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Crash when playing mp3 on device, works on simulator

by Randy Condon · in iTorque 2D · 08/12/2011 (12:00 pm) · 5 replies

When I try to play an mp3 on the device via startiPhoneAudioStream, I get an EXC_BAD_ACCESS error in the sound engine code.

When running the simulator, all works perfectly. (iTorque 1.4.1)

I've seen a couple of threads with a similar problem, but there was never a listed resolution.

The console lists these errors:

Error opening file: -43
Error opening file: -43
Error getting file format: -50
Error getting file data size: -50
Error getting file data info: -50
Error creating queue: 560360820
Error adding isRunning property listener to queue: -50
Error setting up queue: -50
Error getting packet upper bound size: -50
Error allocating buffer for queue: -50

From what I can tell, the path name looks fine (and it does play in the simulator).
I also tried a few variations, like game/data/audio/music/FE_Music.mp3

startiPhoneAudioStream("~/data/audio/music/FE_Music.mp3", true);

Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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Community Manager Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#1
08/12/2011 (12:05 pm)
Works in simulator, but not on device? Hmm, weird. I wonder if there is something wrong with the encoding. Can you send me the music so I can test it on my device? Use michaelp@garagegames.com

Randy Condon
Tomozaru Games, Inc
#2
08/12/2011 (12:21 pm)
Thanks for the quick response Micheal.

And now it began working. I guess I just needed to post for suitable embarrassment.

The -43 error code is file not found. Maybe the mp3 wasn't getting copied over to the device until suitable profanity was uttered. I've since taken care of that.

Thanks.

Randy Condon
Tomozaru Games, Inc
#3
08/12/2011 (12:24 pm)
Oh, one more thing. For this particular path, I made sure the path and file name matched case sensitivity of the listed directories. Not sure if that was the problem or not.

Community Manager Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#4
08/12/2011 (12:25 pm)
Well, that's good news then. One less thing for me to debug over the weekend =)

Glad you got it working.

Torque Owner Rachel P
Default Studio Name
#5
06/17/2012 (5:41 am)
I'm having this same problem. The game runs on the simulator, but it crashes after the splash screen on my iPhone with this error. Anyone have any advice? Thanks! :)


EDIT: Just wanted to say I got it working. I think the problem was I was having two mp3 files trying to play at the same time, which doesn't work.