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The Porch / Re: How long will this website stay up?
« on: November 12, 2021, 02:04:11 pm »
Popping in here a whole year later...  Glad to see this site is still planning on sticking around for us hobbyists.  I saw that landolights website is no longer functional although the URL still work, but with just a white screen.  Anyone know what's up with that site?  They had a great repository of Vixen 2.x sequences there that was pretty useful in getting my light shows going.  I just had to adapt some of the sequences to my layout and got things going thanks to all of those shared sequences.
This was a great resource for beginners, as are any of these various forums including DLA.

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xlights / Re: Simple audio question
« on: December 26, 2013, 10:56:15 am »
SUCCESS!!  I finally have music along with the lights now!  My wife and son sat out in the car with the radio tuned to the transmitter's frequency and enjoyed the show for a few minutes last night and then we shut off all the lights and went to bed (about 1AM by then).  Everything's set to come on each night through new year's eve, then (bummer) pulled down until next year.  I have a feeling I'll be planning out the next show all throughout the next year though!  My son and I were already brainstorming some ideas for that.    :D

Thanks again for the help and suggestions.  I would have ended the holiday season in frustration if not for you all!
A happy and prosperous new year to you all!

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xlights / Re: Simple audio question
« on: December 26, 2013, 12:07:20 am »
Thanks, I was hoping I wouldn't have to do all that but I guess it shouldn't take too long.  Maybe I will be able to add some FM music to the sequences by tomorrow night... I'll post the results!
Thanks again.  Forums are great!

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xlights / Re: Simple audio question
« on: December 25, 2013, 09:17:48 pm »
Well, I found all the audio files, have them in MP3 format, have them in the same folder as the Xlights sequence files, and tried adding them to the playlist.  Still no audio...
Then I took a look back at the conversion log (from when I converted the vixen files to Xlights) and noticed there is a line in the conversion for "media file =" and there is nothing in that line.  I'm assuming the audio file needs to be listed there. 

Does anyone know how to get the audio files attached to the sequence files?  Is there an editor that can open the file to accomplish this?  The converted files are .xseq files, not xml files, but I'm hoping there is a way to edit the .xseq files to add the audio filenames.

The lights look really cool sequencing away out there in the front yard, but I'm sure people are wondering what frequency to tune their car radios to as they watch... like the guy down the street has.   :)

Any help or ideas would be appreciated.

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xlights / Re: Simple audio question
« on: December 24, 2013, 10:30:53 pm »
Yea, I thought I had seen that information when I was downloading the sequence files so went back through and checked while I was downloading the music to be sure they were the correct song versions.  Still wondering if song format matters though... iTunes defaults to AAC but can be changed to MP3 if need be.  Does it matter to Xlights which format the audio file is in?

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xlights / Re: Simple audio question
« on: December 24, 2013, 07:51:07 pm »
Just thought of another question...
How is the audio file married to the Xlights file?  Seems like it would have to have the exact file title or something like that.

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xlights / Re: Simple audio question
« on: December 24, 2013, 07:01:31 pm »
Thanks for the replies.  I'll get on itunes and DL me some music!   :)
Just to be sure... MP3 files work?

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xlights / Simple audio question
« on: December 24, 2013, 03:10:03 pm »
Hi all,
My first post here... I'm feverishly working on getting something going for tonight on my 16 channels of LOR controlled lights.  I purchased a single kit LOR controller and assembled and tested it a few weeks ago.
I just installed Xlights and have found it to be fairly intuitive for the most part, and I've downloaded some 16 channel vixen sequences and converted them to Xlights.  The lights are working as expected, but I don't hear the audio from the music.  I've done the usual bonehead checks (volume control, etc) and still no audio out of the laptop speakers.  BTW, the laptop is running XP.  I have an FM transmitter to connect once I get some audio output from the laptop.

I guess my question is - are the MP3 (or whatever format) audio files part of the sequence file or do they need to be loaded separately??  This is the last hurdle I need to jump to get a show together for the remaining days of the holiday.  I had assumed the audio would be part of the sequence but maybe not...

TIA

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