An update has already been submitted to Microsoft as of Monday night to fix some of the issues with the new audio player on Windows. I'm trying to work with SuperpoweredAudio (the company/library I'm using for audio) to address some of the issues, but they haven't committed to making any changes for me. So I've implemented workarounds in the meantime. There are two issues that can stop audio from working in 2.4.2:
1) If you've changed the storage location, audio won't work (the Superpowered audio library fails to open every file due to permissions)
2) If your audio files have special characters in them, the Superpowered audio library won't load the files, as it doesn't support unicode, severely limiting what characters are supported.
To get around those two issues, I now have to copy every audio file into the application cache folder before playing it, and I try to strip any characters out of the name which would cause it to fail to load. It's really unfortunate that I have to do this, but there is no better answer until the Superpowered library is changed.
Mike
1) If you've changed the storage location, audio won't work (the Superpowered audio library fails to open every file due to permissions)
2) If your audio files have special characters in them, the Superpowered audio library won't load the files, as it doesn't support unicode, severely limiting what characters are supported.
To get around those two issues, I now have to copy every audio file into the application cache folder before playing it, and I try to strip any characters out of the name which would cause it to fail to load. It's really unfortunate that I have to do this, but there is no better answer until the Superpowered library is changed.
Mike