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Newbie Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 3 Location: Sweden

Ok i'm playing with the MSP protocol on my mud.

Well i have some friends that have made 4-5 songs for my mud;)

But heres the problem.

I start playing the first song, now is there anyway i can check if the player already have 1 song going? I want to build a random function so 1 of the 4-5 songs play at random (this is no problem) but then i have to spec how long every song is, and this feels bad ;)

So my 1 question, is there anyway to check if music is already playing with the MSP protocol?

Second question, can i change the volym on a musicfile that is running. (I want to change volym depending on fights etc)

GURU Joined: 24 Sep 2000 Posts: 1237 Location: USA

1. There's no feedback from zMUD about sounds to the mud, and with the !!MUSIC command, there's no priority option, so you can't send a command that will only play if another's not already playing. !!SOUND allows this. !!MUSIC was proposed to be used to play a particular type of background music per zone/area, which would change based on a location in the mud, not a time, so you're stretching the intention of MSP a bit.

Nothing wrong with that, but you'll be kind of limited in what you can do.

2. Yes, you can change the volume of a sound while it's playing, just re-issue the same !!SOUND or !!MUSIC command with a different volume value.

For more information check out http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/msp.htm

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Newbie Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 3 Location: Sweden

Thx for the answers.

about answer 2, i really cant get to work.

I write: !!MUSIC(musik/name.mp3 V=10 P=10 C=1 T=music)

Then again: !!MUSIC(musik/london.mp3 V=100 P=10 C=1 T=music)

But it feels like i get the same volym what ever i try with, the !!SOUNDS work nice;)

Maybe i'm doing something wrong...;)

GURU Joined: 24 Sep 2000 Posts: 1237 Location: USA

Try it with a file type other than MP3. I'm pretty sure that MSP wasn't intended to work with MP3 files.

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Newbie Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 1

I've seen the same thing with MIDIs, V=1 and V=100 sounds the same!

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Try it with a file type other than MP3. I'm pretty sure that MSP wasn't intended to work with MP3 files.

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Matt & Jaimie Houghton-Thompson

Newbie Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 2 Location: USA

This is a test.
Last time I posted, it put it under a different user and my username seemed to have disappeared.
-MattJaimie

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I've seen the same thing with MIDIs, V=1 and V=100 sounds the same!

Matt & Jaimie Houghton-Thompson

Newbie Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 2 Location: USA

I am trying to get MSP to work on my ROM, but can't seem to figure out how to send the final formatted !!SOUND() line to the player. send_to_char() and act() don't seem to work. Does anyone else know how to get it to properly send the !!SOUND() to the client?

Any help would be great. Thanks,
Lanthum

Newbie Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 2 Location: USA

send_to_char() is how I send it. Have you made sure your zMud settings to make sure it can receive sounds?

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I am trying to get MSP to work on my ROM, but can't seem to figure out how to send the final formatted !!SOUND() line to the player. send_to_char() and act() don't seem to work. Does anyone else know how to get it to properly send the !!SOUND() to the client?

Any help would be great. Thanks,
Lanthum

Matt & Jaimie Houghton-Thompson

Newbie Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 2 Location: USA

Don't you hate when you "can't see the forest for all the trees"? It was working with send_to_char(), I just forgot to turn my sounds on in the MUD.

*bonk self*

Thanks,
Lanthum