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SoundSense Originals

Description
Adds Dwarven Music (2012) and Songs of Saltfork (2015) by Simon Swerwer to the in-game music rotation, originally appearing in the SoundSense utilty.

Includes 20 tracks for a 1 hour runtime, among them the original Koganusan mix and vocal party songs.

Disclaimer:
This is not the same as the SoundSense utility. This mod runs off in-game music raws and is loaded into a world, while the utility reads gamelog.txt. It can be found at http://df.zweistein.cz/soundsense/

Credits:
The raws are free use. Feel free to reverse-engineer or fork.
All art and music assets are licensed CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)
Page image: "The Border Crossing" by Simon Swerwer https://www.simonswerwer.com/
47 Comments
DPh Kraken  [author] Jan 15 @ 9:50pm 
Put all the mod files in vanilla_music, including the sound folder.
i lost my boots Jan 15 @ 8:24pm 
hey, i tried the installation on a world i already had, has not worked yet.

Dwarf Fortress\data\sound is where all the .oog with music_file_d go right? no folder for them or such?

Dwarf Fortress\data\vanilla\vanilla_music\objects gets only music_d
am i doing something wrong? please help.
macknull Dec 19, 2025 @ 10:57am 
I installed this but seems like I'm getting the same old songs still. Also tried soundsense-rs and the original java one, they don't seem to do anything as well. I'm kind of confused really.
DPh Kraken  [author] Nov 26, 2025 @ 3:50pm 
It should still work, since the gamelog is there and that's what SoundSense proper uses.
Xenon Nov 26, 2025 @ 2:16pm 
Should old soundsense still work with the steam version or not really?
DPh Kraken  [author] Apr 27, 2025 @ 4:03pm 
Actual SoundSense running parallel to the game is still a thing. I think that the v50 audio raws should support the "play sound for announcement" system that most of the default pack is based on, if you wanted a native implementation.
Baleur Apr 27, 2025 @ 3:05am 
Is there any chance for a mod that also adds ALL the sound effects from Soundsense inio Stream DF? That is the major thing besides the music that i miss in the Steam edition..
A lot of sounds im used to are gone, so its hard to audibly know what is going on in the fort (especially combat sounds, job completions, strange moods etc).
I always use my ears more than my eyes =(
DPh Kraken  [author] Apr 25, 2025 @ 3:41pm 
That should be correct.
Charli Apr 25, 2025 @ 10:36am 
Thanks for your reply :) No, I don't see anything related to the music files in the errorlog. I've tried searching it for a few keywords, but to no avail. When I start DF and load my game, only one new line is added to the errorlog.txt and it's unrelated to the music.

The full path were I put the mod's files is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dwarf Fortress\data\vanilla\vanilla_music

the folder now contains:

objects\
> music_d.txt
> music_standard.txt
> sound_d.txt
> sound_standard.txt

sounds\
> *.ogg (all music files)
> music_file_d.txt

info.txt (the original file, not the one from your mod)

Adding your music to my current game should work this way, right?
DPh Kraken  [author] Apr 24, 2025 @ 6:37pm 
The mod has everything it needs to load new music files and define playing logic. Does your errorlog say anything?