Many mp3s will not be played by the games music player.

[ixsetf]

I really like the idea of being able to listen to your own music in the game, but for some reason about 50% of the mp3s in my music library just refuse to be played. I am not sure what is causing this issue, it seems to be on an album by album basis, and I haven't had this issue with any other music players I use.

Anyone have an idea of what is causing this problem or how to fix it?

[baddog993]

Yeah the MP3 player is terrible. Use a media player like VLC to play music and forget about the player. Thats what I ended up doing. YOu can of course convert them into the right format. Their is a thread on this somewhere. Easier to use a good media player.

[ixsetf]

Any idea what this thread is called? I haven't been able to find it.

[room217au]

Originally posted by ixsetf:

Anyone have an idea of what is causing this problem or how to fix it?

More than likely it is becaue those mp3s have ID3 tag information in them. This information contains things like genre, album title, etc etc.
Try the Google and find an mp3 tag editor. Remove ID3 and ID2 tags from your mp3s and they'll play fine in ETS2 music folder.

[kriko]

What @room217au said.
I've used this one: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

After that it started to work flawlessly.

[ixsetf]

Originally posted by room217au:

Originally posted by ixsetf:

Anyone have an idea of what is causing this problem or how to fix it?

More than likely it is becaue those mp3s have ID3 tag information in them. This information contains things like genre, album title, etc etc.
Try the Google and find an mp3 tag editor. Remove ID3 and ID2 tags from your mp3s and they'll play fine in ETS2 music folder.

Thanks, this solved the problem. Wouldn't have thought to remove tags.

Also thanks to Kirko, this was the program I used and it worked well. (I actually solved the problem before your post but I forgot to actually hit post on my reply to this thread)

[Mavadelo]

ALL my music is tagged, most by myself and I think it is ridiculous that one should remoeve tags for a game to be able to play them in the music player. I use either the internet stations (I like Trucker FM and the Eagle I think it is called best) or just run my VLC in the background. I am not gonna destroy my tags, that are important for me in other applications, just to hear them in a game.

Does anyone know why this is because one would think an ingame music player would use something like WMP as source player and non of my players have any issues with tags. Is this hardcoded or could this be solved with a mod?

[~{DCMT}~ Ryu]

Originally posted by Mavadelo:

ALL my music is tagged, most by myself and I think it is ridiculous that one should remoeve tags for a game to be able to play them in the music player. I use either the internet stations (I like Trucker FM and the Eagle I think it is called best) or just run my VLC in the background. I am not gonna destroy my tags, that are important for me in other applications, just to hear them in a game.

Does anyone know why this is because one would think an ingame music player would use something like WMP as source player and non of my players have any issues with tags. Is this hardcoded or could this be solved with a mod?

It's a hardcoded thing, likely to avoid paying any licensing for using codecs or players developed by someone else. And I think it's just ID3 tag info that borks the in-game player. ID2 tag info was reported to work fine.

[ixsetf]

Originally posted by Mavadelo:

ALL my music is tagged, most by myself and I think it is ridiculous that one should remoeve tags for a game to be able to play them in the music player. I use either the internet stations (I like Trucker FM and the Eagle I think it is called best) or just run my VLC in the background. I am not gonna destroy my tags, that are important for me in other applications, just to hear them in a game.

Well personally I just created a second copy of the MP3s I want to play in the game and removed the tags of the copies. It takes up a bit more disk space, but at least then you get to keep the tags on the copies you use elsewhere.

[cuqeen]

I tried a few times to make my hard disk music collection work and add internet radio stations for ETS2. I followed all rules step by step, but all failed.
Then, i thought i would just use my favorite music player and internet browser in the background, while playing ETS2. And, what a miracle!!! Everything was perfect. Never needed and cared for that ETS2 player again. ETS2 player supporting mp3 files only is useless to me, there are many other lossy files and superior quality lossless music files to enjoy while driving.

[King Of Essex]

I change all my MP3'S TO OGG, no looseness in quality and its less power hungry on your cpu

[Mavadelo]

Originally posted by TWITCH TV KING OF ESSEX:

I change all my MP3'S TO OGG, no looseness in quality and its less power hungry on your cpu

I might do that as well :). And yes, I know I can make a copy without tags but really... I shouldn't have to.

however... it is no biggie as I mostly use the radio