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mandostop1
Scratcher
15 posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

The sound files on my existing projects are not playing correctly. They all played fine on 1.4 and on the old website.
Now, they basically just skip and are not listenable.
This was on multiple computers with Windows 7 with Firefox and Internet Explorer.
It seems like a performance problem, where the files are not processly correctly on the scratch website.
Maybe it's a performance problem on my network but I can't tell.

Here is a project that was not playing the music back correctly for me.
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/2732287/
It may play correctly on your end, and you won't hear the sound distortions and glitches.
However, it's just unplayable on my end at this point, and makes the project useless unless this is fixed.
Do I have to recreate the entire project on 2.0?

Thank you for any help.

Timmy May - mandostop1
mandostop1
Scratcher
15 posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

Hello out there..
Has anyone else had this music skipping problem?
I'd be amazed to discover that I'm the only one who's found this. It's happened on
multiple computers and multiple browsers.
I'm really bummed about it. A number of my other
older 1.4 projects with mp3 files are also having the same problem
as the one I linked to. It seems that it happens when animations are happening while the music is playing.
The processing seems to be going step by step through the animations and playing a snippet of the music, then going back to the animations, then back to the music, etc…etc.
The animations and the mp3 files are not coexisting on Scratch 2.0 the way they did on the 1.4 website
and on the standalone client tools.
Someone please tell me if I have to redo all of these projects in 2.0 to make them work.
That would be very disappointing news, but at least I'd know what to do.

Thank you.
mandostop1
Sonickyle
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

Can you post your Computer Specs please?

Also, are you using Flash 11.8 by any chance?
mandostop1
Scratcher
15 posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

This performance problem has occurred on these computers:

Intel Pentium 3.4 GHz processor
2 GB RAM
with
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

and

Intel Core2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz
with 3 GB RAM
with
Windows 7 Enterprise
Service Pack 1

on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox

I am running Adobe Flash 11.8.800.168 for all browsers.

Thank you for responding. I noticed that the performance problem
DOES NOT occur on my home computer system, which is comparable to both of these
computers indicated above.
Therefore I have a tentative conclusion that there may be a network performance issue on
my end at the school district where I work.
However, since this never occurred with 1.4 at the work computers, I'm speculating that the network issue is in combination with a possible performance problem with Scratch 2.0.
Sonickyle
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

Ah, your Issue is Flash. You will have to downgrade.

Adobe has removed a feature that Scratch uses a lot for effects such as Color and Twirl, which is why it's lagging quite a bit.
mandostop1
Scratcher
15 posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

That looks like a very useful procedure, which I now need to do at least 25 times in an entire computer lab
which has the latest adobe software versions.
I hope that tthis will do the trick so I'll get started.

Is this Adobe's problem, to make their new software backward compatible, or is it Scratch's problem, to make
Scratch forward compatible with Adobe products?

In either case, we are moving forward, not backward in time, so I'm hoping that there will be better
ways to handle this type of issue in the future.

(Perhaps it's just better to use the Java player instead of Flash, which I will also try.)

Thank you for your help.
mandostop1
BOIBOIBOI690
Scratcher
2 posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

Sonickyle wrote:

Ah, your Issue is Flash. You will have to downgrade.

Adobe has removed a feature that Scratch uses a lot for effects such as Color and Twirl, which is why it's lagging quite a bit.
how do I do that?
BOIBOIBOI690
Scratcher
2 posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

I have music on a game, and whenever i press something or play the game, the music glitches, please help, The game is called Save The Plants!
iicanibianGames
Scratcher
43 posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

BOIBOIBOI690 wrote:

I have music on a game, and whenever i press something or play the game, the music glitches, please help, The game is called Save The Plants!
yeah the same thing happens to me when i try to use a sound like this script
whenclickedwait0.1secs
foreverplaysound fluffing a duck.mp3untildone
it just wont work but on other sprites it does
venyanwarrior
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

iicanibianGames wrote:

BOIBOIBOI690 wrote:

I have music on a game, and whenever i press something or play the game, the music glitches, please help, The game is called Save The Plants!
yeah the same thing happens to me when i try to use a sound like this script
whenclickedwait0.1secs
foreverplaysound fluffing a duck.mp3untildone
it just wont work but on other sprites it does
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3DEthanEF
Scratcher
4 posts

Sound files - mp3's - not playing properly

Someone please help my sound will not play when I download MP3 files and import them into scratch they just won’t send their audio in. Please help

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