How do you add your own song?

[Onigiriii]

Whenever I open a file it just says folder is empty

[Vitamin Ex]

It will only read .ogg files which is a real pain. There are free online converters where you can upload a song, convert it, then download the new file all from the web. Once you convert the file to .ogg, just hit "A" to add the song and it'll appear in the list.

To be honest, it's so much of a hassle to convert files to .ogg that it is almost a pointless feature.

[Calvares]

Originally posted by Vitamin Ex:

It will only read .ogg files which is a real pain. There are free online converters where you can upload a song, convert it, then download the new file all from the web. Once you convert the file to .ogg, just hit "A" to add the song and it'll appear in the list.

To be honest, it's so much of a hassle to convert files to .ogg that it is almost a pointless feature.

Those are restrictions of the game engine

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Originally posted by Vitamin Ex:

It will only read .ogg files which is a real pain. There are free online converters where you can upload a song, convert it, then download the new file all from the web. Once you convert the file to .ogg, just hit "A" to add the song and it'll appear in the list.

To be honest, it's so much of a hassle to convert files to .ogg that it is almost a pointless feature.

A lot of music games (and engines) use ogg or aac format because mp3 isn't free for commercial use, each game/app license costs $2,500. No matter what steam, android, web, any commercial use of MP3 requires a proper license and it's very expensive.

[Sylverstone Khandr]

Hey, I'm having a hard time adding songs in - I used the fre:ac converter to turn songs into .ogg files, but I haven't seen a song pop up when I've tried to add them.

[Calvares]

Originally posted by Sylverstone Khandr:

Hey, I'm having a hard time adding songs in - I used the fre:ac converter to turn songs into .ogg files, but I haven't seen a song pop up when I've tried to add them.

Hey! Let me ask you, how are you trying to add songs?
You should press "A" in playlist menu, then head over to the folder with your song(s), press Open, and all .ogg tracks will be added. If it isn't working for you, you can add me on Discord, show me your screen and I will help you :)

[Sylverstone Khandr]

Originally posted by Calvares:

Hey! Let me ask you, how are you trying to add songs?
You should press "A" in playlist menu, then head over to the folder with your song(s), press Open, and all .ogg tracks will be added. If it isn't working for you, you can add me on Discord, show me your screen and I will help you :)

I think the issue I had was that I converted a bunch of songs, had them in a folder, but maybe the game couldn't add them all at once?

I converted just one song for the folder, added it, then it worked. Then added in the others, and it hooked just fine.

Maybe that might've been it... I appreciate that you were willing to help out!

[Calvares]

Originally posted by Sylverstone Khandr:

Originally posted by Calvares:

Hey! Let me ask you, how are you trying to add songs?
You should press "A" in playlist menu, then head over to the folder with your song(s), press Open, and all .ogg tracks will be added. If it isn't working for you, you can add me on Discord, show me your screen and I will help you :)

I think the issue I had was that I converted a bunch of songs, had them in a folder, but maybe the game couldn't add them all at once?

I converted just one song for the folder, added it, then it worked. Then added in the others, and it hooked just fine.

Maybe that might've been it... I appreciate that you were willing to help out!

I'm glad it works now, have fun!

[de ander]

So it works to add some of my songs but i have a big problem with configureing the bpm. for example at one song i edited the bpm to 170. then i stop the song press enter and want to play it and i dont know why but all my songs are automatically set to 60bpm. I really don't know what I am doing wrong could somebody please help ( and sorry when the question is in the wrong discussion. )

[Calvares]

Originally posted by dein Vater:

So it works to add some of my songs but i have a big problem with configureing the bpm. for example at one song i edited the bpm to 170. then i stop the song press enter and want to play it and i dont know why but all my songs are automatically set to 60bpm. I really don't know what I am doing wrong could somebody please help ( and sorry when the question is in the wrong discussion. )

Hello! Are you sure that you edited BPM with your mouse in the bottom left corner? Because you may just tap the correct BPM, not actually set it. 60 BPM is a default one if you haven't set your own BPM

[de ander]

Thanks for the help i really didn't notice that you have to use the mouse to fix the bpm but now it works. thanks a lot

[NotFatal]

yo how do just add a song like from opening the game

[Calvares]

Originally posted by Skipper:

yo how do just add a song like from opening the game

Hey, to add your song you have to open the left train (by completing 1st song on the right train). Or wdym?

[Rings]

Originally posted by ɭᵃʳᵃ ጦᵒᶯˢʈᵉʳ:

Originally posted by Vitamin Ex:

It will only read .ogg files which is a real pain. There are free online converters where you can upload a song, convert it, then download the new file all from the web. Once you convert the file to .ogg, just hit "A" to add the song and it'll appear in the list.

To be honest, it's so much of a hassle to convert files to .ogg that it is almost a pointless feature.

A lot of music games (and engines) use ogg or aac format because mp3 isn't free for commercial use, each game/app license costs $2,500. No matter what steam, android, web, any commercial use of MP3 requires a proper license and it's very expensive.

FLAC is also a free format (it literally stands for FREE Lossless Audio Codec) yet this game doesn't support it. I believe it's a limitation on the game's engine and has nothing to do with licensing costs.

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Originally posted by Rings:

FLAC is also a free format (it literally stands for FREE Lossless Audio Codec) yet this game doesn't support it. I believe it's a limitation on the game's engine and has nothing to do with licensing costs.

The engine used is the GameMaker which is extensible through scripts. The engine itself doesn't offer any mechanism to work with encoded/compressed audio files, which is the case for mp3 files, precisely because for that you will need a codec... codec requires licenses...

You can make some hacks yourself and make it work using external dependencies to enable extra functionality like that, but honestly, it would be a lot of work to get same functionality you already have... just go and convert the file, please!

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me, from 2 years ago

[Rings]

Originally posted by ɭᵃʳᵃ ጦᵒᶯˢʈᵉʳ:

Originally posted by Rings:

FLAC is also a free format (it literally stands for FREE Lossless Audio Codec) yet this game doesn't support it. I believe it's a limitation on the game's engine and has nothing to do with licensing costs.

The engine used is the GameMaker which is extensible through scripts. The engine itself doesn't offer any mechanism to work with encoded/compressed audio files, which is the case for mp3 files, precisely because for that you will need a codec... codec requires licenses...

You can make some hacks yourself and make it work using external dependencies to enable extra functionality like that, but honestly, it would be a lot of work to get same functionality you already have... just go and convert the file, please!

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Best regards
me, from 2 years ago

Who said anything about MP3? I don't have any MP3's myself so certainly not me. All my audio is in FLAC format. It's FREE to incorporate the FLAC format. The fact that is isn't supported thus implies an engine limitation, NOT a license limitation, unless of course the dev speaks up about this.