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Novice Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 45 Location: USA

any chance zugg will make it possible to play mp3's in zmud, so we can listen to nice ambient music when we enter an area/a trigger goes off...

/ Malleus /

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 39

You can already do this with triggers, if you have the right sound drivers installed. Try something like:
#PLAY "sound.mp3"

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

If doing it client-side, then you can do what bruntilda mentioned. If it is server-side, then it is more difficult since this requires the computer playing the music to have MCI drivers for MP3 files. The problem is not that zMUD has to include support for MP3's, since all it does is send the file to Window's MCI drivers to play it.

Kjata

Wanderer Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 60

This doesn't work, though. The game I play uses .mp3 files with MXP and it works in every MXP- and sound-compatible client on the market *except for* zMUD.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Even if every other program in your computer plays MP3 files it doesn't mean zMUD will. zMUD just sends the file for Windows to handle, whether it is a .mid, .mp3, .mpg or .inexistentextension file.

Kjata

Novice Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 44 Location: USA

I'm not sure what the requirement is for the MCI drivers. You might try to install the latest version of Windows Media Player.

Wanderer Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 60

At the time of testing, both myself and my girlfriend were using the newest beta of zMUD and the newest beta of WMP. I guess Beta + Beta = Something's Been Changed Somewhere.

Novice Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 44 Location: USA

You could try this link: http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/Multimedia.htm

Though I wouldn't recomend it unless you are comfortable editing your registery. It seems that Windows needs a file called mciqtz32.dll or mciqtz.drv