help with stepmania

i seek help!


i have stepmania 5 but it doesnt play the preview of the song i have menu music but sample wav files are not playing
what am i doing wrong?
thank you!!

What is it that you mean by "sample wav files"? Song previews? Song previews are made from the actual song itself and isn't a separate file. The length and start time for each song preview is defined in the simfile itself. Can you maybe send a link to the simfile so we can figure out if it's a problem with the simfile and not your StepMania build?

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Is this for a specific file, or does the preview not play for every simfile you have?

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when im scrolling though songs the preview music doesnt play, its a pop'n music theme ,what can i add to the

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*---------------------- HEADER FIELD

#PLAYER 3
#GENRE Future music
#TITLE ARCOLOGY
#ARTIST cubrick
#SAMPLESTART:2.000;
#SAMPLELENGTH:4.000;
#PLAYLEVEL 12
#RANK 2
#TOTAL 200
#STAGEFILE

#WAV01 bd00.ogg
#WAV02 bd00.ogg
#WAV03 bs00.ogg
#WAV04 bs01.ogg
#WAV05 bs02.ogg
#WAV06 bs03.ogg
#WAV07 cl00.ogg
#WAV08 co00.ogg

in the program i doesnt play the sample music

thank you for your help!!!

Is there a link to download the simfile, by any chance?

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That doesn't look like a normal .sm or .scc to me at all. Can you please upload and send a link to the simfile so I can take a look at it?

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Is Stepmania even programmed to be able to play preview music for keysounded charts? Because that file is a BMS/PMS file with keysounds (and SAMPLE START/SAMPLELENGTH tags that may not be valid).

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Hello, like others say, Stepmania is no focused on Pop'N simulation, I've doing a Pop'n theme, and I noticed that those files doesn't are previewed on the song wheel, like the previous users have said, the tags #SAMPLESTART and #SAMPLELENGTH won't work, because the PMS is a derivation of BMS files and the music is composited, and the PMS format doesn't have a tag to recognize a sample to play like in DDR o PIU simulations, I think there could be a solution to this, in some files, I've checked that there is a preview.wav file, with LUA scripting, we could check if that file exists, and play it, that could be the easy way to fix that, but I haven't tested, I will try to do it work, and share the results

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I've made a test, and shows that my idea could be possible, but maybe not, that I've done was to search in the song directory a file named preview, and play it, the problem is that the sound don't stop playing and overlaps with others creating a mess. Here in the video is the proof of concept, that is a Pop'n Theme, with real Pop'n Simfiles, the ones that doesn't have the preview file, simply won't sound.

https://vid.me/Zoxo

meanwhille months ago

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was to lazy to do a search function B)

edit: I also added banner support for popn filels a while ago

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in a themefar, far away.

I have a similar code, but I just have included the variations for mp3 and ogg (I hate that wave simfiles ) i was using "SOUNDlayOnce();" to play the path, nice played sensei now my Pop'n theme supports previews. Thanks! I think the problem is solved due theming assistance.

thank you jousway!!
im not good at code, or experience lau,..
but i can take directions well

could you give me directions to placing that code into my step5 program?
i have a super amazing project im working on graphics skin wise, and super secret !!!

What the fuck am I looking at right now

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a crappy mspaint concept idea thats almost complete sir, but i dont wanna go into details untill i have fully produced it,and get all the bugs out of the program.....will make thread in future when done,

still need help on inserting the code and were the code goes,what program to use etc to get the PMS files to make a preview sound on the music song selection screen in sm5 ,