renpy music won't play!! [SOLVED] (2025)

I've put the music in the correct file, and have done the correct way to play music "audio/musicfile.mp3", to the point where Renpy used to recognise it and it worked just fine! Now, for some reason, it's having problems and saying it can't find my music file.
"OS error: Couldn't find the file 'audio/bgm_bachelorlearns.mp3'
Any idea if this is glitch or something off with my code?

these are the strings of code renpy has a problem with: play music "audio/bgm_bachelorlearns.mp3"
play music "audio/spookyviolin.mp3"
play music "audio/whitenoise.mp3" fadein 1.0

audio for other ones works as well following the exact same code. one that works is : play sound "audio/breathing.mp3"

aaa dont know what to do. bit confused

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE JUST IN CASE:
Check if songs are corrupted and can be playable in other music players

Renpy automatically detects all audio files inside the "audio" folder and stores them inside the audio-object. So when playing files you can simply do:

play music spookyviolin# orplay sound whitenoise

I'm not sure why some files play and others create an error though. You sure there is no typo inside the filename?

This sounds odd.

Make sure:

1) the files are actually inside the "myproject/game/audio" folder (sorry for even mentioning that again!)
2) you have read access for those files (like they are not only accessible by root or admin or something)

Could you provide one of those files here? I could check if my project detects them. xD

roachflower wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:43 pmOkay, so since I messaged I found out why that 'intro.mp3' wasn't specifically playing (something to do with icloud) but there's still music that doesn't play for no reason.
How do I check read access?! And sure, I can send a rain mp3, but I don't know how to do that, haha.

When replying here, you can add an attachment below the buttons next to "Options".

Normally files should have read access, I just added this to be sure. If other programs can play them, you should be save.

Okay, it's not letting me attach anything, but holy shit.
I tried playing all of the problematic sound files and to my HORROR they all do not play. No idea why not, but they just cannot be played by usual players. Looks like I'll have to replace a lot of sounds I thought were fine.
Thank you so much for continuing to reply (and for helping me figure out how to use these forums, lol.)

The last question I have for you because you seem very Knowledgeable is that my game cannot recognise my "main_menu.png" in the gui, so I can't access my load screens in game. Any reason behind this?

roachflower wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:08 amOkay, it's not letting me attach anything, but holy shit.
I tried playing all of the problematic sound files and to my HORROR they all do not play. No idea why not, but they just cannot be played by usual players. Looks like I'll have to replace a lot of sounds I thought were fine.
Thank you so much for continuing to reply (and for helping me figure out how to use these forums, lol.)

what properly happened is that your music files got corrupted somehow due to power outages or bad hard drive or bad sector on the drive

roachflower wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:08 amThe last question I have for you because you seem very Knowledgeable is that my game cannot recognise my "main_menu.png" in the gui, so I can't access my load screens in game. Any reason behind this?

have you changed anything in screens.rpy if so can you provide your changes

this is what the code should look like

style main_menu_frame: xsize 420 yfill True background "gui/overlay/main_menu.png"

can you go to gui/overlay and find main_menu.png and open it in any photo edit to see if it opens up?

or

it could be the reason what I said about your hard drive or file is corrupted

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rayminator wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:44 amhave you changed anything in screens.rpy if so can you provide your changes

this is what the code should look like

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style main_menu_frame: xsize 420 yfill True background "gui/overlay/main_menu.png"

can you go to gui/overlay and find main_menu.png and open it in any photo edit to see if it opens up?

or

it could be the reason what I said about your hard drive or file is corrupted

THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOD?!?
I had never opened screens.rpy, so the default was
# background "gui/main_menu.png/"
Which I thought was weird, so i then deleted the hashtag and replaced it with your code. THEN I got an error message that the game_menu couldn't be found. I put the dots together and found out that for some bizarre reason the code was changed to just "/game_menu.png" which meant it couldn't find it.

No idea why it turned out like that, I hadn't ever opened screens.rpy. Thank you so much! I'm a newbie programmer so I'm still learning why the program does what it does.

Thanks for everyone's time and help, my problems are now SOLVED to completion!!!

Imperf3kt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:40 pmDo you hide file extensions, or are they shown?
I've seen people often accidentally name files things like "mysong.mp3.mp3"

Thanks for replying! My songs ended up being corrupted and unplayable, but I'll look out for this next time.