Is there some special way to get the Tape Player to play custom music files?

[key_stroked]

I know that the Tape Player has a max of 10 music files. I backed up the default tracks, made 10 of my own in .ogg format, and put them in the same location.

When I get in the pit and hit play, I hear the click but no music. If I delete my custom tracks and put the default tracks back in and click play in the sim, I hear the music.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Here's what my folder looks like.

 

[hornblower793]

Not as far as I know - this has been working for me (I will test post patch later). I do what you have stated, but also have placed each set of tracks in a sub folder in Walkman to make it easier to copy them back and forth

[Rudel_chw]

I used this online converter to convert my mp3 into ogg, no change of default settings except that you have to tick on "normalize audio" in order to play on dcs:

 

http://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-ogg

[Strut]

Dont name them ".ogg", example Play01.ogg should be "Play01" but when converted and saved the file must be ".ogg". Thats how I got mine to work when I use OVGME.

[key_stroked]

Dont name them ".ogg", example Play01.ogg should be "Play01" but when converted and saved the file must be ".ogg". Thats how I got mine to work when I use OVGME.

 

I didn't add .ogg to the files. I have file extensions turned on with windows explorer, so it shows the file type automatically.

[Strut]

Well sorry mate, thats allI can think of.

[key_stroked]

you have to tick on "normalize audio" in order to play on dcs:

 

What does normalize audio do? Did you try converting without that box checked?

[hornblower793]

I haven't used the online solution - I downloaded and used freac (http://www.freac.org) - this worked without issue for me without having to adjust any settings

[Rudel_chw]

What does normalize audio do?

 

No idea ... learned this trough trial-error

[hornblower793]

Assuming it is following the usual definition for normalizing audio it means the software adjusting the volume to reach a target level so all tracks play at around the same volume

[elaintahra]

Where is this walkman? How have I missed it?

[PSYKOnz]

What does normalize audio do? Did you try converting without that box checked?

 

From an old radio jock/producer, I’m going to try not to over complicate this... Normalising takes the wave form and digitally amplifies it to a set dB normally -0 it does this while preserving the wave form (unlike compression)

 

If you have ever been listening to music on your phone or Walkman ;) and one song is very quiet so you turn it up and the next song blows your head off because it’s so loud this is because those files weren’t normalised.

 

Most normalisation is to -0 dB (generally anything above -0 dB is amplification anything below is Attenuation) most devices will be at -0 dB at there loudest and Attenuate the volume down.

 

You should always normalise a file after working on it (or converting it).

 

As you can imagine in a professional radio situation everything being all over the vu meters is not good. So the last step of literally every piece of production you do is to normalise to -0db

 

TLDR: Essentially normalisation ensures consistency of volume across all files that have been normalised

 

Hope that answered your question and didn’t leave you too confused. I tried to keep it as simple as possible