Hello, I'm new to Ryzom. I tried a trial a few years ago and was intrigued, but I decided to stick with my current subscription games at that time when the trial expired. Now that I haven't been playing any MMOs for the past several months, and upon learning of Ryzom's new "trial", I've decided to give it another go. I've been playing for a couple of days now.
Anyway, on to the primary purpose of my post. The lack of music in Ryzom and the constant swirling wind sound that I'm hearing on Silan had me exploring the mp3 player. I have found it to be a little lacking. I'm used to games that don't do well with alt-tabbing, so I wanted to try to make use of the ingame mp3 player instead of running Windows Media Player (WMP) in the background and alt-tabbing out to control it. It's also convenient to have the display and controls right there in the game interface.
The biggest gripe I've had with the Ryzom player is the inability to play m3u playlists that WMP creates. After reading some threads in the old Ryzom forums, it appears this is due to WMP playlists using absolute paths. So I went to work finding an application for creating playlists that would work with Ryzom. I read that Winamp playlists are compatible, but I didn't want to install an entire media player/manager just to create playlists. I tried a couple of different apps, and then I found one called simply Playlist Creator. It's free; he asks for donations in a couple of places, but it's not obnoxious or over the top in my opinion. It is available at http://www.oddgravity.de/ I have absolutely no affiliation with the software or the creator. I just found it tonight through Google searches and reading another message board. I scanned the two DLL files and the executable with my installed Avast antivirus and uploaded them to Virus Total and Jotti online scanners. Everything came back clean in my scans. You can do the same. Scan it with your installed scanner at the very least. If you're paranoid, try one of the online scanners that uses multiple engines to scan too.
The app is drag and drop, as in you just drop mp3s into the window, choose "m3u" in the drop-down, and then click "create playlist". You can also click on buttons in the interface to add an entire folder or add individual files that way. You can also add folders recursively. The important feature is in the options. You can set it to use absolute or relative paths. I believe it is set to relative by default, but doesn't hurt to check. The options aren't too daunting. Apparently Ryzom's mp3 player requires relative paths which is why the WMP playlists don't work. Anyway, set it to use relative paths, add your music files, select m3u as the playlist type, choose the save directory for the m3u file, and click "create playlist". You now should be done if I haven't missed or forgotten anything.
I think you will need to have some semblance of organization to your music for this to work. I don't know if this will work if you have music scattered all across your hard drive or across multiple drives. I have all of my music stored in several different nested folders (album, artist) but within one root folder: MUSIC on a secondary drive. I was able to create a playlist containing songs from different artists and albums and saved the m3u file to the root MUSIC folder and it worked fine. If you have a root folder holding your music, then you should be fine I would guess. This keeps you from having to copy all of your music into one folder and then loading those tracks into the mp3 player. Now you can just create multiple playlists and load the appropriate one when the mood strikes vs creating copies of your mp3s. Good luck fellow homins!
Anyway, on to the primary purpose of my post. The lack of music in Ryzom and the constant swirling wind sound that I'm hearing on Silan had me exploring the mp3 player. I have found it to be a little lacking. I'm used to games that don't do well with alt-tabbing, so I wanted to try to make use of the ingame mp3 player instead of running Windows Media Player (WMP) in the background and alt-tabbing out to control it. It's also convenient to have the display and controls right there in the game interface.
The biggest gripe I've had with the Ryzom player is the inability to play m3u playlists that WMP creates. After reading some threads in the old Ryzom forums, it appears this is due to WMP playlists using absolute paths. So I went to work finding an application for creating playlists that would work with Ryzom. I read that Winamp playlists are compatible, but I didn't want to install an entire media player/manager just to create playlists. I tried a couple of different apps, and then I found one called simply Playlist Creator. It's free; he asks for donations in a couple of places, but it's not obnoxious or over the top in my opinion. It is available at http://www.oddgravity.de/ I have absolutely no affiliation with the software or the creator. I just found it tonight through Google searches and reading another message board. I scanned the two DLL files and the executable with my installed Avast antivirus and uploaded them to Virus Total and Jotti online scanners. Everything came back clean in my scans. You can do the same. Scan it with your installed scanner at the very least. If you're paranoid, try one of the online scanners that uses multiple engines to scan too.
The app is drag and drop, as in you just drop mp3s into the window, choose "m3u" in the drop-down, and then click "create playlist". You can also click on buttons in the interface to add an entire folder or add individual files that way. You can also add folders recursively. The important feature is in the options. You can set it to use absolute or relative paths. I believe it is set to relative by default, but doesn't hurt to check. The options aren't too daunting. Apparently Ryzom's mp3 player requires relative paths which is why the WMP playlists don't work. Anyway, set it to use relative paths, add your music files, select m3u as the playlist type, choose the save directory for the m3u file, and click "create playlist". You now should be done if I haven't missed or forgotten anything.
I think you will need to have some semblance of organization to your music for this to work. I don't know if this will work if you have music scattered all across your hard drive or across multiple drives. I have all of my music stored in several different nested folders (album, artist) but within one root folder: MUSIC on a secondary drive. I was able to create a playlist containing songs from different artists and albums and saved the m3u file to the root MUSIC folder and it worked fine. If you have a root folder holding your music, then you should be fine I would guess. This keeps you from having to copy all of your music into one folder and then loading those tracks into the mp3 player. Now you can just create multiple playlists and load the appropriate one when the mood strikes vs creating copies of your mp3s. Good luck fellow homins!