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The aim of this is to allow me to play midi music in the background of a tile based bitblt RPG.
The only trouble is that the program always has errors in when it comes to looping the midi.
The reason i need this is because i plan to use an array of maps each over 100 x 100 tiles, people might spend longer than 3 minuits roaming around trying to solve the built in puzzles.
check out the attatchmet to see if you can help, links are also apreciated!
I am also designing an RPG using bit blit. I used Directx 7 for the sound though. It works well with .wav files but I don't know about midi. Directx just seemed way easier to use then any other of the methods of creating multi channel sound. If you want e-mail me and I'll send you my music code which is pretty standard like most direct sound tutorials and just because you arn't using directx for the graphics won't be problematic at all. [email protected]
The one disadvantage to DirectX is it can't read from your Resource file until its been fully compiled.
Use DMusic 7 or DMusic 8 for your MIDIs, it has a loop flag that you can set, alternatively every game loop you can check to see if it's finished.
You could also use the Windows Media Player control, it's as easy as WMP.Play music.mid (you can also set a property so it loops) :)