Usually the last sound played within a few seconds repeats an extra time and I don't know why. I checked out the FAQ topic, and it gave this link: http://www.staredit.net/wiki/Wav_Files but its broken.

This may be a bug in SC, because when i test play the sounds in the normal staredit program, many times it repeats there as well. Any thoughts?

It's probably your triggers or the particular sound(s), not Starcraft...I've never heard about a general SC problem like what you are describing. On your other thread, we gave you some options for how to trigger a sound system; which of them are you using?

P.S. Things from the old wiki can be found here, albeit in a very disorganized form.

Post has been edited 4 time(s), last time on Oct 8 2010, 5:16 am by FoxWolf1.

Thanks for all that help btw. I'm using gas as a counter, basically like this:

each player has:
{
if blah blah
do blah blah plus set gas to x for all of force 1
}

force 1 has:
{
if current player has gas = x
play sound x and set gas = 0 for current player
}

The sounds work now, as in every one can hear them, but the last one repeats. If I'm not mistaken, it's only for P1 (or the first-most player) that hears the repeat, but I might be mistaken on that.

That doesnt sound good. Try experimenting with different .wav files and see if it keeps happening.

Also make sure the files are the correct ones, play them in windows media player/itunes/w/e audio player just to double check.

I played them in WMP, and they always stopped. And when testing in StarEdit, its any sound that can repeat. But in the map, it's always just the last sound played (there are 2 sounds one after the other, and its the last one that repeats after a second).

Also, I used Audacity to edit these sounds, and its kinda a buggy program, so i thought maybe that's it. But i played them in a normal sound player and they work. Do you think maybe it's because it's a stereo sound instead of mono?

What is the rate (hz) of your sounds? I was able to recreate the double-playing-in-Staredit issue that you describe by editing a sound to have a very high rate (96000 hz). The same sound exported from Audacity as a wav with a more sensible rate (both for the track, under "set sample format", and for the project rate as a whole) does not exhibit the problem.

If your sound does have a very high rate, try turning it way down in Audacity (the lower you can go the better, since you'll also save file-size this way...see if you can get it into 4 digits) and then see if the problem goes away. Note that you will have to change the speed of your sound to keep the same pitch when changing the rate.

Use 22kHz, mono, 16 Bit.
You can use 11kHz or 8kHz if you don't care about sound quality.

The Hz of my sounds is 44kh and 32-floating bit, w/e that means. I was just trying to change that to 22kh and 16bit, and I know how to in audacity. You also have to do Change Speed to get the pitch and speed back to where it was.

But Audacity is killing me now. When I export it to a wave with those new rates, it always adds five seconds of silence, no matter what. Also, when I open it again, it always reverts to 44kh and 32-bit. So if i delete the 5 seconds of silence and save, it will be back to those high values, and if i change them again and save, it will add 5 seconds... I just checked for the latest ver of Audacity and it is still 1.2.6

But I recently noticed, it's only the sounds less than 1 second long that repeat. There is one that's 1.6 seconds, that I can't get to repeat in the StarEdit test player at all, and a 6.66 second one that never repeats at all. There is also a 1.00 second sound that repeats a tiny protion of itself at the end... I suppose I could forget about rates and just add enough silence to the end of each wav file, and try that.

But seriously, no one's ever heard of this SC sound glitch before?

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Oct 8 2010, 7:57 pm by DrZygote214.

I've had Audacity create weird silences as well. Use Export Selection as WAV (after selecting your sound's waveform, excluding any unnecessary silences, of course) instead of just Export as WAV.

use the beta 1.3 version. Change the hz in the bottom left corner, under project rate. change it to 16 bit on the track or in the options. You shouldn't have to change speed or tempo. Make sure you're using the file you saved. Go ahead and open the map in winmpq and delete the sounds, then add them again.

you're using a buggy old game, so you gotta work hard sometimes when stuff doesn't work right.

Its a bit of a workaround, but you could add silence to the end of the file. You can play more than one .wav file at a time, so if you play a 2nd during the silence of the first it wont be distinguishable from the 1st ending and the 2nd playing.

Also, what triggers are you using to play these sounds? It seems unlikely based on what you describe, but its still possible that it could be a sound trigger playing when you don't want it to.

Yeah, what I did was add a second or two to each sound, and then test-played them in Star Edit. They never repeated there, and so far I haven't heard them repeat in-game.

My triggers are like this. First there is the original trigger, like for when a person moves to a location, which is supposed to generate a sound. Those are all player specific. But they each have an action like set gas = x for force 1.

Then in force 1, I have:

if current player's gas = x
play sound_x
set gas = 0 for current player.

It's the same way for text messages too (and I've never seen those repeat). This makes me think of a good test. Everywhere a sound is played, a debug txt msg should be shown too, something like "sound x is playing". If it's really the triggers, that msg should show up twice too. I might try that just for the hell of it, to get to the bottom of this problem. But idk, the repeat glitch seems solved...

Thanx all for all the help. Any more advice or insight is welcome.