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[RM2K3] MP3'S STOPPED WORKING AFTER YEAR OF USE.
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SteakCake
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CloseHi all!
This is a horribly bizarre problem that occured last night and after scouring google for solutions, I could sadly find none. Essentially my problem is short and simple, RM2k3 1.0.8.0 has suddenly become unable to play mp3s, one day the music in my project is playing just fine, the next it is absent. There are no script or implementations errors, it's as if the program is playing the mp3's just fine but there is no sound from the mp3s, wavs and midis work just fine.
I've been working on this project for the past year, it has run fine on other systems in the past so I fear something may have gone wrong with my system, a system restore to the previous day of when it was working did not resolve the issue however.
I understand this is super vague, but if anyone has ever had experience with this issue then I'd be very grateful for advice on the matter.
Many thanks.
- Steak Cake
This is a horribly bizarre problem that occured last night and after scouring google for solutions, I could sadly find none. Essentially my problem is short and simple, RM2k3 1.0.8.0 has suddenly become unable to play mp3s, one day the music in my project is playing just fine, the next it is absent. There are no script or implementations errors, it's as if the program is playing the mp3's just fine but there is no sound from the mp3s, wavs and midis work just fine.
I've been working on this project for the past year, it has run fine on other systems in the past so I fear something may have gone wrong with my system, a system restore to the previous day of when it was working did not resolve the issue however.
I understand this is super vague, but if anyone has ever had experience with this issue then I'd be very grateful for advice on the matter.
Many thanks.
- Steak Cake
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Have to diagnose the problem a little better first, I think. There are a lot of possible causes.
Can you play MP3s straight from Windows Explorer?
Can you hear them in RPG Maker XP/VX games?
What if you use the music tester in the RPG Maker 2003 editor? You can play songs right from the editor, without starting a test play.
Do sound effects play in your game?
Windows Vista and higher has a sound manager where you can turn down the volume of specific programs. Did you turn down the volume of rpg maker 2003, or of rpg_rt.exe?
Can you play MP3s straight from Windows Explorer?
Can you hear them in RPG Maker XP/VX games?
What if you use the music tester in the RPG Maker 2003 editor? You can play songs right from the editor, without starting a test play.
Do sound effects play in your game?
Windows Vista and higher has a sound manager where you can turn down the volume of specific programs. Did you turn down the volume of rpg maker 2003, or of rpg_rt.exe?
Hey, thanks for your time.
Can you play MP3s straight from Windows Explorer? - Sure can, the files in the Music folder of the project play just fine in WMM and Foobar.
Can you hear them in RPG Maker XP/VX games? - Unfortunately after booting up RPG Maker VX Ace, I learnt that the Mp3s in those projects have stopped working too, in both the editor and when running the game itself.
What if you use the music tester in the RPG Maker 2003 editor? You can play songs right from the editor, without starting a test play. - The Mp3s show up in the editors play BGM option just fine, however playing them results in no audio, fortunately no error messages appear.
Do sound effects play in your game? - Sure do, Wavs and Midis work fine when running the game.
Windows Vista and higher has a sound manager where you can turn down the volume of specific programs. Did you turn down the volume of rpg maker 2003, or of rpg_rt.exe? - Both the editor and RPG_RT exe are at the same volume as the speakers.
Hope that information helps! It's interesting to learn that the same problem has carried over onto VX as well, makes me worry something has gone haywire with my speakers. In saying that I'm experiencing no other audio problems in other software, at least so far haha.
Thanks again.
Can you play MP3s straight from Windows Explorer? - Sure can, the files in the Music folder of the project play just fine in WMM and Foobar.
Can you hear them in RPG Maker XP/VX games? - Unfortunately after booting up RPG Maker VX Ace, I learnt that the Mp3s in those projects have stopped working too, in both the editor and when running the game itself.
What if you use the music tester in the RPG Maker 2003 editor? You can play songs right from the editor, without starting a test play. - The Mp3s show up in the editors play BGM option just fine, however playing them results in no audio, fortunately no error messages appear.
Do sound effects play in your game? - Sure do, Wavs and Midis work fine when running the game.
Windows Vista and higher has a sound manager where you can turn down the volume of specific programs. Did you turn down the volume of rpg maker 2003, or of rpg_rt.exe? - Both the editor and RPG_RT exe are at the same volume as the speakers.
Hope that information helps! It's interesting to learn that the same problem has carried over onto VX as well, makes me worry something has gone haywire with my speakers. In saying that I'm experiencing no other audio problems in other software, at least so far haha.
Thanks again.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
If MP3 files are working in Windows Explorer, it's not your speakers, it's a software problem. And since it's happening in multiple programs, it really sounds like an audio driver problem, somehow. Maybe a codec. I'm not entirely sure what a codec is, to be honest, hahahaha...
You may try updating your audio driver. I would also recommend doing a system restore to a point older than one day ago. Find a restore point from when you absolutely know it was working, and then use the restore point before that one.
Also try reinstalling RM2K3. That should probably be the first thing you try, in fact, since it's the least intrusive and simplest. Installing RM2K3 also installs the MP3 support files in the windows/system32 directory, if I remember correctly. And those files might be shared between different versions of RPG Maker. I would think that a system restore would do the same thing, but maybe not.
You may try updating your audio driver. I would also recommend doing a system restore to a point older than one day ago. Find a restore point from when you absolutely know it was working, and then use the restore point before that one.
Also try reinstalling RM2K3. That should probably be the first thing you try, in fact, since it's the least intrusive and simplest. Installing RM2K3 also installs the MP3 support files in the windows/system32 directory, if I remember correctly. And those files might be shared between different versions of RPG Maker. I would think that a system restore would do the same thing, but maybe not.
Seems a system restore is my best bet for now, I've reinstalled RM2k3 several times and updated my audio drivers. As for specific codecs, I have no idea either haha, I couldn't seem to find them on Windows 7 like I could in XP.
Many thanks, I'll post back with my results if I have any luck!
Many thanks, I'll post back with my results if I have any luck!
Following the advice I had performed a system restore to a couple weeks back, back when for certain I knew the audio was working. Sadly, the game is still deathly silent in the music department for both RM2k3 and VX.
I've come across other threads in where those who are experiencing the same problem have never found a solution either. Needless to say I'm very bummed out about this.
If the case is with a specific audio codec I wouldn't even know where to begin, google searches give me drastically different results each time in regards to codec errors.
Last time I had the game running with sound was on the 6th of this month, I've not installed or modified software since. The only potential difference I can think of is that at the time I was using headphones for the games audio, Dell uses it's own sound software which I guess might've borked up somewhere, but that's a stretch. Since then neither the speakers or the headphone jack support mp3 sound for RM2K3/Vx.
I'm completely stumped! Haha.
Still, thanks for your help!
I've come across other threads in where those who are experiencing the same problem have never found a solution either. Needless to say I'm very bummed out about this.
If the case is with a specific audio codec I wouldn't even know where to begin, google searches give me drastically different results each time in regards to codec errors.
Last time I had the game running with sound was on the 6th of this month, I've not installed or modified software since. The only potential difference I can think of is that at the time I was using headphones for the games audio, Dell uses it's own sound software which I guess might've borked up somewhere, but that's a stretch. Since then neither the speakers or the headphone jack support mp3 sound for RM2K3/Vx.
I'm completely stumped! Haha.
Still, thanks for your help!
Doesn't RPGMaker 2003 use that decoder to run MP3 files? It appears in the system tray when an MP3 is about to play.
I remember a handful of people having a problem with Yume Nikki... The decoder would pop up in the background and freeze their game because their computer hadn't given it permission to run.
It looks like a little blue icon and a little red icon with the letters "FFA" inside.
I remember a handful of people having a problem with Yume Nikki... The decoder would pop up in the background and freeze their game because their computer hadn't given it permission to run.
It looks like a little blue icon and a little red icon with the letters "FFA" inside.
Hey, thanks for the suggestions.
No such program has appeared in my system tray or processes when running mp3's, I'm contemplating using a codec detecting program of sort to see if I can crack down on the issue.
Unfortunately the Disharmony Audio Patch hasn't resolved the issue either, something really must've gone wrong internally with one of my codecs or something haha.
No such program has appeared in my system tray or processes when running mp3's, I'm contemplating using a codec detecting program of sort to see if I can crack down on the issue.
Unfortunately the Disharmony Audio Patch hasn't resolved the issue either, something really must've gone wrong internally with one of my codecs or something haha.
You should definitely look into that. That decoder is supposed to pop up every time.
I just looked it up. It's called ffdshow audio decoder.
I just looked it up. It's called ffdshow audio decoder.
A thousand thank yous! I got it working, man I'm utterly estatic about this.
I really don't understand how this problem occurred in the first place as to my understanding I never had ffdshow installed on my system beforehand. However after installing it through the K-Lite package, all is working as it was before.
An icon does appear in the system tray that never did before, simply showing FFD and not Yumme Nikki fortunately. So far this hasn't been any cause for concern.
Thank you everyone, I wouldn't have been able to save my projects without your help.
I really don't understand how this problem occurred in the first place as to my understanding I never had ffdshow installed on my system beforehand. However after installing it through the K-Lite package, all is working as it was before.
An icon does appear in the system tray that never did before, simply showing FFD and not Yumme Nikki fortunately. So far this hasn't been any cause for concern.
Thank you everyone, I wouldn't have been able to save my projects without your help.
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