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[WrathNail]

Epic add-on and definitely a must-have. The music expecially adds greatly to the atmosphere of the game.

There also lies my only gripe, though. When I load a game, Soundsense randomly picks a track from one of the seasons (e.g. spring tracks playing in winter). Only when the seasons change does it revert to the right track set. Is this a bug?

[zwei]

There also lies my only gripe, though. When I load a game, Soundsense randomly picks a track from one of the seasons (e.g. spring tracks playing in winter). Only when the seasons change does it revert to the right track set. Is this a bug?

That is a feature .

Since there is no way to know what season it is when game is loaded without peeking into memory, a random seasonal track is being chosen.

[WrathNail]

There also lies my only gripe, though. When I load a game, Soundsense randomly picks a track from one of the seasons (e.g. spring tracks playing in winter). Only when the seasons change does it revert to the right track set. Is this a bug?

That is a feature .

Since there is no way to know what season it is when game is loaded without peeking into memory, a random seasonal track is being chosen.

Ok. Makes sense I guess. The fact that I noticed shows how dependant I've already become on sound and music cues.

[They Got Leader]

What are the laws to the music that can be distributed?

EDIT: (fixed, I had turned off sound in the init.txt) Also: I'm not getting seasonal music.

[zwei]

What are the laws to the music that can be distributed?

EDIT: (fixed, I had turned off sound in the init.txt) Also: I'm not getting seasonal music.

Music is copyrighted. We nicked it from various less known bands:

autumn1: struluckt http://www.myspace.com/themusicoftheghost
autumn2: struluckt
autumn3: Negura Bunget www.negurabunget.com/
spring 1: struluckt
spring 2: Invictus http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=119341
spring 3: Falkenbach http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=1071
spring 4: Negura Bunget
summer 1: struluckt
summer 2: Bathory http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=184
summer 3: Trial http://www.myspace.com/trial
winter 1: struluckt
winter 2: struluckt
winter 3: struluckt

Laws are not friendly for redistribution. It does not matter unless you want to use it to something comercial.

Everything else is CC-licensed or our own creation; that includes some short music tracks.

(ad edit: i guess, not getting seasonal music was fixed, or is it still problem?)

[bluephoenix]

I have the newest version and am getting seasonal music, I can say with confidence that it is fixed.

[They Got Leader]

I had sound turned off in the init.txt. turning it back on fixed that, though I am only having 4 songs play over and over...

EDIT: and they aren't season related because I don't progress through seasons quickly.

[zwei]

That does make sense to me - whether on not does game play music through init.txt should not affect soundsense (except that original music nad ss music would overlap and sound weird)

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Anyway, I thanks for tipping me off about this thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57356.0

Awesome, original "designed for df" music.

You can easily add it to SS as rare-ish music track by editing seasons pack:

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seasons.xml

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <sounds>
- <!--  see attribution.txt for sources of songs
  -->
- <sound logPattern="(Spring has arrived!)|(Spring has arrived on the calendar\.)" loop="start" channel="music">
  <soundFile fileName="spring1.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="spring2.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="spring3.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="spring4.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="[tindeck.com] - rdriftwood - Hey Di Lee Hi.mp3" weight="40" />
  </sound>
- <sound logPattern="(It is now summer\.)|(Summer has arrived on the calendar\.)" loop="start" channel="music">
  <soundFile fileName="summer1.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="summer2.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="summer3.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="[tindeck.com] - rdriftwood - Hey Di Lee Hi.mp3" weight="30" />
  </sound>
- <sound logPattern="(Autumn has come\.)|(Autumn has arrived on the calendar\.)" loop="start" channel="music">
  <soundFile fileName="autumn1.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="autumn2.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="autumn3.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="[tindeck.com] - rdriftwood - Hey Di Lee Hi.mp3" weight="30" />
  </sound>
+ <sound logPattern="(Winter is upon you\.)|(Winter has arrived on the calendar\.)" loop="start" channel="music">
  <soundFile fileName="winter1.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="winter2.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="winter3.mp3" />
  <soundFile fileName="[tindeck.com] - rdriftwood - Hey Di Lee Hi.mp3" weight="30" />
  </sound>
  <sound logPattern="The wet season has arrived!" />
  <sound logPattern="The dry season has come\." />
  </sounds>

and putting mp3 to seasons directory.

[They Got Leader]

I would like to change some music for the seasons, but I have no idea how to...

[bluephoenix]

I would like to change some music for the seasons, but I have no idea how to...

You just have to put the sound in soundsense_20_98/packs/seasons and edit the html file.
Pretty simple.

[They Got Leader]

Oh, really?

Hm. Okay. I will take a look in a bit.

[Kuikka]

I found it simple to add own music tracks to Soundsense, thanks to its great design. Here's my example, I added two tracks called campaign_summer1 and campaign_summer2

If you add lines to System-folder, it might play the track when it loads the fortress/reclaim or whatever is the option, right? As developer mentioned, Soundsense plays a random track at beginning...

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   <sound logPattern="\*\* Loading Fortress \*\*" channel="music" loop="start">
      <soundFile fileName="../seasons/spring1.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="../seasons/spring2.mp3" />
      etc
       <soundFile fileName="../seasons/summer1.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="../seasons/summer2.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="campaign_summer2.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="campaign_summer3.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="../seasons/autumn1.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="../seasons/autumn2.mp3" />

And adding new lines to Seasons-folder, it plays my tracks according to season. Simple.

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   <sound logPattern="(Spring has arrived!)|(Spring has arrived on the calendar\.)" loop="start" channel="music">
      <soundFile fileName="spring1.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="spring2.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="spring3.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="spring4.mp3" />
   </sound>
   
   <sound logPattern="(It is now summer\.)|(Summer has arrived on the calendar\.)" loop="start" channel="music">
       <soundFile fileName="summer1.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="summer2.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="campaign_summer3.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="campaign_summer2.mp3" />
   </sound>
   
   <sound logPattern="(Autumn has come\.)|(Autumn has arrived on the calendar\.)" loop="start" channel="music">
      <soundFile fileName="autumn1.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="autumn2.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="autumn3.mp3" />
   </sound>
   
   <sound logPattern="(Winter is upon you\.)|(Winter has arrived on the calendar\.)" loop="start" channel="music">
       <soundFile fileName="winter1.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="winter2.mp3" />
      <soundFile fileName="winter3.mp3" />
   </sound>

I also added new music (tracks mobilise3 and mob4) for beasts/sieges/ambushes:

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   <!-- megabeast -->
   <sound logPattern="The (.+) has come!  A (.+)\." channel="music">
      <!-- http://opengameart.org/content/radakan-dramatic-event-2 -->   
      <soundFile fileName="Radakan - Dramatic event 2.mp3" />
      <!-- http://opengameart.org/content/radakan-game-lost -->
      <soundFile fileName="mobilise3.mp3" />
   </sound>

   <sound logPattern="A vile force of darkness has arrived!" channel="music">
      <!-- http://opengameart.org/content/radakan-dramatic-event-2 -->   
      <soundFile fileName="Radakan - Dramatic event 2.mp3" />
      <!-- http://opengameart.org/content/radakan-game-lost -->
      <soundFile fileName="mobilise2.mp3" />   
   </sound>

   <sound logPattern="An ambush!  Curse them!" channel="music" haltOnMatch="false">
      <!-- http://opengameart.org/content/radakan-dramatic-event-2 -->   
      <soundFile fileName="Radakan - Dramatic event 2.mp3" />
      <!-- http://opengameart.org/content/radakan-game-lost -->
      <soundFile fileName="mob4.mp3" />
   </sound>

As mentioned, tracks need to be in same folder what XML you're editing: in my case, Intruders and Seasons.

[HunterZ]

Really liking this tool/addon and how it has evolved over time. Thanks, zwei!

[HunterZ]

Would it be possible to either:

• have a default playlist that is used for music when an in-progress fortress is loaded, or
• scan backwards in gamelog.txt to look for the last season change and default to that?

It seems like either of those would be less awkward than having no music until the next season change.

Also: http://lemill.net/content/pieces/piece.2007-11-18.9680846093

[Flaede]

"you are surrounded by incessant cackling"
Ok, clearly someone needs to add a sound for this. Preferably as creepy as possible.