[George] What is the length returned by uiGetMusicState?

[RPC]

I'm trying to make a music player but I can't find out how long it takes before another song is supposed to play. I wanted to use the length returned by uiGetMusicState to determine the tick length, but now I don't know what it is...

Is length returned in ticks, or seconds or ???

[alterecco]

Can't you figure that out from the length of the track? You should be able to get that in any player.

[RPC]

I need to get it using Tscript to make my media player mod be able to play lists.

[alterecco]

Yeah, i understand that. But can you not figure out what the result returned is? It should be pretty obvious it if was ticks or seconds, or something entirely unrelated...

[RPC]

Here's what dbglog gave me:
05/29/2012 15:10:05 (playing "C:\\Users\\RPC\\Music\\Playlists\\Folder issue\\Coldplay - 42.mp3" 32149 238242)
I don't know what 238242 means :/

[Star Weaver]

It might be the number of frames or samples or whatever they're called in mp3land.

If you divide 238242 by 32149, and then divide the song's length in seconds by about the number of seconds the song had been playing when you got these numbers, do you get numbers that look related?

[RPC]

The song is 3:57. 32149 is supposed to be the location of where the song is at the point I took the dbglog. If 238242 was in ticks, then 238242/30 is 7941.4. , then divide by 60 is 132.3566666666667 seconds, which is not the case.
Yeah, it's probably:

It might be the number of frames or samples or whatever they're called in mp3land.

which is confusing o,O

[Star Weaver]

The song is 3:57. 32149 is supposed to be the location of where the song is at the point I took the dbglog. If 238242 was in ticks, then 238242/30 is 7941.4. , then divide by 60 is 132.3566666666667 seconds, which is not the case.
Yeah, it's probably:

It might be the number of frames or samples or whatever they're called in mp3land.

which is confusing o,O

Hm, that's not the math I was asking about. Banyway, if the song is 237 seconds long, and 238242 somehow represents the length of the song, than the current position would be 32149 / 238424 * 237 --> 31.98 seconds

I notice that 32149 is fairly similar to 31.98 * 10000, and 238242 is fairly similar to 237 * 10000, now, by the way ...

Now what you need to do is see if you get the same sorts of numbers off of mp3 files with radically different bitrates and such.

[RPC]

Oooh ok, I see. I'll try to make a table of these and post them here.

[WillyTheSquid]

Since I still really really want to work on the uOST project (the unoffical Offical Soundtrack), I am interested in the ins & outs of the music play function. Still working on that list?

We could pop it on the wiki when it's done.