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"no data chunk" in wav file

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:57 am
by junglist
I'm trying to add a music file via the 'music' key to worldspawn. When the level loads, the console reads "No data chunk in sound/junglist/blah.wav" and the file does not play. The file is in 22khz 16bit stereo just like every other q3 music track, so I don't get what's going on. It plays fine in Winamp and sndrec32, so the file itself should be good.

Any ideas?

Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:10 pm
by Shallow
Try loading into and resaving from a different sound app. Q3 doesn't seem to like wavs from certain programs, such as Windows Sound Recorder.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:22 am
by junglist
You were right. It didn't like my wav file exported directly from Reason, either. So I downloaded Audacity, opened the wav, resaved it... and it worked. Good old free software!!

Thank you, Shallow.