Custom music in a N-S game ? Options

[Lyran]

What's up guys.

I played a good number of Natural-Selection games where a few players would sometimes play a custom music, but it usually never lasts long.

For example, the icon that shows they're talking...well, it shows up, but it's a song playing, not the player talking. Some of you here surely saw that.

Some with poor quality, others with great quality. It's never the same,

I'd like to know...

How is it possible to "play" either a part of a track or the whole length, while playing a game ?

Do I need to be the host of my own server (dedicated or not) ?

I'm not sure, but I think some of the cases when I saw that were just unknown players, playing for fun of course, and they were not hosts or anything important to the server. Just a normal player. And I've seen cases where the host would play (with usually very good quality) many songs in a row.

There's even one time where a random guy in the Marines team started to play The Imperial March (the famous Darth Vader theme from Star Wars) during the assault on a last Hive...and the Aliens could also hear it !

Everyone liked it, it created some kind of a adrenaline rush for us (Marines), and they didn't last longer than expected.

I would like to play some decent songs, or just some funny ones.

Like, the infamous Banana Phone !

But I don't know how.

Would I need to change the format to something specific ? Do I need to put it/them (the track(s)) in a specific folder ? Etc...

I would like to know.

Thanks guys.

[Lyran]

Thanks Lord and link.

I'll start with AMX and Psychosounds for a try.

But I'd appreciate if you, LordSkitch, could tell me how to configure/install that.

I'm aware of some things to do, though, such as follows:

1) Put the "psychosounds.amx" file in addons\amx\plugins\
2) Open "liblist.gam", change the line "gamedll "dlls\ns.dll"" to "//gamedll "dlls\ns.dll"", then add "gamedll "addons\metamod\dlls\metamod.dll"".
3) Then, in addons\metamod\plugins.ini, add "win32 addons/amx/dlls/amx_mm.dll".

But other than that, I don't know what to do. And...I don't even known if that is the correct thing to do anyway.

Also, the cache.sma and psychosounds.sma files, well, I just don't know what to do with them. I can open them with Notepad, I noticed that. But I don't know if I have to change anything in there. And I don't know where I need to put them, in which folder.

I'd appreciate to get some help on how to configure that thing so it works.

Thanks.