[RMMV] NO MP3S WTF?

Blame patent trolling for MP3, convert your music to OGG (which is a royalty free format).

The base scripts are in the js folder of a new project, though making a mini plugin to patch the base script might make upgrading the base easier.

author=Arcmagik
Benefit of MV is you don't have to import anymore. You can just put the files in their respective folders if they are formatted right.

You can do the same thing with Ace, probably other engines. (I've just only done it with Ace.) Apparently you can cause problems if you do it while the program's open but I've never done that. vOv

In Ace the resource database refreshes when you open and close the import screen. Any modifications made to existing resources or any additions you made will pop out when you close the import screen.

Ogg has better compression. 5.50MB mp3 files are reduced to 2MB without sound losing much quality.

Get audacity stormcrow, you'll be able to turn mp3 into ogg quite quickly and efficiently.

author=Mirak
Get audacity stormcrow, you'll be able to turn mp3 into ogg quite quickly and efficiently.

Better use this online converter. That should be the fastest solution.

1. Hit the blue button to upload your audio-file.
2. choose quality and to which file you want to convert.
3. Hit the second button to convert.

Well yes, if what you want is just a fast convert as is, I guess using an online converter works.

But I do reccommend stormcrow and everyone to learn to use audacity if you're not using another audio editor already. It will be useful for everyone as developers in the long run, since it's a deceptively powerful AND free audio editing and creating tool, not just converter. You can in time, not only simply open a file to convert it but edit out unnecesary silence and spaces in the case of songs and sound effects extracted from a recording or video or a file, optimize the song in case it comes with additional noise, or the volume levels are too low and you need to normalize the audio, etc. It has lots of neat filters and effects you can use to create cool stuff.

I've made lots of neat ambience pads for surreal landscapes using the Paulstretch effect on various tracks.

In the case of VX Ace, you can easily add Loop Points to ogg files to get those final fantasy battle theme kind of music transitions, so you can turn even songs which would normally not work as loops, into functional loops that you can use in-engine. I am not sure if MV also supports loop points in ogg.

Actually I'm curious, anyone know if MV supports loop points? I don't have it installed to check.

EDIT: The curiosity burned my entrails so I quickly installed MV. It does, RPG Maker MV support loop points! Awesome!

Fuck yeah, Mirak. Ya damn beast. That's some good knowledge!

I used Audacity to make a lot of sound bites of Star Trek dialogue. I would cut the piece and listen to it in Audacity and it was fine. When I put them in Ace they would be cut short by milleseconds, which is totally obvious because the last word gets cut off. I'm not sure if it's an Audacity issue or Ace issue, but it was certainly annoying.

I've been using Audacity for years. It's great. But it can be difficult to learn for beginners and not everyone needs those features. If someone wanted a great tool to learn, it's the best. But I wouldn't suggest Audacity if it was only going to be used for conversion. Especially batch conversion. If I'm not mistaken Audacity used to have some kind of batch option, but it got updated and the menus trimmed down significantly and I don't see that any more.

I'm just gonna say, Audacity is free and cool and you should have it on your computer because it's awesome to be able to edit or mess around with sound files whenever you want to, just for fun.

Wanna lower a lady singer so she sounds like a man? Wanna listen to a slow speech faster? Just wanna play around? YOU CAN. FOR FREE.

It's super great.

This online youtube to mp3 converter let's you download in .ogg . I've used it for years and it's not shady.

http://convert2mp3.net/en/index.php

You'll still need audacity to edit out silence in the first part of youtube videos, or cutting out intro/outros, and so on. From audacity, you can directly save onto the BGM folder, so you don't need to grab the file and drop it. That's one step less, at least.

Also, ultimately it's up to you, but it's not good practice to use mp3 in games at all because the format is patented. Unless it's something like 2k3 in which your only other option is MIDI. It would be good practice to get accustomed to using open source formats for your audio.