(Undefined Property Issues) Report more informative error message when an undefined track is accessed. about harlowe-audio

[Meydri]

Try this:
...
The zip you sent me works on my laptop (the one that's struggling right now). Sound settings look clear. But I guess I'll continue using the zip you sent me hahah. Might be some weird bug, it's quite the conundrum. Either way, things have worked out. :) Thanks so much, again hahah.

[ChapelR]

Defining a track in a separate passage isn't enough, you must define the track:

1. in a startup-tagged passage,
2. in the hal.tracks special passage, or
3. in your story JavaScript section or equivalent, after the code for HAL.

Are you certain you defined the track in one of those three ways?

[Meydri]

Defining a track in a separate passage isn't enough, you must define the track:

1. in a startup-tagged passage,
2. in the hal.tracks special passage, or
3. in your story JavaScript section or equivalent, after the code for HAL.

Are you certain you defined the track in one of those three ways?

Yes, I defined it in a hal.tracks special passage!

[ChapelR]

Can you send me the file?

[Meydri]

Can you send me the file?

Of course! I'll send a zip which includes the audio folder. The text itself inside the passages are in Swedish eheh, but the code I've referenced from HAL is all in English so hopefully it'll be understandable.

[ChapelR]

Can you tell me how to recreate the issue? Which links to click in which order?

[ChapelR]

The story JavaScript of the file you sent is empty. There don't appear to be any HAL macros or a hal.tracks passage

[Meydri]

Can you tell me how to recreate the issue? Which links to click in which order?

For me, it popped up as an issue as soon as I came to a passage where I had the code implemented. The first link to click is "Knacka." It could be that it didn't update from the old file. I'll send you a new one. Sorry for the trouble. It should have a hal.tracks passage if it's correct.

[ChapelR]

The issue is capitalization.

In hal.tracks:

obstacles: ./audio/Obstacles.mp3

In passage:

{
(track: 'Obstacles', 'loop', true)
(track: 'Obstacles', 'playwhenpossible')
}

In passage should be:

{
(track: 'obstacles', 'loop', true)
(track: 'obstacles', 'playwhenpossible')
}

I should probably make a more directed error message for those kinds of issues.

Suggestion: I would recommend using all lowercase letters in your file names, e.g. ./audio/obstacles.mp3 instead of ./audio/Obstacles.mp3, since some computer systems treat lowercase and uppercase letters as different and some don't.

NOTE: I removed the files from your comments so other people can't download them.

[Meydri]

The issue is capitalization.

In hal.tracks:

obstacles: ./audio/Obstacles.mp3

In passage:

{
(track: 'Obstacles', 'loop', true)
(track: 'Obstacles', 'playwhenpossible')
}

In passage should be:

{
(track: 'obstacles', 'loop', true)
(track: 'obstacles', 'playwhenpossible')
}

I should probably make a more directed error message for those kinds of issues.

Suggestion: I would recommend using all lowercase letters in your file names, e.g. ./audio/obstacles.mp3 instead of ./audio/Obstacles.mp3, since some computer systems treat lowercase and uppercase letters as different and some don't.

NOTE: I removed the files from your comments so other people can't download them.

Aah, I see! You're right in that I probably should stick to stricter naming conventions, I'll keep that in mind in the future. The code works fine now in that I no longer receive any error messages, but no sound will actually play despite it being unmuted... (insert various befuddled facial expressions here). Might be something dumb that I'm just not noticing, though.

Thank you so much for your help, I truly appreciate it, and I'm sorry for all the trouble.

[ChapelR]

It plays for me. What browser are you using? Make sure audio is allowed in the settings.

Press F12 to check the JavaScript console and see if anything is there.

[Meydri]

It plays for me. What browser are you using? Make sure audio is allowed in the settings.

Hmm.. Apparently the file wasn't found, according to the JavaScript console. Oh, and I'm using Google Chrome.

[ChapelR]

The file you sent me is sound and plays.

[ChapelR]

Try this:
...

[Meydri]

It plays for me. What browser are you using? Make sure audio is allowed in the settings.

Press F12 to check the JavaScript console and see if anything is there.

Aight, I tried zipping it and opening it on another computer and it works just fine on that computer lol. So weird. But I guess that's fine. Thank you for your support.

[ChapelR]

Strange. Well try going to chrome://settings/content and checking the sound setting. If that doesn't do it, I'm not sure what will, sorry.