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is there anyway to change settings so it plays music off the harddrive instead of cds? i have put the bulk of my music on my harddrive and would rather listen to it from there rather than make new cds.

also can it play mp3's?

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and this should get me promoted http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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yes you are.
NO, the game cannot play MP3s
And no, the game can only read music from CDs.
Thats why most people here have some kind of MP3 player or at least Windows Media Player.

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have made cds for music, 300 disk cd changer set on random. but i was also thinking of specific music for the game not necessarily to listen to in general. was thinking of making a se4g file and have music for combat, events, etc.
oh well, guess i will have to make a SE4G cd instead. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ November 24, 2002, 07:01: Message edited by: desdinova ]

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You can make a normal music CD and specify tracks in settings.txt

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Hmm destroying empires with slayer bLasting in the background, sounds cool

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">sorry i meant a music cd but with tracks specifically to fit SE4G. with, i dunno say, for combat the music from Flash Gordon when they are taking the War Rocket Ajax, or from the Aliens soundtrack when they are trying to get away after the failed attempt to rescue the colonists. stuff along those lines.
it just would have been easier to just xfr the files to a new folder on my harddrive than create a cd is all.

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SE4 just needs better music. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Anyone play SimCity 3000? The music from that was superb. What SE5 needs ('cause it won't happen until SE5) is someone to compose some really good music to go with the game.

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Or you can turn SE IV's CD music off, and launch a music player before you start SE IV. (If you try to start Windows' CD Player after you've launched SE IV, CD Player will complain that the drive's already in use; I don't know how other apps behave.)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anyone play SimCity 2000? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif God, the music in that game was horrid! Maybe one or two notes at a time, in MIDI, no chords or other attempt at actually sounding decent...

On a side note, I recently saw an ad for SimCity 4 (guess they got tired of the 000's?)... it said "By the Creator of 'The Sims'"... talk about putting the cart before the horse! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif