Music not working

[epilepticPi]

I just wrote this:

#include <SFML\Audio\Music.hpp>
        sf::Music music;
        if(!music.openFromFile("music_background.wav"))
        {
                std::cout << "ERROR" << std::endl;
        }
        music.setLoop(true);
        music.play();
 

But i got an error message in cmd:
Failed to open sound file "music_background.wav" (format not supported)
Failed to play audio stream: sound parameters have not been initialized (call initialize() first)

How can i fix that?

[eXpl0it3r]

What format is your music in?

[epilepticPi]

.wav

[eXpl0it3r]

That's not a format but merely a container.

[epilepticPi]

"Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due to its filename extension)(rarely, Audio for Windows) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs" -Wikipedia

[victorlevasseur]

Look at the "WAV file audio coding formats compared" section in the wikipedia article. You'll see that audio can be encoded in many different ways in a WAV file. You can even put MP3 encoded audio inside a WAV file.

[Hapax]

I guess we could rephrase the question:
which codec was used when saving the file?

[epilepticPi]

vlc says its codec is MPEG Audio Layer 1/2(mpga)

[Laurent]

SFML only support PCM wav files.