Background music?

[Stealth Kill]

Hi HOw can I add Background music ingame and Menu?

[Boss429]

In DarkPlaces it is quite easy to get music working the way Quake played CD tracks. What I mean by that is Quake played one track per level and the map somehow determined what song to play. Anyways here's how to do it:
Grab some OGG's and name them track##.ogg (where the "##" is put a number; starting with "02")
Put the OGG's in id1\sound\cdtracks\
Then load up e1m1 for example and the music will play.
But it will only repeat the same song over and over untill you complete the level...

[CocoT]

Is there a track for the menu though? (when there is no demo running, for example)...If not, it sounds like it could be neat to add a special reference to it into DP (trackmenu.ogg or something). That and maybe a track for when the console is pulled down (trackconsole.ogg? ). My PaQman engine used to have those, but it's rotting under the sea with dead fishes by now.
Of course one of the problems would be that the level track would probably have to start from the beginning once you took the console off. Unless there is a little time tracker that memorized the position, but I don't know if that's feasible.

[redrum]

where can I get .ogg files?

[scar3crow]

redrum - you can encode them from a variety of sources using cdex or other programs.

[Sajt]

Which track to play is determined by the 'sounds' field in the worldspawn entity of the map. Though QuakeC has the power to change CD tracks on the fly (for example, when the intermission starts there is QuakeC code to start track 2, I think). QuakeC does this with, I think it's called SVC_CDTRACK. You can even play different tracks to different clients, if you're evile.

[Spike]

Yeah... just don't change cd tracks too often... clients have a tendancy to freeze up a bit when you change cd track.
Not a problem with the dp fake track things. oggs rule!

(using cdtrack stuffcmds as a weapon is fun!)

oggenc is a free commandline program which can create oggs from other types of files (including wav). alternativly if you're crazy you can use .wav files as fake cd tracks too.

[redrum]

I tried creating the folder cdtracks in the sounds folder and placed 02.ogg in it. It didn't work.
I'm using QW. Should it have worked?

[scar3crow]

that should be track02.ogg I believe

I don't know what engines support this besides DP however.

[Sajt]

sound/cdtracks/track002.ogg

I always get it wrong too

[leileilol]

I don't know what engines support this besides DP however.

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