Game Music From CD in singleplayer

[GSH]

The pause between tracks was one major reason. The other was determining which of several CD drives the BZ2 CD is in to play music from. When BZ2 shipped, having only 1 CD/DVD drive was common. Now, multiple drives are common. It's easier to try opening some .ogg files and playing them.

-- GSH

[sabrebattletank]

Oh, I remember back in 1.3pb1 (or was it 2? 3? probably 1 or 2) when that feature was impllemented...

Sigh, O! The Good ol' days...

[AHadley]

With regards to the CD tracks as .ogg file thing, is there any way we can get the game to read more than 11 audio tracks and say play the music from BZ1, BZ2, TRO, Recoil and HL2 in the same engine, or will we have to use winamp or something in the background? Useful research for my mod

[Nielk1]

The missions specifically call on track #s. Have you tried making an OGG numbered 99 and having a mission call track 99?

[AHadley]

No, I haven't, cause GoldWave is buggering about. Once I've fixed it, I'll see.

[Nielk1]

I am curious if it works.

[AHadley]

Well, if it does work, you'll have lots more nice music to listen to in PF!

[player5]

Also, I've remembered that I ripped tracks 2-11.

There is no cdaudiotrack1. Did I miss something? The cdaudio track 2 is the music for the first mission anyway, so seems alright. The 11th track is silent.

Are there supposed to be 10 tracks in all? 

[VSMIT]

Track 1 is a data track.  Hence you can't rip it.

VSMIT.

[GSH]

Sounds right. Track 1 is the data track on the CD-- the installer and the data it installs are in there. And, the last track is silent for some reason probably related to long discs and copy protection. Don't know/remember all the details, but that's how it was for me when I ripped my CDs to .ogg to test the system.

--  GSH

[AHadley]

Is it possible to modify a .TRN to call up three random .ogg tracks?

[bigbadbogie]

In what way 'random'?

[AHadley]

Can I call more than 3 tracks, and can I set the tracks I have called in a random order, as though shuffled?

[TheJamsh]

you can call as many tracks as you like i believe.

i was working on a .cfg media player until i found there were no variables for it... shame.

[bigbadbogie]

No, you can't shuffle tracks. They only play in the order predefined in the maps .trn file.