[SDL] Changing music tracks in SDL_Mixer

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Sun Oct 28 00:23:15 PDT 2007


On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 02:38:44PM -0700, masonwheeler wrote:
> 
> Oh, all right.  I'd heard that file format and other technical details don't
> matter with SDL because it takes care of all that stuff for you, but the
> songs are all in MIDI format, and I'm running under Windows XP.

Keep in mind that SDL is typically acting as an abstraction layer for OS
APIs or other libraries, so it could be whatever MIDI stuff SDL_Mixer is
using is falling flat on its face.

Out of curiosity, have you thrown MP3, Ogg Vorbis or MOD files at it, to
see if it fails in the same way?

-bill!
(and I think that's all I can offer as help for this problem ;) )


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