See i forgot the link to the music FIX:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=114728

Music question
 

I've altered the music file to play all the songs I want. For some reason though, it will play a song or even just half of a song and then stop laying music for what seems like hours. Anyone know how to make music play continuously throughout the game whether it's during NORMAL or TENSION or BATTLE phases?

Add them to the data\music\gramophone folder and turn on your gramophone in game ;)

The original scope of this thread was how to add music to the different tension states, not so much general music you like to listen to... The problem with this is that the game can change the state at any time depending on your situation turning off one track and starting another one. There's even sometimes no music. By using the gramophone you override this.

Interestingly I just attempted to remove some music.

My idea was to have the music on the menu screen but no music when at sea, except when killed.

So first I took all sections besides [defeat] and [intro] and set Tracks=0

No joy, still got the music and when I loaded a save from within a loaded save, it crashed.

So, I made an ogg file that was 1 minute long and silent. Changed all the sections to Tracks=1 and Track1=silence.ogg

Again, it acted like I didn't change a thing when loading a save game.

At this point I noticed that the radio being on shuts off the music so I stopped trying. :D

[TEC] How to add new music files or change the music cfg
 

By putting a semicolon before the section ( semicolon at the first of each line ) you prevent that music from playing. For example I did this for all of the the Intro Music. The music.cfg file is what I edited.

If anyone is interested i put the silent hunter 4 music in the SH5 music files. all you need do is just copy the song files from the SH4 folder to the sh5 folder. and then copy and past the following into the music.cfg text file inside the Music folder. i did make some compromises since the sh5 music has the annoying navigation music so i just put those as the tension songs.


[GENERAL]
CertainityTime=1
MinDuration=20
FadeTime=2

[STATES]
States=11
State1=BEGIN
State2=NORMAL
State3=BATTLE
State4=TENSION
State5=HIGH TENSION
State6=VICTORY
State7=DEFEAT
State8=JOY
State9=NAVIGATION MAP
State10=IN BASE
State11=UNDER DEPTH CHARGES

[BEGIN]
Tracks=5
Track1=Intro_1.ogg
Track2=Intro_2.ogg
Track3=Intro_3.ogg
Track4=Intro_4.ogg
Track5=Intro_5.ogg

[NORMAL]
Tracks=6
Track1=Stalker_1.ogg
Track2=Stalker_2.ogg
Track3=Stalker_3.ogg
Track4=Stalker_4.ogg
Track5=Stalker_5.ogg
Track6=Stalker_6.ogg

[BATTLE]
Tracks=6
Track1=Battle_1.ogg
Track2=Battle_2.ogg
Track3=Battle_3.ogg
Track4=Battle_4.ogg
Track5=Battle_5.ogg
Track6=Battle_6.ogg

[TENSION]
Tracks=5
Track1=Tension_1.ogg
Track2=Tension_2.ogg
Track3=Tension_3.ogg
Track4=Tension_4.ogg
Track5=Tension_5.ogg

[HIGH TENSION]
Tracks=5
Track1=High_Tension_1.ogg
Track2=High_Tension_2.ogg
Track3=High_Tension_3.ogg
Track4=High_Tension_4.ogg
Track5=High_Tension_5.ogg

[VICTORY]
Tracks=3
Track1=Victory_1.ogg
Track2=Victory_2.ogg
Track3=Victory_3.ogg

[DEFEAT]
Tracks=3
Track1=Defeat_1.ogg
Track2=Defeat_2.ogg
Track3=Defeat_3.ogg

[JOY]
Tracks=5
Track1=Joy_1.ogg
Track2=Joy_2.ogg
Track3=Joy_3.ogg
Track4=Joy_4.ogg
Track5=Joy_5.ogg

[NAVIGATION MAP]
Tracks=6
Track1=Tension_1.ogg
Track2=Tension_2.ogg
Track3=Tension_3.ogg
Track4=Tension_4.ogg
Track5=Tension_5.ogg
Track6=High_Tension_5.ogg

[IN BASE]
Tracks=2
Track1=Appell.ogg
Track2=Muss I Denn.ogg

[UNDER DEPTH CHARGES]
Tracks=4
Track1=High_Tension_1.ogg
Track2=High_Tension_2.ogg
Track3=High_Tension_3.ogg
Track4=High_Tension_4.ogg

welcome aboard!