How do you put your own music into the game?
Soylent Sim:
If you have music you'd rather listen to while you sim, it should be a simple enough matter of loading that to the appropriate files and clicking off the ones that come with the game. If you'd rather have silence, you can mute the music and other sound effects by X'ing a check box at the top of the audio options.
And count me in the Orkies club while we're at it. Some Simlish tunes get under my skin, especially the teenybopper tracks that came with pets, but for the most part I think they're catchy and worth keeping around.
Li'l Brudder:
Score one for the Orikes team!
We'll get those 50 souls for the ritual yet!
Lord Darcy:
I want to play my own music in live mode, but I want silence in build/buy/CAS mode. Toggling mute button every time I switch modes is very annoying. The blank MP3s let me build and buy in silence without disabling stereos.
witch:
I have no trouble turning off all music but I believe in some people's games this doesn't always work. I've never heard that anyone has worked out why some can and some can't.
There is another option for music, without having to store it in the sims 2 folders. You can have one music folder with all your mp3s and just point all your sims music to it. I suspect this would work even for people who can't turn off their music. I wrote a tutorial way back in the early days of MATY. I'll have a look and see if I can find it.
ETA: I'll copy and paste here, so people don't start replying to a two year old thread.
If you want to have one folder with all your music files, here's how to do it.
You need a programme named Junction Link Magic
Your file system should be NTFS (Right click on C:Drive in My Computer, choose Properties, near the top of the General Tab it should say 'File System NTFS').
Go to each sims music folder, eg C:\Documents and Settings\witch\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Music\build and delete the settings file so the folder is empty. (If you're concerned make a backup of your music folder first).
Empty each music folder, from build through to techno. These source folders, which will contain 'signposts' to your music, must be empty.
Make yourself a folder to contain the music you want to listen to. It can be on your main drive or another hard drive. It doesn't matter if the second hard drive is NTFS or FAT. I called my folder 'Current'.
You can put mp3's in this Current folder. I don't think you can have sub-folders. I put copies in here and delete when I'm sick of them.
Download Junction Link Magic. Install and run the programme.
1. Start Junction link Magic. The programme will scan your hard drive(s) for any prior link points. When it's finished, click the Create button. You will see a dialogue box with 2 panels, similar to Windows Explorer.
2. On the left hand side, choose the sims music folder you wish to make a junction point in.
eg: C:\Documents and Settings\witch\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Music\hiphop
3. On the right hand side choose your music folder,
eg: C:\H_Stuff\Multimedia\Albums\Current
4. Create your link & say OK when asked if you are really really sure!
5. Repeat for each sims music folder - point each one towards your current music folder.
RTFM:
Junction links stay, you can't just delete the folder you made a link in. You MUST go into Junction Link Magic to delete any points you made if you no longer want them. You can run into problems if you don't. This is reallyreally important.
RTFM the RTFM. There is a good brief help included that explains how to use this programme and what the risks are.
My sims2 junction points:
Emma:
Thankyou Heg, I didn't realise it was so easy ;D Now watch me come back and say 'I can't do it!' :P
* Emma presses 'thanks' button numerous times
I always find myself singing the 'Chocolate' song from the pop music station :D La, la, la la, la-la-laaaaaa
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