Disable Chocobo music?

[ZVB73]

Is there any way to disable the music while riding a chocobo? The music gets old really quickly. I was curious if anyone knew if there was an option to disable this mount music. Thanks!

[KalElRedK]

Yes, there is. You can download this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy15/mods/40?tab=files and use a blank 34 kbyte file of it.
Rename this blank file to the 2 chocobo sound files "bgm_chocobo.win.mab" and "bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab" under steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XV\datas\sound\resources\20001music2\jp
Maybe there is an easier way, but this worked for me.

[ZVB73]

Great! Thank you for your helpful response! I've been searching for days trying to find an option, but I never could find anything. This is great.

[CharginChuck]

You don't need a mod. You just need to purchase the "mp3 player" from your car (available pretty early on). While riding a chocobo or walking in general, hold the L2 button (or its equivalent) then press up to start the player.

[ZVB73]

The problem is that I don't really like the music from the MP3 player. I'd rather riding the chocobo have a similar effect to walking. Or else less obnoxious music. I appreciate the advice, though

[Neon01]

Sorry for the slight necro, but I came across this after searching how to do this very thing. I'm a little confused on what exactly I need to do to make KalElRedK's solution work. I tried taking the file named "bgm_blank_1sec.win.mab" (which is a 34kb file) and copying it into my game music folder with the names of the chocobo music files, but this played nothing at all, and when I got off the chocobo, even the regular environment music would not play. When you say "use a blank 34 kbyte file of it." are you talking about just editing the chocobo music file to delete everything in it? Or is there another blank file I should be using to rename into the chocobo files? Thanks for the help.

[ZVB73]

So when you copy the 34kp file under the file name of the chocobo music, that completely makes the music stop while riding the chocobo altogether, which I also didn't like. I didn't like there being just silence while riding. What I ended up doing was replacing the chocobo music with a different song instead of making it silent. I found a mod entitled "Valse di Fantastica in Altissia" on nexus mods and used those files. I like the song Valse di Fantastica, and it's played so rarely in the game that it felt like a good fit for the Chocobo riding. Google the song and take a listen to see if you'd like it as chocobo music. Here's what to do if you like this song as chocobo music:

*before modifying these files, I would recommend backing them up so you can put it back if you don't like it*

1. Go to Nexus Mods and download "Valse di Fantastica in Altissia"
2. Once downloaded, rename "bgm_altissia_magi.win.mab" to "bgm_chocobo.win.mab"
3. Rename "bgm_altissia_water.win.mab" to "bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab"
4. Copy the new "bgm_chocobo.win.mab" and "bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab" to steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XV\datas\sound\resources\20001music2\jp and replace the existing files
5. Launch the game and enjoy Valse di Fantastica while riding Chocobo

Hope this helps! It's what I ended up liking the best. You can always use a different song if you like, but I had such a hard time figuring out how to find this particular song that I ended up downloading the mod instead of just finding it in the game's files. Anyway, best of luck!

[Nakavad]

I did manage to disable the chocobo music (that was annoying at some point, because without pause and repetitive).
What I did is quite simple :
1. Make a copy of bgm_chocobo.win.mab & bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab on a folder if you want to revert or something goes wrong.
2. Open Notepad (or your text editor) and save as the file onece with bgm_chocobo.win.mab name and once with bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab name. Make sure extension is written, not to have txt as extension like bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab.txt.
3. Overwrite those 2 files in FFXV-Main-Folder\datas\sound\resources\20001music2\jp

Silence while riding, so you can analyze the surroundings better !

[Seagoal]

Originally posted by Nakavad:

I did manage to disable the chocobo music (that was annoying at some point, because without pause and repetitive).
What I did is quite simple :
1. Make a copy of bgm_chocobo.win.mab & bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab on a folder if you want to revert or something goes wrong.
2. Open Notepad (or your text editor) and save as the file onece with bgm_chocobo.win.mab name and once with bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab name. Make sure extension is written, not to have txt as extension like bgm_chocobo_multi.win.mab.txt.
3. Overwrite those 2 files in FFXV-Main-Folder\datas\sound\resources\20001music2\jp

Silence while riding, so you can analyze the surroundings better !

hey man thanks so much for this suggestion, it worked like a charm for me. No more of that damn chocobo tune looping over and over!