Just cant get .m4a musicfile to play

johnhendy

Hi there, I am new to GS but understand the concepts and logic. How ever as much as I have tried I can not get GS to play a .m4a file. I have used converters and tested the files and they work correctly. I have tried all sorts of suggestions that I have read on here and watched a number of GS videos. But, I just cant get it to work on my machine. I have imported the .m4a file and can see it, but it wont play. Yet outside of GS I can play the file no problem. I have been at this a day now, am I missing something. ogg/wav work fine. Has it got to be a file that originated from the mac platform, which means the converter I have is no good. But then it still plays on my windows machine. I use VLC media player. I'm using GS 0.10.00 with a basic license.

jamie_c

Just convert the file to something that GS can use, like .mp3, ogg, wav, aiff.

johnhendy

Thanks for the coment jamie_c, but you missed the point! GS offers the ability to load music and sound files, Sound files are mp3 ogg/wav etc, but they cannot be controlled with the music behaviors. You cannot stop a sound file once it is playing. Hence the music behaviors. It is the Music behavior and the .m4a file I would like working so I can control the music by using the Pause Music or Stop Music behaviors.

jamie_c

I believe if you import any kind of sound file .mp3 for example you are able to import that as 'music' in GS. I can in the Mac version anyway, perhaps Windows is different?

johnhendy

Thanks Jamie_c, Windows is very different, we are limited to ogg, wav and m4a, thats it and only the latter can be used for the music behaviors. I have imported a .m4a file and can actually see it, but it wont play at all.

jamie_c

Ah I see, wish I could help more but since I'm a Mac user I can't. Hopefully someone on Windows will check this out and be more helpful. Good luck though!

johnhendy

I should also point out that I am using Windows XP with SP3 2 Quad CPU 2.40 GHS and 3.25 GB of RAM.

TendouGames

Bump

Having the same problem. No solutions yet?

BlackCloakGS

@ddanielga78@gmail.com
This sounds like an issue with the DirectShow filters. The current windows creator
relies on DirectShow to play sounds. DirectShow does not come with an filter for playing m4a. You have to install one. FYI installing Apple Quick Time will not help since it does not use DirectShow to play m4a. This is fix in the windows nightly build and in 0.10.5 (when it is released) due to use no longer relying on direct show. Hope this helps