Custom music: what are your personal preferences?

[The Unknown Guy]

Myself I´ve added "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" from "Carmina Burana", as I found it fitting with the European battle music.

Now, I´m checking van Dyck's page, and I çuite like some of the newer games sound files (the choral/music ones, not the ones featuring distinct lyrics), might just add them.

Still, Euro Mobilize 2 from MTW remains my favorite :p

[Caliburn]

Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack works for me at times...

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

I've got a hell of a lot on now. A real mix of LOTR (the best), Gladiator, 13th Warrior, Kingdom of Heaven, Braveheart, Last of the Mohicans, King Arthur, Alexander, Last Samurai, and also some tracks from Conquest of Paradise, Apocalypto and The Mission, though the last two are kind of because my Age of Warlords mod needs Indian music. I've tried to categorize them into Indian, Viking, Celtic, Western European and so on, I haven't just put all my favourite ones into one culture.

[The Unknown Guy]

Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack works for me at times...

That one I added too. I cutted the "Between the times the oceans drank atlantis" part, through. I removed it mainly because my computer is lacking in many things, among them disk space, and it didn´t çuite "fit"..

A real mix of LOTR

I tried with the music from the trailer ("Gothic power", or something), but favored Carmina Burana in the end, which is similar (Featured at the movie "Excalibur", btw)


I try to pick themes fitting European and Arab cultures separatedly.
It´s a pity there´s not a separated, "Eastern European" music setting (Unless it can be added?). I´d rather leave a set of more "warlike" songs for Western Europe, and set the Byzantines up with more "choral" music (like Euro mobilize 2 :p)

[Caliburn]

The Mission is one of my favourite soundtracks of all time. The movie isn't too shabby either.

And Wagner's Götterdämmerung has some nice parts (some of them in "Excalibur" as well, like Siegfried's Trauermarsch) that work well, though I usually find them to be too distracting while trying to "orchestra" a battle...

Blade Runner OST (by Vangelis like "The Conquest of Paradise") has a couple of "arabic" style tracks as well that might work, esp. for the pre-battle track.

What would you use for Eastern European music The Unknown Guy?

[The Unknown Guy]

Choral music, "dramatical", and a bit ominous, fitting the "And in the Byzantine Empire, things go on as they have for five centuries at more, with plots and counterplots. 'Byzantine' has become a byword of complex intrigue with reason" description that you get in the main menu. Something that catches both the "dramatical" side of Byzantium as a surviving relic, a remnant of the Roman Empire and the grecorroman culture ("The golden age of Roman civilization lives on in Byzantium, but pressure from barbaric neighbours threatens it."-from an unused glory goal), and at the same time hinting at a "dark side".
Something on the lines of Euro Mobilize 2 (Dramatical) and the Main Menu theme (Ominous)

"The Conçuest of Paradise" title theme (not the "Standard" one, the ominous one) is rather good too, but more fitting for Arab nations, methinks

[The Unknown Guy]

One midi theme I çuite liked: the music from "Centurion: Defender of Rome" (Father of all Total Wars). Only I´ve never found it around :/

[Glyndwr in the Soke]

I am so happy with the whole Viking music and the second (?) Muslim battle music, I am perfectly to live it as is for now.

[OmarPacha]

There are some really good musics from MTW2, suitable both for Christian and Muslim battle, and I imported them from the MTW2 music CD (Collector's edition) in MTWVI - XL; it has been a great improvement, especially for new XL factions that - this way - have 4 different music choices for each stage of the battle (tension, mobilize, battle, win\lose).

Cheers

[gaiusjulii]

I am going to sound really stupid , but how do you import your own music into the game ? I have been listening to the same 30 seconds of music repeat for the last 3 years arrrrrrrrgh!!!! it does get to you after a wee while

[Noir]

Convert the audio file of the piece you want to hear into the WAV. format the game is using - then rename it with the appropriate theme name, whether that is on the battle or campaign so the game engine can reckognise it and then just into the appropriate place in MTW and overwrite.

[Maloncanth]

Just to clarify, is MTW able to recognize the keywords "Arab" and "Battle" and/or "Victory" in the .wav filenames?

[The Unknown Guy]

No, it recognizes names of wav files that you have typed in the "playlist" file in the main folder. (literally, that´s the name of the file)

It MUST be wav files, and you MUST add the string in the playlist file.

[Caliburn]

I wonder why they changed so that it had to be .wav -files, as I seem to remember that they used .ogg Vorbis files in STW Mongol Invasion.

[Roark]

- Death metal (Entombed, Carcass)
- Black metal (Emperor, Throne of Ahaz)
- Grindcore (Nile, Suffocation)

I try to keep it diverse.