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    Default Re: My music disappeared!

    So it seems that there are two options as of now.

    1) Please tell me what I need to do?
    2) Sending would not be illegal as we both own the game. I need it for repairs, not to rip off CA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thanatos View Post
    Yes, I already did. The files have been there for a while ever since I learned of their existance.

    You see, the problem isn't that I've don't have the sound files. The problem is that I never had a music folder with the music in it to begin with! I downloaded the game off Steam!

    The only remedy (as far as I can tell) is to have somebody be kind enough to send me the files...
    Huh? I have the steam version too, and my game had a sounds folder. Sure, the music folder isn't there, you have to create it (or, rather, it will be created when you extract the music files).
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    Default Re: My music disappeared!

    Ah, but then why did the in-game music disappear when I added my own music then?



    ... and wait. you can extract the music files? How do I do that? I already tried Vercingetorix's IDX extractor. All I got was the Voice folder extracted...

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    is this how your sound folder looks like ?

    if you properly unpacked sound files you should "data" folder (seen on the screen shoot) and not "sound"

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    Yes. I followed the instructions exactly, lest I screw it up and have to download the entire game again.

    When I opened the superfluous data folder in the data/sounds directory, there was a sound folder in there. In the sound folder was the voice folder. That was it.

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    There should two other folders in "data/voice" directory: Music and SFX.If they are not there and you have deleted events dat and idx, then indeed music and all sound effects will be gone.As I'm running retail version, I can't tell if there are no diferences between file's structures etc.

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    Right. If you don't know what you're doing, you have to follow my instructions in the tutorial step by step. Remember, I'm not an expert in this, I just know how to do it. I can only point you in the right direction. As far as Steam goes, I have no idea if following my procedure will work for you. After following my instructions, the only folder that should be in your sounds folder is the music folder, that's it. When using Vercingetorix's xidx extractor, be sure you read the readme on how to extract sounds. After the files are extracted, you only need the music folder so delete the rest.

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    Default Re: Tutorial: How To Add In Your Own Music To M2TW

    Okay, here is my idea. I am going to test a hypothesis I have.

    I got rid of the events.dat, idx files, as well as the music ones. (I backed them up and then deleted the originals.) Obviously, the game created new files when I restarted M2TW.

    What if I put back in the OLD files? My descr_sounds_music file has already been changed to play the music in my music folder. Or will that not work?

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    Nah, that's not going to work. Your old music .dat and .idx files will not have the mp3 tracks that you added in, only the new ones will after the game rebuilds them.

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    Default Re: Tutorial: How To Add In Your Own Music To M2TW

    Great. I'm officially screwed. Nobody bought the game off Steam!

    This is the last time I'm buying a non-Half-Life game from them!

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    it seems every time i get to voice 3 on the extract is says that "xidx.exe has stopped working" am i doing somthing wrong?

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    I have no idea. Consult the xidx readme and see if it mentions anything about it.

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    fyi i am using vista x86

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    That could be the problem right there. Most likely.

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    thought it might, ill keep working at it

    can you just upload the files it will extract and ill place them where they need to be? Or is more complex than that?
    Last edited by Trajan; March 29, 2007 at 09:40 PM. Reason: Merged non-duplicate double post.

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    Default Re: Tutorial: How To Add In Your Own Music To M2TW

    That's illegal. I can't share any unmodified files.

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    Ah right, ok ty

    EDIT- Ok i'm trying to trick it to only extract the music file by taking out all the others. Do you know if its build to extract all .idx files in a folder or specifically theses ones?

    EDIT- Didn't work, it wants all the files, will keep playing with it
    Last edited by Enduran; March 29, 2007 at 09:59 PM.

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    Default Re: Tutorial: How To Add In Your Own Music To M2TW

    You can make it extract specific files in the sounds folder. Now it's been awhile since I used that tool to extract specific files so I'm not exactly sure. After you put the extract_sounds.bat and xidx.exe files in your sounds folder, right click extract_sounds.bat and click on edit. A text file will come up with this in it:

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    .\xidx.exe -x music voice1 voice2 voice3 sfx
    pause
    Delete everything to the right of music. So it should look like this afterwards:

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    .\xidx.exe -x music
    pause
    Save the text file and run extract_sounds.bat. Again, it's been awhile so I'm not sure.

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    trying now

    EDIT- no error this time, good news. Yet no file has shown up, an extra data/sounds file, there should be one correct?

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    Default Re: Tutorial: How To Add In Your Own Music To M2TW

    Yes, there will be an extra data/sounds folder. Inside will be the music folder with all the tracks in the game. Move the music folder to the main sounds folder and delete the extra data/sounds folder. Just follow the rest of tutorial and hope everything goes well.

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