CD Music?

Buddy Lee · #1 March 14th, 2003, 11:00 PM

I have this option enabled, but no music plays at all. In fact, I can't find any music files on the CD or in the folders on my hard drive.

Is the CD music option just to allow you to play some other music CD while playing SEIV or am I missing something?

Fyron · #2 March 14th, 2003, 11:02 PM

Do you have an analog cable running from your CD drive to the sound card? If not, do you have digital playback enabled for the CD Drive?

Other than those, is the CD Music setting in Settings.txt (in the Data folder) set to allow music, or disallow it?

Buddy Lee · #3 March 14th, 2003, 11:18 PM

There is a small cable attached, and the box to enable digital audio is greyed out in my device manager.

Haven't had trouble playing any kind of audio from CD before, so what's different here?

Fyron · #4 March 14th, 2003, 11:30 PM

Ok, check the Settings.txt file and look for the Allow CD Music line (at the top). Make sure it is set to TRUE. If FALSE, you can't play any CD music in SE4.

Buddy Lee · #5 March 14th, 2003, 11:35 PM

Yep, it's set to TRUE. Forgot to mention that before.

Fyron · #6 March 15th, 2003, 01:50 AM

You do have the game CD in the drive, right? There is no music if the CD is not in there.

How about in the game options menu? Is the CD Music turned on there?

Buddy Lee · #7 March 15th, 2003, 02:02 AM

Yep, CD is in and the option is enabled for CD music. I'm on WinME, but my friend is having the same trouble on XP with a completely different sound card. This is the Gold Version of SEIV.

It appears that the CD drive is being accessed (like you'd expect with CD music) for a minute or so after I start the game, but then it stops.

Neither of us have ever had trouble like this. And let me repeat something from my first post: I don't see any music ON the CD when I explore it.

[ March 15, 2003, 00:07: Message edited by: Buddy Lee ]

Captain Kwok · #8 March 15th, 2003, 03:06 AM

Can you just play the music off the CD in say, Windows Media Player?

Buddy Lee · #9 March 15th, 2003, 03:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
Can you just play the music off the CD in say, Windows Media Player?

Ummm.... again, I don't see any music ON THE CD.

I am looking at the contents of the CD in my drive right now. It has the main D: directory, and two folders: DEMOS and EXTRAS. There are no music files, no media files of ANY kind, in any of the three locations.

Overall, I have no other sound problems in this game and no sound troubles in any other applications whatsoever. I swear it is beginning to look to me like there simply isn't any music there to be played...

[ March 15, 2003, 01:14: Message edited by: Buddy Lee ]

General Woundwort · #10 March 15th, 2003, 03:19 AM

You're not alone - I am having the exact same problem with my copy of SEIV Gold (just restarting to play after a long hiatus). The music tracks can be played via Windows media, but will not run while I play the game. Is this a Windows ME/XP issue?