How do I get my music to play?..... and how to turn pong game into OOP

First thing, you have to be sure that your mp3 file is at the good format. You can use ffmpeg to convet it for example with a line code: ffmpeg -i  in.mp3 -acodec pcm_u8 -ar 44.1k -ac 1 out.wav (with in.mp3 as name of the name of the file to convert and out.wav as the name of the converted file you'll play with your META)

I did that and the sound still wont play

ok, else, in setup you can try to keep only:

void setup() {     

gb.begin(); 

}

and to put the play sound in the loop

void loop() {

gb.sound.play("songname.wav");

}

and of couse check in the menu that the sound is turned on, but i think you have alredy checked it

You probably need to add gb.update() somewhere, as it handles the sound. Try this :

void setup (){
  gb.begin();
  gb.sound.play("songname.wav");
}

void loop(){
  while(!gb.update());
}

Also, if you struggle with white noise after converting your .wav, you can try to use SoX instead of FFmpeg, and disable dithering like this :

sox -V -D in.mp3 -r 44.1k -e unsigned-integer -b 8 -c 1 out.wav rate 44.1k

You can also lower the sampling frequency to 22.05kHz or even 11.025kHz, depending of the sound quality you want to achieve.

I put in loop. I have converted it also. it is within file location. it does compile. volume on the gamebuino set to max. however the sound does not want to play. 

other games sound works but not my one.

I don't know if you're supposed to hear anything like that, as it would play your melody from the start over and over and at a very fast rate...

Try this :

void setup(){
  gb.begin();
  int music = gb.sound.play("melody.wav", true);
}

void loop(){
  while(!gb.update());
}

Also, you should keep track of the music id, to be able to stop it using gb.sound.stop(music);

Are you 100% sure your wav file is 8-bit, single channel, unsigned?

yeah I changed it via audacity

I don't know if this will help or not, but in order to get my audio files to play, I have had to embed the path into the gb.sound.play function (i.e. gb.sound.play(/folder_with_the_game_in_it/song_title.wav,true);

D.

Huh it should cd automatically into /folder_with_the_game_in, so that you should be able to use relative paths. This sounds odd