Ingame music

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Is there a way to remove ONLY the game music and keep everything else?

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ingame audio settings

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Originally posted by FoRcEarmy_guy3:

ingame audio settings

That doesnt work as I want ...

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Then you either missed it or I'm not understanding what you want.

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Originally posted by FoRcEarmy_guy3:

Then you either missed it or I'm not understanding what you want.

I need the horde/hunter/etc spawn music just the background music off

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Originally posted by HeLL๑:

Originally posted by FoRcEarmy_guy3:

Then you either missed it or I'm not understanding what you want.

I need the horde/hunter/etc spawn music just the background music off

All of those things are background music.. Are you talking about the main menu music or ingame idle music?

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Originally posted by FoRcEarmy_guy3:

Originally posted by HeLL๑:

I need the horde/hunter/etc spawn music just the background music off

All of those things are background music.. Are you talking about the main menu music or ingame idle music?

ingame music to hear things clearer

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Originally posted by HeLL๑:

ingame music to hear things clearer

K what I'd do then is find all sound files you want silenced and copy them into a temp directory while maintaining relative directory structure from root.

Then use an audio editing program to silence the audio while maintaining clip length.

After this is done for all files you'll want to put them into a vpk file that will then be placed in your addons directory.

Start up game and enable the addon.

Only downside is some servers use sv_pure which requires all files to be vanilla meaning you won't be able to connect to them while this addon is enabled..

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i dont play comunity servers

i'll try that thanks a lot

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Originally posted by FoRcEarmy_guy3:

Originally posted by HeLL๑:

ingame music to hear things clearer

K what I'd do then is find all sound files you want silenced and copy them into a temp directory while maintaining relative directory structure from root.

Then use an audio editing program to silence the audio while maintaining clip length.

After this is done for all files you'll want to put them into a vpk file that will then be placed in your addons directory.

Start up game and enable the addon.

Only downside is some servers use sv_pure which requires all files to be vanilla meaning you won't be able to connect to them while this addon is enabled..

you could spend hours doing that or just simply rename the sub folder or file and its done lmao

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Originally posted by Raptor:

Originally posted by FoRcEarmy_guy3:

K what I'd do then is find all sound files you want silenced and copy them into a temp directory while maintaining relative directory structure from root.

Then use an audio editing program to silence the audio while maintaining clip length.

After this is done for all files you'll want to put them into a vpk file that will then be placed in your addons directory.

Start up game and enable the addon.

Only downside is some servers use sv_pure which requires all files to be vanilla meaning you won't be able to connect to them while this addon is enabled..

you could spend hours doing that or just simply rename the sub folder or file and its done lmao

i'm rly dumb with computer thingies could you perhaps name the files i'm looking for? please!

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Steam < steamapps < common < Left 4 Dead < left4dead < sound < music

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Originally posted by Raptor:

you could spend hours doing that or just simply rename the sub folder or file and its done lmao

until you want to play on sv_pure, update, or game reverifies itself then you get to do it all over again.. My way is a one time deal. And how could something so simple take you hours? Are you just that slow or do you just not know what you're talking about to begin with?

Edit: You could even just make one 1000ms duration silent sound file and just copy and rename it to the names of the file.

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ok you know what we're going to make this as simple as possible..

Step 1: We need to find what files we want silenced. To do this we will go to LIBRARY - left4dead - Properties - "LOCAL FILES" - "BROWSE LOCAL FILES..."

A new window should appear.. Go into "left4dead/sound/music/"

These are the audio files that play the different music you hear at different times during the game.

This tutorial will only cover silencing 2 files but you can do as many as you want.

The files will be:

sound\music\stmusic\nomercy.wav
sound\music\stmusic\deadair.wav


First we are going to change a setting that makes reading filenames much easier for this. While inside your explorer window we will press the alt key once. A new menu should appear on the top of the window.

IMPORANT - DO NOT mess with other settings as you can mess your system up. Do what I tell you and only what I tell you for this part.

Click Tools - "Folder options..."

Click the top View subtab.

In the advanced settings list find "Hide extensions for known file types" and uncheck the box next to it. (You can recheck this later after we are finished if you want)

If you accidentally clicked something else you'll want to close the window WITHOUT saving and reopen it.

Click "Apply" and then "OK"


Now we can see the file extension suffix at the end of the files.

You should see the files in the current directory now appear with a suffix of ".wav" which tells the system that this is a wave file.

You should see the two files we'll be adding so on to the next step.


Step 2: We need to create a directory(folder) that will represent the structure for our vpk file. To do this we will make a new folder any where we want on our computer. To make it simple I'm just going to put it on my desktop. I will call the new folder "MUSIC_DISABLE" and go inside it. Inside I will make another new folder called "sound".

Inside this folder we will have to keep the same structure as it would appear inside the vpk file. Our goal is to replace the old wav file with our new one by have the same file structure and name.

Since we need to get to "sound\music\stmusic\" we need to make a music directory inside our sound directory. After this is finished we will need another directory inside "music" called "stmusic". Remember it is imporant to get the names exactly the same.

After we have our directory structure we need to make the actual file that will replace the old one.

Make sure you are inside your new "stmusic" directory and right click inside the file explorer somewhere that isn't over a file. Hover over "New" and select "Text Document". Here we will rename our new file to the exact name of the file we want to replace. So for our first file:

"sound\music\stmusic\nomercy.wav"

We will want to name our new file "nomercy.wav" (without the double quotes)

Our next file will be:

"sound\music\stmusic\deadair.wav"

We will want to name this new file "deadair.wav"


Repeat this process for every file you want but remember that if the file structure and file name aren't exact it will be considered a different file and won't work the way you want.

After we are done with this we need to make a simple file that tells left4dead that this is an addon file. We do this by going back to our "MUSIC_DISABLE" directory and creating a new file. (New - Text Document)

Rename the file to "addoninfo.txt" (without the doublequotes)

Doubleclick the file we just made and it should open notepad.

Copy the following text that is BETWEEN the two outter lines, paste into the file, and save:

____________________________________
"AddonInfo"
{
addonSteamAppID 500
addontitle "Music Disabler"
addonversion 1
addontagline "For disabling certain music I don't like"
addonauthor "AG3_Killstreak"
addonDescription "For disabling certain music I don't like."
addonContent_Campaign 0
}
____________________________________


So now that we have our file structure set up we can move on to the next step.


Step 3: Creating the VPK file. We need to pack the files that are in our structure into a vpk file so it can be used as an addon.

Open the steam window again and go to LIBRARY - left4dead - Properties - "LOCAL FILES" - "BROWSE LOCAL FILES..."

A new window should appear.. Go into the "bin" directory.

Put this window so you can clearly see the "MUSIC_DISABLE" directory. In other words make sure the bin directory window isn't covering the "MUSIC_DISABLE" directory we created.

Scroll down in the bin directory window until you find a file called "vpk.exe". Grab your "MUSIC_DISABLE" directory and drag it over the vpk.exe file. Release it on top.

This should trigger vpk.exe to automatically create another file called "MUSIC_DISABLE.vpk" in the same place as your "MUSIC_DISABLE" directory. (Not inside it but along side it)

Now we have our vpk addon.. Right click the "MUSIC_DISABLE.vpk" file and click "cut". We can now move onto the next step.

Step 4: Installing our addon. Open steam window again and go to LIBRARY - left4dead - Properties - "LOCAL FILES" - "BROWSE LOCAL FILES..."

A new window should appear.. Go into "left4dead" and then "addons". Right click and paste the file into this directory (addons directory).


And that's it.. you're done.

Start the game and go to "Extras - Addons". Make sure the box next to "Music Disabler" is checked.

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