Custom music question: Is editing of songs.txt necessary?

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Hi,

as a fan of classical music, also baroque era -> Purcell and Dowland I have a lot of their music lossless. So my idea was to convert random stuff of them to ogg vorbis and dump it into EU4\Music - but is it that simple? Or will I have to create an entry for any new file in songs.txt? Well I think I could achieve this via some batch thing, but it needs further thoughts...

TIA
Michael

 

[AndrewT]

Sorry, it's not clear if you've tried this and are reporting a problem, or are just asking? If the latter, I don't know the answer - can you try it for me please? Certainly in EU3 and CK2 just putting the files in the right directory were enough, as long as they were in the identical music format to the supplied ones.

 

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No I didn't test, I asked prior to testing it by myself

OK, did a quick test. Converted like 100 tracks to Vorbis (Vorbis Lancer @ -q6), removed the old music and the text file from the music folder just to be sure it takes the new music and put my new files into it. And yes: it works, it played my music after I loaded a savegame. I think if I want to have specific music in specific situations I will need to fiddle with the music.txt file, but that's not important for me.

 

[unmerged(805099)]

Disadvantage: with no songs.txt, it always plays the same tracks in order, no randomization here.

 

[serivahn]

I just run an mp3 player (e.g. Windows Media Player or Amazon Cloud Player) while running EU4.
The Empire : Total War and Napoleon : Total War OST's fit SO well with this game.
EU4 has GREAT music, but unfortunately it gets repetitive after a while.

 

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Yeah, I have set up a special foobar2000 instance for this, a minimal player and set up some global hotkeys in it. This way I can easily control the music.
Another possibility is setting up a user defined songs.txt.
How I did it:
1. (with Total Commander) Copy all file names to clipboard.
2. Paste it in Pspad.com editor.
3. This has a functionality where you can put strings before and after every line.

This was I created the songs.txt, which looks like this:

song = { name = "402. Act I - Scene 2.ogg" chance = { modifier = { factor = 1 } } }
song = { name = "My heart is inditing (Z.30) (Preston).ogg" chance = { modifier = { factor = 1 } } }
song = { name = "My heart is inditing. (verse anthem Z.30) (Herreweghe - CV).ogg" chance = { modifier = { factor = 1 } } }
song = { name = "206. Funeral Sentences. (funeral music for Queen Mary).ogg" chance = { modifier = { factor = 1 } } }
song = { name = "Te Deum & Jubilate in D (Z.232) - Te Deum Laudamus (Preston).ogg" chance = { modifier = { factor = 1 } } }

With equal probabilities there is of course no advantage over using a background player.

Is there some explanation somewhere about the commands in the song = {} configuration?

I love it to have Purcell and Dowland playing in the background, it just works so well. Also some Bach organ stuff.

TIA