Hey guys I am trying to put sound effects in my game using SDL_Mixer and I have run into a problem. Whenever I play a small effect such a bullet firing, it works fine. However , whenever I tryto play music for the background, It wont play. Both files are in .wav format , and all I do is change the path to load from in my code but it won't work. I think it may have something to do with the file size of the sounds because the shot is 3kb but the background music is something,like 300 kb. Does anyone know why this is happening?

SDL_Mixer has two types of structures, for sounds you are likely using Mix_Chunk, while for music you should be using Mix_Music, check out the docs for more info.

Maybe when you initialized the SDL_mixer API you set the chunk size too low? Or maybe the file isn't even loaded at all. Some runtime error checking certainly wouldn't hurt.

Instead of meddling with SDL_Mixer, I'd suggest checking out FMod. It's very easy to use and very powerful.

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Original post by Rob Loach Instead of meddling with SDL_Mixer, I'd suggest checking out FMod. It's very easy to use and very powerful.

Aern't you supposed to be gone on vacation or something? Ignore Rob. You can't use fmod on a commercial project unless you purchase the license. AFAIK, SDL_Mixer is LGPL.

Uh, FMOD is great. Cheap shareware licenses and for anything commercial (US $100 if I remember right) it's also relatively cheap (several thousand US $).

Anyway, with no code it's sort of hard to help. You might try splitting up your music though because that is largish.

You're not loading both sounds with the same Mix_Chunk pointer, are you?

Please post some code! I'm certain we can help you :)


Ryan