11-01-2005 20:04									#1
	What is your background music in SMAC/X? Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Anyone not tired with the "ambient" music? As most of you know its possible to play your own background music leaving winamp on while playing. The winamp controls may not work but with a little playlist editing its not a problem.


I usually play either classical, Vivaldi, Chopin, Mozart etc. something similarly "light" or soundtracks like Vangelis - Blade Runner or Brian Eno/Toto - The Dune. I guess Cowboy Bebop soundtrack would be pretty awesome too, has anyone tried it? Sometimes I play acoustic guitar music like Jose Gonzales or Marc Antoine. Once I even tried classical chinese music, wich was beautiful of course.

on a side note if I would ever play Miriam I guess playing Beethoven or Bach would be almost spiritual experience.

So what do you play? Classical? Jazz? Hardcore/Gabber-techno? Or just ambient or soundtracks?

	11-01-2005 20:21									#2
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definently Heavy Metal. thats the sound of my Spartan Legions stomping over my enemies.

	11-01-2005 20:31									#3
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Haha I should have known!

You might like the background music of this too. Its got a great music video too, "Tanz mit Laibach"

	11-01-2005 21:09									#4
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Saishuu Heiki Kanojo + Planet Busters!

BTW, the Winamp controls work fine with Alpha Centauri, for me.

	11-01-2005 21:35									#5
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quote: Originally posted by laurentius I usually play .... like Vangelis - Blade Runner

Awesome soundtrack!

Guess I'll have to try this!


D

	12-01-2005 01:09									#6
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Load up winamp.....load the "AlmostEverything" playlist.....hit shuffle and listen to my 1700 song jukebox.

I don't listen to anything particularly ambient. Mainly 70's punk rock and indie stuff.

	12-01-2005 01:30									#7
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I simply listen to my set of 230 tracks... +1 empty track at the beginning... just named '0' (goes to top of alphabetical sorting) and is a split second of silence, but that way, the first song I hear is completely random

I also have a smaller set of .mids that are great too

As for problems with Winamp, I have indeed noticed a problem with clicking on winamp, the buttons aren't where they're supposed to be during and after playing smac... They're all shifted left and down(i think) a bit

	12-01-2005 03:15									#8
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I rather like the ambient soundtrack.

Wouldn't be quite the same without. Sometimes I turn it down a bit though, if there's something particularly good on the radio.

	12-01-2005 12:57									#9
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I find that Bjork is particularly good background music for SMAC, though I play quite a variety of stuff including the ambient music that plays in game.

	12-01-2005 19:14									#10
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uuummmmmmm.......Bjork

	12-01-2005 21:39									#11
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I like SMAC ambient music too. Don't like to play with music that can distract me from my ultimate goal: to crush Yang and Miriam.

	13-01-2005 02:12									#12
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My Fair Lady original broadway recording

	13-01-2005 02:27									#13
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Advertising this thread . I was reminded on that thread as soon as I read the title of this thread. I must commend the author again.

	13-01-2005 04:52									#14
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You listen that all the time?

	13-01-2005 10:52									#15
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Mostly Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and some various electronic music. That covers most research and industrial factions... Morgans too, if only in an ironic way, I guess.

Portishead and Massive Attack for when I feel like Gaian.

Occasionally my classical war music for when the game is ON and there's nukes everywhere. Total Annihilation soundtrack is perfect.

	14-01-2005 03:48									#16
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Polotical speeches or old school hiphop

*remembers the great drones vs, hive war when he thinks about KMDs first album and vice versa

	14-01-2005 05:38									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Illuminatus Advertising this thread . I was reminded on that thread as soon as I read the title of this thread. I must commend the author again.

Is anyone else getting extremely slow download rates from the links in that thread?

	14-01-2005 09:52									#18
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wow looks like im alone, i like to play smac(x) with just the sound of my computer humming for backround music

	14-01-2005 23:28									#19
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I meant to start up my music player and put my list on random during yesterday's game. but I forgot.

I get so engrossed in this game sometimes, I don't even need background music.

	14-01-2005 23:30									#20
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quote: Originally posted by livid imp Load up winamp.....load the "AlmostEverything" playlist.....hit shuffle and listen to my 1700 song jukebox. I don't listen to anything particularly ambient. Mainly 70's punk rock and indie stuff.

I have over 2000 songs. beat that!

	15-01-2005 14:45									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Lord Nword As for problems with Winamp, I have indeed noticed a problem with clicking on winamp, the buttons aren't where they're supposed to be during and after playing smac... They're all shifted left and down(i think) a bit

I get that effect, too. It seems that Winamp has a custom mouse cursor, and the hotspot gets moved from the tip to the lower right of the cursor's bounding box. Rebooting fixes it, but I've never bothered to figure out how to prevent it or otherwise fix it.

	15-01-2005 22:56									#22
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I was running winamp during my game yesterday. I didn't notice anything askew.

what was I listening too? As I've said I have 2000 songs. I just started with the D's. I was listening to some def leppard and dio and other D bands.

	16-01-2005 20:06									#23
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For me, it's Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Gammaray, that sort of thing. I usually have winamp going unless I'm headphoning in some FPS.

	17-01-2005 22:33									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I have over 2000 songs. beat that!

I didn't know it was a competition, but ok then.

I have approximately 3600 more songs (5300 total) on CD that are not copied on the computer.


But that is nothing, a friend of mine is a record collector, he has something like 10,000 albums last I heard. That would be like 100,000 songs! Most of which are vinyl. His house looks like a record store. He is such a weirdo the local paper interviewed him. YAY WEIRDOS!

	17-01-2005 22:40									#25
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quote: Originally posted by #endgame For me, it's Black Sabbath

War pigs is great to listen to when playing SMAC.

	17-01-2005 23:21									#26
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I don't want to hear anti-war songs. I want to hear pro war songs.

	18-01-2005 00:52									#27
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I don't mind being evil in context of a video game, I actually thrive on it.

I like hearing the line "Treating people just like pawns in chess" as I send off a suicide squad.

Video games are an outlet for my evil side. Torture pixels not people.

Who is up for a BBQ Sim?

	18-01-2005 22:55									#28
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I like the compilation albums David Toop produced:

'Ocean of Sound', 'Crooning on Venus' and 'Guitars on Mars'.

http://www.davidtoop.com/

Also, Realworld's 'Voices' compilation, and the Melankolic label sampler.

http://www.inflightdata.com/melankolicmisc.html

	19-01-2005 01:22									#29
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War Pigs is especially appropriate, as is Electric Funeral after a good Planet Busting.

quote: Black Sabbath - War Pigs Time will tell on their ??? (unintelligible word) minds Making war just for fun Treating people just like pawns in chess Wait till their judjment day comes

	19-01-2005 16:13									#30
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Brian Eno's 'Music for Films' is good too:

http://g.msn.com/9SE/1?http://www.a...S=6&CM=WPU&CE=4


as is his 'Instrumentals' Box set:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=glance&s=music

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