Music tracks can not be played

[drwhojoe]

I notest with games like Tomb raider,tekken,ridge racer the music tracks do not play

Thease game are old and the music can play with just a cd player, ePSXe 1.6.0 has Enable XA sound witch alows the emulator to play the Music tracks, pSX 1.4 can not play music tracks in thease games is it possable to add in somethink like Enable XA Sound so the music tracks play??, I downt under stand what XA stands for?, but i do know it works, Music tracks can not be turnd into an iso as it plays from the CD

Try it for your self with ridge racer

Drwhojoe,

[lewpy]

Just to be clear on something, if you can play the CD Audio tracks back in a normal CD player, then they are refered to as "CD-DA" (CD Digital Audio, I think). This is normal, uncompressed audio.
XA is different, in that it is compressed audio that is stored in a file within a filesystem (hence why not playable on a standard CD player). XA can also be interleaved on the disk, so that you can stream it while streaming other data (without having to keep seeking the CD reading head).

Now, I've just checked Ridge Racer in pSX v1.4, and the CD tracks play fine while racing (this was from a .CUE/.BIN file, which has all the audio tracks in it).
The .CUE file needs to have entries such as this


FILE RIDGERACER.BIN BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:02:00
INDEX 01 00:23:12
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 00 05:41:00
INDEX 01 05:43:00
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 00 10:15:71
INDEX 01 10:17:71
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 00 15:36:47
INDEX 01 15:38:47
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 00 21:03:29
INDEX 01 21:05:29
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 00 26:12:18
INDEX 01 26:14:18
TRACK 08 AUDIO
INDEX 00 31:16:37
INDEX 01 31:18:37
TRACK 09 AUDIO
INDEX 00 33:18:38
INDEX 01 33:20:38
TRACK 10 AUDIO
INDEX 00 34:35:58
INDEX 01 34:37:58
TRACK 11 AUDIO
INDEX 00 34:47:36
INDEX 01 34:49:36
TRACK 12 AUDIO
INDEX 00 36:51:38
INDEX 01 36:53:38
TRACK 13 AUDIO
INDEX 00 38:30:32
INDEX 01 38:32:32
TRACK 14 AUDIO
INDEX 00 41:01:21
INDEX 01 41:03:21

If you were playing from .BIN, please check your .CUE file.
Does pSX record any "cdda" errors in the console window?
Where you playing from a real PSX CD?

[lordartzi]

Well, then that may also be the reason of Wipeout 3's crashing. I think it crashes when it should start to play random cd track at the title.

[drwhojoe]

So this just means pSX can not play music tracks from the game CD?, Game that i sed ridge racer 1,tomb radier 1,2, tekken the music tracks do play from a cd player,

But how come when i use ePSXe 1.6.0 enable AX sound it dose then work if this mean it compressed, unless ePSXe go it back to front?,

Drwhojoe,