Ren'Py Tip for Ren'Py apks: If your audio track has non english characters in the title it might not play

[jai_investigator]

Just wanted to share a quick tip for Ren'Py I discovered while making my latest game build. I found that when I tried to make an APK of my game some audio tracks wouldn't play and others would. I couldn't immediately find out why because they all played on PC distributions and the encoding was all the same. Eventually I figured out that it was the tracks that had Japanese characters in there title that weren't playing... I changed the title to English characters and ta-dah everything played

So... TLDR if you are making a Ren'Py APK and you have audio tracks with non-english characters in the title that aren't playing, change them to English characters and they might play!

 

[osanaiko]

Just wanted to share a quick tip for Ren'Py I discovered while making my latest game build. I found that when I tried to make an APK of my game some audio tracks wouldn't play and others would. I couldn't immediately find out why because they all played on PC distributions and the encoding was all the same. Eventually I figured out that it was the tracks that had Japanese characters in there title that weren't playing... I changed the title to English characters and ta-dah everything played

So... TLDR if you are making a Ren'Py APK and you have audio tracks with non-english characters in the title that aren't playing, change them to English characters and they might play!

Nice find!

This deserves a bug report to Renpytom. Or at least a post on lemmasoft forum.