by Don » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:11 am
Hi,
I think I may be able to help a little here.
The game uses two playlists in Media Player. They are called Bliss and Bliss Background. You can see them by starting Windows Media Player and going to the library tab, then look on the left under playlists.
If your playlists are referencing wma files, but there are mp3 files installed, this indicates that the low bandwidth version of the game was installed first. Then at a later date, the high bandwidth version of the game was installed. The first time the game is run it creates the playlists. After that, it leaves them alone because the user can customize them to add their own music or delete music that comes with the game.
When the high bandwidth versioin of the game was installed (and the low bandwidth version uninstalled) the format of the music files changed, but the playlists would not be updated because they would look like the user had customized them.
To get around that problem, simply delete the Bliss and Bliss Background playlists from within Media Player, telling it to remove them from the database and from the computer. Just Right click on the playlist name and choose delete.
Then when Bliss runs again, it will rebuild the playlists. This will probably make the music play properly, but there still may be a problem because of the hang you described that required a hard power down to get out of, although it is possible that updating the sound drivers may have fixed that.
Please let me know if this works out or if you have further problems.
Thanks,
Don