Simviation Forum - Music in FS2004

May 19^th, 2009 at 9:23pm

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I think that a nice add-on for 2004 would be a module that plays music in the background on the main screen, like FSX. Maybe someone out there could give it a shot. Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - May 19^th, 2009 at 9:34pm

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You could use a CD. Wink

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Reply #2 - May 19^th, 2009 at 9:48pm

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I know, but is just nice having it built in to FS. I've been using 2004 until I can get my computer a little more powerful to run FSX better.

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Reply #3 - May 19^th, 2009 at 11:19pm

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Yeah, I agree Cool

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Reply #4 - May 20^th, 2009 at 6:27pm

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I remember Bill Lyons had a couple of planes that had a cd player in a glovebox Cool

(tripacer, and luscombe 8a) they are both pretty nice models, and you just plug in a disk then you have control over it from the cd player in the glovey

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Reply #5 - May 20^th, 2009 at 6:55pm

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Just to make sure you know what I mean, I am talking about having music on the opening screen, aircraft selection menu, date and time, etc. Not while flying.

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Reply #6 - May 20^th, 2009 at 7:05pm

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I just sing; "The hills are alive to the sound of music!" to myself while the Sim is loading*...

Paul...G-BPLF..FS 2004... Grin

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*....possibly... Roll Eyes

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Reply #7 - May 20^th, 2009 at 7:17pm

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Fozzer wrote on May 20^th, 2009 at 7:05pm:

Paul...G-BPLF..FS 2004... Grin

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What do you mean by this? I didn't understand. Huh

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Reply #8 - May 20^th, 2009 at 7:53pm

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It would be kind of neat if someone figured out a way to have FS2004 use menu music, but it would be a resource hog too.

(That's just one variant of Fozzer's sign-off tag, in this case his online call sign. Nothing more, nothing less.)

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Reply #9 - May 20^th, 2009 at 9:28pm

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Yeah, I really like the default music in the background on FSX. I even tried fooling around with this. I took the module from FSX that runs the music, and pasted it in FS2004, but it didn't work. I think I did something wrong though. In fact, I think I know what it is. Anyway, I will try it again when I have time. If this doesn't work, I'm sure someone out there could develop a module for this... Roll Eyes

EDIT: ...pasted it in FS2004 (fixed post). Originally I put FSX. Cheesy

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Reply #10 - May 21^st, 2009 at 12:42am

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Simply my two cents, but:

I really like that FS9 has no menu music. I detest most, if not all, video game music, and turn it off on almost every game I play. I find it distracting, and mostly superfluous. Although if the tracks are made by actual artists, instead of "mood music", I may tend to keep it at a low volume. That's one of the things that I really like about the FS series: no unnecessary crap stuck in to distract you.

Although I completely respect your opinion on the matter and will attempt to help you however I can . . . Wink

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Reply #11 - May 21^st, 2009 at 1:17pm

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You mean the anoying music in FS.X that a lot of folks turn off?? Shocked

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Reply #12 - May 21^st, 2009 at 2:20pm

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If I want to listen to something to while away the seconds that I spend in the opening screens, then I start up iTunes. The great thing is then that the music continues while I'm flying (although you can't actually hear much of it in the noisy cockpit of a Piper Warrior).

Why have fixed opening music anyway? It's always the same thing. The pseudo-633-squadron FSX opening music is just one reason why this is not a good idea to me for FS9, as I've seen numerous requests in forums for how to turn the FSX music off!

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Reply #13 - May 21^st, 2009 at 5:26pm

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But just remember that he didn't ask for opinions on the matter, just how to do it. Even if we disagree with his choice, we aren't the ones that have to sit through it.

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Reply #14 - May 21^st, 2009 at 6:48pm

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Travis wrote on May 21^st, 2009 at 5:26pm:

But just remember that he didn't ask for opinions on the matter, just how to do it. Even if we disagree with his choice, we aren't the ones that have to sit through it.

Thanks, Travis!

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Reply #15 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 4:23am

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Hi there Travis.

Here's an answer minus several glasses of wine!

In terms of 'how', if it was something that somebody wanted to do then I think that iTunes on 'random' might be the easiest way to do it. Otherwise it might be down to something like using Doug Dawson's XML sound gauges to activate a sound file on startup, but it would need some kind of trigger early on in the startup process, and I can't think how you might activate that.

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Reply #16 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 7:39am

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BrandonF wrote on May 20^th, 2009 at 7:17pm:

Fozzer wrote on May 20^th, 2009 at 7:05pm:

Paul...G-BPLF..FS 2004... Grin

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What do you mean by this? I didn't understand. Huh

An extremely simple explanation as follows:

Paul: My real name.
G-BPLF: My British Aircraft Registration Letters.
FS 2004: My current Flight Simulator, so that there is no confusion.
..... Grin

...: A happy, smiley face.

Paul..G-BPLF..FS 2004... Cool

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Reply #17 - May 22^nd, 2009 at 10:58am