Microsoft KB Archive/186325

LM1: MIDI Sounds do not Restart When Scene Restarts

PSS ID Number: Q186325 Article last modified on 04-07-1999

WINDOWS:1.0

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Liquid Motion for Windows 1.0 == 

= SYMPTOMS =

When your scene restarts, any Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files in your scene continue to play and do not restart. This behavior also occurs in inner scenes.

= CAUSE =

When a scene is set to loop several times, and the MIDI sound starts at the beginning of the scene, Microsoft DirectAnimation continues to play the MIDI file through the duration of all loops of the scene.

= RESOLUTION =

To work around this behavior, use either of the following methods:

Method 1: Add an Offset to the MIDI Sound

 * 1) Right-click the MIDI sound and click Properties.
 * 2) Click the Timing tab.
 * 3) In the Offset box, type “0.1” (without the quotation marks).

Method 2: Change the Duration of the MIDI Sound

 * 1) Select the scene.
 * 2) On the Timing toolbar note the duration of the scene.
 * 3) Select the MIDI sound.
 * 4) On the Timing toolbar change the duration so that it is the same as the duration you noted in step 2.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

= MORE INFORMATION =

This behavior does not occur with other audio formats, such as Waveform Audio (WAV), Moving Picture Expert Group (MPG), MPEG Layer 2 (MP2) and Music Publishers’ Association (MPA) files.

Additional query words: 1.0

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========================================================= Keywords : lmie4 lmtiming Version : WINDOWS:1.0 Platform : WINDOWS Hardware : x86 Issue type : kbbug Solution Type : kbpending ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1999.