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Title: Mala stops background music?
Post by: Dave Wave on March 02, 2007, 04:40:32 pm: Somtimes Mala will not resume playing my background MP3 when I exit a game. I have to go back into the menu and reselect it to get it to work again. Any ideas...It work fine about 95% of the time...just randomly will not resume playing....

Thanks,

_Dave
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: loadman on March 02, 2007, 06:44:43 pm: Quote from: Dave Wave on March 02, 2007, 04:40:32 pm
Somtimes Mala will not resume playing my background MP3 when I exit a game. I have to go back into the menu and reselect it to get it to work again. Any ideas...It work fine about 95% of the time...just randomly will not resume playing....

Thanks,

_Dave

Yeah.. It's not mala it's the 'not so great' 3rd party bass.dll that seems to cause that.

I get around it by allocating a button to play on my cab wile in mala
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: Dave Wave on March 03, 2007, 03:00:25 pm: So you have a button that you press when ever the Mp3 fails to restart??

-Dave
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: loadman on March 03, 2007, 04:24:23 pm: Quote from: Dave Wave on March 03, 2007, 03:00:25 pm
So you have a button that you press when ever the Mp3 fails to restart??

-Dave

Yes..

options-controller-keyboard-advanced (next song)
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: Space Fractal on March 03, 2007, 08:38:41 pm: Since you can get a workaround with a next song button, so I just can say it a bug in mala. I know bass.dll my self, since I also use it in Arcade Music Box.

I guess: The handler for the song is gone for some reason, but mala dosent check for that, even bass.dll may have returned a error. That error is not checked by Mala, hince it dosen't skip the song, as it should or restart it.

Does mala also free bass.dll before running third party app (wich it should)? Otherwice it not a problem to reinit bass and use it again (since song position can been checked before closing).
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: loadman on March 03, 2007, 09:27:58 pm: Quote from: Space Fractal / Denmark on March 03, 2007, 08:38:41 pm
Since you can get a workaround with a next song button, so I just can say it a bug in mala. I know bass.dll my self, since I also use it in Arcade Music Box.

I guess: The handler for the song is gone for some reason, but mala dosent check for that, even bass.dll may have returned a error. That error is not checked by Mala, hince it dosen't skip the song, as it should or restart it.

Does mala also free bass.dll before running third party app (wich it should)? Otherwice it not a problem to reinit bass and use it again (since song position can been checked before closing).

Thanks for the Tip... :)

I was told it was a probably a bass.dll issue

I can't answer your query though as I am not MaLa's author ;)
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: Space Fractal on March 03, 2007, 09:32:59 pm: it was I thinking, since I known bass.dll, what it does. I guess you should pass it to the author of MALA, since this bug should not been hard to fix (since it basically is done some error checking).
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: loadman on March 03, 2007, 09:35:09 pm: Quote from: Space Fractal / Denmark on March 03, 2007, 09:32:59 pm
it was I thinking, since I known bass.dll, what it does. I guess you should pass it to the author of MALA, since this bug should not been hard to fix (since it basically is done some error checking).

Thanks Again

I am way ahead of you and have sent a PM to SWINDUS to have a look at this thread when he has a chance

Cheers
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: Space Fractal on March 03, 2007, 09:48:42 pm: Fine you pm him :D. I hope it a simple bug, even with blindfixing and do some error checking (since he may not invoke the problem).

The problem should been catchable if it diddent play again, since it may have returned an errorcode from bass.dll (BASS_ERROR_BUFLOST?).

Bass.dll do some behaiver with Arcade Music Box:
- Dosent run from GameEX, due a bass.dll conflict (but it have maybe fixed).
- But it run fine from MALA, wich also use bass.dll

I do make sure my next app work fine from both FE.
Title: Re: Mala stops background music?
Post by: loadman on April 21, 2007, 07:42:47 pm: Dave if you want I can send you a plug-in that will send mala a message to start music when you exit a game if that helps?