Playing .ogg files in GM7

I asked how GM7 can play .ogg files and I got the following response:

So here are my questions:

1. Where can I find these?
2. Do I only need one of them or do I need all three?
3. Can they only be used in the pro edition of GM7?

1. http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showforum=36
2. I believe you only need one
3. Yes

To go into further detail on 3: Only the Pro version of GameMaker can use *.dll files as extensions. This is true for any function that requires *.dll's

Question 4: Are these .dll files necessary for GM7 to play MP3s as well?

Heh, I remember that quote being something I said.

To answer your question, no, but it's the preffered choice. GM can play MP3s by itself, though I have to add that GM's support for music filetypes is worse than it should be in terms of compressing and loading times. If you store the files externally and use either the default sound importing or a dll, they'll load much faster which saves loading time for the players (and of course during test runs).

Default sound importing? What exactly do you mean by that?

Default sound importing as in sound_replace or its D&D alternative. You take a sound resource (a sound in the 'Sounds' folder of GM) and replace it with an external file.

Unfortunately that action is not available in the unregistered version of GM7. I guess I'll have to stick to using MIDI music for my games then since MP3 files don't loop smoothly enough with the tools I have at my disposal and I'm not about to do anything illegal.

This post has been edited by Pikax on Oct 6 2009, 03:27 PM

No, but you need to check "external media player" (this will basically play them in Windows Media Player through the game, using the libraries).

have you tried audacity

If you mean using Audacity to edit the sound files and save them in MP3/OGG format, yes.