Changing background music

»StaffShock« · Post by **»StaffShock«** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:01 pm

Is this possible? I tried replacing the calm music, not the battle music, with Halo'sA Walk in the Woods, great song. There was an obivous change from the original music, but it came out sounding filtered. It was an octave lower and kinda muffled. But, if I ended the battle and immediately went into console mode, when the music came back it was normal without a filter. Anyone have some input on this?

rudel_ic · Post by **rudel_ic** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:59 pm

You'll have to reencode your track to 64 kbps since that's the bitrate of the original music.

»StaffShock« · Post by **»StaffShock«** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:31 pm

Uh... How would I go about doing that?

zip · Post by **zip** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:52 pm

here[url].

rudel_ic · Post by **rudel_ic** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:09 pm

This is a nice free program for various audio tasks: Audacity

Edit: Don't forget to grab an mp3 codec somewhere, like LAME.

LAME is available as a precompiled library for Windows and for the Mac. I guess that if you're a Linux user, you'll have to look at the appropriate packages mirror or you have to compile it yourself.

It may or may not be illegal in your country to use free mpeg-3-encoding and decoding software, by the way.

»StaffShock« · Post by **»StaffShock«** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:10 am

Well, I hope it's legal, not that it would even matter.

I'm no the most computer-savvy person, so I think it would help if you told me EXACTLY what to do, rather than just giving me the software. I got LAME and Audacity, and just saved the track as an mp3 as a test, and replaced the 3 music files with it. (Not the menu music) Then I tried Lugaru. There was NO sound. I downloaded the demo to try again, STILL NO SOUND. What could I have possible done that would affect EVERYTHING Lugaru, not just what I edited? Is this even possible?

rudel_ic · Post by **rudel_ic** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:10 pm

You are obviously asking for a one-click-wonder, I don't know any that does your task. Look at zip's post or try Google.

I won't post a walkthrough for you, sorry. Read the manual, there's your walkthrough

Crill3 · Post by **Crill3** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:10 pm

http://www.wolfire.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=452
Might help?

»StaffShock« · Post by **»StaffShock«** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:50 pm

Meh, I don't care about changing the music now, I just want to get my sound back!!! Any help for that?

Post by **Eric** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:26 pm

reinstall is probably the easiest plan to get the original music back

»StaffShock« · Post by **»StaffShock«** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:21 pm

bob wrote:reinstall

I said in my original post that I reinstalled multiple times! I downloaded the demo, and launched it as a test. No music, no sound. The loading screen is also considerably shorter than normal. It's pretty much a two-frame flash rather than a gradual fade-in.

Zantalos · Post by **Zantalos** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:27 pm

I dunno, but you may have to do a full reinstall. Uninstal everything, then delete anything that survived that, and maybe install it to a differently named folder.
I can't imagine anything that could corrupt something so efficiently.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:45 am

Hello-

Unfortunately, I did the exact same thing with Audacity and Lugaru, and no, sound doesn't work anymore even if you reinstall everything. But it's not only in Lugaru. Other games crash with "failed to open sound channel" errors.
Lugaru must have corrupted something in OS X.

Now if someone could tell what library (or other) Lugaru uses for sound in OS X, or suggest anything at all to fix this, I would really appreciate it. And StaffShock too, probably.

Crill3 · Post by **Crill3** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:25 pm

fmod

Well, that is the only thing I don't know what it is in the category Lugaru Sound, so I suppose thats what you mean

»StaffShock« · Post by **»StaffShock«** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:26 pm

Argh! That must be why Halo isn't launching either. Maybe I can sue Audacity's developer... This is really messed up. Could getting rid of Audacity and all its preferences possibly clear it up?