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]

Didn't know a Listen server always paused (being technically a fact) when accessing the console. Sorry, I'm not used to host games. I'm currently downloading N-S Beta 5 Dedicated Server, so I'll install it later today, and I'll try it. I also presume there's a bunch a nice options with a Dedicated Server, like map switching, voting, kicking (yihaa !) and such. Time will tell.

And, LordSkitch, yeah I think I noticed that Psychosounds doesn't really have a limit as far as the sound quality goes. But the length surely play a role.

So far, I've only been able to play sounds or tracks less than 5.1 Mb in size. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I would say so, unless proven false. That 5.1 Mb track is, in its default format (44000 Hz, 16-Bit, Stereo) 13.2 Mb. So now it's 11000 Hz, 16-Bit, Mono (reducing its quality and size) and it plays fine. Hum...maybe it's just me. Bleh...anyway, just a detail.

Well, thanks a LOT guys for all the information.

But if I need some more help I'll be back and I'll ask

Peace !