Problems with adding customized sounds - Please help

[Aekar]

I have been creating a new faction and have a problem with the customized sounds I am trying to put.
I have the same problem with all counds (die, hit, attack, miss...) : the sounds doesn't play.
I can call any core sounds (bite-miss.ogg ) but no customized one.
My units work well (animations, descriptions, upgrades...) but not the sounds.

My sounds are located in the "/sounds" directory of my campaign.

Here is a sample code snippet (one inside an attack_anim):

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[if]
            hits=yes
            [frame]
                begin=-100
                end=100
                image=units/stygian_unit_stygianbeast.png
                sound=stygianbeast_attack_bite.wav
            [/frame]
        [/if]

Very common thing as you can see.
Of course the problem seems to come from the paths in "_main.cfg".
So I have tried different things to make it working, with no success after hours of forum reading and .cfg file editing. What a mess.

Here is the "_main.cfg" code:

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[campaign]
    name=_"unlimited_conquest"
    description=_"Campagne d'essai"
    difficulties="EASY,NORMAL,HARD"
    difficulty_descriptions="&icons/icon-serverother.png=" + _"Valet" + "="  + ";*&icons/icon-general.png=" + _"Chevalier" + "="  + ";&icons/icon-display.png=" + _"Champion" + "="  + ""
    define="CAMPAIGN_UNLIMITED_CONQUEST"
    first_scenario="1_Premier_depart"
    icon="icons/icon-addon-publish.png~TC(1,red)"
    icon_easy="icons/icon-serverother.png"
    icon_medium="icons/icon-general.png"
    icon_hard="icons/icon-display.png"

    [about]
        title = _ "Author"
        [entry]
            name = "Christophe Finas (fra)"
        [/entry]
    [/about]
[/campaign]

[binary_path]
    path=data/campaigns/Unlimited_Conquest/
[/binary_path]

#ifdef CAMPAIGN_UNLIMITED_CONQUEST
[binary_path]
    path=data/campaigns/Unlimited_Conquest/
[/binary_path]

{@campaigns/Unlimited_Conquest/scenarios}
{@campaigns/Unlimited_Conquest/sounds}

[+units]
    {@campaigns/Unlimited_Conquest/macros}
    {@campaigns/Unlimited_Conquest/units}
    #traits that are common to all races and units
    {TRAIT_UC_HEAVY}
    {TRAIT_UC_STRONG}
    {TRAIT_UC_RESILIENT}
    {TRAIT_UC_QUICK}
    {TRAIT_UC_INTELLIGENT}
    {TRAIT_UC_SKILLED}
    {TRAIT_UC_KILLER}
    {TRAIT_UC_DEXTROUS}
    {TRAIT_UC_UNWILLING}
    {TRAIT_UC_MILD}
    {TRAIT_UC_STUBBORN}
    {TRAIT_UC_FEARLESS}
[/units]

#endif

I have also tried without the "path" out of the #ifdef...
Please help me, I need to go further with Wesnoth editing and am stuck here for an unknown, certainly stupid reason

[Turuk]

Moved to the proper forum and removed the color.

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[zookeeper]

I don't see anything wrong with that. Check your stderr/stderr.txt after you should have heard the sound in-game.

Also, {@campaigns/Unlimited_Conquest/sounds} doesn't do anything.

[Aekar]

I forgot to update this thread's status.

Thanks a lot Turuk for moving it to a more according place. And for the information about posting guidelines.

Thanks a great lot zookeeper for your advice.

Looking into stderr.txt indeed provided critical help - Wesnoth couldn't read the .WAV files whereas "Windows Media" or "BSPlayer" could. It was an odd codec-crypted WAV file (whereas WAV files usually do not use any codec at all).

I solved my problem by playing the WAV files from any reader that could do it, and recording the sound being played from the sound card itself (with ARRecorder Wizard or anything like this). I saved it in OGG format and it worked.

And this general information about stderr.txt helped me work on a lot of other things.

Problem solved!