@ForestNinja0Thanks for the information. I'm off to fix some of my bad mp3s as I type. However, I'm not sure that this is the issue experienced in this particular thread. Everyone in this thread is saying that the venue speakers won't play custom music, while the home radios will. If the game could not read these mp3s due to null information, they wouldn't be playable at all, correct?
Your files aren't bad and ID3 tagging isn't necessary for any part of the encoding/decoding process however it is the current standard for mp3 metadata [information about tracks, artists, labels, file origin, etc] and it was clear to me that the game required it when I noticed that it was unable to display filenames. All of my custom tracks were listed with strings of invalid characters such as 'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu' and I could only play one track under one genre. The game will play at least one track until it encounters the error, then it won't play another custom track therefore you'll have to remove or edit all of the files which are missing the ID3 data.
My sims party happily to their custom house techno everywhere they go with any stereo object, including venue speakers, after editing the ID3 tags.
But what's the difference between venue speakers and others that this is a problem on them and not the rest of the audios ?
There is no difference which is why I'm sure they'll solve the problem by correcting the file data however there is a possibility that there are multiple instances which aren't of the same context, in which case they'll have to wait for a patch. I've tested every build and I've never seen any problem other than null file data causing rejection of files and/or failure of audio controls.
Edit: In response to your question, I believe that they're encountering the error during loading of the lot since the list is randomized and the stream is activated at that time. Once the error is encountered, the object won't read the next file.
Still doesn't make sense to me why they only encounter it on speakers and no where else.
I don't use custom music myself so I'm not going to hunt this down.
