Today I decided to add audio to my Tesla Simulator. The cars by Tesla Motors are powered by electricity so I couldn't find a classic engine sound I could download from somewhere on the Internet. So I had to look through YouTube videos to find someone who drove a Model S and at the same time didn't talk. That wasn't and easy task! But I found about 3 seconds of electric car engine sound, which is actually mostly sound from the air and the tires.
I imported this mp3 file into Unity and added it to the cars. But, to my horrors, the sound wasn't looping correctly and it made a clicking sound each time it looped. I made a Google search to find a solution and noticed that a lot of other people had the same problems in Unity with "Audio "click" at loop point" and "Clicking wav loops." But no-one had a good solution.
After a few trial and errors I found a good and easy solution. What you need to do is to make your audio file "seamless", like those seamless textures. This is how it is done:
- Download Audacity, which is a free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
- Open your sound file in Audacity.
- With the left-mouse pressed, mark the part of the audio file that will make up the entire loop. The end and the beginning audio-lines should end close to the "zero" line, which is the black line in Audacity.
- Copy it and paste it into a new file.
- Now we need to make it seamless. Mark a small part of the beginning of the audio (with the left-mouse pressed), go to Effects and pick Fade In. Then mark a small part of the end of the audio, go to Effects and pick Fade out.
- Go to File and pick Export Audio.
- Drag the exported audio into Unity and you will hopefully not hear a clicking sound each time the audio file loops!
Thanks for info!
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