How tu play music from oryginaly TA?

[vnu007dl]

HI, I am here new, so hello everyone.
It is my first time with TA spring, I remember this game from my childhood, any yesterday I found this game :) I have compiled sources, and spring lobby, and game works fine on my mdv linux.
But one thing is missing, of course great calssical music from TA. I could not find any information, any manual, so i dlike to ask how to run TA music in TA Spring? It is possible? I have originally CD's with TA, or all soundtrack in mp3 files, and I am playing them in Amarok during playing in TA spring, but it is not the same :)
As you well know, in TA every action was assign to specific track ( I love this music from battle)
So, it is any mod or something what can help to run music in TA Spring? Any manual ?
Please I need help, sorry for my english :)

[zwzsg]

There's some widgets to play music in Spring:
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=19957
widgets are .lua files that go into \LuaUI\Widgets\
So get one of those music player widgets, convert TA music to .ogg, put it where the widget expect it.

[vnu007dl]

Thanks for your quickly answer :)
but I still do not understand everything. This manual was written probably for Windows users. In Linux I have different directory structure.
This Widget I copied to:
/home/darek/.spring/LuaUI/Config because here I found another lua, files:

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[darek@Linux_Mandriva Config]$ ls
BA.lua  MA.lua  music.lua

it is ok?
And what now? I have TA soundtrack in ogg and where I suppose to copy them? In this manual it is written path:
*SPRINGDIR*/settings/musicoverride/war/
*SPRINGDIR*/'settings/musicoverride/peace/
and now i need to create directories /settings/musicoverride/peace and war ?
And last question, after those all operation how to turn on it? Music will be play automatically, or I need to activate somehow this lua widget?

[Gota]

You can Download Supreme Annihilation and see how it works.
It plays Ta music much like TA and its all in ogg.

[vnu007dl]

@Gota
You are thinking about full game or mod for TA Spring?
Could You explain me better problem with I have here? Where to copy files with music?

[Gota]

Supreme Annihilation is a mod/game however you wanna call it.
It runs in Spring.
You need to download it like you do any other game in spring unzip it and see where the music is placed.
Take the music files and than Take Smoth's music widget (which is Probably in another game for Spring called Gundam) and you will be able to play TA music in game.

[zwzsg]

And last question, after those all operation how to turn on it? Music will be play automatically, or I need to activate somehow this lua widget?

If it doesn't play automatically, then press F11 for the widget list and switch it on.

[CarRepairer]

@Gota
You are thinking about full game or mod for TA Spring?
Could You explain me better problem with I have here? Where to copy files with music?

It is best you know this before continuing on your quest: Spring (just called "Spring") is not a game, it is a game engine. You cannot play Spring. There are games that run on it, and these games are sometimes called mods. You need a game/mod to play. Some of these are based on Total Annihilation, such as the one Gota suggested to you, SA.

I hope this helps.

[SpliFF]

I'd just rip the TA tracks and setup a playlist in Amarok or whatever your music player is. Play the playlist on repeat in the background and launch Spring.

You won't get TA's "mood" changes (it switches tracks based on the action) but you will save hours of stuffing around with mods.

[vnu007dl]

Thanks to everyone for your help
I used widget from this site :)
http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=2203 and it wokrs Now I have TA music in Spring :)