[Tutorial] Covarr's New FF7Music Tutorial

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It probably is just that your machine is too slow, especially if it only happens with other patches/mods.

However, you could try this and see if it helps.
 
It won't let me select "small" in the buffer tab. It only has "medium."  Any clue why this is?


Nevermind, got it ;). I'll see if this works now.


Alright, I've finally figured it out. I went to Config on the MAD plugin and, along with selecting "small" in the buffer tab, I set the Priority to Highest Priority in the General tab. So to anyone with a slower CPU, try this if you have problems with songs loading on time. I confirmed that having it set to Highest Priority is, indeed, the fix to my problem, as I have tested it with both Highest and Normal settings. The only slowdown in the game that I've noticed is literally half a second at most, and it's only apparent when the victory fanfare plays.
 
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I have just installed it and I am having an odd problem...

I have the original music with the overlapping FF7 music... So, both of them are playing... VERY ANNOYING!
 
Use Aali's driver, and make sure to delete the # in front of the music plugin in ff7_opengl.cfg file
 
still not working... do i have to start a new game?
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No, that's not the problem.

You probably installed FF7 in the Program Files directory, and are running Windows Vista or 7 with UAC, is my best guess. UAC prevents you from properly editing files in certain directories.

1. Find the file ff7_opengl.cfg in your FF7 install directory.
2. Move it to the desktop.
3. Right click it, choose open with, and click Notepad.
4. Find the line that says #music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp and remove the #
5. Move the file ff7_opengl.cfg back to your FF7 install directory.

If you follow these directions correctly, you absolutely won't have the original music overlapping in the background next time you run the game.
 
it has been done to no avail.

I am at a loss here lol.

Still overlapping.

I tried to turn down the music volume, but that removes my sound effects as well, so now the sound effects volume is useless...
 
it has been done to no avail.

I am at a loss here lol.

Still overlapping.

I tried to turn down the music volume, but that removes my sound effects as well, so now the sound effects volume is useless...
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Somewhere around here is a tutorial I had made for FF7Music.   If you can find it, in there is a link to a midi.lgp where all the midi files are blank.  Use that instead.
 
Ah, I found it, thank you bear.

I will post my results in a bit.

Edit: Bear you are the man... or animal!!!! It's working great now, and I can change in whatever music I want since I have all the directory folders good to go.

This is really making the FF experience so much newer and enjoyable... It's like playing it for the 2nd time lol.
 
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I keep getting a direct sound error. FF7 Music keeps throwing errors every second when I try to play the new music. Error message:
Error setting DirectSound cooperative level; please shutdown other programs using your soundcard.
Error code: 80070057
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I have nothing else open that is utilizing my sound device. I've tried it with just my essentials and FFVII running, and it gives me the same error. The music files are there.

Using Aali's custom graphics interface 7.8b
Win 7
Nvidia 9800GT graphic adapter
On board High definition audio device
 
out_wave fixed it. I don't know why I overlook these simple things when Troubleshooting these days. I used to be at least competent at FF7 modifications... Sigh.

Thanks for the pointer.
 
FF7Music is a special exception. It doesn't work right, 90% of the time. No amount of skill and intelligence can fully fix it, just experience and patience.
 
But once you have it working... it's the sweetest thing evar!!

Whenever I find a better mp3 of a song, I can plop it in the directory with the same name as the song it's replacing and it's good to go!

I may release a new mp3 set of songs that are much less in file size, but better/cooler sounding.

No offense to those who made the remaster soundtrack!
 
Not really sure what's going on here, but when I run FF7music it... mostly works. Except sometimes it refuses to switch songs when switching areas, or insists on not playing anything. The files are all set up correctly -- it can play them sometimes. I've tried PSF and MP3s, both have the same problem. The problem isn't limited to certain songs. It can either refuse to switch, or refuse to play any song at any time, and then play that same song perfectly 10 seconds later.

For Example: I load my saved game (which is at the world map). 90% of the time, no music at all. just silence. The other 10%, it correctly plays the world map song.
Then I go into a random battle. Either it will play the battle music, or it will keep playing the world map music for the whole battle. The victory fanfare usually plays when I beat the enemies, but even that's not guaranteed. I go into a town, and maybe the town music starts playing, or maybe the world map music keeps playing. If I then immediately exit the town, the world map music has a chance to start playing again, or maybe it will keep playing the town music, or maybe I will get silence. It seems totally random.

Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? Or is this just "normal" with FF7music? I've tried all the FF7music settings I can find, I've tried different versions of FF7music, I've tried running under every combination of compatability modes. There are no spaces in the path.

I am running Windows Vista 64, and FF7 1.02 with Aali's driver 0.7.8b with FF7music.fgp enabled. FF7music is version 1.51. I've even tried using LoopBe also but I don't think the Aali/FF7music combo needs to use midi at all, does it?

I can post my app.log/ff7music.log if it would help.
 
This is absolutely not normal for FF7Music, but it's not a problem I've ever seen before. I honestly have no idea what could be going wrong. You could try installing FF7Music with this installer, but based on your symptoms I doubt it would make a difference.

It seems like FF7Music isn't getting the info from the game that it needs, though if you're using Aali's driver and properly set up the ini to enable the music plugin, I can't imagine why this would happen.
 
Thanks for the quick reply. It's good to know this isn't normal, and I had looked around the forums looking for a similar problem and couldn't find anything.

I'm still not sure why it's doing this. I'm going to try doing a fresh install with a focus on following all the tutorials precisely. I will also give your installer a try, thanks! I'm beginning to wonder if I have some kind of hardware problem at this point, maybe I'll try a different computer as well...
 
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