Main Menu Music

[Tutorial]

category
General Half-Life 2/Other

description
Many Source mods use music on their menu screen and thankfully so can you.

keywords
main, menu, music, mod.

Want to put music in your main menu?

Go to your valve.rc file in your cfg folder.
for mine it is:

F:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\SourceMods\BehindEnemyLines\cfg

You will see this

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// load the base configuration
//exec default.cfg

// Setup custom controller
exec joystick.cfg

// run a user script file if present
exec autoexec.cfg

//
// stuff command line statements
//
stuffcmds

// display the startup level
//startupmenu



Just add this line:

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// Game Menu Music Theme
play ../sounds/MUSICFILE.mp3 or .wav

- Sint Lucifer

[TheMiede]

What exactly is this for? Im confused.

[marnamai]

if you want music in tha main menu for a source game/mod.

[TorQueMoD]

There's actually an easier way to do this since Valve released Day of Defeat Source (it works for all mods)

Just place an MP3 file named gamestartup1.mp3 in the sound/ui folder for your mod.

If you want more than one startup MP3, use the name gamestartup2.mp3 and so on.

If you have more than one Mp3 in the startup folder, it will pick one at random every time you load the game.

The Mp3 has to be 44100hz to work.

[Kodox]

Ok BUT how do you add music to certain parts of your map. DO you use a trigger? Also how do you just listen to the whole HL 2 soundtrack without being in the game? I have wanted to hear the music in HL 2 for a LONG time.

[Mark Richard]

I tried that thing with the valve.rc file... but it didn't work. I didn't hear any music play at the main menu.

This is what I wrote in the valve.rc file:

// Game Menu Music Theme
play ../sound/music/HL1_song17.mp3

Since I want a HL2 song to play, I guess it's better to it this way, instead of extracting the mp3 and name it gamestartup1.mp3 and place it in the sound/ui folder.

[Fiddler1972]

Ok BUT how do you add music to certain parts of your map. DO you use a trigger? Also how do you just listen to the whole HL 2 soundtrack without being in the game? I have wanted to hear the music in HL 2 for a LONG time.

Download and install GCFScape...
Turn off Steam...
Open up GCFScape...
Open up your HL2 GCF...
Extract all the HL2 Music files to your hard drive somewhere...

Open them with your favorite media player.

[Shr3d]

Ok BUT how do you add music to certain parts of your map. DO you use a trigger? Also how do you just listen to the whole HL 2 soundtrack without being in the game? I have wanted to hear the music in HL 2 for a LONG time.

Download and install GCFScape...
Turn off Steam...
Open up GCFScape...
Open up your HL2 GCF...
Extract all the HL2 Music files to your hard drive somewhere...

Open them with your favorite media player.

lol he posted that question last year... Check dates.

[Bema]

Ok BUT how do you add music to certain parts of your map. DO you use a trigger? Also how do you just listen to the whole HL 2 soundtrack without being in the game? I have wanted to hear the music in HL 2 for a LONG time.

Download and install GCFScape...
Turn off Steam...
Open up GCFScape...
Open up your HL2 GCF...
Extract all the HL2 Music files to your hard drive somewhere...

Open them with your favorite media player.

lol he posted that question last year... Check dates.

Question never got answered though...!

[Shr3d]

Ok BUT how do you add music to certain parts of your map. DO you use a trigger? Also how do you just listen to the whole HL 2 soundtrack without being in the game? I have wanted to hear the music in HL 2 for a LONG time.

Download and install GCFScape...
Turn off Steam...
Open up GCFScape...
Open up your HL2 GCF...
Extract all the HL2 Music files to your hard drive somewhere...

Open them with your favorite media player.

lol he posted that question last year... Check dates.

Question never got answered though...!

I'm pretty sure he would have found the solution by himself after that long.

[Mango]

I think he's been anxiously refreshing this thread for the past twelve months.

[Dead-Inside]

I do too.

And anyone else looking at the post and wanting to know the answer won't have to search or post about it.

[Chrustec]

There's actually an easier way to do this since Valve released Day of Defeat Source (it works for all mods)

Just place an MP3 file named gamestartup1.mp3 in the sound/ui folder for your mod.

If you want more than one startup MP3, use the name gamestartup2.mp3 and so on.

If you have more than one Mp3 in the startup folder, it will pick one at random every time you load the game.

The Mp3 has to be 44100hz to work.

Hey guys I tried this method and it didn't work - I tried using a 44100Hz mp3 and wav file named 'gamestartup1.mp3/gamestartup1.wav' I also tried the method using the valve.rc file

play music/intro.mp3

This did not work either. However, if once my mod starts up I open the console up and type this command into the console the music will start playing. Here is my valve.rc file for review if anyone spots anything that might be the cause please let me know - its kicking my ass atm and its 2am so I'm gonna take a break for the night and start fresh tomorrow. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks guys.

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// load the base configuration
//exec default.cfg
// Setup custom controller
exec joystick.cfg

// run a user script file if present
exec autoexec.cfg

//
// stuff command line statements
//
stuffcmds

hostname "My Mod"

mp_forcerespawn 0

// Display the startup level
startupmenu
// Play some music for the menu
// play music/intro.mp3
play music/intro2.mp3

[Chrustec]

There's actually an easier way to do this since Valve released Day of Defeat Source (it works for all mods)

Just place an MP3 file named gamestartup1.mp3 in the sound/ui folder for your mod.

If you want more than one startup MP3, use the name gamestartup2.mp3 and so on.

If you have more than one Mp3 in the startup folder, it will pick one at random every time you load the game.

The Mp3 has to be 44100hz to work.

Hey guys I tried this method and it didn't work - I tried using a 44100Hz mp3 and wav file named 'gamestartup1.mp3/gamestartup1.wav' I also tried the method using the valve.rc file

play music/intro.mp3

This did not work either. However, if once my mod starts up I open the console up and type this command into the console the music will start playing. Here is my valve.rc file for review if anyone spots anything that might be the cause please let me know - its kicking my ass atm and its 2am so I'm gonna take a break for the night and start fresh tomorrow. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks guys.

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// load the base configuration
//exec default.cfg
// Setup custom controller
exec joystick.cfg

// run a user script file if present
exec autoexec.cfg

//
// stuff command line statements
//
stuffcmds

hostname "My Mod"

mp_forcerespawn 0

// Display the startup level
startupmenu
// Play some music for the menu
// play music/intro.mp3
play music/intro2.mp3

Just bumping this question as its still plaguing me :)

[Saiyajin]

Make sure you actually put the .mp3 file in the 'sounds' folder else it wont work, like this:

\steamapps\SourceMods\MyMod\sounds\file.mp3

;)