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Novice Joined: 17 May 2001 Posts: 40 Location: Illinois

I tried searching first and didn't find this, so hopefully it's not just a bug in my implementation of MSP. I read through the specs for it last night double checking, and it looks like I have everything ok.

MSP works if I have the sound pre-downloaded, or manually download it via CMUD by setting the default URL and the exact path to the sound in the MSP sounds tab and force it to download there. It won't set a default URL or automatically download, though. I have all MSP options enabled on CMUD. Here are the stings my MUD is sending.

!!SOUND(Off U=http://my.website/with/sounds/)
!!MUSIC(Off) !!MUSIC(default.mid L=-1 U=http://my.website/with/sounds/)
!!SOUND(battle.wav U=http://my.website/with/sounds/)

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:24 pm

Seems to be working fine here using your example. Go into your MSP Preferences and make sure the "Enable sound downloading" option is enabled. You said you already did this, but otherwise I don't see any problem and I know MSP downloading is working on other MUDs.

Novice Joined: 17 May 2001 Posts: 40 Location: Illinois

I went ahead and double checked, and "Enable sound downloading" is set. Even after creating a new profile and re-enabling MSP I am still having the same problems, so I guess I'll try to find a hole in my code if it is working with other games :).

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:31 pm

To test this I just did:

Novice Joined: 17 May 2001 Posts: 40 Location: Illinois

That works perfectly for me, and after doing so even set the URLs for the individual files. Even setting the default URL with

Novice Joined: 17 May 2001 Posts: 40 Location: Illinois

Ok, so I found a problem with my code that I fixed as it was appending the default color code to the end of each string before sending it to the client. Wav files work great now. Midi's don't seem to properly loop though. I am sending one as

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:31 pm

I'll add this to the bug list to look at in January. I'm assuming that this is the first time you are testing CMUD with this? My guess is that the DirectShow API that I am using for sound support in CMUD isn't being called correctly to loop the MIDI sounds. zMUD had a completely different sound implementation, so it's not very surprising if there are some small differences like this.

Novice Joined: 17 May 2001 Posts: 40 Location: Illinois

Yeah, this is my first go at CMUD with any MSP. I had toyed with it loosely back in zMUD years ago, but I'm working on a different project now and decided it would be a fun feature to use which has led to all of this :)