No music

[MamboJoel]

I guess it has been noticed allready but I couldn't find a thread about that here. The game doesn't play any music though it's installed and it plays the sounds.
Thanks for the help !

 

[La_Musica]

Hey there, I've got/had the same problem. I have yet to test this, but it might have something to do with the map size. My first game, I never got any music either, I was really bummed out. now im on a tiny map and I get it when I almost max zoom into my citys(above them). i always get the chanting/civ 2 music.

But! I still don't hear any of the soundtrack in the game unless I manuelly do it in the options. meaning, browse the "soundtrack" file under civ4. Although, it will play the music out of order.

I do get the vouce over now, which i didn't before. I did hear a little of the classical gae music at one point.

Besides that, Its been really inconsistant. I'm really hoping we can extend this thread and find a solution to this. IMO, thew music is very important. I don't understand why you need to be zoomed in so far to hear stuff either.

 

[g30hd3]

If we play the music with the custom music option.. wouldn't the music play in random order instead of the specific age it was meant to play in? I'm having this problem also... no music in the regular game at all..

 

[Silver]

The reason you don't have music is because you civ hasn't discovered it yet. YOu don't get any sort of "real" music until you discover the music advance. There will be some tribal music earlier on, but the start of the game is indeed, music-less.

If you play through a little bit, you'll quickly notice that music develops with your civ, personally, I think it's an awesome feature.

 

[LoneWolf5050]

I found the "music", if there was any in the ancient era, was pretty hard to distinguish from background sound. But as your civ develops the music becomes more sophistocated and noticable.

It also seems to depend on how zoomed in your are (ie: how close to the singers/musicians?).

Your mileage may vary...

--Julian

 

[Repairman_Jack]

Actually, the music in the game and the music played from villages is completely different. From what I've discovered, all the music seems to be in the wrong directories. For example, the Ancient music, which is tribal and basic, is located in the Classical sub-directory. Similarly, the Classical music is located in another directory, etc... And that's why the music doesn't start until later, because music is found in the later ages, and there doesn't appear to be a directory pointed at the Ancient period. You also have to be zoomed out to about medium distance to hear that music, otherwise it fades out and you hear ambient sounds/music from your cities.

 

[Repairman_Jack]

Oh, wait, I didn't understand what Silver meant. Are you sure about that? Have you noticed what age you were in when the tribal music started up? It seems odd that tribal is located in the Classical subfolder.

I'll see what I can figure out from this side.

 

[BlueTikiMan]

Has anyone figured this out? At first the "you have to discover music" thing seemed logical, but when I turn off ambient noise and sound affects there are no sounds at all and that just doesn't seem right. Other then the music problem though, Civ 4 is great fun.

 

[Silver]

from what I've seen, there is no music AT ALL, at the start. From what I've observed, I think certain techs unlock certain styles of music. Music is the biggie, of course, but I've also noticed gregorian-esque chants with Theology, and tribal stuff even before that.

As to the city music, I'm pretty sure that operates on something totally different, don't know for sure, though.

From my personal viewpoint, I love it, I think it's one of the most inspired integrations of music into another media that I've ever seen. Kudos to Firaxis on THAT.

 

[jack-itb]

The soundtrack starts playing in the second era (classical).

To add the Classical Soundtrack to the Ancient Era do the following:

In line 35 in the file \Assets\XML\GameInfo\CIV4EraInfos.xml change the line:

<EraInfoSoundtracks/>

to

<EraInfoSoundtracks>
	<EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_ANCIENT_SOUNDTRACK_1</EraInfoSoundtrack>
	<EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_ANCIENT_SOUNDTRACK_2</EraInfoSoundtrack>
	<EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_ANCIENT_SOUNDTRACK_3</EraInfoSoundtrack>
	<EraInfoSoundtrack>AS2D_ANCIENT_SOUNDTRACK_4</EraInfoSoundtrack>
</EraInfoSoundtracks>