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#1 2011-07-08 15:58:27

nama
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Registered: 2010-06-06
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weird musical glitches

Some music does very weird things on Scratch.
For one example, I bought a number of music tracks from Nitrome games off Amazon for possible inclusion in Scratch games. When I imported the songs it acknowledged that I had imported them, however, it said that the track length was 0 seconds, and when I pressed [blocks]<play sound[ [/blocks] nothing happened.

Another glitch involved the music I downloaded off Incompetech.com. Some of the music works perfectly fine in Scratch, but some of it gets slowed down so much that the track is unrecognizable.

Any ideas on why this happens? I have a Windows machine, so I don't know whether this happens with the Mac or Linux versions. Help would be appreciated! Tanks!


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#2 2011-07-08 16:15:39

Harakou
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Re: weird musical glitches

What format is the music you're importing? Scratch only supports .wav and .mp3 audio files, and mp3's tend to work marginally well. You're best off using something in a .wav format if you can.


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#3 2011-07-13 19:46:16

nama
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Re: weird musical glitches

Harakou wrote:

You're best off using something in a .wav format if you can.

the files are mp3s.
I tried converting them to wav files and, lo and behold, they worked!
Thanks for the advice!  big_smile


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