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Finding MIDIs, MP3s without Aural+

September 1st 2011, 08:15 AM
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So, I need a place to find some MIDIs I need.
I need a MIDI of the battle music in Chrono Cross (Don't worry, it fits the situation), the Back-Up theme in Resident Evil 4, and the save theme in Resident Evil 4
I have found some MP3 files of these ones, but since I want everyone to enjoy my D-Mod fully( ), will they work even without Aural+? Because one of joshriots D-Mod's had MP3's but it worked with the standard Dink.exe
I could of course say something like "Aural+ is recommended" but most people will be lazy
Is there anything I can do?
September 1st 2011, 09:35 AM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
Well my d-mod has "Aural+ required" attached to it

But I don't think there's much you can do aside from converting the MP3 to .wav which would inflate the file size.
September 1st 2011, 09:38 AM
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I guess attaching Aural+ required is the only thing I can do for now I hate writing the lines to make .wav sounds play
Will I play it as I play a normal midi? Like:
playmidi("<insertreallycoolmp3here");
September 1st 2011, 09:51 AM
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Robj
Jester He/Him Australia
You feed the madness, and it feeds on you. 
I would like to add MP3s to my Dmod, and I guess I could, but I can't play any Dmod with Aural+ on my PC so I wouldn't be able to test it any way. This also means I can't play other peoples mods that need MP3s, otherwise I'll have no game music. For some reason whenever I try to use Aural+ on my PC, it only plays game sounds(As in the sounds loaded in start.c with "loadsound"), Mp3s and midis will not play when I use it, and I've never been able to figure out why. It works on my laptop, but that is running windows XP. I have windows seven on my PC.
September 1st 2011, 10:01 AM
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DuckHater
Peasant He/Him India
From The Depths Of Tartarus Itself 
It works just fine on my pc,it also has win7.Well.....if you don't include the frequent crashes.
September 1st 2011, 10:18 AM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
Aww Robj won't be able to play mine
September 1st 2011, 11:14 AM
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So, I play it like a normal midi, with the playmidi command?
September 1st 2011, 11:19 AM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
In aural+ that's the way you do it yes

Some MP3s have trouble playing though, if you encounter that, you need to simply create a new audio file in Audacity for example and copy/paste the audio track of the MP3 into the new one. It only happens rarely though.
September 1st 2011, 11:22 AM
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Oh shoot, I didn't D-Mod today because it was Eid and I forgot to do the D-Mod. Oh well, I'll do twice the work tommorrow. Thanks for the info
September 1st 2011, 04:00 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
How about you include MIDIs as an option, Kyle? The MP3's are probably gonna be asked to be removed anyway.
September 2nd 2011, 12:26 AM
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WHAT!? Mp3s are removed!?
If the .mp3s in my mod are gonna be removed, it will be USELESS! please staff don't do it!
September 2nd 2011, 03:32 AM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
The overall DMOD's size will be huge with MP3's in it. And copyrighted material etc. That's why dey're removed I guess.
September 2nd 2011, 04:45 AM
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Guys......I'M STUCK! I wannna use a really good MP3, but it will be removed and that will ruin it. And I certainly can't put a 20 MB wav file in it