Hi! I absolutely love pydance and think it's a great program. I use to play it on my old computer, but when I migrated to a laptop, it started crashing frequently when browsing songs. At first I thought it was because the songs were .mp3, but converting them to .ogg didn't help. So I ran pydance from the terminal to see if it provided any output. (I should have done that in the first place I guess!)
<br><br>File "/usr/share/games/pydance/interface.py", line 33, in load_banner<br>banner = pygame.image.load(filename)<br>pygame.error: Unsupported image format<br><br>Some of the folders had songs referencing .avi files (I guess StepMania supports animated backgrounds; I think they're distracting.) Deleting the AVI's fixed the frequent crashes when browsing songs in those folders. I thought you ought to mention that "AVI files might cause trouble, so if you are having crashes, delete them" on the FAQ page. (I "cd" to the folder causing trouble and ran "find -type f -name *.avi -delete") Oddly, not all AVI's appear to cause trouble - there's another folder that has AVI's but doesn't seem to cause crashes. I didn't poke around deep enough to determine exactly which AVI files were causing trouble, however.
<br><br>There were some other errors on loading, mostly along the line of "E: list index out of range". I'll attach a copy of the standard output.<br><br>--William Hilton<br><br>