Sadly, Pax is over, fellow gamers are packing up, and exhibitors are leaving before the cleaning crew shows up. There was a lot of SWAG, a lot of people, and a lot of games. I mentioned a few booths in my first post, so this time I am going to try and cover some notable booths I did not mention or did not get a picture of the first time around. I am trying to cover some of the major features here, but this is by no means a complete feature list.
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Day one of the PAX expo is officially over and I have some pictures and information about the exhibitions to talk about. The day started harmlessly enough, we queued in the queue room to wait for the exhibition hall to open. While we waited the enforcers made sure we were not bored by entertaining us with internet memes and blow up beach balls.
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Ever want to get more out of your music? Feel like your relation
ship is entirely one sided? Then you probably have not played Audiosurf yet. In a nutshell this program turns you music into a game that you play for points and against other people if you so wish. There are quite a number of cool features in Audiosurf but they are easily discovered while playing or researching the game. Instead I wish to make this post about a problem Audiosurf has, which is that tracks can be inconsistent across operating systems.
If you have ever seriously tried to play Audiosurf with someone or maybe a group of people you might discover that another person’s track is different then yours, in both congestion and block positioning. It so happens that me and my friends have setup a mini competition where we get scored for points and positions in several weekly songs. For full details: http://surfoff.blogspot.com/
Back to the main purpose of this article, yes, tracks do differ between operating systems, most common are windows xp to windows vista. The problem seems to be with the mp3 decoders, or so they say.
Here is how to fix this problem, simply use an open source audio editor like audacity and export the mp3 as a wav file. Then distribute and surf the wav file. You might want to use a good compressor, like winrar, for the file however, as it will be big.
Why does this work?
Audiosurf must first decode an mp3 before it can process it for block positions and colors. This process can differ between operating systems as previously discussed. So what we do here is decode the mp3 once on one machine and distribute the song uncompressed. This way Audiosurf does not need to decode anything, which in turn means it is not operating system sensitive.
Happy surfing
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