No music on cd

thorfrog · #1 November 27th, 2000, 04:37 PM

Hey, my copy of the game doesn't play any music. Matter of fact there are no music tracks on this cd. I already applied patch 1.11. Any ideas? Did I get an unfinnished copy?

Richard · #2 November 27th, 2000, 05:30 PM

The CD tracks are burnt into the CD itself instead of included as files.

Make sure your CD audio settings are correct.

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thorfrog · #3 November 27th, 2000, 10:42 PM

I know this sounds dumb but where should I look. Music plays fine from other audio cds. The properties section looks to be set correctly. For reference I am running Win98 with a creative soundblaser live.

Richard · #4 November 28th, 2000, 12:23 AM

Hmm other audio CD's play okay?

To make sure you have a good CD you can try to use the widnows CD player to play them manually.

BTW what do you use to play CD's on your PC?

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Richard Arnesen
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Shrapnel Games
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LintMan · #5 November 28th, 2000, 12:25 AM

Looking at the game CD in Windows Explorer (or whatever) won't show you the audio tracks, but they are there. If you bring up your usual CD player program, it should be able to play them OK, but also, just pressing the "play" button on your CD-ROM drive should play them, too (at least it does for me).

If you were to put the game disc in a regular CD player, it should be able to play the music, also (just skip past the first track, which will contain the game data).

A lot of people (including myself) had problems with no music at first, but the 1.11 patch fixed this for most people. This sounds stupid, but just to make sure, do you have the "play CD music" option checked in the game options menu? Other than that, I have no ideas...

pointym5 · #6 November 29th, 2000, 12:19 AM

No music for me either, and other games work just fine. Yes, I've applied the 1.11 patch, and yes I have CD music enabled. My CD player isn't anything exotic at all, and as I said I've never had this problem with any other game (and I've installed a lot).

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Richard · #7 November 29th, 2000, 02:33 AM

But do you have something else setup to play audio CD's like winamp or Jukebox? Some people have traced the problems to that.

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Richard Arnesen
Director of Covert Ops
Shrapnel Games
http://www.shrapnelgames.com

Lionel · #8 November 29th, 2000, 06:05 PM

Same problem, the light is on my cd rom (drive letter G) so the music is being read but it does not reach my speakers. I can play the music via media player so i know the music is there. I have applied the patch and a fresh install. I wondered if my soundcard (Crystal Pnp audio system)) might be the problem?

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Lionel · #9 November 29th, 2000, 06:15 PM

Sorted it on my system. For some reason in Auduo Properties the cd balance option had been muted. When i unchecked the box and tried the game again the music works.

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pointym5 · #10 November 29th, 2000, 10:09 PM

So Richard: are you asking whether I've got an audio CD player (software) installed? Yes I do (sonique I think); are you saying that that prevents the CD from playing? I'll play with that and see. Thanks.

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