Import your own music to GW 2

[Marston]

Hello there.

Once upon a time, there was a feature announced for GW 2, that allowed you to play your own music while playing Guild Wars 2. You could also select which music should play when (Theme 1-6 while batteling, during story sequences there should still play the GW 2 music, etc.).

Is this feature still in there? I only got to test the game during the last two stresstests and looked for an option for this feature but couldn't find anything.

[Bartastic]

This is an article on GWOnline.net from back in May. Hope this helps.

What seems like a very long time ago, Jim Boer wrote an ArenaNet blog post about the Guild Wars 2 audio design. That was the first time we heard of a very special system promised for Guild Wars 2 – a tool to make your own context-dependent in-game sound tracks. Since then it has been quiet.

The perceptive members of the community noticed that the client created a “Music” folder for the BWE this last weekend. And even though there had been no official word, many guessed that this would be for the personal music feature Boer talked about all those months ago. And it was, as confirmed by a post by Boer on the official beta forums.

If you put a playlist in the folder (supported formats are .wpl, .m3u, .pls, .asx, and .wax), and name the playlists correctly, the game will automatically play your selection at the appropriate in-game settings.

The playlist names that are currently recognized by the game are:

Ambient
Battle
Underwater
City
Crafting
BossBattle
NightTime
MainMenu

The actual music files has to be in a format that FMOD support by default, which luckily is pretty much everything – .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .wav .aiff, and a bunch of old-school music formats, like .mid or .it files.

[Deleted]

I find that these two discussions would be helpful:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c...ylist_creator/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c..._music_in_gw2/

They both explain it much better than I would.

[Marston]

Oh thanks. Good to know it's still there.

[Glytch]

does it completely replace all the GW2 music with the playlist musics or does it add it in along with the normal GW2 music

[Deleted]

It completely replaces all the music.

[Glytch]

It completely replaces all the music.

laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

[Deleted]

Get the soundtrack and mix it in with the playlist?

[Deleted]

If you have the music CD, can't you just put that in along with your own music?

Edit: Great minds, Kal...

[Allanon the Mystic]

Waiting for someone to put together a Final Fantasy Playlist ;D

[Deleted]

If you have the music CD, can't you just put that in along with your own music?

Edit: Great minds, Kal...

I know! <3

I don't plan on replacing my sounds, but if I did, and I wanted to keep the originals I'd just use the Soundtrack mixed with other things.
Now to get someone to buy me the soundtrackk!

[Deleted]

Now... Spotify compatibility, if you please.

[Marston]

I will also not use it at the start, but as I know from WoW, after 1 year or so I just mute the ingame sounds and play my own music. So it's good to know this feature is still in there. xD

[Deleted]

Waiting for someone to put together a Final Fantasy Playlist ;D

You'll have to do it yourself as a playlist is just an index of music files on your local computer.

[Deleted]

Im going to put some Hans Zimmer and bear mccreary creation in here!

[WorldofWorkcraft]

Is running iTunes in the background a detriment to FPS or something?
@Hans Zimmer and Finaly Fantasy: So. Uh. Maze. Ing. <3

[Dodrin]

Waiting for someone to put together a Final Fantasy Playlist ;D

I plan on making a Nubuo Uematsu playlist.

Dragon Fight! for combat

Dancing Mad for boss battle

One Winged Angel for something

etc etc (I need to look through all the songs again >.<)

Edit: Also Swing de Chocobo for ambiance. I'll never be in a bad mood!

[WorldofWorkcraft]

I plan on making a Nubuo Uematsu playlist.

Dragon Fight! for combat

Dancing Mad for boss battle

One Winged Angel for something

etc etc (I need to look through all the songs again >.<)

Edit: Also Swing de Chocobo for ambiance. I'll never be in a bad mood!

Blue Fields. To Zanarkand. Fisherman's Horizon.
Also see: Black Mages covers. Sick stuff.

[Marston]

At some point I will need a Kingdom Hearts mix. So many amazing boss battle themes in this series. <3

[Durzlla]

Legend of Zelda boss battle music!!

<insert megusta meme here>