Music ... again :D

Anybody found where the game starts to play the background music ? i checked configs.pck and sfx.pck but there is nothing about music ( exept radio stations )
What i try to find is the config that the client knows what to play. I hope its not just a line of code in the exe that tells it to play a random file from music folder because if there is a config i maybe could integrate our sponsor radio stream instead of the mp3 files from music folder. Im pretty sure there must be a file that tells it the filenames because it plays only title music at login screen and there must be the codec stuff sumwhere.
Checked that client structure diagrams but found nothing.
If sum1 know where to find that please lemme know.

pwd - Revision 57: /trunk/element/music

You really should just use Ronny's PWI Downgrade patch...

Uhm ... i have those files already. I dont want the music itself. I want to know from where the client knows what to play. Something like a config file that tells the client which files are available so that i can change the filenames from /music/blabla.mp3 to something like MyStreamServer

I tried that downgrade patch btw. but it failed. All i got was a client that didnt start at all. But i try to grab all i need out of the elements, tasks and other data files.

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Originally Posted by Zorno

Uhm ... i have those files already. I dont want the music itself. I want to know from where the client knows what to play. Something like a config file that tells the client which files are available so that i can change the filenames from /music/blabla.mp3 to something like MyStreamServer

I tried that downgrade patch btw. but it failed. All i got was a client that didnt start at all. But i try to grab all i need out of the elements, tasks and other data files.

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You can't do that... you have to have the actual files on the disc and they can't be loaded like that

And its theme_a.mp3 theme_b.mp3 and theme_c.mp3 if that wasn't obvious enough >_>

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Originally Posted by das7002

You can't do that... you have to have the actual files on the disc and they can't be loaded like that

And its theme_a.mp3 theme_b.mp3 and theme_c.mp3 if that wasn't obvious enough >_>

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true. But there must be anything that tells the client that this are the files. So its not "you cant do that" its more "you wont find it" if its in the exe sumwhere instead of a config file in the PCK files.
Sadly there isnt a way to make fake mp3 files that redirect to a stream or at least i dont know of someone who get that to work because that question was asked more than once in google :D:

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Originally Posted by Zorno

true. But there must be anything that tells the client that this are the files. So its not "you cant do that" its more "you wont find it" if its in the exe sumwhere instead of a config file in the PCK files.
Sadly there isnt a way to make fake mp3 files that redirect to a stream or at least i dont know of someone who get that to work because that question was asked more than once in google :D:

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It is more then likely hard coded into elementclient seeing how all other world sounds are controlled by their respective .clt files inside maps

If you feel like taking up assembly and figuring out how to change it be my guest

Or if you feel like being the best person that ever lived, steal the source code from PW-Beijing :w00t:

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Originally Posted by das7002

Or if you feel like being the best person that ever lived, steal the source code from PW-Beijing :w00t:

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Thats a quest for the "ninja" guy from the other thread about 1.4.2 files :wink: :D:

uhm...from my days of rewriting all the muisic for the client and adding in new areas to play muisic (around world bosses, very epic) the muisic is usualy controled by the area restrictions in the precint file in maps. i checked login and didnt find a preceint thou... id say just change the theme a-c files to what ever mp3 files u want. u dont hear it for long and the themes are also played at other places too not just the login.

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Originally Posted by Kripter

in the precint file in maps.

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Thx :8:

lol xD yw!

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uhm...from my days of rewriting all the muisic for the client and adding in new areas to play muisic (around world bosses, very epic) the muisic is usualy controled by the area restrictions in the precint file in maps. i checked login and didnt find a preceint thou... id say just change the theme a-c files to what ever mp3 files u want. u dont hear it for long and the themes are also played at other places too not just the login.

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Changing mp3 files will not redirect to a stream but i will try to play with precint things. Thanx 4 the hint :):

no i dont think u can redirect it with a mp3 file lol i was saying change it to what ever muisic u want. not a stream that wont work with a mp3 file. best i can say is go to the precint for a dungeon and change it for a area and see if u can make it even load a stream becuase im not sure if it would. its possible.

Oh btw! sfx is sound effects, has no muisic in it. the muisic it self is in the elmeents folder under music and so are the background noises like birds water and that stuff.

One more thing.... u can make it run any thing. from mp3 to ogg to maybe not even sound files.... didnt tes tthat so its possible to maybe make it do what u want zorn. just make sure u link it correctly. then again it may cuase alot of lag but try and find out.

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Originally Posted by Kripter

Oh btw! sfx is sound effects, has no muisic in it. the muisic it self is in the elmeents folder under music and so are the background noises like birds water and that stuff.

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On PWI 1.4.2 they have converted musics files into a .OGG format and put them into the SFX.pck :rolleyes:

If you unpack their SFX you will see it.

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On PWI 1.4.2 they have converted musics files into a .OGG format and put them into the SFX.pck :rolleyes:

If you unpack their SFX you will see it.

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They mostly did that because a lot of people replaced the music files with their own music in PWI and apparently they didn't like people doing that so they went and put them all in the .pck which is laughable to anyone here with how easy they are to open...

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They mostly did that because a lot of people replaced the music files with their own music in PWI and apparently they didn't like people doing that so they went and put them all in the .pck which is laughable to anyone here with how easy they are to open...

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I don't think that would be as much of an issue as they didn't want people actually 'stealing' the music; using it in other places, selling it etc.

For shits and giggles I was guilty of this before they made this switch as I put all the MP3s from PWi on my iPod :rofl:

They know people often turn off the 'game music' and listen to music of their choice as that was a question they had posted on their facebook page "So, what kind of music do you listen to while playing perfect world?"

So... more likely that not, they did this just in an attempt to 'protect' their "intellectual property", but yes as we know; it is super easy to extract their PCK files. Not to mention just because they're in OGG doesn't mean anything either, as there are plenty of FREE OGG~MP3 conversion programs out there ;) :D

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OGG doesn't mean anything either, as there are plenty of FREE OGG~MP3 conversion programs out there ;) :D

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Or use the media player that can play anything, VLC is awesomeness

Ok i played with that stuff a bit. Tested M3U files as link to the stream ... Failed. Tried listen.pls files ... Failed. Tried RAM files ( Real Audio, the one i hate most :D: ) ... Failed. But i wont give up. Still trying. Problem is that i can start programs in background for music but thats not what i want because the players cant change the volume ingame then. Also i dont want normal music files because thats not "live" and i cant do radioevents then :D:
Still trying. I'll let you know if i find a way :):

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Originally Posted by Zorno

Ok i played with that stuff a bit. Tested M3U files as link to the stream ... Failed. Tried listen.pls files ... Failed. Tried RAM files ( Real Audio, the one i hate most :D: ) ... Failed. But i wont give up. Still trying. Problem is that i can start programs in background for music but thats not what i want because the players cant change the volume ingame then. Also i dont want normal music files because thats not "live" and i cant do radioevents then :D:
Still trying. I'll let you know if i find a way :):

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M3U PLS and RAM are all just text files with a link to the stream, unless you manage to somehow get the source of the client you can't do that...

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Originally Posted by das7002

M3U PLS and RAM are all just text files with a link to the stream, unless you manage to somehow get the source of the client you can't do that...

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Hmm. Shall i try to run Boomerang on it ? :D: Nah i guess it will again just show ASM code instead of really readable code.
I just tried that formats because those textfiles are ( you already said that ) redirects but the buildin player seems to be incompatible to those. Strange that it supports ogg files. Its maybe just a inported codec instead of a real player but i dunno. I will try some other formats, maybe it works. Who will know when nobody tries :):

you can try to find if there is a streaming server solution for audio files, like frameservers in video world. A streaming server creates a dummy file and when an application access the dummy file the streaming server "writes" to the file.

Disadvantage: a streaming server must run in background

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you can try to find if there is a streaming server solution for audio files, like frameservers in video world. A streaming server creates a dummy file and when an application access the dummy file the streaming server "writes" to the file.

Disadvantage: a streaming server must run in background

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So like writing a cache file or buffer file that the client plays while the streaming server writes to its end and ( more or less ) deletes at the beginning of the file after some seconds ( or when closing the app ) ? hmm. Thats something i can try. Good idea ... if someone ask for me im at Visual Studio :D: