Thanks for the song suggestions guys.

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