EDGE issue

[Sonikku7]

Sorry if this has been addressed before, but I can not get music playback at all in EDGE. The opening theme plays, but once I load a level all I get is just the regular sound effects without music. Even if I switch the music playback options I get nothing. Running EDGE 1.31 on Vista if that helps.

[andrewj]

By default EDGE uses the Windows MIDI synthesiser to play back DOOM music. I'm not sure if Vista still has it, maybe it needs to be enabled in a control panel somewhere?

Alternatively you can use the built-in synthesiser (Timidity). Instructions are in the README that comes with EDGE, see the "Timidity Music Support" section.

[Graf Zahl]

Vista still has it but I've been having problems with it since the start. It plays but I can't control the volume. It wouldn't surprise me if others had problems, too.

What sound card do you have? If it's a MIDI capable card it may also be a driver issue.

[Sonikku7]

Downloading 8mbgmpat for timidity support seemed to fix it. Strange though, I've never had to do that for any other source port. Now I just can't seem to get QDoom to play it's music files.

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"What sound card do you have? If it's a MIDI capable card it may also be a driver issue."

According to Device Manager, Realtek High Definition Audio.

[Graf Zahl]

Yeah, same for me. Vista system MIDI playback on that thing totally sucks. I'm not surprised that you are having problems.