Custom Music (Continued)
Introduction:This is an update of the mod made by Chais (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=34684.0) for Rimworld 1.3.
I take no credit for its creation - I just updated it and made some improvements to performance.
The original description follows below.
Description:As great as RimWorld's music is, sometimes it's time for a change. With this mod you can listen to your local music library in RimWorld. Just point it to a directory and it will add the songs to the game's track list.
Features
- File Explorer (Open): Conveniently navigate to the directory with your music. Click OK to use the current directory, or Cancel to keep using the previous one.
- Click Update to rescan the directory. This adds new configs for new songs, removes configs for songs no longer present and keeps the rest.
- The music directory can contain subdirectories that will be searched for files, as well.
- Quick access to volume and "battle music" flag
- Configure all settings in the advanced settings (gear column)
Author/Mod TeamMe with help of erdelf, Brrainz, KeenKrozzy, WhyIsThat and #rimworld-modding on Discord as well as ison.
DownloadGithub download (https://github.com/ValidAQ/CustomMusic-Rimworld/releases)
Getting OGG files
- Download fre:ac (https://www.freac.org/index.php/en/downloads-mainmenu-33/241-freac-1028), a free, open source audio converter. The zip doesn't require installation. Packages for OSX and Linux are offered, too.
- Unpack/install to a directory of your choice
- Start the program (freac.exe on Windows, freac on Linux, freac application on macOS
- Add all the files you want to convert to the Joblist (you can add single files as well as directories)
- In Options > General settings... set the Filename pattern to something something simple as "<title>" or "<artist> - <title>". Check "Append sequential numbers..."
- Optionally: Options > Configure selected encoder... Choose an encoding mode. VBR is fine if you don't know the difference. Choose a quality. Higher value means better quality but larger file. Keep in mind that qualty can't actually be increased when converting from mp3 or other lossy formats, but the file will still be larger. 6 should be a good value for most cases.
- Set the output folder to the directory you want RimWorld to play music from
- Start the conversion (circular play button)
Words of cautionRimWorld's ogg player is very sensitive to "irregularities". Should you already have OGG files or have acquired them from another program, make sure they don't contain a video track. Some encoders put the cover art in a video track, instead of the ID3 tags. RimWorld will not only not play these files, but they can even prevent valid songs from loading properly. So if you have trouble with your songs playing, perhaps try adding them one by one to see which one breaks the chain.
How to install:- Unzip the contents and place them in your RimWorld/Mods folder.
- Activate the mod in the mod menu in the game.
The official mod has been updated to 1.3 on Steam and Gitlab.
Go check it out.