Playing very long ambient soundtracks

To put it in perspective, I just purchased my license on the 22'nd, but have gotten a lot of things working so far. Thank to all the docs, and helpful forum posts.

One problem I haven't solved yet has to do with my ingame ambient sound track.

I have it working just fine as long as the ogg file is relatively small, but when I try to play a large ogg file, say about 8 megs (It's a 10 minute loop, wich I would really just like to stream) the engine seems to freeze on load. I don't see anything interesting in the console log and no errors pop up.

At first I thought that perhaps it was just loading the entire thing before it would play it, but I let it run for a long time last night, and now I think it's just frozen.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Here are some of the details of what I'm doing:

in client/scripts/audioProfiles.cs

new AudioProfile(InGameMusic)
 {
   //Clint
   //ingame.ogg is a hunge 8 meg ogg that seems to have trouble loading
   //ingame2 is a shorter, but still long 2 meg ogg that seems to load fine
   //investigating..
   
   //filename    = "~/data/sound/music/ingame.ogg";
   filename    = "~/data/sound/music/ingame2.ogg";
   description = "AudioMusic";
   preload = false;
 };

and in client/scripts/playGui.cs

function PlayGui::onWake(%this)
{
   // Turn off any shell sounds...
   // alxStop( ... );
   alxStop($MusicMenuMain);
   alxPlay(InGameMusic);   
.....

again thanks for any advice, I'll debug the code, but was hoping someone else might have a quick answer.