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DirectSong FAQ

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<Regis>
Pre-Searing Cadet
• #41
I am having trouble with directsong playing. I have the little yellow triangle reffering me to the troubleshooting site. I have tried all of the suggestions there as well as completely deleting all directsong files and reinstalling them, I have upgraded to IE 7 and media player 11. I have even gone so far as to delete and reinstall GW. still no help. Could anyone here offer some assistance please.
EternalTempest
EternalTempest
Furnace Stoker
• #42
Make sure you can listen to them in Windows Media Player.
If they to play.

Re-download the music installer packs and install them to a different directory. Example, if there want to install in the My Documents/Music/DirectSong, change it to another location, the guild wars directory for example and install all the music to that new location.
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<Regis>
Pre-Searing Cadet
• #43
Thanks Eternal, reinstalling to its own directory worked, I am in your debt
Omega X
Omega X
Ninja Unveiler
• #44
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganks
I dont see how hes trolling. He brings up a good point. Why would you spend money on this? Clearly it was designed as a money pit. What kind of goon would listen to the music anyway? You dont have winamp or your radio on at the time? You would rather listen to gregorian chants than real music? No ones trolling. Trolling is an easy excuse out of not seeing this situation for face value and exactly what it is. Keep strongly in your mind that if you ask people to spend their money and they refuse, then you call them trolls so you can label them as not being intelligent, so, I could guess, everyone else could continue spending, and imo wasting, their money... than the only troll here is you and I openly question your intentions. Who else but a DirtectSong undercover would push a product as useless as this so heavily? Hmmm... Well you cant very well put a commercial up on the Superbowl can ya?
IT is Trolling as in This is a DirectSong FAQ not your local pissing area for everything that you hate about DS. AND if you don't know what a soundtrack is then I suggest that you use Google.

Please follow the same advice I gave the first troll.

Not to mention that I would just love to have a paycheck from DirectSong, but unfortunately that won't happen anytime soon.
EternalTempest
EternalTempest
Furnace Stoker
• #45
Update - DirectSong as Release GWEN SoundTrack

I've partially updated the guide to reflect that it retails for $9.99 in the US.
Will see if the new track sheet gets updated, and verify the bit rate, number of tracks, etc.

Also planning on reformatting / cleaning up the guide... any suggestions / comments.
Omega X
Omega X
Ninja Unveiler
• #46
Put up a notice that DirectSong's In-Game playback is broken for Vista.

EDIT: I take that back.

You have to use the RegisterDirectSongDirectory.exe file from the FTP server in your DirectSong directory. IT took a couple of tries but it worked.

The thing that I tried that was different from the last time I tried and failed with that register program was that THIS time I ran it as administrator.

In vista its usually Rightclick > Run as Administrator. That was probably the difference.

Unless a recent update to GW changed that. Last time I tried, the DirectSong logo wouldn't light up, but now it lights up.
EternalTempest
EternalTempest
Furnace Stoker
• #47
Quote:
Originally Posted by Omega X
Put up a notice that DirectSong's In-Game playback is broken for Vista.

EDIT: I take that back.

You have to use the RegisterDirectSongDirectory.exe file from the FTP server in your DirectSong directory. IT took a couple of tries but it worked.

The thing that I tried that was different from the last time I tried and failed with that register program was that THIS time I ran it as administrator.

In vista its usually Rightclick > Run as Administrator. That was probably the difference.

Unless a recent update to GW changed that. Last time I tried, the DirectSong logo wouldn't light up, but now it lights up.
Very good find, I added that to the trouble shooting section of the FAQ.

Another work around I found, for at least getting the DS registered to the system (instead of using RegisterDirectSongDirectory.exe), is install the Sorrow's Furnace pack 1st, it using the old installer which makes all the registry entries in Vista correctly, and all the other ds will know where to install / properly update the registry.
Omega X
Omega X
Ninja Unveiler
• #48
Well, I never used that method because the installers had problems finding the flash player last time.
TyrianFury
TyrianFury
Guest
• #49
I have some problems with directsong and vista, by using the manual installatation and the register program I can get the Sorrows Furnace and battle paks to work fine. I can't however get the factions and nightfall CE bonus music to work.

the directory structures seem different any ideas? For example the sorrows furnace and battle paks are folder which contain all the music, these are then placed in my direcsong folder ie: direcsong/battle pak one or directsong\sorrows furnace pak.

the factions folder is like this direcsong/GWF01E\directsong\......music

I have tried changing them to no avail

Can some please help me with this

Thanks.
EternalTempest
EternalTempest
Furnace Stoker
• #50
Quote:
Originally Posted by TyrianFury
I have some problems with directsong and vista, by using the manual installatation and the register program I can get the Sorrows Furnace and battle paks to work fine. I can't however get the factions and nightfall CE bonus music to work.

the directory structures seem different any ideas? For example the sorrows furnace and battle paks are folder which contain all the music, these are then placed in my direcsong folder ie: direcsong/battle pak one or directsong\sorrows furnace pak.

the factions folder is like this direcsong/GWF01E\directsong\......music

I have tried changing them to no avail

Can some please help me with this

Thanks.
The file structure should be

something.dll
GuildWars.ds
Album 1 folder
Album 2 folder
Album 3 folder
etc

You may have to re-run the DS packs to a new location / folder, and make sure all following DS packs install to that new location.

User/Music/DirectSong is a good location or try installing it to the Guildwars root folder in program files.

It sound like it created sub folders

so if you have

folder\Directsong\album
and folder\Directsong\something\Directsong\album
Move the "album" back to the root of the 1st Directsong

I can post an example of the file structure, when I get home.
TyrianFury
TyrianFury
Guest
• #51
The problem with the Factions bonus music is that all the songs are in a folder called directsong which is a sub folder of GWF01e. I have copied all the songs into the GWF01e folder and run the register program but it wont pick them up. They would look like this at the moment:

Guild Wars\Directsong\GWF01e\directsong\.....then the songs.

The Battle pak directory structure is like this:

Guild Wars\Directsong\Guild Wars Battle Pak One\....then the songs

The factions pak has a subdirectory called directsong. I downloaded the zipped versions since the flash downloader won't work in windows vista, least I can't get it to work. All ds file is the latest aswell.
EternalTempest
EternalTempest
Furnace Stoker
• #52
Sorry for the delay in the response.

Here is my folder structure

->DirectSong
GuildWars.ds
ds_GuildWars.dll
--->Guild Wars Battle Pak One
--->Guild Wars Eye of the North Original Soundtrack
--->Guild Wars Factions Collector's Edition
--->Guild Wars Factions Original Soundtrack
--->Guild Wars Nightfall Collector's Edition
--->Guild Wars Nightfall Original Soundtrack
--->Guild Wars Special Edition Soundtrack
--->Sorrow's Furnace Mini-Pak

Make sure the folder containting the album are named eactly as above.
TyrianFury
TyrianFury
Guest
• #53
Thank you very much Tempest, that got it sorted. I can finaly use the Factions and Nightfall CE bonus music for the 1st time since upgrading to Vista. I really appreciate you getting back to me
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Ghost Knight
Frost Gate Guardian
• #54
Hi,

Do you have an MP3 of the music, I think from GWEN, when you log in. Its the played during the Title Screen when u Log in to Guild wars?

I really like that tune. Please post it.

Thank you very much!
Omega X
Omega X
Ninja Unveiler
• #55
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghost Knight
Hi,

Do you have an MP3 of the music, I think from GWEN, when you log in. Its the played during the Title Screen when u Log in to Guild wars?

I really like that tune. Please post it.

Thank you very much!
I don't think that is allowed. PM incoming.


Edit: Scratch that, it seems that it is for some people.

See this link: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10179847
Fire Raven
Fire Raven
Pre-Searing Cadet
• #57
hi
i have some problems with the eye of the north soundtrack
all direct song soundtracks are working beside the eye of the north sound.
the other problem is i cant download the guildwars.ds file, i always get an err 404. can anyone post the current ds file please? thank you
EternalTempest
EternalTempest
Furnace Stoker
• #58
Download this file, http://www.directsong.com/zip/GuildWars.txt
then rename it GuildWars.ds

There is one bug / error in (affects Factions / Cantha and a song not playing) see Sparticuz post above.
The one missing the [ braket seems to be fixed, but the one that missing the 15_~~~~ is still not fixed.
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Sparticuz
Ascalonian Squire
• #59
http://www.directsong.com/zip/GuildWars.txt

They updated the ds file today so that it includes the songs for GW:EN. I havn't had time to check to see if the bugs have been fixed (or more introduced). I'll look at it more closely this weekend.
Omega X
Omega X
Ninja Unveiler
• #60
Did they correct the typos in the DS file or is it still the same ol, just with the GWEN score?