| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 3 Mar 2001 at 09:46:13 |
| Subject: | Re: Sound problem |
Hello Smoggie
On 02-Mar-01, Smoggie wrote:
> Hya Folks.
>
> I've just started to get a problem on my A1200. When booting up, I
> get the message "ERROR: can't load sound." I click on continue a
> couple of times and then Workbench boots up normally.
I had this the other day when I swapped my hard disks around. The sample I
used in the sound prferences no longer existed, so it came up with this
error. Check the "sample:" path/filename in the sound preferences editor.
> However, I can't
> now play wavs or MP3's. I deleted the copy of "Sound" in the Prefs
> drawer and replaced it with a copy of it from a backup, but I still
> get the same message. I suspect its a hardware problem, perhaps the
> Paula chip is u/s or something along those lines, but I wondered if it
> could possibly be a software fault that I could rectify. Any help
> would be appreciated.
I think you'll probably find that this is a datatype problem rather than
hardware, replacing the sound preferences editor won't make any difference.
Check that
SYS:Classes/Datatypes/sound.datatype is present, also a Wave (wav) datatype is
in Devs:datatypes. As for MP3's what are you using to play these? a datatype
or another program?
Regards
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