Adding Outside Music to Factorio

[RedScourge]

Hi all,

I ripped the original Command and Conquer soundtrack from my own CDs of the game, and have no intent to distribute them as that would violate some sort of copyright I imagine, but what I would like to do is know how one would go about linking in outside audio files to be randomly played as ambient music in the game. If this is easily doable for someone with mild programming experience (not in Lua or C though), that would rock my world. Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Degraine]

The music files for the game can be found under data/core/sound/ambient. Looks like you could replace the existing tracks (I'm guessing you'd have to rename your new ones to match, or maybe not! Try dropping them in and find out!) to get some techno metal all up in this.

[RedScourge]

Thanks for the idea. I haven't tried it yet, but I suspect it would work. However it causes problems if the number of tracks you have exceeds the number of tracks already in the game, or if you also want to keep the existing tracks. I suppose one could combine many tracks together in one file perhaps. I may do this, but in the longer term, a more elegant solution would be nice.