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Title: Modified music not looping
Post by: darknil on 2015-10-14 06:43:48

It seems that when I physically change a track it doesn't want to loop, despite having a LOOPSTART tag. Is there some restriction that I'm missing? It's the battle theme, specifically, and I know the original loops properly, as do the other tracks included in the Music & Sound package, so far as I can tell.

[edit: gave wrong tag]

Title: Re: Modified music not looping
Post by: Shard on 2015-10-14 17:00:35

You need a loopstart tag.

Title: Re: Modified music not looping
Post by: NeuroticNinja on 2015-10-14 19:34:57

Quote from: Shard on 2015-10-14 17:00:35

You need a loopstart tag.

He already stated in his initial post he does have a loopstart tag

Title: Re: Modified music not looping
Post by: Covarr on 2015-10-14 20:21:26

Is this a track you made yourself? Try running the file through MediaInfo (https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo) and pasting the results from "text" view here. I might be able to get a better idea what's going on.

Title: Re: Modified music not looping
Post by: darknil on 2015-10-14 23:08:59

General
Complete name                            : E:\Games\final fantasy vii\mods\Music & Sound\OST Remastered (Modified)\vgmstream\bat.ogg
Format                                   : OGG
File size                                : 2.89 MiB
Duration                                 : 2mn 40s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 151 Kbps
loopstart                                : 477071

Audio
ID                                       : 32333 (0x7E4D)
Format                                   : Vorbis
Format settings, Floor                   : 1
Duration                                 : 2mn 40s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 160 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 3.05 MiB
Writing library                          : libVorbis 1.2 (UTC 2007-06-22)

Title: Re: Modified music not looping
Post by: Shard on 2015-10-14 23:28:43

Quote from: NeuroticNinja on 2015-10-14 19:34:57

He already stated in his initial post he does have a loopstart tag

The original post said he only had a LOOPLENGTH tag.

Try giving it a LOOPSTART and a LOOPEND tag. Sometimes players don't like when only one is there.

Title: Re: Modified music not looping
Post by: darknil on 2015-10-14 23:34:32

None of the others I've noticed have anything except a LOOPSTART tag (and other tags that the game entirely ignores, with no consistency), with the file truncated at the end to loop seamlessly. I know FF7Music used a LOOPLENGTH tag since I had to tag a few OGG files for it, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

Title: Re: Modified music not looping
Post by: Covarr on 2015-10-14 23:48:08

Is loopstart lowercase like that in your metadata, or is MediaInfo just reporting it wrong? I'm not positive, but I think it needs to be all caps to work correctly.

If that doesn't fix it, PM me the track and I'll be glad to look into it in a few days (I should have time on Saturday or Sunday).