Overview
In this guide you’ll learn how to add custom music to Warband and how to add different types of music for the game to randomly choose!
Introduction
Preparations
- Audacity
Why? Warband uses .ogg as its sound format. Audacity will allow us to convert .mp3 and .wav into .ogg . There are other programs but in this tutorial I’ll use Audacity. You need to install a plugin though. See the instructions here[manual.audacityteam.org], appropriate for your system. Just follow the instructions there. You can download audacity here[www.audacityteam.org]
The download screen for audacity should look like this
Choose the download according to the Operating System you are using
Next, it should take you to a page looking like this
Choose one of the two downloads. For a .zip file you’ll need a program to extract it. WinRar or 7-Zip will do the job. I suggest to use the installer option though, for convenience’s sake. Use the zip version if you want it to be portable sitting on your pendrive whenever you need it.
- Some kind of a Media Player
This will allow you to open .ogg files and listen to them. I recommend VLC. It’s free. Windows Media Player won’t do it, it is not able to open .ogg files. You can download VLC here[www.videolan.org]
The download screen should look like this (but in other language than mine)
Click the big orange button and it will automatically download it. Click the orange arrow to download this program for a different OS
What next?
To do that I recommend using youtube.
Once you found your music track, copy the youtube video link.
Next, what you have to do is choose one of the many websites to convert youtube videos into mp3 files. I recommend [link] or [link]
Paste your video link in and click “Convert”
After a while it should download it.
I have the file, now what?
Now, open up your Audacity and drag and drop your .mp3 file into the timeline. Should look similar to this
Now, the next part is simple.
Go to the top left corner, click on “File” and then “Export”. Choose “Export as OGG”
Now save your file somewhere easily accessible.
Now, you have to find the warband music file you want to replace (later on I will guide you how to add additional ones instead of replacing)
To do that you have to go to your Warband directory. It’s easy. Go to your Steam Library, right click on Warband and left click on “Properties”. Go to the Local Files tab and click “Browse Local Files”
It should take you to the directory of Warband. Now, you need to go into the music folder and listen to the soundtrack so you know which one to replace.
I’ll pick this one:
Alright, I found the music track I want to replace. What do I do next?
This is also very simple!
Just rename your downloaded and converted music file to the one you wish to replace.
Next, right click your renamed music file and click “Copy”, then go back to your Warband directory and open a folder called “Modules”. There you will have all the modules installed (not steam workshop ones, those are located in steam/steamapps/workshop/content/48700 )
Go into the folder of a module you wish to play. I’ll do it on Native
Once you are inside, again you have to search for the Music folder. This time however it will only contain a ReadMe file.
Now, all you have to do is place your renamed music file into that folder and enjoy your custom warband music!
What if I don’t want to replace music, but add more?
This is possible! And very easy as well! If you watched the samples from my introduction video you can notice how I have two different arena soundtracks. I have three but the game chose these two.
Let’s get to the point!
In this case you can ignore the whole renaming thing. You can name the file whatever you want. I named mine arena_2 . Keep in mind it still has to be in the Music folder of a module!
Now, the last thing you need to do is to go back to your module folder (before music folder)
Search for music.txt file and open it up with any text editor. Notepad will do. I will however use Notepad++
Press Ctrl+F and search for the music file you want to add on to (in my case, arena_1)
When you find it, copy the whole line and paste it directly under the first one, then rename the second one to have the same name as the file you want to add (otherwise it won’t work)
Now, go back to the top of this .txt file
Notice the number
This number represents the number of music tracks in this text file. The more music tracks you add, the more you need to raise it. Each music track raises the number by one. You have to do this, otherwise your game will crash. So, if you add one track you have to change the number to 75
The finale
This is it. You have successfully replaced/added additional soundtracks! Go now, test them out in-game!
If something is unclear, ask me in the comments! I will respond.