Only playing white noise

[grovecat]

I have put a music file called Air.mp3 in the Applications folder and tried to play it with the simplest possible app, having one button as shown below. The files listed in the field "theFiles" show me that the file to play is in fact in the default folder. However, all I get in both the IDE and standalone is three minutes of white noise, corresponding to the three minutes of music actually in the file. It plays normally in Finder preview or in iTunes.

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on mouseUp
   put the files into the field "theFiles"
   play  Air.mp3
end mouseUp

Also, invoking the Beep command produces no sound either. Am I missing something basic?

Running 10.7.4 on an iMac, with LiveCode 5.5.1.

[jmburnod]

Hi Grovecat,

I have the same results with a .mp3 file with command play and using player
I testes .aiff file and they work fine with the same scripts
I am not sound specialist but it seems file mp3. don't work
(OSX 10.6.8 LiveCode 5.02).
I will test it with Lion and LiveCode 5.5.1

Best regards

Jean-Marc

[jmburnod]

On Klaus's explanation about mp3 here:

http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... mp3#p57677

[grovecat]

Thanks guys

That explains the problem.

Cheers
Don