No music

[Gez]

I found out that I get sound, but not music anymore, when using Eternity.

At first I thought I had solved the problem by removing midiproc.exe since Eternity then played back music again the very next time I ran it... But one the second time after that, music was lost again. And the presence or absence of midiproc.exe doesn't change anything now.

[Csonicgo]

Silly question, but, can you check to see if my build works too? It might help us narrow down the problem.

[Quasar]

Need more info:

• Version of EE
  
• Version of SDL.dll and SDL_mixer.dll
  
• Version of Windows
  
• What type of MIDI device is being targeted
  

[Gez]

Official Bifröst build, using the libs packaged with it.

CRC-32:
eternity.exe:	a26a6fd2
SDL.dll:	6f1c3c59
SDL_mixer.dll:	eb3a0bd

Clean install with nothing else in the directory.

Windows 7-64.

Target MIDI device type? I'm not sure what you mean. In the sound options the only choices I get for MIDI driver are "SDL mixer" and "none", and I am not using "none". I don't have any global MIDI driver other than Microsoft's standard wavetable synth (didn't install BASSMIDI or whatever, no dedicated soundcard).


Using eternity.exe, eternityMMX.exe, or eternityi686.exe makes no difference.

[Gez]

I do get music when I tried the Amiga Demo Party mod, so I guess it's just MIDI that fails to play?

[Quasar]

I don't suppose you've maybe tried rolling back my change to the mus2midi module which adds in full all-notes-off events to every channel when the songs start, have you?

It's possible some non-compliant MIDI driver or hardware doesn't play nice with that. If so, I'm going to have to make it optional.

[Gez]

I haven't tried to compile Eternity since AFAIK it isn't compatible anymore with VC++ 2005.

As far as audio/MIDI hardware and driver goes, I have the same bog-standard Realtek High Definition Audio that every motherboard has had for the last decade or so, and whatever MIDI driver comes with Windows 7 64.