Any way to play my own music in Civ4?

[manooly]

Is there any way to change or replace the music within Civ4 so I can play what I want to? It would be nice to have a custom soundtrack within the game. I know that the Sevomod MOD allowed for Winamp support. I currently have BtS installed. Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time!

- manooly

 

[pat4]

I'm not certain but if you go into the games folder sounds should be in assets. For myself I go into options and turn down the game music and then play my music.

 

[Synobun]

Options > Audio > Custom Music Folder

I play my own music while playing Beyond The Sword.

 

[manooly]

Thanks for your replies. Just curious, how do you play your own music while playing BtS? Do you simply turn down the in-game music and then open up Winamp or some sort of mp3 player and simply play the music? Is it that easy?

 

[Refar]

Yep it is.

Winamp in BG also seems to tax the performance less, than playing the custom folder via Civ...

 

[Synobun]

I don't see any difference when I use the Custom Music option via Civ, so it's alright for me.

 

[Verge]

Thanks for your replies. Just curious, how do you play your own music while playing BtS? Do you simply turn down the in-game music and then open up Winamp or some sort of mp3 player and simply play the music? Is it that easy?

Yep, this works for just about any game by the way (provided you have the processing power to do so; there aren't a lot of systems that can run iTunes and Crysis at the same time).

 

[TheDS]

I've not found a game I CAN'T do this with. Indeed, I have to be reminded that the game HAS its own music; I turn it down the first time I run it, and then sometime later in the forums read someone mentioning the in-game music, and then realize it might be worth checking out. If you play a game for hours on end for several days, ANY included selection of music can get boring and repetitive, and I'm not one of those people who can listen to the same 15-second snippet of their favorite song 24/7/365. If I hear the same song twice in one day, I can't stand to hear it again for a month or more. Classical-style music, though, hasn't got as many notable sequences in it, so I can listen to a single CD several times without noticing. (The RRT2Platinum CD's music fits this description well enough too.)

 

[Rub'Rum]

I like the music in Civ IV a lot, the selection is very appropriate especially in the classical-renaissance-industrial era, with rather epic moments. I've never been a fan of the later "minimalism" style that gets on my nerve a lot more. I like Koyaanisqatsi, but hearing this style for the whole modern era gets really grating and just doesn't sound right after a while.

So recently I've been thinking about turning the music OFF. However, I would still like to be able to hear the music coming out of my cities when I zoom on them, and the leaders' music when you go into diplomacy. That adds a lot of flavour to the game in my opinion. But I don't know how to do that... Take down the in-game music but keep the nations' themes.

 

[pat4]

If you go into options and turn down music but not sound effects it might do that.

 

[Rub'Rum]

No it doesn't, the leader/town music is considered music. I think the only way might be to go fiddle in the files and remove the mp3 files in the soundtrack... But I haven't tried. I don't quite like how BtS, Warlords and Vanilla all have their own folders and music files and... it's just confusing.