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  • Decoy19
    FFR Player
    • Oct 2003
    • 24

    #1

    Step Mania Problem, need help

    Hello,

    I recently got a new computer and redownloaded step mania and all of my songs.

    The problem i'm havingn now is that when i play songs, they will occasionally "skip". They'll just seem to jump ahead in the middle of playing them and it's really pretty annoying.


    Is there anything i can do to fix this? Or is it just my computer?
  • super-smashman
    FFR Player
    • Nov 2004
    • 2638

    #2
    RE: Step Mania Problem, need help

    Lower the resolution. Go into Graphic options and make everything lower. It helps ALOT.

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    • Decoy19
      FFR Player
      • Oct 2003
      • 24

      #3
      ok i'll try that out. thank you

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      • Decoy19
        FFR Player
        • Oct 2003
        • 24

        #4
        well i tried lowering it all the way down and that didnt help. I also tried the raise it all i could and it was still the same. Neither really made the skipping in songs happen less or more.

        Could it possibly be program confliction or something? any input would be great.

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        • Tsuteto
          FFR Player
          • May 2004
          • 1312

          #5
          Could be something running in the background... but I couldn't be sure.

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          • super-smashman
            FFR Player
            • Nov 2004
            • 2638

            #6
            Turn off some processes that you don't need running when you play. But you really shouldn't have to do that with a new computer.

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            • Decoy19
              FFR Player
              • Oct 2003
              • 24

              #7
              ya thats what i'm not getting. Now i'll admit that i'm not the most brilliant mind when it comes to computers. But i did forget to mention something and wanna see if this could be causing songs to skip.


              These songs were all burned on cd's for me from a friend. Now the cd's were rather scratched up but i was still able to extract them to SM. It seems like a far out idea to me but could the scratches from the cd hurt the song files even if put onto the computer?

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              • super-smashman
                FFR Player
                • Nov 2004
                • 2638

                #8
                Actually yes that could be the reason, try just playing the mp3 if it always cuts out at one part then the mp3 is corrupted and the sim is no good.

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                • Decoy19
                  FFR Player
                  • Oct 2003
                  • 24

                  #9
                  well i went and played the mp3's out of real player. I played 10 songs in which i've seen them skip in SM. All of these songs played perfectly in real player. I have no clue as to whats causing this anymore.

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                  • Moogy
                    嗚呼
                    FFR Simfile Author
                    • Aug 2003
                    • 10303

                    #10
                    Did you actually copy the files onto your harddrive? Stepmania dislikes running things off of CDs.
                    Plz visit my blog

                    ^^^ vintage signature from like 2006 preserved

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                    • Decoy19
                      FFR Player
                      • Oct 2003
                      • 24

                      #11
                      ya. i extracted the songs from the cd and put them in the SM song folder

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                      • TheRico
                        FFR Player
                        • Jan 2005
                        • 38

                        #12
                        I also get two kinds of skipping on my iBook (but none on my PC). Every dozen or so songs it suddenly skips for about half a second (freezes, then skips ahead) which is extremely annoying. And on certain songs it skips all the time by very small amounts. You can play it normally, but the arrows are jerky. I think it's something to do with decoding the mp3s at certain bitrates.

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                        • super-smashman
                          FFR Player
                          • Nov 2004
                          • 2638

                          #13
                          StepMania also dislikes Macs. The skipping will happen more or less. The best you can do is just to always play SM on a low resolution while nothing else is running.

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                          • WhitShadowZO
                            FFR Player
                            • Sep 2005
                            • 4

                            #14
                            About week after I made a song it stopped to work. The banner turned pink and when I play the song I don't get the music. Would you know why this is happening.

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                            • IAAW
                              FFR Player
                              • May 2005
                              • 3008

                              #15
                              This happened to me too, and I'm not sure of the cause. But I was able to fix it. And it happened because I downloaded Euphoria, and had Euphoria already (different songs), and ended up screwimg up the first Euphoria song where it would not play, and had a pink banner. I figured out that it was still playing because the song was still connected someway to SM strangely (it was in the recycle bin). So, I emptied my recycle bin, and everything was fixed.

                              I dunno if this problem relates to your problem in someway WhitShadowZO, but you should investigate and see if my problem is what's causing your problem.

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