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.

[link2002]

To remove the pause thing only write "pausable 0" in the console.

If you want to play sounds on other servers you need HLSS

HLSS download:
http://www.intheholecs.net/downloads/file/56

HLSS can only use .wav (wave) sound files. If you already have a .wav file you would like to use then you must check that the file is of 8000Hz and in 16 bit Mono format.

To get a .wav file into the correct format you can either use the Sound Recorder which comes with Windows, or another converting program. I use this wav converter but Sound Recorder can do the same job: File > Properties > Convert Now... > 8.000 kHz,16 bit, Mono.

http://www.intheholecs.net/downloads/file/57

If the .wav file you have is too long you should cut it so to select the best part to play to keep the clips short. I use this wav splitter which I find easy to use.:
http://www.intheholecs.net/downloads/file/58

Tutorial on Steam:
http://www.cox-internet.com/jhmorri/HLSS.html

This post has been edited by link2002: Dec 16 2004, 10:26 PM