Music - custom playlists?

[deivas]

Sorry if this is a newbie question, but how do you customize the music playlist per era? (Actually, I am playing BTS but I assume that the answer would work for any of the versions). I have a mind to extend the Rennaisance and Baroque Eras at the expense of the Classical, Romantic, and modern music.. I tried simply replacing the Mp3's, but there seems to be a playlist somewhere that keeps invoking the old tracks. There has to be a way to edit the playlists..

 

[deivas]

Surely someone out there knows? I assume that there is a playlist file somewhere, apparently well hidden.

 

[Amra]

I have never done that in my mods but I believe the file you would want to edit is the "CIV4EraInfos.xml" file located in the "Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\GameInfo" directory.

Obviously, always make a backup of the file first in case I am wrong or you want to revert back.

In each Era within the file look for a section similar to this for the Classical section and rearrange to your heart's desire:

            <EraInfoSoundtracks>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_ALEXANDER</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_VIKING</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_ROME</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_PELOPONNESIAN</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_CIV_III_MID_ROME</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_CIV_III_ANC_EUROPE</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_CIV_III_ANC_ROME</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_CIV_III_MID_EUROPE</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_CIV_III_MOD_CELTIC</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_CONQUESTS_FANTASY1</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_CONQUESTS_FANTASY2</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_CONQUESTS_ROMAN</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_DIP_EC_EARLY_PEACE</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_DIP_EC_EARLY_WAR</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_DIP_EU_LATE_PEACE</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_DIP_EU_LATE_WAR</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_DIP_GR_EARLY_PEACE</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_BARBARIAN</EraInfoSoundtrack>
                <EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_SONG_DIP_GR_EARLY_WAR</EraInfoSoundtrack>
            </EraInfoSoundtracks>

This will probably only work if you renamed your music files to match the Firaxis names as you indicated you have done.

If you want to add more music in addition to the Firaxis music then I think that will involve adding new entries to the Audio2DScripts.xml & AudioDefines files located in the XML\Audio directory.