Stuwy
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Drod would be so much more convenient if we could sample mp3/other sound files when you're in the editor.

I have heard pre-JtRH that we would be able to import our own music into DROD. Either I'm blind, or this feature didn't make it into JtRH. Because if we can, that would so awesome.

Anybody Concur?

eytanz
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Sure you can import music into DROD - just copy the music files into the "music" directory, then modify the DROD.ini file accordingly.

Specifically, find the section that reads [Songs], and there you can either replace or add any songs with the ones you just added, by modifying the lines that start with "game".

Basically, each "game" triplet represents one style - game1 is foundation, game2 is deep spaces, and game3 is iceworks. Each style has 3 different music entries - Ambient, for solved rooms, Attack, for rooms with a lot of monsters, and Puzzle, for rooms with few mosnters.

In each line, you can either add more music by seperating the names of the tunes with a semicolon, or just replace what's there. I don't remember what happens when there's more than one song per line - I think the game chooses one randomly when you enter a room, but it could be that it just plays them in sequence.

Oh, I don't know what formats DROD supports - it definitely supports ogg and wav, but I'm not sure at all about mp3.

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agaricus5
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eytanz wrote:
In each line, you can either add more music by seperating the names of the tunes with a semicolon, or just replace what's there. I don't remember what happens when there's more than one song per line - I think the game chooses one randomly when you enter a room, but it could be that it just plays them in sequence.

I think DROD does play them in the sequence you entered them into the .ini file, although I'm not sure what happens when the song type changes during play. I guess it continues playing the songs from the point in the cycle it reached, or you'd hear the same songs over and over if you switched rooms quickly.

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