Kill the orchestra not working?

[GoldSalamander]

So I love the Celtic music mod, in my opinion makes the game so much more immersive and enjoyable, and I'm exhausted of listenining to the same tracks from the vanilla game repeatedly. Kill the orchestra is compatible with the celtic music mod, however, I cannot get it working. I used the NMM install and checked every single category to be silenced, yet when I play both the vanilla music plays along with the celtic, making it much worse than one or the other. Can't seem to find any one else having this problem, anyone know what it could be? Tried another silence mod but it took out the celtic music as well.

[MorningStar625]

Kill the orchestra? What's that?

[GoldSalamander]

Originally posted by jonathanjnale:

Kill the orchestra? What's that?

A mod which removes the original Skyrim music.

[alexander_dougherty]

Have you used LOOT (Load Order Optimisation Tool) to make sure you aren't getting any conflicts?

[GoldSalamander]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Have you used LOOT (Load Order Optimisation Tool) to make sure you aren't getting any conflicts?

I believe I've found my problem, Kill the Orchestra is not showing up on my plugins; yet the other sound silencing mods do. After I activate it it's nowhere to be found, even after the configuration menu opens up and I finish with that? Where should my directory be located? I've been changing it from the original to skyrim's folder to the data folder, I've tried everything.

[GoldSalamander]

Bump. Just want to get this issue fixed, been trying for hours.

[MorningStar625]

what mod manager do you use?

[GoldSalamander]

Originally posted by jonathanjnale:

what mod manager do you use?

Nexus Mod Manager.

[GoldSalamander]

Downloaded Fantasy Music Project - which replaces the original music for new tracks, still heard normal songs. Then, deleted all the music in the Skyrim's music data folder; original songs still play. This literarly makes no sense.

[GoldSalamander]

Bump

[♥ Barney ♥]

Originally posted by GoldSalamander:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Have you used LOOT (Load Order Optimisation Tool) to make sure you aren't getting any conflicts?

I believe I've found my problem, Kill the Orchestra is not showing up on my plugins; yet the other sound silencing mods do. After I activate it it's nowhere to be found, even after the configuration menu opens up and I finish with that? Where should my directory be located? I've been changing it from the original to skyrim's folder to the data folder, I've tried everything.

Kill the Orchestra is just xwm files that are silent and they overwrite the vanilla xwm files that provide the soundtrack. In your Data folder along with your meshes folder and textures folder, there should be a music folder (if you installed Kill the Orchestra correctly using the fomod installer).

They won't show up in the load order cos it doesn't have a esp or esm, much like when you install a texture or a mesh mod. So if using NMM you just to install Kill the Orchestra, and activate in NMM. Job done. It should replace the vanilla music with silence.

[GoldSalamander]

Originally posted by ♥ Barney ♥:

Originally posted by GoldSalamander:

I believe I've found my problem, Kill the Orchestra is not showing up on my plugins; yet the other sound silencing mods do. After I activate it it's nowhere to be found, even after the configuration menu opens up and I finish with that? Where should my directory be located? I've been changing it from the original to skyrim's folder to the data folder, I've tried everything.

Kill the Orchestra is just xwm files that are silent and they overwrite the vanilla xwm files that provide the soundtrack. In your Data folder along with your meshes folder and textures folder, there should be a music folder (if you installed Kill the Orchestra correctly using the fomod installer).

They won't show up in the load order cos it doesn't have a esp or esm, much like when you install a texture or a mesh mod. So if using NMM you just to install Kill the Orchestra, and activate in NMM. Job done. It should replace the vanilla music with silence.

Thanks for the information, however, it hasn't replaced the files, I still hear the in-game original tracks whether i enable it or any other silence mod.

[♥ Barney ♥]

Originally posted by GoldSalamander:

Originally posted by ♥ Barney ♥:

Kill the Orchestra is just xwm files that are silent and they overwrite the vanilla xwm files that provide the soundtrack. In your Data folder along with your meshes folder and textures folder, there should be a music folder (if you installed Kill the Orchestra correctly using the fomod installer).

They won't show up in the load order cos it doesn't have a esp or esm, much like when you install a texture or a mesh mod. So if using NMM you just to install Kill the Orchestra, and activate in NMM. Job done. It should replace the vanilla music with silence.

Thanks for the information, however, it hasn't replaced the files, I still hear the in-game original tracks whether i enable it or any other silence mod.

Then you must have installed it incorrectly or in wrong folders. An xwm file overwrites the vanilla xwm file for the music, just the same way that a .dds texture file installed correctly will overwrite the vanilla texture, or a .nif file etc.

Although i haven't used NMM for ages, doesn't it store you mods in the main skyrim folder in the Data folder. Inside the Data folder there is all the vanilla bsa files like Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa etc etc, and there should also be your mod folders (textures, meshes, etc). If installed correctly there should be a folder called music in the Data folder which has all the silent xwm files properly organised in their folders to overwrite the vanilla xwm files from the Skyrim - Sounds.bsa.

[GoldSalamander]

Originally posted by ♥ Barney ♥:

Originally posted by GoldSalamander:

Thanks for the information, however, it hasn't replaced the files, I still hear the in-game original tracks whether i enable it or any other silence mod.

Then you must have installed it incorrectly or in wrong folders. An xwm file overwrites the vanilla xwm file for the music, just the same way that a .dds texture file installed correctly will overwrite the vanilla texture, or a .nif file etc.

Although i haven't used NMM for ages, doesn't it store you mods in the main skyrim folder in the Data folder. Inside the Data folder there is all the vanilla bsa files like Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa etc etc, and there should also be your mod folders (textures, meshes, etc). If installed correctly there should be a folder called music in the Data folder which has all the silent xwm files properly organised in their folders to overwrite the vanilla xwm files from the Skyrim - Sounds.bsa.

I don't believe that's the issue, even after deleting every single file in the music folder, the music still somehow finds a way to play. Either way, I guess in the process of trying to get rid of the music it broke my game becasue after about a minute my skyrim crashes, and even though there were no errors through Loot the other day, now all the sudden I have well over 20, in both the Main game's esms' and the other esps. This ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blows lol.

[♥ Barney ♥]

Originally posted by GoldSalamander:

Originally posted by ♥ Barney ♥:

Then you must have installed it incorrectly or in wrong folders. An xwm file overwrites the vanilla xwm file for the music, just the same way that a .dds texture file installed correctly will overwrite the vanilla texture, or a .nif file etc.

Although i haven't used NMM for ages, doesn't it store you mods in the main skyrim folder in the Data folder. Inside the Data folder there is all the vanilla bsa files like Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa etc etc, and there should also be your mod folders (textures, meshes, etc). If installed correctly there should be a folder called music in the Data folder which has all the silent xwm files properly organised in their folders to overwrite the vanilla xwm files from the Skyrim - Sounds.bsa.

I don't believe that's the issue, even after deleting every single file in the music folder, the music still somehow finds a way to play. Either way, I guess in the process of trying to get rid of the music it broke my game becasue after about a minute my skyrim crashes, and even though there were no errors through Loot the other day, now all the sudden I have well over 20, in both the Main game's esms' and the other esps. This ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blows lol.

If you delete every file from the music folder, then the vanilla music WILL play cos the vanilla music is in Skyrim - Sounds.bsa. The music folder is for your modded music that overwrites and replaces the vanilla music.

[GoldSalamander]

Originally posted by ♥ Barney ♥:

Originally posted by GoldSalamander:

I don't believe that's the issue, even after deleting every single file in the music folder, the music still somehow finds a way to play. Either way, I guess in the process of trying to get rid of the music it broke my game becasue after about a minute my skyrim crashes, and even though there were no errors through Loot the other day, now all the sudden I have well over 20, in both the Main game's esms' and the other esps. This ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blows lol.

If you delete every file from the music folder, then the vanilla music WILL play cos the vanilla music is in Skyrim - Sounds.bsa. The music folder is for your modded music.

Got it, I'll try that. Any idea what messed up all my mods and the original files? Other than a few sound mods I haven't installed any others since the game was running smoothly and clean, but some items were updating when I opened it today.

Edit: Removed kill the ochrestra and a few other mods; seemed to make the game run fine again. Still would Love this music issue to be fixed.