Is there anyway to set it up so that when the game loads up, and you come to the main menu, it randomly plays one of several different designated music tracks? There's a number of great variations of the Call of Magic music, and I'd to be able to hear each of them without swapping one out for the other each time I start up the game.

It's hardcoded, sadly.

Damn it.

You know it really gets on my nerves when I think about the really kick-ass mods that people would be churning out if certain things weren't so inaccessible to us, like how the music system works. I know there's mods that alter the music system, but can they do what I most want them to do? Nope.

And don't even get me started on Soul Gems...

You could simply do a little program that launches with MW and randomly switches between the mp3 files on the morrowind folder before the menu pops up. Something like that could work.

Maybe a possiblity for new feature of MCP or MGE XE?

OK, you've got me curious. What about Soul Gems?

Perhaps if I had the necessary skill set, yes. Which at present time, I do not. That's why I was hoping that I wouldn't need a separate piece of software to pull that off.



That'd be nice, though I'm thinking that OpenMW is going to present that possibility and many more that I'd like to see happen. May as well wait for that.


We can't make our own, which has put quite a damper on a number of my ideas.

I could do that if you want to, just ask.
But the best thing would be OpenMW or MCP.

I figured the demands on your time were considerable enough thanks to MOGE. But if you can do that, I'm sure I'm not the only person who will use it.

How would I get in touch with the people who maintain MCP?

Okay try this one here: -snip-
I made it quickly because now I must go, I didn't even tested it but should work.
You have to put the different morrowind titles in the Data Files\Music\Special folder, and they need to meet these criterias:

- They should start with morrowind title (for example morrowind title1.mp3 or morrowind title 983219812398131.mp3 both will work).
- They should be working mp3 files (obviously).
- The program should be placed in the Morrowind folder.

Use it as Morrowind.exe, because it launches the game and then exits.

EDIT: the quickest way to get in touch with Hrnchamd is PMming him or by email (you find it in his profile).

Well, it worked at first, but now I'm getting a bad subscript error. But thanks anyways.

I'll send Hrnchamd an email suggesting randomized intro music as a new feature for the next MCP update.

Ok when I get back home I'll finish it then.

I did a basic bat file. If you guys are interested.

In your Morrowind\Data Files\Music\Special folder
create a new folder named: "mwcovers"
copy/add/rename your themes as cover1.mp3, cover2.mp3 to this mwcovers folder.

Save this in notepad as a .bat file and place it in your Morrowind folder.

@echo off&setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion:: default is fiveset /a N=!random!%%5+1copy "%CD%\Data Files\Music\Special\mwcovers\cover%N%.mp3" "%CD%\Data Files\Music\Special\morrowind title.mp3" /ymorrowind.exe

(you can change 5 to the number of your covers)

That's all.

You can create a shortcut to desktop, give it a fancy icon and set it as "run minimized" too.

Sweet, it totally works. Thanks.

I finished it anyway, didn't notice vtastek's post.
I gave it some more functions, but it's still a basic tool.

If someone would like to try it should place the program in Morrowind's folder and create a folder called "mwcovers" in the "Special" directory. The path should be "\Data Files\Music\Special\mwcovers". (used the same folder as vtastek's so you don't have to create a new one if you decide to try this out).
It detects any mp3 file you put there, the name doesn't matter.

http://moautoupdate.net/randomizerGUI.png

It has also a GUI if you want to select a song manually, you can also hear a preview of it. (Not sure if somone will ever use this but I enjoy do these things so )

http://moautoupdate.net/Morrowind_title_randomizer.rar

That's awesome Kingpix, more elegant than running bat files.

I did it for good sport too. I don't have experience in batch scripting but I have experience in MS-DOS.

Thank you.
Everytime I see something that could be done with a tool like this I can't avoid doing it. That's why I don't have any time to work on the compilations then, haha.

Sounds like you're a step closer for new launcher mod/tool for Morrowind. You also know where to search for me.

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Get back to work on those compilations.

Manual selection AND random play?

Sorry, vstatek, but I can't pass that up.

It's really awesome having people with program-writing capabilities on this forum, great for working around Morrowind's limitations.