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Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:45 pm

dude. star wars gangsta rap in there :lol:

Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:15 am

junwin wrote:u shoiuld put that song in from space jam that goes 'lets get ready to rumble...' lol thats like classic

ive got that so that song starts up wen i turn the game on


yeh i would like to see that space jam song in it too, what was it called again?

Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:31 am

You mean: Quad City Dj's - Space Jam ?


They should put Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice in it too.. lol

Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:33 am

Peanut butter jelly time..by buckwheat boys!!!!!!!!!!!

Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:34 am

And how about that tune that you hear in the Nike Commercial ''Grab a Chair''..

That's a cool tune as well...

Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:25 am

OK... loaded it up.. very cool mod. But please, can we add in the Darth Vader music and definitely that Nike music... good idea Jasikevicius

Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:20 pm

Thanks for the song suggestions guys. (Y) I'll see what I can do about adding them.

The problem is.. Audy06 (or maybe it's the way the files are coded by EA).. it's very fickle and crashes very easily after replacing a song. And once that happens the entire file becomes corrupt, kinda like db editting. So you have to go back to your backup of the files and then backup again after you replace every few songs. And replacing songs makes the xditties.ast file get bigger and bigger, it doesn't actually replace the song but create a new one (making the file size grow). If you wanted to add 10 new songs, it would be better to start with EA's default xditties.ast file instead of mine for instance. Cause it would add another 10-20 mb in size to mine which is already alot bigger then EA's.

Also there doesn't seem to be any logic to what causes the crashes. If there were it would be alot easier to know when it could crash and not have to backup so often.

There was a song I wanted to add and couldn't because no matter what I did it would cause a crash. I wasn't able to add any more then I did here (15 new ones) because adding more would cause a crash.

But I'll see what I can do about adding more, or maybe just replace a couple of the existing new songs, with more popular ones like Darth Vader music.

If you like this add on but want to add a new song in here is how you can do it yourself.. It's a frustrating process with the crashes but if you add a new song over one my of songs (and not EA's) it shouldn't crash. If you try and add a new song and replace one of EA's it will probably crash. Unless we can figure out what is causing the problems.

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Things you need -

The songs you want to add in wav or mp3 format
Audio editting program
Wimpditt.exe (ditty editor)
Audy06


Step 1 - Create a new folder which will hold all your songs for editting. "C:/nbamusic" or something like that. Instead of importing and exporting them to desktop.

Step 2 - Get the mp3 of the song you want to add. Get a audio editting program like Wavelab and open it. Cut out a 16-24 second part of it that you want to use or delete the other parts before and after the part you want to use. Add fade ins and fade outs if you want to. Add reverb effect so that it sounds like it is being played in a large hall or stadium. Some experimentation will be needed because if the reverb is wrong the song will sound out of place when played ingame. (You can preview your song in Audy06 and compare the volume and reverb to the other songs to see if sounds like it blends in.) The reverb needs to be quite exaggerated. If you want to know how to do this specifically with Wavelab I could post how to, because that's the program I used.

Save it and export it as a mp3 file.. as high quality as possible (320kbits Stereo 44000khz).

Step 3 Open wimpditt.exe. Select your song and point the paths to the folder you want to new asf file exported to. Don't worry about adding any reverb, because you already did that in your audio program and wimpditt's reverb isn't very good. Preview it if you want, then export the new asf file to your nbamusic folder.

Step 4 Open the Live 06/audio/aems/xditties.abk file with Audy06.

On the left you will see numbers in the Index column from 1 to 114.

Songs 1-10 are crowd chants (deeefense) and sound effects
10-28 are crowd chants for players (MVP, Kobe etc)
28-59 are more crowd chants and sound effects, organ music and a couple beats/songs
60-100 are EA's songs (short clips 15-24 secs) that are from the soundtrack (menu songs) In sets of 2's so 60 and 61 = same song 61 and 62 same song.
100-114 are EA's songs (long version 1:15) mostly in sets of 2's, I think there are a couple that aren't.

*EA made them in sets of 2's.. I don't know if it would work if you add twice as many songs if you DIDN't do them in sets of 2's. There is a big chance but I haven't tested this.. When I listened to the 2 tracks of one of the songs, they were identical except one of them had a crowd clap at the end, the other didn't.

For this addon I was only interested in 60-114. But I wasn't able to modify any of the 100-114 without a crash.

Here is the songs I added and which numbers I used. It wouldn't be a bad idea to make a text file keeping track of all the songs like I did here.


60
61
62
63
64 usher -yeah
65 usher -yeah
66 eminem - forgot about dre
67 eminem - forgot about dre
68 50cent - candy shop (instrumental)
69 50cent - candy shop (instrumental)
70 jet - are you gonna be my girl
71 jet - are you gonna be my girl
74 aerosmith - walk this way (beat)
75 aerosmith - walk this way (beat)
76 black eyed peas - humps (beat)
77 black eyed peas - humps (beat)
78 dream theater - metropolis pt 1
79 dream theater - metropolis pt 1
80 Ojays - for the love of money
81 Ojays - for the love of money
82 low rider
83 low rider
84 Puff Daddy - comewithme
85 Puff Daddy - comewithme
86 jaws theme
87 jaws theme
88 metallica - enter sandman
89 metallica - enter sandman
90 rock and roll
91 rock and roll
92 queen - we will rock you (beat)
93 queen - we will rock you (beat)
94
95
96 ozzy - crazy train
97 ozzy - crazy train
98
99
100


The blank spaces being the songs that were left as they were, plus the 14 longer versions that couldn't be changed. (100-114)

Step 5 BACKUP your xditties.ast and xditties.abk files and put them safe in another folder. Do this after you replace every song, or every few songs, if there is a crash you have to start all over again. So you will need two backups stored in 2 different folders. A default EA backup. And then a backup of your changes you have made.

Step 6 Select the track you want to change. Highlight it. Then click replace and browse and find your asf file that you exported with wimpditt.exe. Once it is replaced, click on the number and click preview and have a listen. THEN listen to the tracks below that one. So preview 65-114, if you replaced 64. If that song previews fine then it has worked. If Audy06 crashes, you will need to restore your backup. Copy your backup and paste it back into the Live 06/audio/aems folder.

If it crashes once. Try it again. Maybe try a different mp3 file. Maybe try to replace a different number (67 instead of 65, etc).

I also found that with wimpditt.exe open in the background I got more crashes. So close that and try again. If it crashes after trying everything you can think of, then it just ain't gonna work. And you should leave that song alone or try replacing a different one. I replaced 15 songs (30 since it's in 2's.) So it is possible just frustrating sometimes with certain songs. After a while you start to figure it out, but there still isn't any logic or pattern to it at times. It's just random.

Step 7 If you can preview the songs below the one you replaced. It means all is working fine. Preview your song with others to compare volume and reverb. It might sound fine in Audy06 but in the game imight not be loud enough or have not enough reverb and it won't sound right. So increase or decrease volume in your audio program if you need to, then do steps 2-6 again. When your happy with it, and the songs below it can still be previewed without crashing. Your ready to play the game and enjoy your new music. (Y)

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Last edited by WebberF1 on Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:35 pm

I will see if there is a way that I can only add the songs one at a time instead of sets of 2, and for them to still play alot ingame. If it works ok.. that will mean another 15 songs..

So far these are the songs suggested..

1"Nothin'" N.O.R.E
2 Darth Vader music (are you talking about star wars theme or another song?)
3 'This Is How We Do' - Game from G-Unit
4 'Number One Spot' - Ludacris
5 "Bring em Out" T.I
6 "Just a lil bit" Ludacris
7 "I'm a hustla" Cassidy (5,6,7 are all played in nba games yeah?)
8 Quad City Dj's - Space Jam
9 Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
10 Nike Commercial ''Grab a Chair''
11.....
12
13
14
15

Addams family theme is another one that is played alot, I was originally going to put it in but the only one I could find is the original theme made in 1960's. :? In arenas it's played on a much better (modern) sounding organ. The other one I was going to put in is Jimi Hendrix All Along the Watchtower.

Are all these songs listed played in nba games?

Any other suggestions? If there was a song that isn't played in nba arena's that is popular with you guys no harm in chucking it in. :D

Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:15 am

Well... I've got another request... but this one won't be easy..

When I heard that TEAM USA was going to play a few games in Germany (Koln) last year, I went there with my videocamera and shot this movie:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/s.lejeune/NBA/

Check the Tralala movie I've uploaded there..

I like that tune you hear when Marbury has the ball (at the beginning)..

So getting THIS one AND the ''Grab a Chair'' commercial-tune into the game would be AWESOME! but..... difficult... I think

Let me know what ya'll think..

And uhmm.. Salt N Peppa - Push It !

Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:19 am

Maybe you could also cut the first few seconds from some of the songs?

So they start immediately cool (like cutting the Jaws Theme first few seconds..)
Otherwise the song has barely started and it already stops because of a score or miss or whatever... :oops:

Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:27 am

And I know that in TimeOut-breaks you hear:

Zombie Nation, by Kernkraft 400..

It would be difficult to let that song hear in TimeOuts / Half-Time in the game, right?

Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:54 am

It would be difficult to let that song hear in TimeOuts / Half-Time in the game, right?


Yeah you can't control when it is played. So I just used songs like Crazy Train and Rock and Roll even though they are used in timeouts and not during actual play.

Oh and all the songs have no silence at the start. It's the game that makes the silence it only decides to start playing the song after a few seconds. In real life they have like a DJ or whatever to decide when to play the song and if its a fastbreak he won't play a song. But yeah I don't think there is anything we can do about this problem.

If I can find those songs you suggested I'll use them.. (Y)

Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:43 am

Great work WebberF1, and thank you. (Y)

Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:29 am

Nice work. (Y) (Y) I really like most of the songs included.

Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:36 pm

Maybe you can also include "The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson
don't remember in which arenas it is played, but i heard it a couple of times already this season

Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:03 am

Version 2 released

15 new songs, 30 total. It really mixes it up now, you might only hear certain songs, once every 3 or 4 games.

link - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DRIOLCWO

New songs -

1"Nothin'" N.O.R.E
2 Imperial March (Star wars)
3 'This Is How We Do' - Game from G-Unit
4 'Number One Spot' - Ludacris
5 "Bring em Out" T.I
6 "Just a lil bit" Ludacris
7 "I'm a hustla" Cassidy
8 Quad City Dj's - Space Jam
9 Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
10 Nike Commercial ''Grab a Chair''
11 Hendrix - All along the watchtower
12 addams family theme
13 Smash Mouth - cant get enough of you baby
14 salt n peppa push it
15 Zombie Nation, by Kernkraft 400

Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:54 am

Not megaupload... :( :|

Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:51 pm

Rokas[LTU] wrote:Not megaupload... :( :|

yep, can you try another host plzzz :D

Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:35 pm

I get 26k/s when downloading it :?

I only have 256k adsl so it takes 5 hours for me to upload it. (5.6k/s upload)

If anyone else wants to upload it with a faster connection feel free.

Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:55 pm

Nic job on the mod

You can create a free filefront account, unlimited space, links never die, upload speed is FAST, and they have lots of fast d/l servers.

For the longer songs, there is another program that can import files into the xditties.ast, but I'd rather wait for the next release of Audy06 because the process is long and complicated.

How about uploading the wav/asf's so we can import them ourselves? That way you wouldn't have to upload what we already have.


EDIT - I just tried replacing song number 100 with, well, the same song. It works fine, so their must be a format problem. The ditties have 4 channels, 16 bit, 24000 Hz, maybe thats why its crashing when you try to replace one.

Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:51 pm

Nice idea and mod :)

Some suggestions:
P. Diddy - Bad Boy For Life (the loop at the start)
Chammilionaire - I'm A Balla
DMX - X Gonna Give It To Ya
Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg - On The Boulevard (loop at start)
Fall Out Boy - Our Lawyers Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Be Sued
Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Going Down
Feeder - 7 Days In The Sun
Foo Fighters - DOA
Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A)
J-Kwon - Tipsey
Joe Buddens - Pump It Up
Ludacris - Rollout
Mannie Fresh - Real Big
Will Smith - Switch
Yellowcard - Breathing

Intro

Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:35 pm

can you change the intro music when the starting line-up is being introduced (right here right now) I think is a perfect song

Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:24 pm

Hey Webber!

I cut some good parts from songs which you can use in your next (version 3?) update...

You can use these instead of the full songs (Usher - Yeah, Zombie Nation and the few others I've cut)..
Let me know what ya think...

By the way, I don't know the name of that song you put in there but I love it!
I recognize it from the Donald Trump tv-show (The Apprentince or so)?
That's great!

Anyway; you can download the cut parts here:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/s.lejeune/NBA/

I've put them in a .rar file, which you can unpack with WinZip of WinRar

Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:43 pm

So it has those new 15 songs plus the original 15?

If it does, then coolios.

Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:49 am

Hey fellas, long time lurker, first time poster...

I have made a new arena tunes file with the following songs:

1- BigBoi - Kryptonite
2- Dr.Dre - Next Episode
3- Usher - Yeah
4- Nelly ft. Paul Wall - Grillz
5- Dr. Dre - Forgot About Dre
6- 50 Cent - Candy Shop
7- Lil John - Get Low
8- Crime Mob - Knuck if you Buck
9- NORE - Nothin
10- Black Eyed Peas - My Humps (beat)
11- Ja Rule - Clap Back
12- Darth Vader Theme
13- Donald Trump Theme
14- Low Rider
15- Ludacris - #1 Spot
16- P.Diddy - Come with me
17- Quad City DJs - Space Jam
18- Jaws Theme
19- The Game - This is how we do
20- Mobb Deep - Shook Ones pt2
21- Adams Family theme
22- Joe Budden - Pump it up
23- Cassidy - Im a Hustler
24- Smash Mouth (couldnt get anything to replace this one :cry: )
25- Queen - We will rock you
26- Ozzy - Crazy Train
27- Salt n Peppa - Push it
28- T.I. - Bring em Out
29- 2pac - Still Ballin
30- Nike commercial

As you can see, Ive left some of the songs the same (some by choice, others cuz it keeps crashin on me) so credit the original author.

Almost all the tracks i added are instrumentals and all have the reverb effect (stadium echo).

In the process of uploading on rapidshare...link to follow!

edit: http://rapidshare.de/files/10988472/NBA_Arena_Music_V3.rar.html
Last edited by BigPoppa17211 on Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:34 am, edited 1 time in total.
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