I'm considering removing the interactive music playback feature and I'll need to gather some thoughts and opinions on this matter...

The reasons why I'm considering it:

• The advancements in modding in-game files had grown since this plugin was made (MPFmaster)
• In its current form, it makes no sense. As soon as you modify the map file (mpf) parts of the original interactive music, this player automatically becomes invalid. This is because it relies on just playing back the samples instead of actually playing the music
• It's a big, complicated piece of code that just complicates matters, so limiting the scope to the EA Trax Jukebox will make things MUCH easier
• Removes the need for the "installer" which just extracts the samples

While it was cool to see the in-game dialogs control external utilities and make BASS play samples, I don't think it's worth keeping.

There is a possibility where I keep it, and that is only and only if someone manages to:

• Make an entirely custom Pathfinder player
• Or maybe, make this into a dumb sample player (but this would mean re-extracting the samples every time you modify something, kinda like what it is now)

As a feature, keeping it as-is I could also do (and just disabling it) but during the process of simplification, I might break it.

After downloading and installing this mod for NFS Carbon, the career mode no longer works. The game crashes immediately after pressing "Resume Career"->"Free Roam". "Unhandled exception at 0x004A3A67 in NFSC.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow (parameters: 0x00000001, 0x000A2FFC).", it then proceeds to throw "Exception thrown at 0x004D2263 in NFSC.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x000A0FFC."

Possibly related to #21 and #26. My game will crash right after launching if more than 54 songs are in the playlist file. Otherwise it works completely fine with 54 or less tracks

Installer does NOT work under Wine/Proton because the work directory is wrong.

Secondly, the installer says it succeeded even though it clearly failed because of this.

Let me give a advice, why should I know about the new playback mode that I wish. Sometimes in Carbon, if composed racing music (expect checkpoint) is what I hear during the crew race, and if licensed music from the EA Trax that I could listen this during free roam or checkpoint race. Like similar game to it's mechanic, Street Racing Syndicate, Need for Speed World, Need for Speed Rivals, etc. And in Most Wanted? Well, rumor has it, be sure to figured out what's up with music mechanic from coding.

Example:
PlaybackMode=FR (Free Roam), FG (Free Roam and Racing), FM (Free Roam and Menu)

Bonus Example:
PlaybackMode=IM (Racing and Menu)

Not sure if I'm using the wrong format for my music or something, but when I more than 9 songs to my Playlist.m3u file the game crashes with this error in the console:
ERROR: Out of memory in pool Main Pool allocating (null) (size = 253706240). Largest possible = 103809024 Total = 137476

This is with ExpandMemoryPools enabled in extra options

It's currently written only for Windows path separators ('') and not Unix ('/').

In playlists with more than 32 songs, PlaybackMode settings stop working (they start playing in both menu and in-race as if they were set to AL); this is noticeable in rather large playlists

As mentioned in issue #16, the game crashes when opening the EA-TRAX menu in the options. I haven't found a reason as to why this happens, but it happens every single time you open the ea trax menu.

Every time at start all the songs start playing in order from the playlist. Unlike MW there is no in-game option here. Is it fixable somehow?

Hello. I Installed XNFSMusicPlayer, when i changed soundtracks in NFS MW Netshow Challenges mod playlist config is broken. Please fix it playlist config to work! Thanks.

As soon as I add my own m3u playlist file, the game won't start.
I've tried adding it alongside the original empty m3u file.
Changed the 'XNFSMusicPlayer.ini' Playlist file path to match the name if i renamed the playlist something else.
Anything I could think of I tried.

The playlist had 1 song in mp3 format just to test that it works but as soon as I change that Playlist.m3u file, the game won't even start.

hey I have a problem when I go to start the game it crashes if I put
the music but hey I need a solution

To recreate, just add "http://eurobeat.stream.laut.fm/eurobeat" to scripts/Playlist.m3u. No matter the buffer/async settings, the track plays for about 5 seconds, then stops and the game freezes for a second or so, then continues playing again. Each time the EA Trax notifier comes up as if a new song is playing.

Log output reflects this (loglevel 3):

INFO: Playing Pathfinder EventID: 12CDF9
INFO: Notifying Chyron: Elisa - Lost Into The Night
INFO: Searching path by EventID 12CDF9
INFO: Found and set file http://eurobeat.stream.laut.fm/eurobeat to 12CDF9
INFO: Type: Online stream
INFO: Playing Pathfinder EventID: 12CDF9
INFO: Notifying Chyron: Elisa - Lost Into The Night
INFO: Searching path by EventID 12CDF9
INFO: Found and set file http://eurobeat.stream.laut.fm/eurobeat to 12CDF9
INFO: Type: Online stream
INFO: Playing Pathfinder EventID: 12CDF9
INFO: Notifying Chyron: Elisa - Lost Into The Night
INFO: Searching path by EventID 12CDF9
INFO: Found and set file http://eurobeat.stream.laut.fm/eurobeat to 12CDF9
INFO: Type: Online stream
INFO: Playing Pathfinder EventID: 12CDF9
INFO: Notifying Chyron: Elisa - Lost Into The Night
INFO: Searching path by EventID 12CDF9
INFO: Found and set file http://eurobeat.stream.laut.fm/eurobeat to 12CDF9
INFO: Type: Online stream
INFO: Playing Pathfinder EventID: 12CDF9
INFO: Notifying Chyron: Elisa - Lost Into The Night
INFO: Searching path by EventID 12CDF9
INFO: Found and set file http://eurobeat.stream.laut.fm/eurobeat to 12CDF9
INFO: Type: Online stream
INFO: Playing Pathfinder EventID: 12CDF9
INFO: Notifying Chyron: Elisa - Lost Into The Night
INFO: Searching path by EventID 12CDF9
INFO: Found and set file http://eurobeat.stream.laut.fm/eurobeat to 12CDF9
INFO: Type: Online stream
INFO: Playing Pathfinder EventID: 12CDF9
INFO: Notifying Chyron: Elisa - Lost Into The Night

I noticed that during using XNFSPlayer in Most wanted 2005 ambience sounds play at half of speed than should be, but after removing all related XNFSPlayer files including both Interactive music and custom music folders ambience sounds play at normal speed. Can you explain what's the reason of this issue?

When finishing Drift races while the mod is installed, the game CTDs. I installed the mod fresh and left the settings outside of the name of the playlist at their defaults, so it likely isn't anything caused by altering the settings. Apologies for the lack of info.

hiya, so i tried to install the script and it says 'you can now exit the game', but when i relaunched the game the new music i installed is not.. there? it still plays the old song that came from the game, am i doing something wrong?

MW: my game doesn't start at all, the prompt just says "INFO: Processing playlist" and it stays like that forever, I only added 30 songs btw

Running under Proton Experimental, unable to get music playing due to above error. Log attached.
(Additionally, for what it's worth, i've not been hitting the issue with path length issues, but I did have to spoof Windows paths to get the plugin to load any tracks at all, and when no tracks are loaded, the player tries to print uninitialized memory and kills the game when showing the track name.)

XNFSMusicPlayer.log.tar.gz

(Please excuse my trash taste in music.)

So yeah after install the mod i can't hear any music until found the mod are broken.

Even i try to make the Playlist again still no progress

I've noticed that in XNFSMusicPlayer_Carbon.h, under SongAttrib, there's a variable called CarClassCategory.

And under DoFilePathsStruct you have this, the variable takes the value 2.

In the game, all songs of the music player are on all categories.

I know that Class Categories are represented by numbers; 1 for Exotics, 2 for Muscles and 3 for Tuners. Wouldn't be possible to assign the class category under a song in PlaylistConfig.ini? For example:

[E95E7B]
TrackEnabled= 0
Title=My music title
Album=My music album
Artist=My music artist
CarClassCategory=1

Or is there some kind of issue that won't let the music player do this?

I had tried the latest release of the XNFSMusicPlayer, but in-game without music, it just halts for a split-second.

21 tracks and everything was fine. But after adding more - just nothing happens, game won't start. I removed most of tracks - game begin to crash right after launch. I removed all of new tracks - it's working again. Every file is just a number, tags includes only name+author+album, no unicode symbols at all etc.

I tried to check what's happening by using ConsoleAttachment.asi and VerbosityLevel option. But alas - when ConsoleAttachment.asi placed into script folder, it overrides launch of the game itself: just console window and nothing more. Even when only twenty tracks were used and without that "console attachment' game works just fine.

So - both mod and "console attachment" looks like pretty much broken for me.

Hello, I only want to change the first song when you start the game after pressing enter in NFS Carbon, because the first song is lame as f*ck and don't give any feelings like Underground. I have a few mods on Carbon like the new animation for the menu like tunnel from Underground 1.

Because of that I want to change the first Song to another Song (from the Game self; the Song when you are tuning cars there).

Have someone a Idea and can help me please?

Verbose level 3 log output:

INFO: Searching path by EventID FE9C8A
INFO: Found and set file XNFSMusicPlayer\Brussel Sprout.mp3 to FE9C8A
INFO: Type: Stream
ERROR: Can't set volume attribute (handle: music): BASS Error: 5
INFO: Playing Pathfinder EventID: FE9C8A
ERROR: Can't play channel (handle: music): BASS Error: 5

I can see the bass.dll is throwing an error trying to set the volume attribute but i just don't really know what to do about it.
I've tried the following
all three formats on initial startup ogg wav and ast? Can't remember the other format. I'm using version 1.7 I believe
removed the tags from my mp3's
created m3u file from mp3tags
converted all my mp3's under 120kbps

I want use the mod so bad I've tried everything i can think of and I've just hit a wall.

The songs are repeated when they are not finished yet, causing the same song to overlap many times and sound horrible, the only solution is to enter a menu outside the game (branch, shop or home) but this cannot be done in a chase and in a race it restarts the race.

For example i select certain songs to play at the menu and the other during races, but doesn't work very well. Sometimes it will play the menu song during races and the race song will play in the menu. Did i missed something in the config or is it a bug?

I saw that you have already commented on this as a problem, and there was even a fix for it. But I'm having this problem

Hi, I had installed this mod before and managed to get it working properly, however the game glitched due to another mod corrupting the game and had to reinstall. After reinstalling the music player, the installer bypassed the extraction of the streams and assumed that all files were already extracted, finally after the setup was done, the game's menu, police chase and race music would not play anymore. I have tried deleting all files associated with the game including the mod itself to no avail. Any potential solution to this case? Thank you for your help in advance!

I am able to get the player working with a few songs, but from a bit of messing about I found that files with long path strings seem to overwhelm things at startup and the game refuses to launch.

If a string limit is real, how large can these be?

I have a playlist of 50 songs, all located on a separate HDD than the game, all files are mp3 and the playlist was saved via foobar2000 as some have stated would be best.

The songs that do work, have path strings about 64 char long, some of the longest file paths shown are about 116 char long

Installing this mod and adding my playlist removed all game songs. Now, only custom music is present. How to have both custom and original music?

Hi,

Just noticed this issue, if the path contains spaces, VLC will encode them to %20 which will cause the music to be unplayable.
Manually editing the file replacing %20 back to spaces works.

For reference, when %20 are present, this is what I get in the logs:

INFO: Searching path by EventID 991472
INFO: Found and set file scripts\XNFSMusicPlayer\musics/need-for-speed-underground-2/SpiderBait%20-%20Black%20Betty.ogg to 991472
INFO: Type: OGG stream
ERROR: Error creating stream handle for file: scripts\XNFSMusicPlayer\musics/need-for-speed-underground-2/SpiderBait%20-%20Black%20Betty.ogg | BASS Error: 2
ERROR: Can't set volume attribute (handle: music): BASS Error: 5

Altough this is an easy fix with any editor using search & replace, this is still a pretty annoying thing to do.
Is there any way to fix this ?

EDIT:
This seems to affect every characters being URL encoded. Just had the issue with ( and ) with are encoded %28 and %29 respectively.

When I disabling EA Trax the game freezes for the a few seconds and goes normally again. And that strange thing happens every ~15-30 seconds (or even not so often) until pursuit starts or EA Trax is enabled.

I don't know how to fix that, so I need your help.

My settings (just in case)
Interactive music format: ogg (9.00 quality)
Custom music format: ogg (high quality)

The game crashes and then shows this error after I put my playlist file, 79 songs all mp3 and renamed with simple names. Newest version crashes too but this one shows me the error.