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Author Topic: Who here turns the music off?  (Read 7199 times)

Urist McPanzerbeard

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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2015, 06:46:50 am »

I like the music a lot, so I have it playing most of the time. If I'm using soundsense I'll turn it off, and occasionally I'll be watching youtube/netflix on my other monitor so I have the game muted then.
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2015, 09:13:53 am »

I do.

I usually have something from John Fahey playing in the background instead.
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2015, 12:50:19 am »

I added it to my playlist. It's not that I turned it off, I just gave it buddies.
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2015, 07:15:16 am »

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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2015, 11:36:59 am »

I never turn it off.  It's part of the experience for me.  I love it.
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2015, 10:54:20 am »

I love the music, but after thousands of hours, it's nice to listen to my own music.

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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #21 on: April 22, 2015, 01:05:45 pm »

I turn off the DF music and play Soundsense music instead.
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #22 on: April 24, 2015, 09:19:02 pm »

I turn it off and listen to this instead.
Pretty sure you can change the music the game uses to this. Go to the Dwarf Fortress/data/sound file, take out the .ogg file "song_game", put in the orchestral theme .ogg file, and rename it "song_game". You could use any .ogg file for this.

I'm 95% certain this is possible, and I'm pretty sure I've tried it in the past. I'd try it again to check if I'm right before posting this but I'm not able to do so at the moment.

On topic, I usually switch music off and use soundsense for background noise (sparring, combat, etc) and use youtube music mixes for actual background music. hearing the in game music again is nostalgic though.
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #23 on: April 24, 2015, 09:30:31 pm »

I turn it off and listen to this instead.
Pretty sure you can change the music the game uses to this. Go to the Dwarf Fortress/data/sound file, take out the .ogg file "song_game", put in the orchestral theme .ogg file, and rename it "song_game". You could use any .ogg file for this.

I'm 95% certain this is possible, and I'm pretty sure I've tried it in the past. I'd try it again to check if I'm right before posting this but I'm not able to do so at the moment.

On topic, I usually switch music off and use soundsense for background noise (sparring, combat, etc) and use youtube music mixes for actual background music. hearing the in game music again is nostalgic though.
I read a theory that the game music may be some kind of ethereal god music. Because of "its ability to get stuck in your head combined with the listener's inability to actually remember how it goes".
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2015, 07:28:47 pm »

I turn it off and listen to this instead.
Pretty sure you can change the music the game uses to this. Go to the Dwarf Fortress/data/sound file, take out the .ogg file "song_game", put in the orchestral theme .ogg file, and rename it "song_game". You could use any .ogg file for this.

I'm 95% certain this is possible, and I'm pretty sure I've tried it in the past. I'd try it again to check if I'm right before posting this but I'm not able to do so at the moment.

On topic, I usually switch music off and use soundsense for background noise (sparring, combat, etc) and use youtube music mixes for actual background music. hearing the in game music again is nostalgic though.
I read a theory that the game music may be some kind of ethereal god music. Because of "its ability to get stuck in your head combined with the listener's inability to actually remember how it goes".

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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2015, 07:45:05 pm »

no it's really simple

chords are:

F#m/maj7add9\C# (no kidding)
Bsus4
B
F#m/maj7add9\C#
Bsus4
B
Bm7
B7
Bm7
Bm
Bmadd9
Bm
A
G

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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #26 on: April 28, 2015, 09:02:55 pm »

Sure, the chords are simple. Remembering the fingerpicking melody seems less simple.
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #27 on: May 01, 2015, 06:10:05 am »

Listening to Hans Zimmer Music while playing DF is just awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV9qvauLlmo
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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #28 on: May 01, 2015, 08:35:43 am »

I never turn it off.  It's part of the experience for me.  I love it.

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Re: Who here turns the music off?
« Reply #29 on: May 01, 2015, 09:06:38 am »

I turn it off and either listen to a news channel on the radio or listen to Youtube.
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