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.

[Sandman[SA]]

Ok Lyran. You said that you have the bananaphone song in use with psychosounds? Client would say "banana" and trigger this sound file to play, correct?

Ok, each client connecting to your server WILL have to download this file ( and any others ) if they are to hear them. Since psychosounds does not precash these files, you have to create .res files for every map in your servers map rotation list. I know for a fact that the bananaphone song itself is 2.25mb. This will take your clients 10 to 15 minutes to download just this one file via the standerd server file sharing method.

At this point, your going to need to use the urldownload feature to keep the wait time and bandwidth drain down to a minimum. There are services out there just for this practice in mind and are reasonably priced. This is one of those services I use on my server. URLdownload

Personally, I would use MUCH smaller/shorter doration sounds as you will very quickly find out just how much of a headache those longer sound files will cause.