Does anyone ever listen to Guild wars music anymore?

Rothan Celt

Rothan Celt

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

Aura

Mo/R

I was talking to my guildies today and 1/90 said that they listen to guild wars music -_-

well i say 1 out of 90 the other 80 have not been online since the last ice age but somehow i think i knew what they would say.....

Anyway

does anyone listen to guild wars music now or do they just listen to some CD or ipod or w/e

plz post ur comments

PS i listen to guild wars music

Commander Ryker

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jun 2005

R/

I use to because I love the music, but it drowned out people when I was on ts. I don't listen to any music when I play, I usually have the tv going and half watch that.

llsektorll

llsektorll

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Toronto, Canada

R/

Buys guild was May 6, 2005. June 1st, 2005 guild wars music turned off and it hasn't been turned on since xD

Brianna

Brianna

Insane & Inhumane

Join Date: Feb 2006

Guild Wars music got old in the Prophecies days, but I still turn it on very rarely for good old memories.

But mostly I have Winamp up and I'm listening to my own music.

Felixious

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

Sweden

W/

I listen to it, but sometimes i don't feel like fantasy, and thats when i smack my normal tunes on.

Clobimon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

I listen to it, but I have it on low. I typically have the tv on while I'm playing though. I have to play with some kind of ingame sounds going and it just doesn't feel right to me to have other music playing. That's just me. I also didn't get my Directsong for Factions going until well after NF came out - forgot. So, that additional music is still kinda newish for me when I have reason to go there.

Makan

Makan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2008

W/E

I used to, but now, rarely.

Rothan Celt

Rothan Celt

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

Aura

Mo/R

I feel like such a :S listening to guild wars music

i really like it i like the jumpy upbeat asuran music but yea i often do watch tv a lot of the time. the other half my m8s are over or i am having a one sided argument with my budgie.
But i still have the music on aprart from when i am forge running because i time myself by useing music
1st part pinky floyad dunno the name of te song but well ......

'I am gonna hit the highway like a battering ram on a chilla black phantom BIKE!!!!!'

After that

'Over the hills and far away' followed by

'TO FAR AWAY AND I AM LOVING YOU EACH DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!'

Jetdoc

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

I've actually tried playing the game with the music off, and it simply doesn't seem right. I guess for me it's part of the experience, which allows you to "get lost" in the game.

Greghed

Greghed

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

Chicago

W/E

i used to a lot but sometimes in prophecies to relive the old days

Phaedra Firesoul

Phaedra Firesoul

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Under a rock.

Silencing To Avert Brutality

R/

i still listen to it once in a while but it gets menotinous when your on for several hours so i turn the music off but leave the sound effects and listen to my itunes library.

i know my guildie says he still listens to the gw music

DarkGanni

DarkGanni

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Malta

[CuTe]

E/

GW all sounds off since late 2006 only turned on for the first day of every new campaign and back off.

- Ganni

DarkWasp

DarkWasp

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2005

Paradise

Agency Of Forbidden Fruits [Oot]

R/A

I always have the music on, and I love it.


BUT! (Yes the big "but")

THE FREAKING VOLUME IS SCREWED! I have to turn the rest of my ingame volumes to 25-50% to actauly hear the music. I also have to turn the volume on my computer up. Then when somone messages me via AIM, I get ear splitting AIM noises.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

http://www.lastfm.es/user/MithranArkanere/
See it yourself.


Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkWasp
I always have the music on, and I love it.


BUT! (Yes the big "but")

THE FREAKING VOLUME IS SCREWED! I have to turn the rest of my ingame volumes to 25-50% to actually hear the music. I also have to turn the volume on my computer up. Then when someone messages me via AIM, I get ear splitting AIM noises.
Let me help yu with that one:

- Go to DirectSong page. Download the latest ds_GuildWars.dll and GuildWars.ds. It can be done by executing any music installation program form the "My downloads" section. Since you already have the licenses, you won't spend them up, but download the latest versions of the files, it also wroks when they upgrade music for lower Kbps to higer ones, like when they upgraded to 320Kbps. Check Directsong support for more details.

- Once downloaded, go to the Directsong folder and look for a file called GuildWars.ds. Open it with any plain text editor, like the Windows Notepad.

- Replace ALL "0]" strings in the file for "]".

- Done. the volume is now fixed for you.


You can also replace anything between the braquets for ceroes ([1200] -> [0]) but my way is quite faster.
It seems that in some machines, specially laptop integrated soundcards, the volume settings work very bad, reducing too much the volume.
The number between braquests states how much the volume for a certain song must be reduced while playing it, so if you increase that number, you decrease the volumen, and if you decrease it, you increase the volume.

My 'fix' is the fastest one, since it's done with a simple 'replace all'. But manually replacing each value for 0 would also do.
I also added to the file the following lines in bold:
# Divine Path
L351:Guild Wars Factions Original Soundtrack/24_Bonus_Track_4.wma[60],Guild Wars Factions Original Soundtrack/01_Guild_Wars_Factions_Theme.wma[60]
# Bone Palace
L438:Guild Wars Nightfall Collector's Edition/01_The_Bone_Palace.wma[50]
#
## ---
# Adventuring Outposts
That way the track 'The Bone palace' is played in the Bone Palace.

black7hought

black7hought

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

Maryland

The Eternal Night Vanguard

Mo/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkWasp
I always have the music on, and I love it.


BUT! (Yes the big "but")

THE FREAKING VOLUME IS SCREWED! I have to turn the rest of my ingame volumes to 25-50% to actauly hear the music. I also have to turn the volume on my computer up. Then when somone messages me via AIM, I get ear splitting AIM noises.
I know that experience lol, its probably because its just there to ambient, not full out music video music. It does help immerse you into the world, adds to the enviroments.

BlackSephir

BlackSephir

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

A/N

Vote for making GW music in-game selectrable.
I liked Shing Jea music, so when I'm playing in GWEN I can still listen to what I like.
Is so smort D:

IslandHermet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

www.pandora.com owns GWs music.

when you can customize the music channels to play only the songs you like and have as many channels as you want I even have Guild wars related music as a channel I forget what I named it to find the similar music, but it still rocks.

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

No.
It's not my preferred style of music, so I've substituted for my own pretty much since I started playing. Songs like "My Cold Sea" by Arcana, "Of Broken Stone" by Dargaard, or "De Profundis (out of the depths of sorrow)" by Dead Can Dance is more to my tastes, and in my opinion sets a more epic mood.

Pleikki

Pleikki

WTB q8 15^50 Weapons!

Join Date: Nov 2006

???oo ???ugs ???lan [?????????]

gw music 24/7. nostalgia..

Gli

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

I always have it on.

BlackSephir

BlackSephir

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

A/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by IslandHermet
www.pandora.com owns GWs music.
Quote:
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S.
Yeah, right.

Fried Tech

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2007

[Yeti]

E/

nope. the in game music is turned all the way down.
I listen to pandora

Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackSephir
Yeah, right.
I think what he meant was "pandora pwnz GW music"

Thierry2

Thierry2

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

The Netherlands

Mo/

Nope, Itunes ftw

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Ah... I forgot to tell. Sometimes I mess up a litle with the GuildWars.ds file, amking my own playlists with my own music.

It's quite nice sometimes, specially during EotN areas, where you have dynamic music. If you choose correcltly the tracks, you get... interesting results, XDD.

Metal Herc

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Nope, but I have the Morrowind Soundtrack playing instead :P

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

OH, yeah. In one of my experiemts, I changed all Echovald tracks for the "Odyssey" track of the Granado Espada sountrack, by Kubota Osamu.
Let' me search...

Here it is:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=qtNUOp3bldI

Arborstone was quite fun with that music, indeed, XDDDD.

Spaced Invader

Spaced Invader

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Foobar2000 loaded with 800 playlists from my 50gb mp3-collection. Why would I listen to the same few GW-tracks over and over and over for 3000+ hours.

mazey vorstagg

mazey vorstagg

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Nodnol

Meeting of Lost Minds

E/Mo

I have bought all the music from Directsong and play it using WMP so I get all the tracks all the time. As well as music from his other albums.

llsektorll

llsektorll

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Toronto, Canada

R/

Guild Wars Rap is FTW!!!..... I mostly turn off all sound when im calling for HA. For PvE its either pop off of shoutcast or Trance off my comp.

Necro Quink

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Belgium

Trinity Of The Ascended [ToA]

N/

Bought GW (dont know date anymore), one hour after installation i turned it off. Never turned it on since. It's really annoying when you try to watch tv with the annoying sounds on the background from GW.

Lord Xeshm

Lord Xeshm

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

Vent and Winamp are what I listen too when playing GW.

xPIMPx

xPIMPx

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Uk

Hmmm Defrosted Cat [Poo]

W/A

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere
OH, yeah. In one of my experiemts, I changed all Echovald tracks for the "Odyssey" track of the Granado Espada sountrack, by Kubota Osamu.
Let' me search...

Here it is:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=qtNUOp3bldI

Arborstone was quite fun with that music, indeed, XDDDD.
Ahaha that song gave me lolz. I used to play sotnw and when i 1st entered that dungeon i foudn the music soo cheesy yet irresistible to listen to.
ontopic i stopped listening to gw music many centuries ago.

llsektorll

llsektorll

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Toronto, Canada

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Xeshm
Vent and Winamp are what I listen too when playing GW.
thats all you really need

Olim Chill

Olim Chill

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

USA

DMI

N/

I always keep it on, but at a subtle level. I never let it compete with the sound effects.

Horseman Of War

Horseman Of War

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

The Cult of Doom

P/

The sudden loudness of battle music has forced me to find alternatives.

www.di.fm

I listen to goa psy channel when I play gw 90% of the time these days.

Albert Algorn

Albert Algorn

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

Oregon, USA

MARA: Our Turtles Know True [LOVE]

R/Me

I leave it on most of the time unless it is late at night and people are sleeping...

Barbie

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2008

Qu??bec

W/

I turn it off and put some atmospheric gothic/black metal music most of the time...

majestikk

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

it was only on for about an hour
pandora still works outside the US, you need a proxy
itunes won't work with vista 64.
winamp is horrible at playing "random" - I heard the same 100 songs over and over out of 5,000
meh now I have to use windows media player...

Spaced Invader

Spaced Invader

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Just use Foobar2000.

llsektorll

llsektorll

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Toronto, Canada

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Horseman Of War
The sudden loudness (and in GwEn's case, just plain shitty) of battle music has forced me to find alternatives.

www.di.fm

I listen to goa psy channel when I play gw 90% of the time these days.
di.fm music bot active on vent xD