Cannot load anything other than .wav into a Song

MGZero · July 16, 2015, 3:15am

I’ve been trying to load a wma into memory with Content.load but I’m getting the following exception:

Specified stream is not a wave file.

The inner exception is null so I really have nothing else to go on. I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, VC#2010 Express, Monogame 3.4 with OpenGL. Is Monogame missing an implementation for this?

Mattlekim · July 17, 2015, 6:29am

Try using song.FromUri

MGZero · November 12, 2015, 2:00pm

After a few months, I’ve finally found my answer! This line appears to be the culprit:

github.com

MonoGame/MonoGame/blob/0b25f56e861fb602db884c40267b99ea947bae15/MonoGame.Framework/Audio/AudioLoader.cs#L36


    byte[] audioData = null;
    format = ALFormat.Mono8;
    size = 0;
    frequency = 0;


    using (BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(data))
    {
        // decide which data type is this


        // for now we'll only support wave files
        audioData = LoadWave(reader, out format, out size, out frequency);
    }


    return audioData;
}


private static byte[] LoadWave(BinaryReader reader, out ALFormat format, out int size, out int frequency)
{
    // code based on opentk exemple


    byte[] audioData;

Any idea when support for other formats will be added?