Working with sounds and music

Zombiebrains

Hi guys

I am having trouble with a big sound file that fails to play when running GS but works fine in preview?

Is there any size restrictions on sound files or music. I have imported the file as both a sound file and a music file. The file is background noise and runs over 5 minutes. If there are restrictions...? What are they and how best is it to import such a file.

Thanks in advance - ZB

HoneyTribeStudios

You have 2 options when importing to GS- import as music or import as sound.

For long pieces of audio - like your 5 mins example you want to import as music. So ideally have an aac file or if not mp3 will convert fine. (aac is the native music format in GS. iTunes can convert to aac if you need to)

For shorter clips - less than 10 seconds - import as audio. ogg files are the native audio format in GS. Audacity (open source software) can convert to ogg if you need to.

The benefit of importing as audio is that you can have layered sounds and also have access to the expression editor and an inbuilt pitch shifter.

Zombiebrains

Thanks HTS

That makes it a bit better to understand maybe why it's not working.