Issue with music not playing

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#1

Hey all. I’ve encountered another issue with making my game.
Sound design is one of my favourite elements of a creation process, nothing satisfies me more. So here I am with a level, and all the sounds work perfectly- except the music. I don’t know the issue.

It’s just the standard “play it at the start of the scene” affair- but with a twist. See, I thought it was the issue where you have to interact with the game first to get it to play. I set up a dummy scene- nothing.

Then I thought of making it play once a timer has reached 0.5 second- nothing.

So I tried another piece of music…and it works perfectly. It also works perfectly with sound effects. Just not the music I made for the game.

And it’s not just the file that’s the problem- I tried another one I made and that one doesn’t work either. And believe me, these are just normal WAV music files that play anywhere. My sound effects made with the same programs work fine. I tried an MP3 conversion and those ones don’t work either.

I’m thinking it might be due to the fact they’re 2 minutes in length (and a few seconds)? I’ve tried them in OGG format too to see if it’s memory related (which reduces the track from around 20mb to 4mb) and that has the same result-nothing.

#2

Update: I shortened the music to 1:15 from 2:00 and it works now. The only problem is it sounds terrible, because it’s meant to be a slow, driving song. But now I know that the issue is the song length.

Could someone test to see if they have a problem like this? where a song over 2 minutes won’t play? I really would like to circumvent this and be able to play my song at normal speed.

#3

My issue is that my music only works on some devices but not on others. I think it has to do with the version of android

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