Audio track not playing about civ2-ui-additions HOT 17 OPEN

P.S i turned off No CD disc check. And exe is not patched.

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CD most definitely has files Track02.cda etc to Track12.cda
But music is still not playing.. i cant figure this out

..Managed to get music working with ripped audio files to mp3 and using civ2patch ,reading Music folder..

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How many optical drives are there in your system? Do you have virtual one? May be the reason is in drive order/letter?
I just can't imagine a reason why CD tracks doesn't work.
Do they work without this launcher? I mean if you just start the game without Civ2UIA is there CD music? May be at some point Windows 10 broke support of MCI API?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance-winpc/media-control-interface-nmci-not-working-properly/4931db24-a53a-46da-94db-7423e3d5540f
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34835168/media-control-interface-fails-on-windows-10

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Only one virtual drive. I can see by using processactivity that game is accessing that drive and mcicida.dll when i activate music , but thats it
I ripped cd to with nero , so file is nrg , virtual drive is from poweriso , if i open iso with it , it shows track files and can even play them in it.

I cant enter game without mod , game crash. So i cant tell does music works without mod.
I did manage to make it work with Music folder mp3 from other mod civ2patch, since your mod doesnt support that
This seems to be win10 specific problem

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This is mixed image disc and it seems that all that i have tried , poweriso, ultra iso ,wincd emu cant mount such disc to be readable as cd audio? I tried mounting and playing it as audio with media player ,vlc player, none seems to be able to see audio part of cd.. I am out of clues what to try next
Unless u make tool to use folder with mp3 i dont see other option. Maybe making pure audio cd from it. but then cd check would fail..

This seem to be win10 specific issue. On win7 mounting image with data/audio worked fine.Linux also has CDEmu which support this.

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Yes, I have such mixed mode CD image too downloaded somewhere from abandonware. 1st track - data, other - audio. I mounted it with Alcohol and tested both on physical Windows 7 and virtual Windows 10. In both systems such image plays without issue. In Win10 I just right click on disc and choose Play - default Media Player handle it. In Win7 again any media program can play it. For example Media Player Classic from K-Lite Pack can open it from menu File - Open Disc.

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That doesnt work for me at all. I remember that quake and might and magic also didnt work.But they had solution:

https://github.com/hifi-unmaintained/ogg-winmm/
You can find a compiled build included with GoG CDDA games, it requires a folder named MUSIC in the game directory containing track01.ogg, track02.ogg etc. There's also a build available here.
THat is exactly what civ2patch is using

medial player classic Opendisc is just grey. So yeah no for me.

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Yes, I know about this feature from civ2patch. And actually there are several requests of this feature. But for now I'm just too busy (or may be lazy :) ) to implement it here. Furthermore I don't understand motivation. If CD audio-tracks are anyway converted into audio files then why just not use some background player (AIMP, Winamp etc.) and put there any music you want?

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this is for an build arcade machine, there is no desktop

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Huh. This is a good point then! Can't promise anything but may be some day...
Let this issue be open reminding me or someone else who want to contribute to implement audio files playback from folder.

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Ok i got audio to work from folder with original game , but it breaks with ur mod when u enter map ,probably when ur cd audio player fixes take over

65 C:\Igre\Civilization II Multiplayer Gold Edition\MUSIC\Track03.ogg ogg 1 1 0 50 0 106,496 0 0x000007d0 0x80100080

it didnt require nothing special just drop this winm with its dll's in game folder
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VRUYLsOMDxUGvWswTaNrvVJqd1wTWP73
make music folder and dump track ogg files in it

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Tested on my side on Win7. Without UIA it has the same problem that appeared in MCI after XP or Vista - tracks are not looping. It just plays one track and then stops. My patch aimed to fix that bug constantly polling CD status and at some conditions restarting next track. But with this WINMM-wrapper and with UIA it just stops playing at all. There is no crashes on my side but music plays only at OK-popup before the map. And on the map it mutes.
Also I noticed there is no drum sound at the main menu when you exit the map.

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The old civ2patch had the option to play audio tracks from mp3/ogg. Sadly this feature wasn't implemented here and there doesn't seem to be a way of working with both in combination.
The only way to have a fully functioning Civ2 is currently still on a VM. despite the most impressive progress made on other fields. Not having the music just kills the experience.

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So currently, is the only way to run Civ2 fully functionally on a Win95/98 VM? Cause I've been trying to get it working on an XP VM and I've been having the same issue of the audio not working in-game, even with the patch.

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So currently, is the only way to run Civ2 fully functionally on a Win95/98 VM? Cause I've been trying to get it working on an XP VM and I've been having the same issue of the audio not working in-game, even with the patch.

Civ2 MGE is usual Win32 application and with some steps it can run on Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 in usual way even without any compatibility settings.

1. Apply 64bit patch OR use CIV2UIA
2. For videos enable Intel Indeo Codec (https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/indeo-codec-troubles-with-civ2-solved.362336/#post-14899055). And don't use noCD-patch - it disables videos!
3. If you are on Windows 10 - turn on legacy DirectPlay feature. Control Panel - Programs - Turn Windows Features on or off - Legacy Components - DirectPlay

Original Civ2 MGE CD-disc represents mixed mode cd. The first track is data and other are audio tracks. Either insert its physical copy in the CD-drive, or mount CD image with some software like Alcohol. If you are able to play music from such disc with some multimedia software then the game should handle it too. Also, again, remember not to use noCD-patch! In CIV2UIA turn off corresponding checkbox in the options. And make sure your CIV2.EXE is not hard-patched with some separate noCD-patch.

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Civ2 MGE is usual Win32 application and with some steps it can run on Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 in usual way even without any compatibility settings.

1. Apply 64bit patch OR use CIV2UIA

2. For videos enable Intel Indeo Codec (https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/indeo-codec-troubles-with-civ2-solved.362336/#post-14899055). And don't use noCD-patch - it disables videos!

3. If you are on Windows 10 - turn on legacy DirectPlay feature. Control Panel - Programs - Turn Windows Features on or off - Legacy Components - DirectPlay

Original Civ2 MGE CD-disc represents mixed mode cd. The first track is data and other are audio tracks. Either insert its physical copy in the CD-drive, or mount CD image with some software like Alcohol. If you are able to play music from such disc with some multimedia software then the game should handle it too. Also, again, remember not to use noCD-patch! In CIV2UIA turn off corresponding checkbox in the options. And make sure your CIV2.EXE is not hard-patched with some separate noCD-patch.

I have tried all of those, and no change, on both my XP VM and my host OS. (win11) The game runs fine, but no music once in game. (I also tried a version of the game that came pre-downloaded with your 64-bit Editbox Patcher, I was able to run it on my host OS without a disk image mounted but still no music.)

The only thing i can think of is that windows media player can't read the CD image of civ2MGE. Which is odd, cause it could read the non-MGE civ2 image just fine, and i got both files from the same site.

The disk images are in bin/cue format and the software I'm using to mount them is Virtual Clone Drive.
I've also tried the old civ2patch by vinceho. It kind of worked? The game was playing music but had other issues. On my XP VM i could not load save files, and on win11 i could load save files, but i couldn't make a new save, as soon as i got to the point to input a name the textboxes glitched out and locked up the program, forcing me to close it via task manager.

The only thing i can think of that's the problem is my civ2 disk image, the mounting software, or if there's some way to make the two patches co-exist. I still have a lot to learn about messing with older games so my apologies if I've missed or misunderstood something, and thank you for your time and patience!

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If someone comes here in 2024 i have a GOOD NEWS!
Russian person named duplj posted modified exe that will work with this mod AND will play music from FOLDER without issues on new OS.
[link to file](url)

Topic where he talks about it is here

Exe he originally made was for Russian version of the game , but few changes he brought to English.
His Russian exe is insane! It's no longer old game is brand new Civilization 2 (if you can understand Russian)

As for English version among music fix he also increased increased the number of autosaves to 5 and changed the font to Arial Narrow

P.S
CD IS NO LONGER REQUIRED WITH NEW EXE :)

P.P.S
Here is minor brief from someone who tested Russian version of his mod.

The most amazing innovations: you can process sea tiles (build irrigation, mines and roads); build cities on ocean tiles; there is an aviation unit capable of transporting land units, similar to sea transport; the limit on the number of city specialists (36) was lifted; units of different civilizations can now be on the same tile at the same time (if they are in an alliance); 2 resources have been added to the “grassland” terrain type (in the original game this terrain type does not have its own resources); and so on. In total, there are currently 101 points of gameplay changes.

This is truly amazing work, comparable in terms of code editing volume to the launcher from FoxAhead, Millennium mod from Knighttime, and other big changes to Civ2 gameplay. I think the author of this mod should move the discussion to a separate thread and make a full author's presentation. In any case, the scale of the work is impressive...

it can be found on rutracker
I posted full Translated changelog of Russian mod to pastebin if someone is curious

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