enabled by JGSME.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by ryanglavin

Maybe you should try to uninstall the music, than make them enabled by JGSME.

I have too many files that are not part of a "music mod" and would have to be put in the folder manually anyway. Also, I typically don't want all the tracks from any one of the sound mods in there, so I would either be fiddling with a mod's data before I enabled it, or taking stuff out of the Gram folder afterwards, not to mention renaming the files I left there to make them play in the order I want in game (yes I am that particular about those things, lol).

I've never managed the tunes in the Gram folder any other way but manually, since that gives me control over the contents from the get-go, which is what I want. Never had any problems with doing it that way before.

[ryanglavin]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I have too many files that are not part of a "music mod" and would have to be put in the folder manually anyway. Also, I typically don't want all the tracks from any one of the sound mods in there, so I would either be fiddling with a mod's data before I enabled it, or taking stuff out of the Gram folder afterwards, not to mention renaming the files I left there to make them play in the order I want in game (yes I am that particular about those things, lol).

I've never managed the tunes in the Gram folder any other way but manually, since that gives me control over the contents from the get-go, which is what I want. Never had any problems with doing it that way before.

Well your problem is confusing.
Unless you already had, you should still try to manually take out sound files until they work.