Music help

Crunked89 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:16 pm

im just looking for a way to play music in a program.. thats all.. i tryed posting other places but noone wanted to help and just said beat it.. Embarassed

hope you can help Rolling Eyes

jonos · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:31 pm

well, it depends on what music. you could use
play or Music.Play which would allow you to make individual notes and compose a song.

like:

Music.Play("abcd")

check out the turing reference in help>>reference>> contents or soemthing to learn more about it.

for playing a file in turing:

Music.PlayFile("pathoffile.wav/.mp3/.midi")

if you ened help with that, also hceck the turing reference.

now you will want to fork that i think so that it will play along with your whole program, so you will need to make it a process, so:

process myMusic
Music.PlayFile("myMusicFile.midi/.wav/.mp3")
end myMusic

fork myMusic
your other program stuff

guruguru · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:39 pm

Quite redundant program but it shows what can be done...
You can sub in songs from files (like Jonos) for the play("Whatever").

code:

process music
loop
play ("a")
delay(10)
play ("b")
delay(10)
play ("c")
delay(10)
play ("d")
delay(10)
play ("e")
delay(10)
play ("f")
delay(10)
play ("g")
end loop
end music

fork music
loop
put "Music is playing!!!"
delay(100)
put "This is amazing!!!"
delay(100)
end loop

Crunked89 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:46 pm

im trying to play a file.. but i get a "illegal extended character string literal" message

Cervantes · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:50 pm

I think that's because you've got your brackets backwards.

use / not \

Crunked89 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:06 pm

oops.. well theres no errors just no sound

Cervantes · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:17 pm

that could be because you typed the path wrong. Check it and make sure everything is correct. If something is wrong, it won't give you an error. It will just skip over it.

recneps · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:21 pm

Also check that you are using double slashes (\\) if its not in the same directory as the .t file, you need double because 1 indicates a parameter or something... Smile

jonos · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:24 pm

\ slash usually allows for special commands like:
\n means new line
\a means alert (in c++)
\" means double quote (i think, not sure)

so if you use just \ then it has nothing after it so you can't really do anything,
but if you use \\ then it has something after it. something like that, i think iread that somewhere.

Crunked89 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:26 pm

y wont it work.. everythings correct..

code:

process myMusic
Music.PlayFile("C:/My Music/Yeah.mp3")
end myMusic

jonos · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:27 pm

you need to add:

code:

fork myMusic

to your code, because as it is a process, for it to be executed, it needs to be called.

Cervantes · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:29 pm

I was using this to test various things while this thread was up:

code:

Music.PlayFile ("C:/My Documents/My Music/John Lennon/John Lennon - Imagine.mp3")

single / . Works fine for me.
jonos: /n is not a new line. It's \n Smile

Crunked89 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:31 pm

is there a way to just post the full code because im kind of lost.

Cervantes · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:35 pm

jonos first post is all you need to look at. you don't need to pay attention to what spencer (aka recneps) said, or any posts until this one.

Crunked89 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:36 pm

where do i put the fork thingy.. Wink

lol

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