How do you loop NOTES?

[Dav]

I have a .MID file loaded by NOTES playing as background music for a game I'm making.
I'd like the .MID to loop after it is done playing. Is there a command to do that?

I have tried,
IF NOTES_PLAYING() = 0 THEN NOTES PLAY
but that doesn't seem to work.

Really impressed with how easy the sprite commands are to do graphics!

- Dav

[Mr. Kibernetik]

Currently there is no rewind command for playing NOTES.
So it is supposed to repeat NOTES LOAD and then NOTES PLAY if you want to play them again.

[Dutchman]

Background music can best be played from file in .WAV, or .MP# or .AIFF format.
There is the command MUSIC M$ LOOP which enables repetition of the content.

[Dav]

Thanks for the quick replies here. I'm using MUSIC for the sound effects currently, but maybe I will switch it around and uses notes for effects and music command for looping.

- Dav

[Dutchman]

That is what I did in 'Sea Combat'

[Dav]

I've decided to use this method to loop notes, for a .MID playback during the game. It works, but NOTES_PLAYING() didn't work for me (or I'm just not using it correctly) so I used other notes commands. Here is what works for me. This way, I can still use MUSIC for sound effects, which are important to the game play.

- Dav

Code: Select all

'Looping a .MID file in a game
'By Dav - JAN/2015

'sample .mid to test with
a$= "winstone-data/sfx/sfx_music.mid"
'start .mid playback
notes load a$
notes play

'show info
print "Notes looping test"
print "Playing "; a$
print
print "Time left:"

'make a button to show time left
t$ = str$(notes_length() - notes_time())
button "time" text t$ at 140,75

'main game loop

do
   t$ = str$(notes_length() - notes_time())
   button "time" set text t$

   gosub checkmusic

until 0

end



checkmusic:
'if music over, reload, start over

   'if notes_playing()=0 then  '<<< did not work

   if notes_time() => notes_length() then
     notes load a$
     notes play
   end if
return

[Mr. Kibernetik]

NOTES_PLAYING() returns 1 always if MIDI sequence was started to play and did not stop yet. Currently MIDI playback does not stop automatically when musical sequence is over. So it is supposed to use NOTES_TIME() and NOTES_LENGTH() to detect end of musical sequence to stop it manually.

[Dav]

Oh. Thanks. By the way, the notes command is very cool. Much better than the PLAY command I used in QB64 basic. I'm going to be experimenting with it!

- Dav