I'm tired of the SPWAW music, so...

[Don Doom]

Well lately, I have turn off all sound and run media player while I am playing email. During vikings I play system of a down toxicity, during M4's Metica or led Zepp! Works pretty good and does not mess up the game in any way[ie slow it down or wierd battles results].

[Charles2222]

I don't see how you guys can play WWII games with modern music. It has to be be something WWII era about it, be that mono sound, martial music, or broadcasts from that era, to me.

The only stuff I ever heard that seemed like it might've fit WWII and was still modern was some of Pink Floyd's stuff.

Seems like some of the Beatles stuff glimpsed back into WWII in parts too, but their music was so typical of being anti-establishment to the WWII generation that they don't seem to fit though.

Oh, I forgot, there was Linda Ronstadt's torch music attempt which went on for a while. I thought she sang very well that way. You'll never hear a better version of When You Wish Upon a Star.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

Background ambience is always important, but sometimes we just want wacky heheh.

Nothing like blowing things up while listening to anime music in the background heheh (hey where do you think my odd talents come from eh:) ).

[Charles2222]

Les the Sarge 9-1: I've been thinking about it though. As much as Ronstadt's music may had fit the era, that style of music, done by her is almost as out of place as heavy metal. Imagine stormtroopers marching through Paris and you hear I've got a crush on youuuu sweetie pie

[Karnaaj]

Hmmm. I've had some squirrelly things happen when using SpinAmp/ShoutAmp (Spinner/Shoutcast plgins for WinAmp), but using music on my drives, it works fine. A great untidy lot of military music, movie scores and the like - WinMX for qite a bit, but loads off websites as well. (Gotta remember to transfer all the Yugoslavian stuff to the Military subdirectory sometime). IRC can feed as well, but I've found only one really good channel for scores, and at 56k, well... <sigh>

(Note: a lot of WinMX/IRC available stuff [and probably web-available, as well] is copyright vciolation. 'nuff said there.)

The biggest prob I've had is weeding out all the **** skinhead/neonazi crap from the searches. Second: duplicates (different names/sampling rates). One skin-type I saw had a *monster* load of applicable music - but I never could figure out if they were dupes, or actually multiple *versions* by differing performers/units... I'd have to grab the same title by, say, the Wehrmacht and HitlerJugend, and mebbe the KriegsMarine just to be sure, and there toward the end of that period of leeching he was refusing my download requests. (Mebbe he browsed my selections and found the Russian stuff? <EG>)

Ah well. Yeah, kill the in-game music, and use WinAmp/whatever. (You can even add in the default SPWAW music to your playlists - it's a little more palatible when it's not the *only* choice.)

MP3.com might be worth checking, as well - dig around the movie music/instrumentals/classical <?> sections and see what-all might be worthwhile.

(Now playing: Hans Zimmer/Nick Glennie-Smith/Harry Gregson Williams - Rocket Away - THE ROCK motion picture soundtrack)