playSound with table problem

[John Smith]

i am trying to play a song which was selected in gridlist but failing in doing so

  
rowMusic = { 
"Ke$ha - We R Who We R", 
"Eric Saade - Popular", 
"Loreen - Euphoria" 
} 
  
-- some hidden code in here which isnt needed here 
  
function onPlayButtonClick() 
if not guiGridListGetSelectedItem(GUIEditor.gridlist[1]) then outputChatBox("You need to select a song!",255,0,0) end 
if source == GUIEditor.button[1] then 
   for i,mName in pairs(rowMusic) do 
       local theMusic = guiGridListGetItemText ( GUIEditor.gridlist[1], guiGridListGetSelectedItem ( GUIEditor.gridlist[1] ), 1 ) 
       if mName == theMusic then 
          if fileExists(theMusic) then 
           
             sound = playSound(theMusic) 
             guiSetText(GUIEditor.button[1],"Play") 
          else 
             downloadFile(theMusic) 
             outputChatBox("Please stand by while song you requested is downloading.",255,0,0) 
  
          end 
     end 
end 
end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick",root,onPlayButtonClick) 

theMusic (which i selected) was Ke$ha - We R Who We R and when i used outputDebugString to get that string

as wiki says filepath must be a string,but already is a string so why isn't it working?

or do i need to do something like this?

theMusic = """..theMusic..""" 
-- should(?) become "Ke$ha - We R Who We R" aka filepath 

Any help is appreaciated

[Dealman]

Try;

local theMusic = guiGridListGetItemText ( GUIEditor.gridlist[1], guiGridListGetSelectedItem ( GUIEditor.gridlist[1] ), 1 )..".mp3" 
  

As the wiki mentioned, the filepath must be a string. But you're checking if the file "Ke$ha - We R Who We R" exists - not "Ke$ha - We R Who We R.mp3". It has to be a filepath.

It might be something else causing it, I may have overlooked it - didn't read through all of your code. Writing this from my phone

Edit:

I should have a link to a radio resource in my signature, which I made a while back, to stream URLs. You're free to download it and see if you find anything useful - it's open source as with all my releases.

[John Smith]

it has been a while since i posted a new post in here

now i got this code without any errors but music isn't playing though.

function onPlayButtonClick() 
if not guiGridListGetSelectedItem(GUIEditor.gridlist[1]) then outputChatBox("You need to select a song!",255,0,0) end 
if source == GUIEditor.button[1] then 
   for i,mName in pairs(rowMusic) do 
       local theMusic = guiGridListGetItemText ( GUIEditor.gridlist[1], guiGridListGetSelectedItem ( GUIEditor.gridlist[1] ), 1 ) 
       if mName == theMusic then 
          if fileExists(theMusic..".mp3") then 
             sound = playSound(theMusic..".mp3") 
             guiSetText(GUIEditor.button[1],"Play") 
          else 
             downloadFile(theMusic..".mp3") 
             outputDebugString(tostring(theMusic..".mp3")) 
             outputChatBox("Please stand by while song you requested is downloading.",255,0,0) 
             setElementData(localPlayer,"state","Downloading\n "..theMusic) 
             exports.loading:startLoading() 
          end 
     end 
end 
end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick",root,onPlayButtonClick) 

anybody knows what's the cause?

[John Smith]

please help

[IIYAMA]

Check if the variable sound is created and if that part is executed.

[John Smith]

it starts downloading and onClientFileDownloadComplete or whatever says that download has failed, and it keeps restarting

though the filepath is perfectly fine written

please help

[ViRuZGamiing]

Couldn't the problem be that theMusic isn't to string so it gives now as path;

theMusic".mp3" which actually has to be "theMusic.mp3".

tostring(theMusic)..".mp3" 

[John Smith]

-- theMusic returns this 
theMusic = Loreen - Euphoria -- an example 
  
-- how i use it 
theMusic..".mp3" 
-- becomes Loreen - Euphoria.mp3 
  

and yet it doesn't download the file at all, i dont know why

[ViRuZGamiing]

theMusic needs to be tostring(theMusic)

[John Smith]

it is already a string

[IIYAMA]

it starts downloading and onClientFileDownloadComplete or whatever says that download has failed, and it keeps restarting

Post the other part of the code, you said that the file is constantly in a re- download progress.

A file which get overwrite every time can't be played, since it is never complete.

[John Smith]

function handleSongDownload(fname,state) 
if getElementType(source) == "resource" and getResourceName(getThisResource()) == "musicpanel" then 
   if state then 
      setElementData(localPlayer,"state","Music Download Finished. ") 
      outputDebugString("download finished "..tostring(state)) 
      setTimer(function() 
      exports.loading:stopLoading() 
      setElementData(localPlayer,"state","Playing") 
      end,5000,1) 
   else 
      downloadFile(fname) 
      outputDebugString("download failed of "..tostring(fname).." restarting...") 
      setElementData(localPlayer,"state","Trouble in Music Download.\nRestarting...") 
   end 
end 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientFileDownloadComplete",root,handleSongDownload) 

[IIYAMA]

1. The download is never successful?

2. Show me the music-file (line) in the meta.xml which is meant to be played.

3. Show me the string you send to download the file.

[John Smith]

1.it just keeps returning that download has failed for forever

2.

"Ke$ha - We R Who We R.mp3" download="false" /> 
"Eric Saade - Popular.mp3" download="false" /> 
"Loreen - Euphoria.mp3" download="false" /> 

3.

-- originally when i click a button 
else 
-- if music file doesn't exist then 
downloadFile(tostring(theMusic)..".mp3") -- becomes a correct string wwith .mp3 on the end which becomes string filepath 
  
-- if file download fails, it activates this 
downloadFile(fname) -- filepath is fname 

[Gallardo9944]

Try using latent events to transfer the file itself. Should work properly.

[IIYAMA]

Well, try first to download one successful.

I will recommend you to remove those spaces between the file name and replace them with _

They always bring bad luck.

@ Gallardo9944

That way they can become corrupted and they will be corrupted when the download gets interrupted by a disconnect.

[Gallardo9944]

That way they can become corrupted and they will be corrupted when the download gets interrupted by a disconnect.

Not really. If a file is not written yet, the song will simply be unsaved. If you disconnect while the file is being written, it will still finish the process.

[John Smith]

i have done some tests and confirmed that spaces are not the problem @iiyama

@gallardo excuse me but i dont want to use those function(s) i haven't yet used them and its harder than downloadFile and i just want to do it like this way because there isnt any reason why to complicate all this when it's easy with downloadFile

by "investigating" i have found no clue of this problem

in my server it would always fail to download(even when i have turned off all custom resource), even though some other resources like my custom downloader can download things perfectly fine.

So, my knowledge of mta and lua itself ends in here, and i am stuck without knowing what to do and how to fix the problem.

In my local server it downloads perfectly fine even if file has name fioefj32f o2f23.r.-2.,32,.-23.,4"#"&%$#$%#$.txt

and it has no custom resources

[John Smith]

please help me someone this is driving me crazy

[IIYAMA]

You should let somebody you trust, test it for you.

It might be possible that it is an intern problem.

[John Smith]

i have found out that it was a host problem about downloading files because some test examples didn't work (like easiest example of downloadFile), but still musicpanel isn't downloading anything properly, leaving files at 0 byte of size.

though my music panel still isn't downloading.

The only possible error i could have caught is this.

BASS ERROR 1 in LoadMedia path:C:\Program Files (x86)\MTA San Andreas 1.4\mods\deathmatch\resources\musicpanel\Eric Saade - Popular.mp3 3d:0 loop:

[Anubhav]

try removing the spaces.

[John Smith]

if using simple script with a single line

downloadFile("asf$ #435 34%#$#W ER čl34 -5#$#JSD]˘^˘˛°˛.txt") worked fine and downloaded well then that just can't be the case unless the table is passing values incorrectly

[Saml1er]

Try using latent events to transfer the file itself. Should work properly.

I'd suggest the same.

[John Smith]

can you give me an easiest example of downloading a "example.txt" file with those file functions and latent events? i haven't really used latent events before so i don't want to make a massive mistake D: