Changing the soundtrack... little help?

[Ray Patterson]

I'm sure there is a topic about this somewhere but I couldn't find it...

I got tired of hearing the same songs again and again, yet I like the idea of development-based tracklists. Besides, my PC wouldn't be to happy with running Itunes in the back while playing CIV. So, I put in other tracks in the era folders (Elvis and Billie Holiday in classical, Beatles in Medieval, Led Zeppelin and Creedence in Renaissance, etc...) but it doesn't work, the computer simply gives a message that it can't find the old tracks (I moved them to a backup folder). So, what to do? It seems I have to edit the XML files in "Audio" but I don't know exactly what to do and it seems like a lot of work (I wanted like 25-50 tracks per era to keep it interesting...). Anyone knows how I can do this?

 

[Kael]

I'm sure there is a topic about this somewhere but I couldn't find it...

I got tired of hearing the same songs again and again, yet I like the idea of development-based tracklists. Besides, my PC wouldn't be to happy with running Itunes in the back while playing CIV. So, I put in other tracks in the era folders (Elvis and Billie Holiday in classical, Beatles in Medieval, Led Zeppelin and Creedence in Renaissance, etc...) but it doesn't work, the computer simply gives a message that it can't find the old tracks (I moved them to a backup folder). So, what to do? It seems I have to edit the XML files in "Audio" but I don't know exactly what to do and it seems like a lot of work (I wanted like 25-50 tracks per era to keep it interesting...). Anyone knows how I can do this?

It is a lot of work. You have to modify the CIV4ErasInfos.xml file, the Audio2DScripts.xml and the AudioDefines.xml to get it to work. Eras points to 2dScripts, 2dScripts points to defines and defines points to the file. Quite a mess.

But the good part is the files are full of examples, so its very easy to look and see what you have to do.

 

[Ray Patterson]

Ok, thanks. I can figure it out that way indeed, just hoped there was some quicker way...

Edit: got the first two eras to work. That indeed is some messy programming. It works, but editing it is not fun. Hearing Scarborough Fair and Penny Lane in the Middle Ages is great however, and Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" made for some pretty good irony during Classical-Era Warfare.

 

[SoCalian]

does anyone know what the Custom music folder in the Options screen is for?