Editing music playlist.

[FlyingRhino]

Hi there,

I've been trying to edit the descr_music.txt file to make it so only the intro_barbarian.mp3 music file plays on the campaign map when playing as Barbarian factions (it's already one of the pieces of music that plays). However, I don't seem to be able to get it to work. I tried simply removing the other music files listed in the barbarian 'campmap' section of the descr_music file, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I have also tried unpacking the music.dat file and replacing the music files i don't want with the one that I do want (and renaming them to be the same as the files deleted), however that doesn't work either.

So...is there another way I should be going about doing this?

Thanks,
Rhino.

[HanatielHawk]

If you're going to unpack all music files you first need to backup the Music.idx and Music.dat file. Just copy and paste it somewhere else like on your desktop (easy to find). Unpack the files and delete all the campaign music like Lonely Strategos, Divinitus, Melancholy etc. without removing the intro songs. When you've done this repack the data to a music.dat and music.idx file into the sound map of the folder.
I've done this more than several times so it should work! How to edit the descr_sounds_music.txt file I have no freekn' idea I still need to learn that but replacing music is much easier

[FlyingRhino]

Awesome, thanks mate! Is there any particular program I need to repack them into the music.dat file?

Cheers!
(and rep for you )

[HanatielHawk]

Awesome, thanks mate! Is there any particular program I need to repack them into the music.dat file?

Cheers!
(and rep for you )

Vercingetorix' IDX extractor
If you haven't got the program. It extracts and packs the IDX and ofcourse the DAT files.
Place the pack_example_music_idx.bat file, Xidx.exe file into your sound folder. Double right click it and it will pack your files into a new Music.dat and Music.idx file.

NOTE: Edit the pack_example_music_idx.bat file first and replace the existing code with this

.\xidx.exe -cf Music.idx data\sounds\music\*
pause

also if you still need to extract edit the file and remove the SFX and Voice extraction so it won't take so long. Easy way of editting the music files.

But it's good if you have the opportunity to pack the files already. Just make sure the files aren't other than .mp3 files, have the same name as the existing name (like if you edit the file Intro_Barbarian you must rename your new music file's name with Intro_Barbarian or else it won't work) and aren't downloaded directly from youtube (for some reason it won't work on my pc) and make sure the .idx file is called Music.idx

[FlyingRhino]

Awesome, thanks again mate!