Monkey Island 1 Music

mercutio22 · Post by **mercutio22** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:03 am

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help with this problem. I've got MI1 working on scumm but everytime I try to start it the loading screen warns me that I need to include the extracted music files if I want to play with music.

The problem is that I already have the mp3s included in the folder I'm trying to play the game from.

The following are the contents of the folder:

ADLIB.IMS
ROLAND.IMS
SOUNDBLAS.IMS
SPEAKER.IMS
MONKEY1.000
MONKEY1.001
track1.mp3
track2.mp3 etc. all to way down to track24.mp3

I've tried it with and without the IMS files but just can't get the sound at all.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Raziel · Post by **Raziel** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:33 am

Please do a "ScummVM -v" and post here what it writes.

You could (very unlikely) have a version of ScummVM (as we don't know which platform or anything you use it on it's hard to tell) that hasn't mp3 support built in.

Another reason might be that your mp3 files got corrupted.
You may want to re-rip the music tracks from your CD and try again

Graxer · Post by **Graxer** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:38 am

I think I may see your problem... the audio tracks track1.mp3-track9.mp3 should be named track01.mp3-track09.mp3.

Also, you don't need any of those .IMS files.

Raziel · Post by **Raziel** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:39 am

Nope.
My tracks are named 1,2,3...24

Graxer · Post by **Graxer** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:40 am

Raziel wrote:Nope.
My tracks are named 1,2,3...24

Oh, ok. My tracks are labelled differently and work. My apologies.

Raziel · Post by **Raziel** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:41 am

Hmm, maybe the devs built in the option to have the tracks named either way?

Another reason why he should check the tracks and the version of ScummVM

mercutio22 · Post by **mercutio22** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:33 pm

Hi guys, thanks for the replies!

I running windows 7 and I actually just downloaded scumm yesterday. My version is 1.2.053093. Strange thing is that I used scumm to play MI a few years ago on my old laptop and had no problem at all.

I used Windows Media Player to rip the music and can play them fine in that so they don't seem to be corrupt.

Really don't know where I'm going wrong...argh! I want to play the game!

mercutio22 · Post by **mercutio22** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:35 pm

Unless the problem is that tracks are saving as .wma (Windows Media Audio files) hmmmmm....

Graxer · Post by **Graxer** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:23 pm

mercutio22 wrote:Unless the problem is that tracks are saving as .wma (Windows Media Audio files) hmmmmm....

That could be it. It wont work if they are saving as .wmas, and as far as I know that is what Windows Media Player creates by default.

I recommend using CDex to rip the music. (You may need to reduce all the file names by 1 after ripping them with CDex though)

Tim20 · Post by **Tim20** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:33 pm

Have you tried putting the audio files into a seperate folder, loading up ScummVM, going to 'Edit Game...', going to the 'Paths' tab, the 'Extras' tab, and selecting the folder you put the audio files in?

KuroShiro · Post by **KuroShiro** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:59 pm

Tim20 wrote:Have you tried putting the audio files into a seperate folder, loading up ScummVM, going to 'Edit Game...', going to the 'Paths' tab, the 'Extras' tab, and selecting the folder you put the audio files in?

That seems a somewhat poor solution if you plan to play more than one game with cd audio, and it's also totally unnecessary. As others have mentioned, try using CDex to extract music -- it is easy enough to use and you can be certain of what kind of file you're getting.

mercutio22 · Post by **mercutio22** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:53 pm

Thanks for all the help guys. I've converted the wmas to mp3 and it's now working perfectly! Cheers!

Tim20 · Post by **Tim20** » Sun Dec 19, 2010 2:01 pm

KuroShiro wrote:
Tim20 wrote:Have you tried putting the audio files into a seperate folder, loading up ScummVM, going to 'Edit Game...', going to the 'Paths' tab, the 'Extras' tab, and selecting the folder you put the audio files in?
That seems a somewhat poor solution if you plan to play more than one game with cd audio, and it's also totally unnecessary. As others have mentioned, try using CDex to extract music -- it is easy enough to use and you can be certain of what kind of file you're getting.

Eh? I don't understand how that can be a poor solution. It's possible he/she could have forgotten or not realized to get ScummVM to locate the specific path where the audio files (mp3s) are kept. Unless I'm missing something? Unless you don't need to do that anymore? If that's the case then I didn't even know.