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Ok, so I have a problem with FF7Music. I have Windows 7 and I used this guide to config FF7Music right.https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/5405/

I have succesfully managed to mute the midi music, and I am able to hear all sound effects. But I cant get mp3's working at all. Anyone have any ideas why I can't hear any music?

EDIT: Got it to work!
 
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Ok, so I have a problem with FF7Music. I have Windows 7 and I used this guide to config FF7Music right.https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/5405/

I have succesfully managed to mute the midi music, and I am able to hear all sound effects. But I cant get mp3's working at all. Anyone have any ideas why I can't hear any music?

EDIT: Got it to work!
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Hey How do you Fix your problem :S, ia have the same Problem in Win 7, the mp3 Play sometimes or anytime... :\ i need help please...
 
If you're getting sound effects and no music, the problem is probably one of the following:

1. You have messed up when specifying the locations of the MP3 files.
2. Your MP3s are in a directory with spaces in it. FF7Music throws a tantrum when the path has spaces in it.
3. Your input or output plugin in FF7Music isn't working right. This is particularly likely if you are using an x64 system, as older versions of in_mp3.dll have trouble with x64, but newer versions have trouble with FF7Music.
4. If you're using Loopbe, then FF7Music needs to have that set as the midi port to listen to.
5. If you muted your music by editing or deleting midi.lgp, that may be causing problems; I'd advise leaving it intact and muting music with Aali's driver instead, this guarantees that FF7Music will still receive the data it needs to function properly.

Hope one of these helps!
 
Hi everyone,

First post here, so please forgive me if this has been covered before.

Having trouble getting FF7music to work, suspect I may be using the ultima edition people dislike so much.
Is there a way to tell which version I'm using? Would this explain why FF7music doesn't work with it? All the other mods haven't been a trouble so I'm not sure what the issue may be.
If this is the case, can anyone suggest a site or shop they may be able to provide the original game? I've sought it for years with no success.


Regardless, I thank you kindly for any information you can provide.

Sed.
 
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Hi everyone,

First post here, so please forgive me if this has been covered before.

Having trouble getting FF7music to work, suspect I may be using the ultima edition people dislike so much.
Is there a way to tell which version I'm using? Would this explain why FF7music doesn't work with it? All the other mods haven't been a trouble so I'm not sure what the issue may be.
If this is the case, can anyone suggest a site or shop they may be able to provide the original game? I've sought it for years with no success.


Regardless, I thank you kindly for any information you can provide.

Sed.
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If you purchased a legit copy, you're not using the Ultima Edition. If you're using a downloaded copy, you won't get any tech support from here whether or not you're using Ultima Edition.

You can't really find it new for sale anymore, but you can probably come across a copy on ebay.
 
Well, I managed to get a hold of a friend's 4 disk PC version, seemed to install fine, thought I'd test it out and it ran with no problems. Tried adding some of the mods and now it's asking to insert a disk, the one's in the CD drive don't seem to work, so I tried to mount an iso but got the same responce.

I thought the mods had nothing to do with the exe files? Or is it something to do with what the mods ahve done to the registry files?

By the way, completely understand this is the wrong topic to discuss this. I'll try looking around in the mean time.

EDIT: Nevermind, seemed a one time thing, just need to do a few tweaks to the remix installer and it's all good :D
 
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Me again! >.>

Just wondering if anyone can point me towards a decent wave editor? Tried using Cool Edit Pro (2.1) to try and loop my custom songs better, but the ones I edit sound different to the original once the game uses them. the unedited ones play fine, same quality, but don't loop as well as I'd like.

Any help is deeply appreciated.

Sed.
 
I personally like GoldWave, but if you're looking for free then Audacity should do the trick.
 
Thanks, I'll give that a try, might be Cool Edit saving thigns in a format I'm unfamiliar with.
 
can someone help me with this?



why am i always having this error when i start ff7?
 
can someone help me with this?



why am i always having this error when i start ff7?
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You applied the cetra patcher on top of aali's mod, which is unnecessary. You're going to want to revert to a backup before cetra was applied, and just go ahead and only apply aali's mod. Then my guess would be you want to open aali's cfg. and delete the # in front of the FF7music addon line.

As for my problem... I'm just running aali's graphic mod and FF7music, everything runs perfectly save for the fanfare, which occasionally takes 2-3 seconds to start playing. I've gone in and out and back and forth with various settings, I even followed through with the advice given to the last person to have a similar issue. I'm not using MP3s, just the PSFs. I've lowered the buffer to no avail, tried different in_X.dlls... nothing seems to work.

I'm on XP sp3.
 
when i tried doing that, it just mutes everything..
i cant hear any sound at all.. why is that?  :?
 
If all sound is off, that's out of my breadth and ken... aside from the obvious "check your volume settings EVERYWHERE." advice for starters...

EDIT: I was wrong about fixing it... just turns out it's very random and I had a string of "good" luck after I made that change... back to square 1.

All music plays perfectly (as far as I've seen) whether I'm running the PSFs or those really nice MP3s... except for the fanfare, it can be instant sometimes, but more often than not waits anywhere from 2 to 4 seconds to run... leaving me with an awkward silence eating away at my OCD. I have a modded FF7 running nearly flawlessly and about all I have done is made sure the problem lies somewhere between FF7music and my PC, not in any other mod interaction. With nothing installed, just the base horrid midis running, fanfare is always on cue, with FF7music (current) running, there's a delay. I'm at my wit's end.
 
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is that so.. well i tried what you said, and mine's already working perfectly..
except for some music that seem to not play.. for example,
im running outside the field, then i encountered an enemy. my custom music plays.
after i defeated the enemy, there goes the win music. after that, it will not stop until im returned to the field.
im running and that music still plays. then i encountered my second enemy, there will be no more music played.

why is that?  :?
 
Hey guys,
Not sure if I should tack this on here or create a new topic.

Really liking this forum as it has helped me to replay my copy of FF7 PC.

I have a question that seems to be a known issue but no real solution... at least a real solution for me.

I have managed to install my copy of FF7 on my living room PC that is running Vista and it has been running great (only needed the 1.02 and Chocobo patches) except for the sound issue.

I am have the same Vista Midi/FMV issue where the music cuts out once the Reactor FMV starts and then the music comes back later (The Vista Volume issue) then randomly cuts out when an FMV starts.

It seems that the workaround is to install FF7Music and run the PSX sound files... well I think I am in the minority in that I want to play the game with the Midi songs and don't want to have to install a mod to get it working.

I did try using Virtual PC with Win98 but it does not support more than 2 to 4 buttons on the gamepad as it wouldn't detect the USB gamepad as USB, only Gameport.

The closest I got to a pseudo fix is installing Aali's custom driver and enableing the Midi option in the config file but it just keeps the music from playing but keeps the FMV volume consitant (yes I know that it is used to mute the midi for FF7Music).

Do you guys know if anyone is looking into this issue for a a fix? or are we all destined to use the FF7Music mod from here on out?

Is there a program I can install that will "Fake" the midi into allowing it's own volume control in vista?


Thanks for any info,
-Misanthroat

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FF7Music will play any format you wish as long as you can find a winamp plugin that it supports. I have had 5.1 DTS Audio files playing in FF7 before.So look around for a winamp midi player. Should work fine.
 
what is the music when your sleeping in ff7?? coz mines not playing when i rest in the game..
 
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