Is it normal that the same music is played everywhere

[Heisennoob]

Im in Ostian right now and for some reason, I still hear the same tracks I heard in all other areas but on youtube, i found out that Ostian actually has its own track. Is this a bug of is this normal?

[Sund3rPlund3r]

sometimes certain dungeons play the exploring soundtracks instead of the dungeon themes, ive stumbled onto 1 or 2. Its just an oversight by the devs, id say. Not too big of an issue, unlike mine

[Heisennoob]

Having the same music everywhere for me was kind of a bummer because it really destroyed the atmosphere of many places for. Ostian should sound exotic and oppressive, instead it sounds like average middle ages fantasy and it made it feel like every other town in the game

[Sund3rPlund3r]

Originally posted by Heisennoob:

Having the same music everywhere for me was kind of a bummer because it really destroyed the atmosphere of many places for. Ostian should sound exotic and oppressive, instead it sounds like average middle ages fantasy and it made it feel like every other town in the game

yeah i hear you, maybe they were operating on a tight budget then, and could only commission a few soundtracks from the composer. At least Enderal does not suffer from this issue.

[🎃 OugaBooga 🎃]

CAN'T YOU just copy music from somewhere else & place it in the music folder ?
maybe even change the names of the titles you moved to have the same as game folder.

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

It has been a long time since I played, but there definitely *were* different musics for different regions. It's extremely likely you have a music bug for some reason.

Note: I played the original version, years ago, not the Steam one. The Steam version may have its own bugs.

edit: rephrased my answer; I originally misread your question.

edit2: if some dungeons are changing the music back to a "default" somehow, as suggested above, saving and loading once back outside should suffice to get the area-appropriate music. I don't recall encountering that, but, again, it's been years.

[sutcavonadabinggalirot]

Oblivion does not support regional tracks as the audio system is very limited. It only knows public, dungeon and world music.

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

Originally posted by sutcavonadabinggalirot:

Oblivion does not support regional tracks as the audio system is very limited. It only knows public, dungeon and world music.

Ah. Then that means I completely misremembered having heard a different track in Ostian...

I have had the tracks on my mp3 player for years (Nehrims's music is excellent, and a large part of why I loved the game), many of them clearly named after regions (NordReich, MittleReich, SuedReich, etc). It must be that, over time, I forgot some of them were not actually in the game.

Thanks for clarifying this...