MartinB
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Hi everyone!

I've been playing DROD a lot again recently, but I wanted to hear the music from the original DROD instead of the new music... I've downloaded the files from the website and put all of the *.mi_ files in /opt/drod/bin/Music/ and put the drod.ini file in /opt/drod/bin/Data/, however, I no longer hear any music in the game.

The terminal is showing the following error several times:

DROD:Assertion error in line 402 of ../../FrontEndLib/Sound.cpp: "Failed to load song.(2)"

I've made sure that my soundfonts are loaded and I can play MIDI files using pmidi just fine, however, the *.mi_ files cannot be played using pmidi. I get an error saying that it is probably not a real midi file (My understanding is that the original DROD music are midi files - At least, I seem to remember being able to play them externally from the game).

I'm running Gentoo Linux with ALSA compiled into the kernel. The drod version is drod-bin-1.6.5...

Anyone got any ideas of what I might be doing wrong?

Cheers,
Martin

agaricus5
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You need to change the file endings from *.mi_ to *.mid. Then they should play.

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DiMono
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Changing the extensions from .mi_ to .mid will also necessitate changing the drod.ini file accordingly, or it will be looking for files that don't exist, as the .ini file looks specifically for .mi_

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trick
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You shouldn't have to rename any files in the ini or otherwise (DROD automagically looks for both protected and unprotected files), but unfortunately FMOD doesn't support playing midi files in Linux at all. (I've posted in their forum about this.)

The midi files won't play in any normal midi player because they've been protected, so they'll only be usable with DROD. I'll have to discuss this with Erik, but we may be able to give you unprotected ones, or I could maybe hack pmidi to play the protected files. (Either way you'd have to control the playback yourself, of course.)

- Gerry

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I don't think you should rename *.mi_ to *.mid. The underscore is DROD's clue that the files are stored in a certain format that needs decryption. MartinB, maybe you just need to edit your DROD.INI file to make sure the songs all point to new filenames.

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DiMono
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Actually, since linux is a case-sensitive OS, could the problem be that the files have their first letters capitalized, but drod.ini doesn't?

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trick wrote:
I'll have to discuss this with Erik, but we may be able to give you unprotected ones, or I could maybe hack pmidi to play the protected files.

No, we probably shouldn't do either of those things. Lars only wanted DROD players to have the music, and encrypting the MIDs in a DROD-specific way is the technical solution we came up with.

-Erik

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trick
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ErikH2000 wrote:
No, we probably shouldn't do either of those things. Lars only wanted DROD players to have the music, and encrypting the MIDs in a DROD-specific way is the technical solution we came up with.

Oh, okay.

By the way, I just got a reply from the author of FMOD, saying midi in Linux will be supported in FMOD 4. (That will probably break all kinds of compatibility though, so I don't know how big the chance is of it being used in DROD.)

- Gerry