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]

Wow thanks again guys. Thanks link and Lord

Ok, let's see...

The problem I had, not being able to play particular tracks, was indeed because those specific tracks were just too long. Not to mention I also forgot to reformat them to a .WAV file, at 8000 Hz, 16-Bit Mono. Not that's done, and the sounds and tracks work properly.

As for H-L Sound Selector, I forgot about it. I downloaded it, and I'll eventually try it. I'll set my voicequality, etc, and I'll see if it'd be worth it. But for now, I'll stick with AMX and Psychosounds, and mess with em'.

Finally, the problem I have with the game pausing continues.

I created a server, and then I typed pausable 0. The command worked...but it worked so well that my screen actually...paused. ...argh

Seems strange to me, since the command clearly asks not to pause. But it "freezes" my screen to where I looked at when I accessed the console and typed in the command.

It's paused, but I can still access the console and the main menu (via Esc).

If I type pausable 1, then it 'un-pauses' and I can move my character around.

I found that funny at first but now it's just plain frustrating Grrr

Is there any way around that issue other than relying on "pausable 0" command ?

Thanks again guys for everything.

Peace !