I need help with loops.

[PotatoStrike]

So as many of you may know, MM8BDM v5 had the feature of looping musics. Great changes, it feels more like Mega Man since the previous loops weren't conventional loops. Now I may ask:

How does it work and how can I reproduce it in a custom map?

Because it would be really helpful for any mapper that want their music looped correctly.

Thanks for answering.

[Russel]

You need to get a program like Winamp or Audacity that can edit the tags of a music file. Things like Name, Author, etc.
After this, you add a new tag named LOOP_START, with the value of the tag being the time you wish for the loop to start.

Say the intro of a song ends at 5.432 seconds. The value of the tag should be :5.432.
That's it, really.

If you need examples, you can look at pretty much any track from LegoPack or MM8BDM-v5.
8BDM uses sample position instead of time, in Audacity this can be viewed by changing the units viewed under Selection Start at the bottom of the editor.

[PotatoStrike]

Alright, thanks for answering. I tried some loop but when I did change the music, it shows this:

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Invalid LOOP_START tag: '6.629'
Can you help me on this please?

[Russel]

Wow I'm late on this.
You need to start the value with a colon. The value on the above should be ":6.629", not including quotation marks.

Sorry about the late response.

[Zdagger67]

if you working looping music, change your hh:mm:ss+millisecond into samples in selection start.
here explain it:


so "6.629 second" It is "292354 samples", This solution is right for looping music

[TheDoc]

Actually, I do it with milliseconds just fine. When you export it, just create a new category called LOOP_START (underneath the categories like Artist, Author, etc.), then fill in the corresponding box likes Lego shows. Be sure not the forget the colon at the beginning and you should be good to go.

Ex:

The value of the tag should be :5.432.

[Russel]

both samples and time tags work fine
core MM8BDM uses samples [which I did not know when I looped NEEMUS which is why it's screwed up] while my map pack uses time.

both work fine and neither is explicitly better, I just prefer time because it's clearer.

[PotatoStrike]

Now it works with samples! Thank you so much, guys!