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]

Hey what's up guys

I just downloaded the Ready Room Music plugin for AMX Mod. I got it from that place: http://www.modns.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=755&st=0

So I create a map_music.txt file and an mp3 folder in my base directory of N-S, so that's into the ns folder itself of course, as required.

I've set the maps where I wanted the same track to play. Then I put the .mp3 track itself into the mp3 folder.

Then I needed to compile the plugin. So I placed the rmusic.sma file in the source folder, and then I tried to compile it. Doesn't work.

It shows that famous 1 Error. Press any key to continue message. And, no, it doesn't mean it works in my case. It really means that it didn't.

I searched for *.sma using Windows search engine, both HDD's, found nothing related to "rmusic" at all. So it really didn't compile, and believe me I must have tried 5 or more times. I also tried the other rmusic.sma files available in the posts after the first one.

Why can't people just post working .amx files instead plus the source for all plugins !

There's always...always something going wrong with me. Sometimes I think I am Dr. Freeman himself.

I need help once again...