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]

Yes, yes I'm back.

Ok...I've just tested a game, a Listen Server, with a friend.

I asked him if he could hear the track when I type banana. I've assigned the famous Banana Phone track to the word "banana", so when I type it...well, you get the point.

The thing is...he couldn't hear it. BUT...but, even more weird...if HE typed banana, then the track would start again, over the already playing one, ONLY FOR ME. So basically, he if he typed any words I assigned to a track, the track(s) in question would play for me, and for me only.

Now...I presume my friend would then also need AMX ? Why wasn't it possible to make him hear the track ? Need some details here. Because my goal with Psyhosounds and...well, my goal with this whole thread concept was to make it so OTHERS could hear what I wanted them to hear. No just me. Or else I could just start-up either WinAmp or WMP in background and start my playlist, and then play N-S while the tracks play in order. That's not what I want.

My lack of knownlegde about making plugins work and servers things and stuff like that doesn't help me anyway that's for sure. And I'm sorry about such basic questions maybe for some of you here. But with time I guess I'll understand.

I can get things to work...but there's always one thing, somewhere, screwing things up.

Also...again, related to the Listen Server pausing problem....

I can understand that the game pauses for everyone if I, myself, am accessing the console. Nothing to say about that now. But...why does it pause when others either join or leave ? That still doesn't make any sense to me.

And...yes, finally...

I finished downloading N-S Beta 5 Dedicated Server. And...hummm. I don't know what to do. All I have in that .RAR file is an "ns" folder. And in that folder is contained ALL the very same files I have than my actual ns folder in Steam. The Maps, the Sounds...Models, Music, Dlls...everything is the same. Except that I got more Maps, more Sounds and Models (stuff I eventually downloaded over time after joining bunch of servers here and there).

What should I do ? I mean...I can't just replace my actual ns folder with the new one. Or I would have to manually take the extra stuff I have that is not in the new folder, cut it, and paste it in the new one, and then delete the old one. I mean...I don't feel like doing that. At least not today.

And...not only that but, also, after creating a Dedicated Server for Half-Life 2: Deatmatch (come to think of it) a few days ago, all I had was a window in my Desktop, telling me stats about what was going on in my Server. Like, who is playing, what's their ping, the bandwith, the time left, etc, etc.

How would I actually JOIN a current game in my Dedicated Server (that is either for Natural-Selection or H-L 2: Deathmatch, I presume it's the same concept) ?

Yet, thanks again all.