no music

[anatoly techtonik]

Binary package hint: meritous

There is no music in distribution package and even when it is placed from original source tarball to /usr/share/games/meritous it still doesn't play.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 21 09:56:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: meritous 1.2+dfsg-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: meritous
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

[castlefox (subwayfox)]

When did this problem start happening?

I had this problem after upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

I have development 9.10 and there wasn't any music from the moment I installed it.

[delvalle26 (bassaf)]

The Ubuntu package of meritous-data is missing the music.

Meritous homepage
http://asceai.net/meritous/

Grab 1.2 source tarball.

Inside there is a folder called dat
In there are folders a, d, i, and m.

In Ubuntu, /usr/share/games/meritous
Has the folders a, d, and i...
m is missing.

Even copying the m folder contents to usr/share/games/meritous/m/
Does not provide music.

Looking at the source code from the homepage, (audio.c) it looks for things in relative path dat/

So I'm guessing whoever packaged the tarball for ubuntu modified it to point to usr/share/games/meritous for sound effects and everything else but omitted the music? (This is just a guess though.)

Workaround:
Long story short, extract tarball:

cd meritous_v12_src
make
./meritous

Enjoy the tracked music goodness in-game.

P.S. If you use audacious or have the right plugins for gstreamer, you can listen to it whenever...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sylvain Beucler (beuc)]

For reference, /usr/share/doc/meritous/README-music.txt explains it all :)