GW2 supports player created music playlists (found this on Reddit)

I was reading the GW2 Reddit page and came across this nifty snip from  Anve94 about inserting your own playlists into the game. Check it out... 8-D

Hey guys,

Let me open up with a quote from Jim Boer (Arenanet Employee) about this.

No matter how fantastic a game’s music is, when you hear the same music for the thousandth time, you start wanting to change things up a bit. Many players will simply turn the game music off and play their own collections. The problem is that an external music player has no context as to what’s going on in-game. Guild Wars 2 will offer a solution for this as well. We’re giving players the option of choosing external music playlists that the game’s audio engine will use as a replacement for the default in-game music. Players can choose different playlists for background ambience and battle music, for instance. Additionally, when appropriate, such as during cinematics, the game can revert back to in-game music temporarily to give the best possible cinematic experience, then resume the custom playlist when it’s done. Did you know you can replace the (awesome) music in the game and substitute it with your own? -Jim Boer

This a feature in the game that in my opinion does not recieve enough recognition.

Here's how you do it:

Go to you documents folder -> Guild Wars 2 -> Music.

Create a playlist using your favorite media player.

The music files have to be in a format that FMOD supports by default: .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .wav, .aiff, .mid, .it etc.

The playlist formats that are supported are: .wpl, .m3u, .pls, .asx, and .wax

To play your playlists you have to give it a specific name. The playlist names that are currently recognized by the game are:

• Ambient
• Battle
• Underwater
• City
• MainMenu
• NightTime
• Crafting
• BossBattle

So if you have a playlist in the Guild Wars 2 Music folder called 'City', this playlist will start to play when you are in Hoelsbrak! Awesome!

Hope this little guide helps you!

Please enjoy!

 

Awesome! Thanks forthe sharing this.

Wow! I might have to come up with some playlists.

I tried this, it doesn't seem to be working, it did something cause not even the default music plays now. Is there another step somewhere to enable it? FIXED: Ok so I made a playlist, then COPIED that playlist to that location, this does not work, it changes all the music locations for some reason. Instead, Save the List as.. to the location and it will work.

» Edited on: 2012-10-17 13:53:11

I'm not sure Wolfie. It's pretty cut and dry. I found the same instructions on the wiki. Guild Wars 2 Customized Soundtracks Here is the Reddit feed: Reddit Thread on Customized Soundtracks Not much help there. Most aren't having a problem, and the ones who are aren't getting the help they need. All I can offer is, is to make sure you name the playlists as described and make sure the playlists as well as the music are in the supported formats. To be on the safe side I would record in MP3 and make the playlists .m3u I hope this helps you out Wolfie. As far as the default not playing, did you remove the playlists from the folder prior to logging into the game? EDIT: I found a post on the GW2 forums about a soundtrack editor that you can get from Sourceforge (Download page). It works rather well. I've tested it out.

» Edited on: 2012-10-17 15:54:22

Just this? No way of switching between your playlists and default game soundtrack ingame?

Hmm, I bet I could do something interesting with my final fantasy midi files.