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]

Hey thanks SandmanSA !

It works now

But it seems I can't play long tracks. Is it a limitation of psychosounds ? Or am I just doing something wrong ?

And, there's something else...

I can only play my sounds and tracks in a server I created (not dedicated, just created via the "create server" option in N-S main menu).

I tried in a server I joined, and it didn't worked.

And...finally, two other issues I would like to mention. But they have nothing to do with this thread's main subject. It's related to pausing the game (accessing the console) and people either leaving or joining my server.

Let's say I create a server in Ns_Eclipse. Now let's pretend I put 3 RCBots in Marines and 3 WBots in Aliens. I open the console and type "sv_lan 0" so my server is listen and people can join.

That's cool until now...

As soon as someone joins the server, my game pauses, and I must press Esc twice to 'unpause' it. And, not only that, but if I access the console, the game pauses for other players !

I never noticed that before. I played with a friend a few moments ago, and he told me that. I was surprised since I don't think it actually ever happened. Coincidence since I installed AMX ? I can't say, but that's strange and...quite stupid I must say.

I mean, I already joined a custom server, where the host could easily access the console and type commands while I played the game. It didn't pause in my screen.

But me...when I create a server...it pauses. And when a player either joins or leave the server, it pauses. And it does that to everyone in the game. If there's 2 human players in Marines and Aliens, and one of them (any) decides to leave, then it pauses for me, and all other players, and again, I must press Esc twice to unpause it.

Is there any way to avoid that ?

So, thanks for helping me regarding AMX. It works great now.

But I'm afraid that Psychosounds plugin is quite limited. It seems I can't play sounds in other servers, and it looks like I can't play long tracks.

Oh well.

Thanks guys. But if anyone could help me about my other issues, then I would certainly appreciate.

Peace !