Sound Track loading limit?

posted on November 6th, 2010, 6:20 pm

It seems to be that a lot of the BGM is often strinctly within the 18-25 megabyte range. I currently am having a issue cutting a soundtrack down to size.

Length: 16:29.244
Channels: 2 (Stereo)
Bit-rate: 705 kbps
Sample Rate: 22kHz
Total File Size: 83.2 MB


Anyone here have suggestions to help FO handle it? I am trying to cut down the file size without tarnishing the file quality. However I can't seem to get it to run in-game or even on the menu screen.

Any help or technical information with FO's audio handler will be of great help.

posted on November 6th, 2010, 8:29 pm

I've gotten .wav's up to 50mb to work, but I run into the same problem of large music files not playing in FO. I've been hoping for a long time that they'd implement Mp3 or OGG support. The latest sound thread in the Dev Blog gives me hope that they might be working on that. The only suggestion I can give to save up on .wav filesize is to make it mono rather then stereo.

posted on November 6th, 2010, 8:58 pm

Well, I guess It'll have to be. I was hoping for some parts to phase from left to right just for ear candy. But... I guess if I must.

posted on November 7th, 2010, 8:45 pm

I've made my own custom music soundtracks with files over 22 minutes long that play just fine in-game. Try converting your bit-rate down to 352 kbps. That's what Armada 2 and FO typically use. As far as I can tell the length or file size doesn't really matter so long as you use 352 kbps. It's not a bad quality. I should note though that I've only used mono tracks as that's what I saw the game using.

posted on November 12th, 2010, 3:25 pm

Support for .OGG files will be implemented in one of the next patches.

posted on November 14th, 2010, 1:34 pm

...as well as support for mp3 files. with it though not necessary anymore, the large wave file loading problem should be fixed too.