Crackling in some music?

[jdude]

I've noticed some of the music has crackling in it. For example some of the dd_ musics have crackling in them. I'm not sure if it's my Mobo's built in sound card thing or maybe I need a new and actual soundcard instead of using the mobo. I know it's not my speakers though because it's the same for both the speakers and my headphones. Has anyone else noticed this problem with some of the music?

 

PS: I can be more specific with sound file names in the future, I'm currently in the middle of moving and have no internet at my house for 7 more days

[OrbWeaver]

I can confirm that there is clicking/crackling in at least one music file; I can't remember the exact name but you're definitely not imagining things.

[jdude]

I forgot to post the crackling music I found, but here's the location:

sound/ambient/ambience/dd_amb_drone_2

sound/ambient/ambience/dd_amb_drone_3b

sound/ambient/ambience/dd_amb_drone_3a

[OrbWeaver]

Fortunately the crackling only seemed to exist in the .ogg version of these files, so I was able to remove it by re-creating the .ogg files from the wavs in sound_src.

 

I have also adjusted the levels slightly so the ambient music doesn't become too overpowering, and improved the looping so that they don't fade to silence before beginning again.

 

Test PK4 available here:

 

ftp://ftp.dramthethief.com/files/orb_music_20100530.pk4

 

If there are no objections to these changes I will commit the new versions onto SVN.

[jdude]

Oh I don't know the Login information, but what you did sounds good to me

[OrbWeaver]

The FTP details are available here:

 

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/8990-new-ftp/

[greebo]

It's also possible to have an HTTP Link to our FTP files:

 

http://www.dramthethief.com/darkmod/files/...

[OrbWeaver]

It's also possible to have an HTTP Link to our FTP files:

 

Oh yes, I saw you'd done that with some of the footstep PK4s but wasn't sure if that HTTP link was automatically available or whether you had to activate it each time.

 

Here is the music then:

http://www.dramthethief.com/darkmod/files/orb_music_20100530.pk4

[jdude]

These also click:

 

 

dd_amb_hit_2b

dd_amb_hum_7lng

[OrbWeaver]

OK, I'll have a look later.

[greebo]

Those dd_ tracks were all converted by me, using some freeware batch OGG conversion program. Obviously the encoder seems to have problems with that - mabye it's best to re-encode all of those files.

[OrbWeaver]

Those dd_ tracks were all converted by me, using some freeware batch OGG conversion program. Obviously the encoder seems to have problems with that - mabye it's best to re-encode all of those files.

 

Ah, that may cast some light on where these artifacts are coming from. I will look into all of the dd_ ambients as you suggest.