Gramophone issues

[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.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by ryanglavin

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

That's the plan - just didn't know if anyone else had experienced issues with use of the Gram overloading their system to the point where the game crashes. I don't think that's the problem since I shouldn't be *that* close to maxing out resources, but wasn't sure how much strain it puts on everything. If it's minimal, that shouldn't be the issue here.

I will probably just put "It's A Long Way To Tiperrary" in there and let it play over and over again. That track makes me very happy.

[frau kaleun]

Oh hey I think I just realized what the problem is.

Before this patrol started, my LI failed to return from leave and I had to enlist a replacement.

Obviously the dirty schweinhund went through my record collection and stole the ones he liked, and most likely scratched up some of the others in the process.



I am so going to call Judge Judy on his @$$.

[Jimbuna]

Try the ogg.vorbis tracks on their own.

Do not enable via JSGME but simply place each track into the gramaphone folder.

If that doesn't work you have a conflicting file from a mod which is very unusual because sound files are usually okay.

If all else fails I am quite happy to create a soundpack to replace your gramaphone folder.

[ryanglavin]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

That's the plan - just didn't know if anyone else had experienced issues with use of the Gram overloading their system to the point where the game crashes. I don't think that's the problem since I shouldn't be *that* close to maxing out resources, but wasn't sure how much strain it puts on everything. If it's minimal, that shouldn't be the issue here.

I will probably just put "It's A Long Way To Tiperrary" in there and let it play over and over again. That track makes me very happy.

Hey, thats my gramophone set up!

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by ryanglavin

Hey, thats my gramophone set up!

Lol, I sometimes pull up the mp3 of it and let it play over and over again even when I'm NOT playing SH3.