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I.K.E.M.E.N. Central => IKEMEN Releases => Ikemen General Discussion and Help => Topic started by: CyberMario on November 08, 2017, 04:01:09 am

Title: Looping Music in IKEMEN Plugin 3 Step Guide (VGM UPDATE)
Post by: CyberMario on November 08, 2017, 04:01:09 am

With a huge special thanks to GarchompMatt (http://mugenguild.com/forum/profile/garchompmatt-71558)!
We now have the ability to play .logg (looping .ogg) music in IKEMEN! I've noted the step below.

Unspoil this for the old method of playing ADX and BRSTM looping music in IKEMEN:

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So with an additional plugin, you can easily have looping music play in IKEMEN! This plugin gives IKEMEN the ability plays ADX, HPS, and BRSTM music. The great thing about ADX and BRSTM file types is that the loop points are built right in and they are easy to make!

Pros:

• Easy Setup
• Doesn't create massive files
• No manual configuration for most files you want to loop

Cons:

• You will have to redownload new larger music files from http://smashcustommusic.com/
• Some music you have has to be converted into a new format regardless

Steps:
  1. Download this file http://hcs64.com/files/in_cube038_bin.zip
  2. Extract in_cube.dll from the zip folder to your IKEMEN/plugin folder
  3. Copy and paste this code to the end of your plugin.ini

Code:

;This is the code that allows ADXs, HPS, BRSTM to play while looping
[Stream Player]
;Thread Priority, higher number = higher priority
CPU priority=3
;Fade length in seconds
fadelength=0
;Fade delay in seconds
fadedelay=0
;How many times the music loops, set to 0 to play infinite
looptimes=0
;ADX
adxchannum=1
;Only play channel adxchannum
adxonechan=0
;Cutoff Freq (Hz)
adxcutoff=500
;RSF
rsfcoef1=29000
rsfcoef2=13000

Congratulations! IKEMEN is now ready! What's left now is to get some ADX or BRSTMs. You can either convert the music you have now or you can go to http://smashcustommusic.com/ to get some already looping music. I highly suggest using the website because it takes out all the busy work of converting files yourself. I will very briefly go through how to convert your music but first let me explain some of the differences between file types.

HPS:

• Music files used in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Kirby Air Ride
• Conversion is a hassle

ADX:

• Music files used in a variety of SEGA games like Sonic Adventure DX
• Lossy file format.

BRSTM:

• Music files used in Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Lossless file format. Although it has a slightly larger file size than ADX, I highly recommend this music type because of its quality and popularity.

HOW TO CONVERT YOUR MUSIC TO BRSTM:

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• Download BrawlBox. Here is the latest version: https://github.com/libertyernie/brawltools/releases/latest (https://github.com/libertyernie/brawltools/releases/latest)
• Convert your music to 16bit .wav using Audacity or another program of your choice.
• Open BrawlBox.exe. Go to >File>New>Audio>BRSTM Audio Stream.
• Open your music.wav
• In the new window, decide if your music loops, and at what point does the music loop. It's all done in samples.
• Click "Okay" and wait for it to encode.
• On the main window, right click your new file, click export and place the song in your IKEMEN/sound.
• Finish

HOW TO CONVERT YOUR MUSIC TO ADX:

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• Download CRI Middleware ADX Tools. http://shenmuesubs.sourceforge.net/download/addons/CRI_Middleware_ADX_Tools_v1.14_Win32.rar (http://shenmuesubs.sourceforge.net/download/addons/CRI_Middleware_ADX_Tools_v1.14_Win32.rar)
• Convert your music to .wav using Audacity or another program of your choice.
• Listen to your song in Audacity and pay attention to where the loop starts and where the loop ends. At the bottom of Audacity, change the timing to samples instead of it's default.
• Record the the sample of the loop starting point and the loop ending point. Test to make sure it works
• Extract ADX Tools and open AdxEncorder.exe
• Change your output directory to IKEMEN/sound
• Load you music.wav as an Encoding Target.
• Right click your target and select "Looping Settings..."
• Determine if your song loops and where does it loop.
• Click Ok and Click Encode
• Finish

Other Misc Information:

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The website and author responsible for this plugin can be found here http://hcs64.com/ (http://hcs64.com/). Careful reading will show that in_cube.dll is a obsolete plugin that the author, HCS, has dropped support of. He instead puts work into a new plugin called in_vgmstream, which has plenty of new features and allows for more music file type playback. Info on this can be found here http://hcs64.com/in_cube.html  (http://hcs64.com/in_cube.html). However all attempts to get in_vgmstream and its accompanying plugins to work with IKEMEN has failed. I'm no expert in audio files and plugins. If you can figure out a way to get those plugins to work then I'll quickly drop in_cube.dll for your new method of in_vgmstream.dll.

:ball:The steps to getting .logg to play using the vgmstream plugin::ball:

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• Download the Mega Link: https://mega.nz/#!9LZWxCDS!xPOiZY-K6IJPn6OzUZ2F-fQFI307iJzzQfWUFFpClbI
  
• Extract the contents of the ZIP folder.
• Copy and paste all of the contents of the IKEMEN folder into your IKEMEN project folder
• (If asked to overwrite, click yes)
• Open your plugins/plugin.ini with your favorite text editor
• Add the code from "Add this code to the end of your plugin.ini.txt" to the end of your plugin.ini file

You are all set

If you are from years in the future, mega.nz has gone nuclear, and you need to get those files:

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• Download and extract https://www.hcs64.com/files/vgmstream/vgmstream-r1050-50-gd22a43b-test.zip
• Copy and paste all .dlls EXCEPT FOR in_vgmstream.dll into your IKEMEN folder.
• Copy and paste in_vgmstream.dll into your IKEMEN/plugins folder.
• Download and extract http://hcs64.com/files/vgmstream_external_dlls.zip
• Copy and paste the libvorbis.dll into your IKEMEN folder. Say yes on the overwrite.
• Open your plugins/plugin.ini in your favorite text editor.
• Add these lines of code to the end of your plugin.ini

Code:

;This is the code that allows various Video Game Music File types to play[/li]
[vgmstream plugin]
;Thread Priority, higher number = higher priority
thread_priority=4
;Fade length in seconds
fade_seconds=0.00
;Fade delay in seconds
fade_delay=0.00
;How many times the music loops
loop_count=0.00
;If the music will loop forever
loop_forever=1
;If the plugin will ignore the looping specifications in the file and play till the end
ignore_loop=0
;If you want to use the github r1050 version of vgmstream, include this line
;disable_subsongs=0

You are all set

The big issue with getting vgmstream to work properly is that libvorbis.dll does not play nice with it. libvorbis.dll is part of the required dlls that winamp (and IKEMEN) need to use vgmstream to work. If you were to use the latest vgmstream and libvorbis, IKEMEN will throw an exception. The libvorbis.dll we provided is from the r1040 of vgmstream, which works as intended. We also gave you a specific version of vgmstream that removes some extraneous .dll files that allow for playing rare and outdated video game music file types. Since these extra music file types are unpopular and the latest vgmstream is a bigger size, we omitted the use of the latest version. Regardless, you can find a list of all those extra file types and link to the latest version here (https://github.com/kode54/vgmstream). Speaking of which you can find the bug list of the very latest version (and most likely the version we gave you) of vgmstream here (https://github.com/bnnm/vgmstream/wiki/Bug-list).

:ball: Special Thanks: :ball:
This years old thread (http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/using-adx-instead-mp3-your-bgms-35553.0)
PlasmoidThunder#1542 aka GarchompMatt on the IKEMEN Discord
Alceris#7364 on the IKEMEN Discord
HCS for his plugin
The Super Smash Bros. Modding Community

Title: Re: Looping Music in IKEMEN Plugin 3 Step Guide
Post by: Layanor on November 08, 2017, 05:28:29 am

What an amazing find. Well done!

Title: Re: Looping Music in IKEMEN Plugin 3 Step Guide
Post by: Ace Syntax on November 08, 2017, 11:51:14 am

This is exactly what I needed right now

Title: Re: Looping Music in IKEMEN Plugin 3 Step Guide
Post by: TheFclass97 on November 08, 2017, 12:04:31 pm

Noice!

Title: Re: Looping Music in IKEMEN Plugin 3 Step Guide
Post by: PlasmoidThunder on November 08, 2017, 02:41:16 pm

This is great and I'm glad it works perfectly, though the files being bigger is a slight issue; if we can find a way to get in_vgmstream working, then looping .oggs (.logg) will then be usable which are significantly smaller than the likes of .adx and .brstm.

For those curious, here are the sizes of the exact same audio file, but in different formats:
.mp3 (looped + fade) - 5.83 MB
.mp3 (cropped for MUGEN looping) - 2.96 MB
.adx - 9.2 MB
.brstm - 9.35 MB
.logg - 2.54 MB

But still, it's nice that IKEMEN can finally play looped BGMs.

Title: Re: Looping Music in IKEMEN Plugin 3 Step Guide
Post by: Ace Syntax on November 10, 2017, 12:58:20 pm

Is there a way to move the pin in the exact time that I wanted to loop using BrawlBox? I mean, my reaction time was bad and using the stop button frustrates me.

Title: Re: Looping Music in IKEMEN Plugin 3 Step Guide
Post by: PlasmoidThunder on November 10, 2017, 03:58:23 pm

You'll have an easier time making the loop in Audacity and copying the sample values over to BrawlBox when you import the .wav, not to mention the loop will be more accurate.