How to play music from in-game audio player (Max 19 songs, mediocre sound quality)

[Flodgey]

Ok so here's how you do it:

WARNING: the songs won't sound really good (distortion)

-Step 1:

Download the songs you want and convert them to .WAV (you can only put 19 songs in total because you're actually replacing the current GALNET audio files and I don't know how to or if it's even possible for me to make more of these).

-Step 2:

Download Wwise here https://www.audiokinetic.com to convert the .WAV files into .WEM files (tutorial on how to do that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Oeb4GvxEc )

-Step 3:

Go to C:\Users\(user name)\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\audio_reports\GALNET and make a backup of that folder, take the .WEM music file that you want and change the name of that file to one of the 19 files in the GALNET folder.

-Step 4:

Remove the .WEM extension from the audio file name so that the game can actually play the audio. Et Voilà!

PS: .MP3 and .WAV files don't work, that's why you have to convert it to .WEM

[Laurreth]

Uh… so since that only holds a handful of songs, requires futzing with transcoding, and doesn't even sound good, I gotta ask… how is that better than running any normal media player in the background and controlling it with hotkeys?

[Flodgey]

Originally posted by Shadowdancer:

Uh… so since that only holds a handful of songs, requires futzing with transcoding, and doesn't even sound good, I gotta ask… how is that better than running any normal media player in the background and controlling it with hotkeys?

idk man I just found a way to do it (pretty easy tbh) and decided to post it, if there's going to be somebody who doesn't care about all of that, then now he has a way to do it. I don't really mind the quality myself, I just find it cool that I actually have a "music player" in my ship

[Inquinimaris]

And how it sounds? Like through regular player, or filtered, like it plays in your cockpit?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Audio books might be good for the filtered sounding.

[Flodgey]

Originally posted by Imanodesu:

And how it sounds? Like through regular player, or filtered, like it plays in your cockpit?

the GALNET has a distortion effect for the voice reading the news, so that distortion is also applied to the music unfortunatly, I'm trying to find a way to turn that ♥♥♥♥ off, but I don't think I'll find a way

[Wesker]

Considering the poor sound quality and as Shadowdancer said "futzing" with the files and coding I think I will just stick to alt/tab and Pandora.

[Heisenburger]

Just run foobar in background.