What will be the max length of music tracks that play in the background? If a track is too large or long, will problems start to happen? Cant really test this in Max yet.

Probably the same as GG, haven't heard of any changes to sound in MAX.

If for any reason you experience any problems with this, you can always do a Lua check to see if the track has stopped playing and moved to the next one. Basically cutting a file up into chunks and playing them as separate sound files.

How long of a track are you looking to experiment with?

Not sure yet on the length needed, I was considering using a few long tracks instead of contextual or evented music. How are things in Classic - whats the longest bgm song length you can have there bug-free?

I can use 11 minute .ogg files easily.

Interestingly the music.lua script in MAX appears to be empty, you could try copying over the one from GG to see if it all works.

Basically you specify the length of the sample when you load it like this:

music_load( 1, "audiobank\\Batman\\BatwingAudio\\BatwingMusicAudio.ogg", 0, 575712 )

The first parameter is the track number, the second number is the fade in time and the last parameter is total track length, both values are in milliseconds.

Then to set it playing:

music_play( 1 )

By default if the player dies the music will stop, to disable this use:

DisableMusicReset( 1 )

I've attached music.lua just in case you don't already have it.

It's possible it won't work if they haven't integrated these functions yet or if they have been disabled in MAX for some reason.

There are all sorts of useful functions in music.lua if it does work in MAX!