Game Music Emu - how do I use it?

[NÖÖB]

Hey,
can anyone tell me how to play, say, an .nsf?
I can't find anything about GME on the wiki, other than that it's supported by 0.9.0

[Ranguna259]

See the audio module.

[NÖÖB]

Well, yes, I've tried playing it like this

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function love.load()
   song1 = love.audio.newSource("kim280513.nsf")
   love.audio.play( song1 )
end

etc..
etc..

but then love.exe tells me

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Error
Extension "nsf" not supported

[veethree]

Well, yes, I've tried playing it like this

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function love.load()
   song1 = love.audio.newSource("kim280513.nsf")
   love.audio.play( song1 )
end

etc..
etc..

but then love.exe tells me

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Error
Extension "nsf" not supported

The error speaks for itself doesn't it? I'm not familiar with .nsf files, But the love audio module only supports conventional audio files like ogg, wav etc.

[MadByte]

a quick search on the wiki showed up this :
Audio Tutorial

there is a link with all ( apparently ) supported formats, but I can't give a warranty for that info.

[NÖÖB]

-_-

"0.9.0 Additions:
(...)
OPTIONAL: Added support for Game Music Emu".

That's all I can find about it on the wiki. I also know GME supports nsf. Don't know what they mean by optional, though. Perhaps I have to build love with some flag set..?

[bartbes]

I don't think any of the binaries we ship actually have it enabled.

[Roland_Yonaba]

Dunno if love.audio support nsf files. As far as I know, NSF is an audio format for NES files.
Good news, using foobar and his plugin foo-gep, and LAME encoder, you can convert NSF files to MP3. And from that, to any format you want (Ogg, wav, etc...).

[NÖÖB]

bartbes: will any of the binaries you ship have gme enabled in the future?

[rixard]

I'm also curious on how to get it to work. I love the fact that Löve supports various tracker
formats already. It would be nice to support nsf(NES music too). There are still people making
nsf-music; and the size is really small compared to an MP3 or Ogg. Seems like
the game music emu lib is ~166KB zipped, and a zipped NSF-file is perhaps 50KB. Now,
the smaller file size for music isn't that big of a deal in this day and age but
for a game with lots of music; and one that uses tracker modules vs. ogg/mp3 it would
make a huge difference.

Keep löving!