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Soldat Interface Mods & Mod Making => Modding Ideas / General Discussions => Topic started by: CerealToucher on January 14, 2009, 08:54:34 am

Title: How do I change default music?
Post by: CerealToucher on January 14, 2009, 08:54:34 am: Call me cheap, but I want to change the 3 default songs in the game with some MP3 music. I have Audacity. I have to question.

I tried looking for the music files, but can't find them. Where are the files of the 3 default songs?

I have the appropriate things added to my Audacity to make music files. What kinda music file do I need to convert my MP3 files to?
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: croat1gamer on January 14, 2009, 09:14:48 am: in the sfx folder, in the folder modules
make sure you name the songs like the original, you cant change the song name that will be displayed ingame, i think
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: ~Niko~ on January 14, 2009, 09:20:20 am: U need to convert the tracks to .ogg format and replace them in the folder croat1gamer already said.
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: CerealToucher on January 14, 2009, 09:39:59 am: Thank you.

Uh, two are IT, one is XM, and none are .ogg.

What do I do?

UPDATE: Tried it anyways. It didn't work. I'm gonna try to get IT and XM. Where and how do I do that?
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: CerealToucher on January 14, 2009, 10:12:07 am: Still no success.
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: ~Niko~ on January 14, 2009, 10:55:43 am: I don't know about any of these formats, I thought it was .ogg because it's the common format... I have no idea. The best thing you could do is play music ingame using Windows media player or any of these music players or register the game and use the mp3 feature.
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: CerealToucher on January 14, 2009, 11:29:07 am: hmm.........either the hard not-as-controllable way or the fair way.
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: Henito Kisou on January 14, 2009, 12:35:44 pm: First - get the right .wav file.
Second - get the ModPlug Tracker and use it (actually OpenMPT). [link] (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=100385&package_id=230830&release_id=511605)
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: CerealToucher on January 15, 2009, 12:30:18 pm: Do you mean .wav is correct or to find the right type of .wav file?
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: Henito Kisou on January 15, 2009, 01:44:58 pm: Just any wav or even midi file. But attempts with files as result of .mp3 to .wav may fail.

In many cases quality like 22,050 kHz 16 bit (mono) is enough for smaller filesize. You can set this in Sample -> Freq. (Hz) -> 22050. Dont even try make stereo file from mono becaue will sucks (too silent and stupid noise in background).
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: xtishereb on January 16, 2009, 11:11:04 pm: If you don't feel like converting .wav files into a tracker format, you can try looking for some modules you like at The Mod Archive (http://modarchive.org/) or, if you're feeling old-school, at Amiga Music Preservation (http://amp.dascene.net/home.php).

You can change the names of the songs in the file /Txt/default.txt. Somewhere past halfway down you'll see the lines:
Code: [Select]
Game Music: None "Bloody Soil" "Gore" "Necromancide"Replace them with the actual names of the modules. bloody.xm = "Bloody Soil", gore.it = "Gore", necro.it = "Necromancide"

And of course, you can always just use the audio player of your choice in the background. Be sure to set up global shortcuts if it supports them so you can control it while playing Soldat.
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: ZomgProniss on January 16, 2009, 11:28:38 pm: Quote from: ~Niko~ on January 14, 2009, 10:55:43 am
The best thing you could do is play music ingame using Windows media player

=.= i find winamp is better for running in the backround them windows media player
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: Mangled* on January 17, 2009, 01:58:31 pm: Fun Fact: With registered Soldat you can play .mp3 files and playlists instead of the default songs.

(yet another) Fun Fact: You can use a program such as Windows Media Player or Winamp to play music whilst playing Soldat.
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: Espadon on January 17, 2009, 02:37:29 pm: Wow Captain Obvious, I can't believe you missed the fact you can put on your iPod or stereo too!
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: Mangled* on January 17, 2009, 05:19:44 pm: Quote from: Espadon on January 17, 2009, 02:37:29 pm
Wow Captain Obvious, I can't believe you missed the fact you can put on your iPod or stereo too!

This is for you... (http://pro.corbis.com/images/CB010024.jpg?size=572&uid=%7BF17A012E-FD7B-49D7-84AC-4F8078EC4A5A%7D)

Modplug tracker tends to convert music to really high filesizes, to achieve lower ones the quality gets insanely mauled.
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: Dairy on January 17, 2009, 06:44:06 pm: Quote from: Espadon on January 17, 2009, 02:37:29 pm
Wow Captain Obvious, I can't believe you missed the fact you can put on your iPod or stereo too!

Very useless post to be honest.

There was somewhere post with converter somewhere, but I bet you could send a PM to MM and ask him ?

Or as everybody else said, WinAMP is your friend.
Title: Re: How do I change default music?
Post by: Hair|Trigger on January 17, 2009, 10:26:44 pm: I listen to my MP3 player..