[Mod]Songs from the four Corners

[Themios]

Hello everyone,

this mod replaces the vanilla music of the game with many new tracks, while striving to be as authentic as possible to the era. However it does far more than just adding new tracks. Hundreds of conditions also influence when and if these tracks are used.


Features

• 20 different themes, depending on the culture and/or religion of your character.
• Crusader States tracks! If you're Christian and have holdings in the holy land,exclusive tracks will emphasize the glory of your holy war against the infidel. Rise up through the ranks from Count to King of Jerusalem to unlock more. High level music depends on wether you're catholic or orthodox. Deus lo Vult!
• The melting pot of the Iberian Cultures. As a ruler from the Iberian Peninsula you are in the unique position to live the Orient & the Occident simultaneously.
• Distinct soundtracks for many cultures during wartime!
• A non-generic soundtrack for the Orient. Arabs,Persians,Turks and Hindus all get their own music. Mongols get extra throat singing.
• Your Character,Piety,Prestige & Position in the Hierarchy will have an influence on which tracks are played.

In addition if you wish to revise or alter the tracklist or even create your very own, I have left close instructions in the songs.txt file. You can also reenable the vanilla music from there, should you wish it. I would advise Notepad++ for reading it.

FAQ

• I like the music a lot and would like to use it for my own work. May I use it? Of course I'd credit you as well.
  • Of course you can use it, but you must not credit me. This music is not my personal work and I don't claim otherwise. You may acknowledge my mod though
    
• I've seen that you've added a lot of different music for french,german,english and italian. However you didn't differentiate between the slavic & baltic people much. Why?
  • I'm sorry, but I have to work with the material I can find. Unfortunately it wasn't as much as I'd like for them. In return however I did give them one of my favourite ballads.
• Is this compatible with the newest patch and DLC (Charlemagne) ?
  • Yes, it is.
• Is this compatible with 'Historical Immersion Project'?
  • I've created a version just for this mod.

Installation

1. Download the file (Link see below)
2. Have a drink, while you wait. The file is quite big.
3. Open the .rar file with a program, like winrar
4. Extract the data into [My Steam Folder]\Crusader Kigns II\mod\
5. Disable all DLC music packs in the launcher, if you have any and don't want to mix them up.
6. Enjoy the game

Issues

1. Since the mod is quite big, especially for CK II, the game might take a bit longer to load. Gameplay shouldn't be affected though.

Download Links for CK II Vanilla

Mediafire
MEGA


Download Link for CK II HIP

Mediafire
MEGA


Fixes (not necessary if you´ve downloaded from MEGA)

Fix #1
Fix #2




Acknowledgemens


The modding team behind Dominion of the sword. Without your great choice of authentic
medieval music, this small work couldn't exist. Cheers!

The modding team of Broken Crescent. Your tracks spiced up the Orient by a great deal
Best of luck to both teams in future undertakings!

Thank you Paradox for your clear written txt.-files and mods-page on CKII Wiki.
They helped a lot during development!


Support Mods!

If you're a talented artist, programmer or simply a mod enthusiast go over to the Dominion of the sword Forums and help with development.
Especially for DOTS no prior experience is necessarily required, since many programs provided by the team have made the task simpler.
Or if the Orient is your Passion, go over to the Broken Crescent Forums and see if you can help there.
You can find them on Total War Center
Thank you
​

Enjoy S4C!

 

[Conte]

hi thanks for sharing this mod I'm downloading it right now!

Is this Ironman compatible?

 

[Themios]

I just made a quick test and yes it is! So if you want to us Ironman, go full steam ahead

 

[Conte]

I just made a quick test and yes it is! So if you want to us Ironman, go full steam ahead

Thanks mate! I'll give it a go then

 

[fargoniac]

This mod is horribly underrated. It is awesome.

 

[Conte]

Yes! It's actually awesome

 

[Themios]

"This mod is horribly..." I got spooked there for a moment But Thank you fargoniac and Conte!

Can you tell me as which cultures you played and what you liked or maybe didn´t like so much?

 

[Provenance]

I was concerned about legal issues - I didn't notice any particular disclaimers.

 

[Themios]

I mainly used music provided by other mods. As to any disclaimers, I´m afraid I do not know them.

 

[Conte]

"This mod is horribly..." I got spooked there for a moment But Thank you fargoniac and Conte!

Can you tell me as which cultures you played and what you liked or maybe didn´t like so much?

Merchant Republic of Venezia, Italian! I became Holy Roman emperor too with your lovely mod

 

[Themios]

Merchant Republic of Venezia, Italian! I became Holy Roman emperor too with your lovely mod

I hope you didn´t become emperor because of my mods doing

-------------Update 08-11-2014----------

Fixed four songs which had been converted wrong and couldn´t be played therefore.

Download Link

Just unpack into your mod folder, regardless if it´s HIP or Vanilla.

 

[Parha]

Giving this thread a bump because the mod is so awesome that others deserve to know it exists and they can download it!

 

[Barón Rojo]

You should upload it in Mega.

 

[nawid]

Thanks !

 

[Themios]

Giving this thread a bump because the mod is so awesome that others deserve to know it exists and they can download it!

Thanks a lot! Your support is really motivating

You should upload it in Mega.

After much internal debating, I´ve decided to follow your advice . You can now find the download link for Mega in the OP.

---Update 16-12-2014---

• Cut the applause at the end of one song. If you´ve downloaded the mod from MEGA, you don´t need this fix!

 

[Clockro4ch]

Thank you for this mod, it's awesome.

I made a Hungarian music compilation myself (for obvious reasons), link is below. Feel free to use it for your mod if you wish.

Most of it is renaissance, but it fits well for CK2. There's also a txt file provided with the free download links of all the mp3's to show it's completely legal.

Thank you for your work.

https://mega.co.nz/#!uQJDQKrL!8UF5gW7qnHF1zIUvh09GjhZYouXLTvIE_ktwjbr--Rw

 

[mahler5]

Just want to make sure I'm doing this right. I do really like the vanilla music as well, so if I keep all the music dlc activated, I'll keep that music in-game, right? And what about the vanilla music? That won't just be gone, right?

 

[Themios]

Just want to make sure I'm doing this right. I do really like the vanilla music as well, so if I keep all the music dlc activated, I'll keep that music in-game, right? And what about the vanilla music? That won't just be gone, right?

Yes, as long as you keep the DLC activated, the songs from them will play. For Vanilla Music, you can find them at the end of the songs.txt file in my mod. Just delete " factor = 0 " for each song. It´s also explained in the songs.txt file itself

 

[Caoimhin]

Does this conflict with the VIET Music Pack? I know it may possibly overlap but given the way it works I wouldn't think so.

 

[Themios]

I don´t know, if two different mods making additions to music, can conflict in this area. Though given that both mods just add and don´t change anything in the base game, I don´t imagine that there should be a problem.

Only likely Scenario where there can be a conflict is, if VIET MP has a song with the same name as my mod, but with different execution command in the songs.txt .That could lead to a conflict. However, since I don´t use anything from VIET and VIET doesn´t use anything from me, it´s not likely to happen.