Sound just don't work

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#1

Hello.

I started two days ago with openfl. Did some basic tutorials. Today I started working with sounds. Except they simply does not work.

OpenFl 4.2.0-LetoAe
Run as Debug, target neko.

project.xml:

<assets path="assets/audio" rename="audio" type="audio" />
<assets path="assets/sfx" rename="sfx" type="sound" />

Project of course has assets/audio and assets/sfx with some .mp3 and .ogg files.

Code:

var sound:Sound = Assets.getSound(“sfx/menu_over.mp3”);
sound.play();

Program will simply exit unexpectedly at line with sound.play(). Only info in console is
AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed

As I understand it, it is not related to problem, it is just cleanup message.

There are no stack traces or exceptions in console.

#2

Try OGG

http://www.openfl.org/blog/2013/09/18/to-mp3-or-not-to-mp3/

#3

Yep, ogg worked. But why program ended without any warning, error or stacktrace? It makes very hard to solve issues.

#4

You probably got a null result. This might fix it in the future:

var sound = Assets.getSound ("sfx/menu_over.mp3");

if (sound == null) {
    
    trace ("Could not load sound sfx/menu_over.mp3");
    
} else {
    
    sound.play ();
    
}

(it should not return null normally, but in this case, it was probably null since it could not decode the MP3 sound)