Possibly add OGG functionality(?)

[KVonGit]

play sound will play an OGG if you change the extension from .ogg to .wav.

...after altering the source code a bit at first, of course.

...but I couldn't find a way to make things work without telling Quest an OGG was a WAV. I barely understand how it works in the WebPlayer app, and I really don't understand how it works in the desktop player as far as this is concerned. I think it all comes down to WMP in the desktop player, though.

After a little research, it seems Windows 10 does not support OGG natively. (I always install VLC; so, my tests work, where others (with no Vorbis codecs installed somehow) fail.)

[vurt834]

It'd be nice if there was a way to play more than one sound at a time. That's mostly why I used audio tags with ogg files...i would use ogg for the looping music, and the innate play sound command for sound effects because you could layer them together.

[KVonGit]

Yeah... It would be nice. I think the issue with that is that the desktop player is using WMP. ¹

Also, back when I decided to try OGG for the background audio, the desktop player's browser was too old to handle MP3. I need to redo this test using MP3. If that works now (and I think it will), then we won't need OGG for anything and there will be no Safari browser compatibility to worry about.

Also also, I failed to include it in any of the recent tests, assuming play sound should still work on top of HTML audio to play more than one sound at a time.

I'll switch the OGG to MP3, add a second sound, and post the results somewhere, just for completion.

Footnotes

1. I made this a Discussion rather than an Issue because the next version of Quest (Quest Viva) will not be a Windows app and shouldn't have this issue. ↩

[KVonGit]

#1426 (comment)

The desktop player can handle MP3 in an HTML audio element, as of Quest 5.9. 👍 👍