DWI noob seeks professional help!

[hadesbomber]

ok this is the....um....i think 4th time i've posted a post and the last 3 only one person responded and gave me a shitty answer *cough*BURGER *cough*. anyway, i need big time help with this!! i've put all the crap in the right place and this is what it looks like
-song
--magus(personal folder)
---magus2(song folder)
----magusteme.mp3
----magustheme.dwi
----magus.png
WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING WRONG? sorry, got a little carried away.... IF ANYONE ANSWERS THIS I WILL BE THEIR LIFE LONG SLAVE AND WORSHIP THEM LIKE A GOD! AND IF ITS A GIRL I'LL TRY NOT TO LOOK UP YOUR SKIRT!
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he who pisses in fan, gets very wet

[87x]

umm.... whats the problem is it now showing up in song list or somethig...

[Freak83]

I've had this problem too and it's extremely annoying. I found that the problem was in the file header. I asked Nestlekwik to send me a sample file of a song that works, and this was the file thingy for it.

#FILEJENCO~1.MP3;

Well I messed around with the file name in mine and finally got it to work somehow. I'm not sure what I did so no point in posting, just mess around with the file name thing until it works.

[hadesbomber]

ok, 87x, it says no songs found when i click on arcade mode. heres the code, tell me if somethings wrong with this (btw, i re-installed it 3 times so dont u dare tell me to do that) i copied and pasted so the names are in fact correct,
#file:magus theme.mp3;
#title:magus theme;
#artist:squaresoft;
#bpm:30;
#gap:0;
#single:basic:4:848624684268;
I GIVE MY THANKS TO FREAK AND 87X FOR ACTUALLY GIVING ME A DECENT RESPONSE! ty for your kindness
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he who pisses in fan, gets very wet

[87x]

hmmm... well depending on what you using (SM or DWI) if its DWI (which im pretty sure it is based on the layout you where using) if i remember correctly (which i doubt) you have to specify the complete location of the mp3.... ex...
c:/DWI/Songs/myne own/zelda/zelda.mp3

i'll probably be corrected so dont go changing anything yet...

ps. ive only made one dwi... and it was 3 months ago... so my memory is kinda blurry....

[SotN]

Delete the #FILE entry altogether. I think you're only supposed to use it when specifing a song that isn't in the immediate song folder.

P.S. When you do use the #FILE entry, it should me in MS-DOS format. (all caps, no spaces, no special characters, up to 8 characters). That should be
#FILE:MAGUS~1.MP3; but that probably won't work either for the reason above.

[Corraiv]

Just right click the song > properties > copy address(make sure you dont get any spaces) and insert that into the file thing.

That should be the only problem, its happened to me a few times.
I wouldn't leave out the #FILE tag altogether unless the entire address solution doesnt work. Or you could always try moving the song into a different folder, like maybe your Local DWI folder > Mp3s. Then you can copy the address into the #FILE.

[Kailem]

I had this problem, too. Then I changed a few things in my .dwi file and it worked. Mainly, I renamed the MP3 file so that it was all caps and less than 8 characters ("HIP.MP3"). Then, (which is what I think was the real problem) I noticed that Notepad automatically added returns (or "enters") at the end of every line, so I took off word wrap (Format >> Word Wrap) then got rid of the returns by simply deleting them. My file works now.

[QreepyBORIS]

All I did wrong was I left it in the .zip.

Heh, oops.