WAV files don't auto-loop! At least they never have with me and I've been coding in Blitz for 3 years! Is there anything in the WAV file format that can force them to loop - I don't know, I'm just asking.
I've not had any trouble with OGG files myself when using LoadSound/LoopSound. There is an initial pause when you first load them (which is when it first decompresses), but I've not experienced a long pause when it loops. Is it possible you're reloading the music?
An alternative to LoadSound/LoopSound is to use PlayMusic. This streams the music from your hard drive and is decompressed as it plays, which may help. The downside is that you have to keep checking if the music has finished playing and then start it up again.
PlaySound also consumes less system memory, whereas loading an OGG file could consume as much as 40MB to 100MB of memory, as the file has to be fully decompressed to play. PlaySound uses a much smaller buffer instead, less than 10MB I think, but don't quote me as I can't remember what the consumption was when I tested the two methods out (it was a while ago).
Hope that was of some use.
I've not had any trouble with OGG files myself when using LoadSound/LoopSound. There is an initial pause when you first load them (which is when it first decompresses), but I've not experienced a long pause when it loops. Is it possible you're reloading the music?
An alternative to LoadSound/LoopSound is to use PlayMusic. This streams the music from your hard drive and is decompressed as it plays, which may help. The downside is that you have to keep checking if the music has finished playing and then start it up again.
Open in online IDEGlobal musicChannel=PlaySound("music.ogg") While Not KeyHit(1) ; check music every game loop If Not ChannelPlaying(musicChannel) Then musicChannel=PlaySound("music.ogg") EndIf Wend
PlaySound also consumes less system memory, whereas loading an OGG file could consume as much as 40MB to 100MB of memory, as the file has to be fully decompressed to play. PlaySound uses a much smaller buffer instead, less than 10MB I think, but don't quote me as I can't remember what the consumption was when I tested the two methods out (it was a while ago).
Hope that was of some use.