Half-Life WON (CD) does not have music

[AbleBigot98]

The CD version of Half-Life,known as Half-Life WON does not have the music/soundtrack on it.I go to the valve folder then the media folder.The tracks are not in but i am dragging the tracks of the Steam version into the WON version but still,there is no music playing.Any help please?

[Cosgrover - CS]

Ironically he got exactly what he paid for when it came to the WON version he stoled when it came to the music part. He bought the Steam version and thought it work with a different version of the game... LOL What original version of a game from 1998 used MP3s? LOL It's like that news story I read about a kid that shoved their iPhone in the tape deck of their 1990's car and wonder why it doesn't work and scratches their phone up.

Seriously if you want to play the WON version go to a local reputable used game store and buy an authentic copy of the game. It's published by Sierra and comes with a CD key you have to enter when you install it. Also the CD-ROM must be in the drive for the music to work.

[AbleBigot98]

i know that already,omg...

[Cosgrover - CS]

Originally posted by y u mad bro:

i know that already,omg...

Case closed then. Cannot and will not help you beyond the advice I gave above. Nobody else will help you here either. You're on your own from here on out. Make the right decisions next time, okay?

[AbleBigot98]

i know how to get the music but i live in a country where they dont sell HL CDs

[AbleBigot98]

to me it doesnt

[Valet2]

Originally posted by HazyMan:

to me it doesnt

Well, if you're using the original Half-Life image (bin) with audio tracks, and there should be a .cue file, and you should mount that cue, make sure the virtual drive you're using is the first cd-drive in the system. For example, if you have a real dvd-rw as D: and a virtual drive as E: you have to change them respectively.

Also make sure the tracks are there, open that drive in an audio cd-player software.

[brazzjazz]

I've had the same problem, the CD-ROM was even in the drive, but sometimes the music played, sometimes not, and it was driving me crazy. Possibly the drive access was too slow at times, resulting in the playback being cancelled, at least that was my (naive) impression. Also, even if the intro music plays, the game may actually skip the next music track (as happened in my case). Making a CD image didn't work, as the Half-Life CD-ROM is actually an "Enhanced Audio CD", and the audio tracks won't make it into the image file as they are not classic file data. So, basically I'd scrap the awful CD thing altogether.

There's a much better solution:

1. Update Half-Life WON to 1.1.1.0:
https://www.moddb.com/games/half-life/downloads/half-life-1-won-1110-patch
2. Apply this resolution, FOV and MP3 playback fix while you're at it
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1228-half-life-won-resolution-fov-mp3-patch/
3. Copy the MP3 soundtrack files from your Steam version of Half-Life (<game folder>/valve/media) to the WON folder, also /valve/media.
4. Make sure those MP3s have ID3v1 tags besides ID3v2 (I think they don't), you can add them via Mp3Tag or other tools. See
https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-id3v2-to-id3v1/6871

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by brazzjazz:

I've had the same problem, the CD-ROM was even in the drive, but sometimes the music played, sometimes not, and it was driving me crazy. Possibly the drive access was too slow at times, resulting in the playback being cancelled, at least that was my (naive) impression. Also, even if the intro music plays, the game may actually skip the next music track (as happened in my case). Making a CD image didn't work, as the Half-Life CD-ROM is actually an "Enhanced Audio CD", and the audio tracks won't make it into the image file as they are not classic file data. So, basically I'd scrap the awful CD thing altogether.

There's a much better solution:

1. Update Half-Life WON to 1.1.1.0:
https://www.moddb.com/games/half-life/downloads/half-life-1-won-1110-patch
2. Apply this resolution, FOV and MP3 playback fix while you're at it
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1228-half-life-won-resolution-fov-mp3-patch/
3. Copy the MP3 soundtrack files from your Steam version of Half-Life (<game folder>/valve/media) to the WON folder, also /valve/media.
4. Make sure those MP3s have ID3v1 tags besides ID3v2 (I think they don't), you can add them via Mp3Tag or other tools. See
https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-id3v2-to-id3v1/6871

Sorry for necroing this thread. I want to play my WON versions of both Half Life 1 and Opposing Force without needing the CD too and still have music so I followed this advice and it seems to still have not worked. Am I tagging the audio tracks wrong in MP3Tag?

[brazzjazz]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Originally posted by brazzjazz:

I've had the same problem, the CD-ROM was even in the drive, but sometimes the music played, sometimes not, and it was driving me crazy. Possibly the drive access was too slow at times, resulting in the playback being cancelled, at least that was my (naive) impression. Also, even if the intro music plays, the game may actually skip the next music track (as happened in my case). Making a CD image didn't work, as the Half-Life CD-ROM is actually an "Enhanced Audio CD", and the audio tracks won't make it into the image file as they are not classic file data. So, basically I'd scrap the awful CD thing altogether.

There's a much better solution:

1. Update Half-Life WON to 1.1.1.0:
https://www.moddb.com/games/half-life/downloads/half-life-1-won-1110-patch
2. Apply this resolution, FOV and MP3 playback fix while you're at it
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1228-half-life-won-resolution-fov-mp3-patch/
3. Copy the MP3 soundtrack files from your Steam version of Half-Life (<game folder>/valve/media) to the WON folder, also /valve/media.
4. Make sure those MP3s have ID3v1 tags besides ID3v2 (I think they don't), you can add them via Mp3Tag or other tools. See
https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-id3v2-to-id3v1/6871

Sorry for necroing this thread. I want to play my WON versions of both Half Life 1 and Opposing Force without needing the CD too and still have music so I followed this advice and it seems to still have not worked. Am I tagging the audio tracks wrong in MP3Tag?

Did you make sure the tags are id3v1 format? You can check that by right-clicking on one of the files in Mp3tag, and under "TAG" you can see the format. Otherwise Half-Life won't pick up on the metadata. Assuming the track titles are correct, too (format "Half-Life01.mp3" etc.). I don't recall what music Opposing Force uses, though.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by brazzjazz:

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Sorry for necroing this thread. I want to play my WON versions of both Half Life 1 and Opposing Force without needing the CD too and still have music so I followed this advice and it seems to still have not worked. Am I tagging the audio tracks wrong in MP3Tag?

Did you make sure the tags are id3v1 format? You can check that by right-clicking on one of the files in Mp3tag, and under "TAG" you can see the format. Otherwise Half-Life won't pick up on the metadata. Assuming the track titles are correct, too (format "Half-Life01.mp3" etc.). I don't recall what music Opposing Force uses, though.

Thank you. I checked again and it turns out I had to click "remove tag" before adding the tags as shown in the link. Then it worked. Same with opposing force although for some reason it didn't display the tag column for those ones unlike HL1.

[brazzjazz]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Originally posted by brazzjazz:

Did you make sure the tags are id3v1 format? You can check that by right-clicking on one of the files in Mp3tag, and under "TAG" you can see the format. Otherwise Half-Life won't pick up on the metadata. Assuming the track titles are correct, too (format "Half-Life01.mp3" etc.). I don't recall what music Opposing Force uses, though.

Thank you. I checked again and it turns out I had to click "remove tag" before adding the tags as shown in the link. Then it worked. Same with opposing force although for some reason it didn't display the tag column for those ones unlike HL1.

Cool!

[ТотломФреди515]

Originally posted by brazzjazz:

I've had the same problem, the CD-ROM was even in the drive, but sometimes the music played, sometimes not, and it was driving me crazy. Possibly the drive access was too slow at times, resulting in the playback being cancelled, at least that was my (naive) impression. Also, even if the intro music plays, the game may actually skip the next music track (as happened in my case). Making a CD image didn't work, as the Half-Life CD-ROM is actually an "Enhanced Audio CD", and the audio tracks won't make it into the image file as they are not classic file data. So, basically I'd scrap the awful CD thing altogether.

There's a much better solution:

1. Update Half-Life WON to 1.1.1.0:
https://www.moddb.com/games/half-life/downloads/half-life-1-won-1110-patch
2. Apply this resolution, FOV and MP3 playback fix while you're at it
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1228-half-life-won-resolution-fov-mp3-patch/
3. Copy the MP3 soundtrack files from your Steam version of Half-Life (<game folder>/valve/media) to the WON folder, also /valve/media.
4. Make sure those MP3s have ID3v1 tags besides ID3v2 (I think they don't), you can add them via Mp3Tag or other tools. See
https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-id3v2-to-id3v1/6871

That did not work for me at least the resolution because I have a 16 x 10 display and the exact resolution is 16 80 x 10 50 so is there a better resolution Patch that works with 16 x 10 displays if there is please repost this and give me some links, please