X4: Music folder

[-Sumo-]

Hi, where can i find the music folder (soundtrack folder) as in X 3,TC, AP etc. ?
I'd like to put my own music as in the past.

Thanks!

[Phinixa]

Without modding I think thats not possible, the soundtrack is baked into the .cat files under /music

[ElsonG]

I want to make a soundtrack mod for the game, but i don't know anything to beggin with, is there a tutorial or something like that to help me?

[euclid]

As Phinixa pointed out already, you need to unpack the files to find the music folder. If you're planning to substitute tracks triggered by particular events then you need to search the MD files for those calls. In any case you have two options:

• Copy the music folder from the "unpacked" folder to the X4 main root and then replace all music files with your own but change then the names to the original ones. Then you need to add a command line to the X4.exe which should look like this

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  "E:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\X4 Foundations\X4.exe" -prefersinglefiles
  

• Find all calls of the music files in the vanilla scripts and then use XML editing (quite a job!!) to replace the calls with your files.

Cheers Euclid

[kmunoz]

You might check out some of the existing music replacers. There are a few on Nexus, maybe also on Steam. My Classical Music Mod is on Nexus (it works even with 3.2 as long as you don't care that the DLC sectors don't have replaced music), in loose files, so you should be able to tinker with it pretty easily.

[ElsonG]

Thank you for the offer, but i really want to add my own ST in the game. It will probably be a private mod, because i don't think i can publish most of the tracks, but if i sorted out how to make, i will made a tutorial vid on how to do it...

[Shuulo]

Thank you for the offer, but i really want to add my own ST in the game. It will probably be a private mod, because i don't think i can publish most of the tracks, but if i sorted out how to make, i will made a tutorial vid on how to do it...

he means that you can download them and check how they are done, it will be pretty easy to duplicate.