Sid Meier's Civilization V

Sid Meier's Civilization V

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CHANGE MUSIC FOR CIVS!!! NO SOFTWARE NEEDED!!! EASIEST OUT THERE!!!
By Zen Garden Enjoyer
Tired of the same old music that plays in Civ??? Well learn how to change it here!!
   
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Intro
Let's get started, shall we?? First off, there are many other guides and ways to do this but they require software and are a lot more complicated. This requires no software and is much easier.
Well enough talk. Let's get started!!
The Music Grab
1st off, you will want to get all of your songs that you want to put in the game for each individual leader ( a max of 2 for each). After that save them in a file of their own, away from Downloads (we will be using it later).
The Conversion
All sound files for the Civ leaders are formated to .ogg, your song files will most likely be .mp3.
If you replaced the .ogg files with .mp3 files, it would cause the game to crash and we don't want that.
As promised, no dumb exspensive software is needed, but we must convert the files to .ogg, so i found a free conversion service that let's turn our .mp3's to .ogg's!!
The site is called online-convert.com. Here is the link to the conversion to .ogg page (http://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-ogg).
After navigating to this site, you will notice a botton that says "Choose Files", click on that and choose ONE FILE at a time. I know that this makes the process lankthy, but we all have a few minutes to spare don't we? After choosing your one file, scroll down to find a botton that says "Convert File", this will convert and download your newly converted file for you. Repeat these steps untill you have every song you want converted.
The Hard Part
This is where it gets hard. after converting all your files and placing them in a seprate file of their own, open up another instance of your folders and head to
C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/Common/Sid Meier's Civilization V/Assets/Sounds/Streamed/Music/Leader Music. Phew, that's really long. Now, you will notice all of the base game's (no expansions or DLC) Civ's War and Peace files. Simply rename the song that you want to replace the original music with to whatever Civ you want. For example, say I wanted the song "Back in Black" by ACDC to replace America's peace time music, I would rename my song to
Washington_Peace.ogg. Then delete the old music and drag and drop my new badass tunes into the Leader Music folder. WARNING!!! In order for this to work you must rename your new file to that of the old one. WARNING!!!

Now do this process over untill you have turned that boring old soudtrak into something cool!!
Outro
Hopefully this was very enlightening and helpful to you!! This was my first guide and I look fowrward to publishing more guides in the future so if you have anyhting you would like me to figure out for you in any game, just shoot me a message or leave it in the comments and I'll do the best I can!!!

Thank you and remember to rate, favorite and share!!!!
16 Comments
SeriousApache Feb 18, 2017 @ 8:28am 
wait, does each leader has only one linked audio track?
* i would like to replace soundtrack with Beyond Earth sountracks, where leaders dont have linked music
alienz999 Aug 21, 2016 @ 12:18am 
Been looking for something like that for ages :D
I'll try it and give feedback.
Ty/merci etc... !
JacK May 20, 2015 @ 8:32pm 
Put oliver shanti - you can hear them dancing for soshone and hiawatha and for every other civ their appropriate element of music, oliver shanti have it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobWszJOQh4 example

oliver shanti have more asian exotic music aswell, fit for japan , china, mongols , and the hunt
Enoan.TTV Jul 2, 2014 @ 11:19am 
for those who like the music, the same website shown above can turn the Civ music into convinent MP3 format for all your listening pleasure (Shaka! inalundininani noo Shaka!)
UltraNAGO Jun 29, 2014 @ 8:39pm 
Oh my god it's Fegelein. Fegelein! Fegelein!!! Fegelein!!!
Phantrim Jun 28, 2014 @ 11:58pm 
I am going to try this out... I'll post my results using this method.
Noctuary Jun 28, 2014 @ 7:20pm 
Nugget of info: If you want to set everything back to normal you can verify the cache on steam.
RedOctober Jun 28, 2014 @ 1:18pm 
well then now i can play ride of the valkyries whilst invading russia.thnx!
mommy Jun 28, 2014 @ 9:31am 
butts
Garen Busen ζ Jun 28, 2014 @ 9:25am 
"lankthy"