[Tutorial]How to use sound and music in Turing

[Tony]

if you understand the MIDI format, it is possible to open it as text/binary file and edit it with Turing. Though once again, that would be editing the source file, not controlling volume real-time.

[ZeroPaladn]

nice tutorial (white the rest of you were ranting on about compatiable files, i actually read the tutorial ). regardless, i though .wma was compatiable with turing 4.0.5

[DIIST]

Nice Tutorial! Thought I am wondering, is it possible to seek to a specific time in the music file using Turing!

[Cervantes]

thuvs wrote:

Nice Tutorial! Thought I am wondering, is it possible to seek to a specific time in the music file using Turing!

Nooope. (But that doesn't stop you from experimenting. You may find a way: you never know)

[chrispminis]

Hmmm... this Sound Forge you speak of... Sounds useful. Where might I acquire this Sound Forge? And would it cost any money? If so, how much and are there any alternatives to Sound Forge that are free to use, but perhaps less powerful, but still useful.

[solblade05]

is it possible to keep the music playing for a certain part of the program, then when the user enters another part of the program i can change the music

[Cervantes]

Just use Music.Stop I think it is, and play the next file.

[solblade05]

There isn't that command in turing c 4.04
oh, also can i uses processes over and over again? for the music that i need in the different parts of my program (with the fork)?

[[Gandalf]]

Or if the files are the same format, iirc you can just play the next song over the current one without using Music.PlayFileStop().

*edit* Don't fork your music, use Music.PlayFileLoop(). If your version doesn't have Music.PlayFileStop() then just use the method I describe. Just make sure all the music is in the same music format (.mp3, .wav, whatever it is).

[solblade05]

How do i do that?

[[Gandalf]]

Ok, assuming you have either Music.PlayFile() or Music.PlayFileLoop(), just make sure that in the folder that you have the source code in has your music, all in the same format (with the same extention). An MP3 has a .mp3 extention, so if you want to use that then make sure all your background music is an MP3.

Then, just have something like this in your program, this being a highly simple example.

code:

Music.PlayFileLoop("BackgroundSongOne.mp3") put "Press any key to switch songs." Input.Pause   %In place of this you can have any condition you need Music.PlayFileLoop("BackgroundSongTwo.mp3")

[solblade05]

Music.PlayFileLoop is not in Turing 4.04
thus i cant use that

is it possible that if i use Music.PlayFileStop, then use another process, and Music.PlayFile?

[stinger4life]

in my game i want my bg music to run all the way until they die...i have many sound however so if i use Music.PlayFileStop will it only stop my bg music or even the other sounds?

[siege]

can you play mp3 files? or must it be in wav or midi format?

[Tony]

it's part of the tutorial

Hacker Dan wrote:

Note: playable file types are wav, snd, mod, and mid (mp3 too in newer turings)