[Bug 48128] Soldiers of Anarchy (demos & full game 1.1.2.178) doesn't play music

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48128

Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
           Keywords|                            |download
          Component|directx-dsound              |winegstreamer
                URL|                            |https://www.fileplanet.com/
                   |                            |archive/p-18044/Soldiers-of
                   |                            |-Anarchy-Demo-2

--- Comment #4 from Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> ---
Hello,

1. There are two demos of Soldiers of Anarchy.
The first demo is the one linked in comment 2 (soademo_1.9.77en.exe).

The second demo (soademo2_en.exe) is available there:
https://www.fileplanet.com/archive/p-18044/Soldiers-of-Anarchy-Demo-2
and there (both files are identical) :
https://www.gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=1694

Both demos have a 'sounds.ubn' file in the installation directory that is
really a ZIP archive containing .mp3 and .wav files. There are music, speech
and sound effects files. Music and speech are MP3 files, sound effects are WAV
files.

The first demo has two types of MP3 files:
$ file testmusic.mp3
testmusic.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1,  64 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Monaural
$ file speechtest.mp3
speechtest.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kbps, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo

The second demo has only one type of MP3:
$ file speechtest.mp3
speechtest.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1,  64 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Monaural

Both demos have 3 buttons in the in-game option menu to test music, speech and
sound effects volumes.
Only the sound effects button emits sound when pressed.
I suspect the issue is with MP3 decoding or playback.
The MP3 files themselves play fine in a native player.

2. With the first demo, Wine complained about missing 32bit gstreamer plugins
'good'.
After I installed that, the first demo crashed in the menu. The second demo
didn't have this crash.

When I found that the non-playing files were MP3 files, I tried to install a
32bit gstreamer plugin for MP3 (it's not part of 'good' plugins).

I was hit by the incompatibility of 32bit gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad on my 64bit
debian system. I installed gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 instead.
It did fix the crash in the first demo, and music/speech started to work.

→ The issue is fixed for the first demo by installing gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
and gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 packages.

I confirm the second demo still doesn't play MP3 music/speech.

$ du -b soademo2_en.exe
168358400    soademo2_en.exe
$ sha256sum soademo2_en.exe
0f58c2563c7c0b95b712785953ad3fce32fb6f3bf4cf98a45d83d7eba2b1fc27 
soademo2_en.exe

Regards.

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