[Tutorial] Covarr's New FF7Music Tutorial

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Ran through the steps again and seems it may have been to do with the fact I left the MP3 plugin in the same folder as the MAD   :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:

Any case, the driver appears to not have installed properly last time either

All is well.,  Thanks Covarr.
 
I'm having an issue. Here's what i've done :

Installed FF7Music

Kept the settings the same. Except i changed the default midi device to the one i'm using.

I have all of the remastered soundtrack in my psf folder, where ff7music is told to look.

And yet.. My midis keep playing. Basically, the same problem that Cloud had. I'll get some SS's of my settings.

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll89/Mufalmar/Files.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll89/Mufalmar/PlaybackOptions.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll89/Mufalmar/Setup.jpg

BTW : I JUST changed the folder where it's searching to the extended one that you see in the screenshot. The original "psf\" didn't work either.
 
Use High Wind to open up the Midi in your data/midi i think it was.. and remove all the songs... It shouldn't take long.... for better instructions read the first post..i think its on there or it may have been another tutorial.. sorry if i am wrong....

But the High Wind thing does work. I had the same problem. Wait, you are using Vista right?
 
nope i'm using XP. But i suppose i'll try that anyways

EDIT : Do I need to put the .dll's in the ficedula folder or in the final fantasy VII folder where the ff7.exe is? I saw someone say this before..
 
FF7Music sometimes throws a fit when you put your music in a path with spaces in it. I would STRONGLY advise something more direct, such as C:\FF7PSF or something like that, rather than leaving them in your game's install directory.

As for the plugins, it doesn't really matter where they are as long as FF7Music can find them. I've seen it said that they need to be in the same directory as ff7.exe or that they need to be in the ficedula folder, but I'm pretty sure this is not the case.
 
EDIT : Fixed. apparently all i needed to do was redownload. Sorry D:
 
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This thread, ABSOLUTELY saved my life; no joke. My room mate and I died when it finally worked, however; one error..

Since I have been using FF7Music, it seems to be ignoring my FF7Config. It is selected on fullscreen, but plays in quarter screen, and also ignored my Genova Character Edit. I used the edit, just to check to see if it was connecting with my save files, and it was not.

The music works now, but it seems to be ignoring the original config and save files. Hmmm. Has anyone encountered this?
 
Check your FF7Config's compatibility mode. If that helps, tell me, and I'll update the tutorial.

Also, what OS are you running?
 
One question: What would happen if I do not grant administrative permission to FFMusic? What exactly requires admin privileges? What purpose does it serve that cannot serve with just standard privileges?

Currently, I'm running FF7 and its add-ons all with standard privileges and I see nothing wrong. But am I missing something? If yes, I'd like to know what and whether it is worth losing. Note that admin privileges are not to be given to every Dick v1.0, Tom v2.0 and Harry 3.0.
 
When I had FF7 installed to the default location, I needed FF7Music to have admin privileges so that it could write to its own ini file; anything that tries to write to the Program Files directory needs to be run as an admin. However, once you're done setting everything up, I suppose it doesn't need to be run as an admin.

Not that it's a security threat to run FF7Music as an admin, since I've never heard of any virus, trojan, worm, etc that takes advantage of it, but I can understand that it would be annoying if that dialog box popped up every time you use it.
 
That's it? Really, that ONLY it?

Under Windows Vista, no issue regarding writing to INI files occured: File System Virtualization automatically kicked in and the INI files were redirected outside Program Files folder. (And by the way, even on Vista I don't get a UAC popup because in Vista too, I run under a Standard User Account.) On Windows XP, I forsaw this issue and granted write permisions on .INI and .CFG files to Authenticated Users group.

As for you and me hearing about a trojan taking advantage of something, I won't wait for that. Because (1) viruses infect any EXE thing, exploitable or not if you give unnecessary admin permissions; besides, (2) when we hear such news as a malware taking advantage of something, the said malware has already affected thousand; finally, (3) every application, exploitable or not, which do not really need administrative privileges must act like a good citizen and do not request privileges of a president. This is law. Make FF7 an exception and tommorow you'll find yourself making every pig.exe, dick.bat, tom.com, harry.js an exception.
 
Check your FF7Config's compatibility mode. If that helps, tell me, and I'll update the tutorial.

Also, what OS are you running?
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I am running vista on 32. The compatibility for config is xp/sp2. I tried using different compatibilities, and going through the config each time. Im so curious as to why this may be happening. It's like an unsolved riddle.
 
Alas, I have no idea what could be causing it to ignore config settings. It's probably related to Vista's virtual store, but I don't know enough about virtual store to troubleshoot it, or really anything at all.
 
Though I'm not sure if this is noted anywhere.  The file ta - FFVII Main Theme is the World Map music the plays during the first part of the game, it's much more upbeat than the tb that plays later on.
 
does anyone have the following problem?

if I load ff7music, I have to open config box and manually fix the path where it searches for music files.  This has to be done everytime the app is loaded, so basically the path gets reset to an invalid path.
If I open the config box to edit options and then save without editing the path, the path breaks again and so basically everytime I make changes to config I also have to fix the path.

here is the correct path to my music files.

F:\games\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\Ficedula\FF7Mp3\PSF

here is the path it resets to

F:\games\Square
Soft,
Inc\Final
Fantasy
VII\Ficedula\FF7Mp3\PSF

basically it changes spaces to new lines.  it also sometimes adds a \ to the end which breaks things.
 
FF7Music sometimes throws a fit when you put your music in a path with spaces in it. I would STRONGLY advise something more direct, such as C:\FF7PSF or something like that, rather than leaving them in your game's install directory.

As for the plugins, it doesn't really matter where they are as long as FF7Music can find them. I've seen it said that they need to be in the same directory as ff7.exe or that they need to be in the ficedula folder, but I'm pretty sure this is not the case.
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ahh thanks so thats the fix, now I have my music in f:\games\FF7MP3\PSF no spaces and no issues.
 
Hmm, I've downloaded the rar, followed the instructions correctly, but FF7Music refuses to read the FF7MUSIC.ini.
 
Mombasa, is your FF7MUSIC.ini file in the same directory as FF7Music.exe?
 
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