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Using Windows XP: I can't seem to hear ingame music (though I can hear sound effects).

I've installed OpenTTD using the windows installer.
I had the TTD windows version installed prior to installing OpenTTD, so the /gm directory has been automatically copied from the TTD directory during installation.

I tried running it with the debug flag: OpenTTD -d , but nothing was output.

Any ideas ?
Thanks.

P.S. I can hear MIDI sound via other programs.

You didn't copy the gm/ folder from your TTD install/TTD disc.

I wrote that the OpenTTD installation automatically copied the /gm subdirectory from the TTD directory.

What's wrong with that?
Thanks.

If you are absolutely sure that the .gm files are in the OpenTTD/gm/ directory then we believe you . But perhaps a screenshot of your directory as proof?

You can try running openttd with the flags '-m win32' or '-m dmusic' perhaps that might help, but music always worked for me by default in WinXP.

No problem, here's the capture

Anything wrong here ?

Running OpenTTD using those -m flags didn't help.

Hmm, do you get sound if you play those .gm files with media player? If not then I'm out of ideas.

The songs are heard when opening the files with Media Player.
Strange... as if the program can't find the files (?)

Does it loop through all song titles so you see just flickering on the "jazz jukebox"?

When I go to the music menu in the game and press the "Play" button, nothing happens (the volume meter doesn't even move).

It is normal that the music volume meter doesn't work.

I think that the problem may be a bad installation. Try to reinstall after having deleted the directory folder. I can see this only.

Or check the music parameters in the openttd.cfg.

Do you still have the sound effects?

Re-installing didn't help.

These are the music parameters in the openttd.cfg file:

[music]
playlist = 0
music_vol = 128
effect_vol = 128
custom_1 = 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
custom_2 = 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
playing = true
shuffle = false
extmidi = timidity


Should the playlist be different than 0 ? Or is something else wrong here?

Compared to mine that is working and quite simmilar exept for the volume, you problem is really strage. you should check the files that are in your "gm" are valid .gm files. Overwise, replace them by the gm files of TTDX.

But your problem is very strange....

Still in music, there is a strange problem : the game cannot lauch automatically the Sawyer's tune or I hear only the end.

Yes, it's really strange.
The gm files are valid, since they were copied from the TTD directory, plus they can be heard in Windows Media Player.

Pat, Is that really you?

I have a somewhat similar problem - although im not particularly bothered by it - when i first installed the game a year or two ago, i turned the volume for both sound and music down to off - and it can't now turn on again. It worked before, but never has since- rasing the volume meter doesn'thelp. But, as i said, it doesn't worry me particularly.

wonea123: Sorry, no. Just a big fan of him