Wav Overlapping Problem

i am making a 8-bit Mario game with game maker 7 and i am using wavs because i think midis sound really cheep .
but when i die the music does not stop it keeps on playing then when the level restarts two of the same song is playing at the same time
it sounds horrible! can any one help me?
(if you need a video to know what i am talking about just ask)

This post has been edited by popiBROS1 on May 27 2008, 02:21 PM

Whoops,overseen that.Write GM instead of game maker.
Convert them to wma or MP3.WAVs are indicated as a sound,and sounds keep playing because there are multiple sond channels in GM.WHen you set the sound settings of the WAV to "Use multimedia player" it will work too.But I recoommend converting them.

This post has been edited by Latia on May 27 2008, 02:21 PM

ok for one never use wav's for your music. ever.

secondly i would think gamemaker could stop wav's that are playing on loop

You´re too late.:P

yeah but you forgot to tell him never use wav's for music

I told him to convert them.That means pretty much the same plus an explanation how to do better.:P

thanks guys

girl here.

.....thanks guys/girls
lol

have you tried
"sound_stop(sound name)"?

If you have registered your GM, you can use the best compressed sound format, OGG with Supersound DLL.

Okay,I don´t want to start arguing about which filetype is smaller,but maybe it´s just my converter.Cause a 3.5MB mp3 ends up in a 778.4KB wma and a 2.8MB ogg.Hmm....

what converter do you use?

VUplayer.

no one told him to set it as a background sound in the resources?

...or use function stop_sound?

That´s pretty much the same as background sound,only that you have no default parameters and it can play more filetypes.

either's better than using a wav

Obviously.<_<

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