I'm getting really frustrated/desperate now.

here's the info: I have a music loop Borg made for my map; it's 48 seconds, 176kbps 22kHz, which comes to about 1mb. Borg looped it, and it played fine both in beta 18 of the map, and in a test map I made.

so the loops seems fine.

however, the ambient generic wasn't changed between betas or anything. also, the ambient generic WILL play OTHER .wavs, I just can't get it to play that one.

so the entity seems fine.

I was thinking the filesize of the loop was the problem, but before I had a chance to make the shorter loop the filesize was like 3mb and it played fine!

I even tried putting the ambient_generic in other places in the map; making a new entity; and starting it off, and trigger_auto'ing it. No luck.

here's the last beta, if it's any help:
http://www.cryotank.net/remote/ahl_templeb20.zip
(fyi, this will extract to the 'action' directory; manually pop it in the valve one if you don't have AHL)

and here is the room where the music is supposed to play. the ambient_generic is just above and to the left of the tree, and set to a 'large' radius.

Any help would be appreciated. Next I'm going to try reformatting the actual .wav file. The other idea I have is to copy/paste the whole map into a new map file, since Hammer is an evil bitch and all. This is one of the last things I need to fix before finishing up the map, it's so frustrating!!

mine was 8 in double_trouble..

i got error messages, but it played anyways, i used gollums prefab to run it successfully

11 or 22 is standard I believe. 22 is 'high quality' for half-life. I have never had a problem using either.

changing it the 11 isn't really an option, as music sounds horrible at that quality.

Doc, I think I actually tried that. No workie.

oh, I'm sorry- I was rounding off the numbers. it's 22.050, double the low-quality 11.025. still 8bit mono, though.

anyway.... it's FIXED. I opened the wav in sound recorder, 'converted' it to the 22.050 8bit mono format (which supposedly it already was). Then I used a little hack program to add the sound loop like usual. and now IT WORKS!

I'm not sure what the deal was... maybe borg's formatting of it was a little off somehow.

sorry to have wasted everyone's time, I should have tried this before bugging you all. yet the old loop worked in another map.... so I thought it was fine... ug.

I am in the last stages of finishing this map up, along with retexturing ahl_monorail for BulletBait.... if I were to upload new betas, would you guys like to give them a quick once-over for me? I don't have time for any major reworking, but you guys always find the bugs, etc.

*pester* *pester*

well I was gonna finish up and post a -new- beta though

thanks asterix

now the light_environment isn't working and it's whining about Leaf portals saw into leaf crap. this map is cursed!