Mala And background Music

[CyrusMzRG]

hi people... may be it is a simple question, but I cannot find a solution for it.

Tha fact is that I have a directory where the music for mala is located. But when I start MALA ALWAYS starts with the same track... are there any solution which MALA select aa random track when I start it?


Thank you

Cyrus

[loadman]

hi people... may be it is a simple question, but I cannot find a solution for it.

Tha fact is that I have a directory where the music for mala is located. But when I start MALA ALWAYS starts with the same track... are there any solution which MALA select aa random track when I start it?


Thank you

Cyrus

Its a bug in current versions.  It worked fine on earlier versions.

Another Job for SWINDUS   

You can allocate a button on your cab to skip to the next track. If its in random mode you will get a diffrent song. Works for me

[CyrusMzRG]

Hi Loadman, yes I have asociated a button for passing the next track, but as I said I would like mala do it automatically...

I hope Swindus can fix it for next version

Thank you for your help

Cyrus

[grueinthebox]

I'm not using Mala yet, but if it's starting on the same track (presumably the first in the folder?) each time, you might be able to work around this by putting a short (say, 2-5 second) "blank" track at the top of the folder.  Perhaps that would play, then go on to random tracks?

If the random track selection is broken entirely, and not just for the first track, feel free to disregard my rambling. 

[CyrusMzRG]

good idea... I'm going to check if the first song that is played is the first one into the directory

[loadman]

you might be able to work around this by putting a short (say, 2-5 second) "blank" track at the top of the folder.  Perhaps that would play, then go on to random tracks?

That is thinking 'Outside the box'   

I can't test that idea right now but I am sure to try it later   

good idea... I'm going to check if the first song that is played is the first one into the directory

Try first in playlist too!

[gamecreature]

I can confirm that it's always the first song in the playlist. Also, the random feature has a tendency to grab the same songs over and over again - but at least it's picking different songs.

[Chris]

I can confirm that it's always the first song in the playlist. Also, the random feature has a tendency to grab the same songs over and over again - but at least it's picking different songs.

I wonder if that's intentional.  DOSCab/WinCab's random feature shows a preference for songs you play most often; maybe something similar is going on here.

[loadman]

last time I asked about this SWINDUS indicated it may be due to something 'buggy' in BASS.DLL

[fatfingers]

last time I asked about this SWINDUS indicated it may be due to something 'buggy' in BASS.DLL

If Swindus is using a standard random number generator to pick the next song to play, he must be sure to seed the random number generator with a different value each time Mala starts (usually using temporary data on the system like load levels, processes running, some combination of both, etc.).  Random number generators are only as good as their seed.

[gamecreature]

A quick fix to this is to just check the last box on the background music screen to get MaLa to start with the last song that was playing when you shut it down.