How to add music on a Counter Strike 1.6 server
Methods of adding sounds in the Counter Strike server
Inserting musical sounds in the game can be done in different ways. One of them is to install the plug-in “roundsound” in case the server runs on AmxModX. This plug-in introduces some familiar sounds in the game, which I am sure you know. These ones are played at the end of the round. I am sure you get bored of them - half of them are rock, and the other half are arabesque sounds, the same sounds for years which I am bored of. You will learn now how to change that.
Another method would be to modify an already installed plug-in in the AmxModX. “Miscstats” is the plug-in I am talking about, which is very easy to modify. This way, you can introduce new tracks and sound than the ones pre-established, as long as they can be withstood by the Counter Strike client that you use. The sound files that can be used are the wav files.
Adding sounds by modifying miscstats plug-in
The steps that you have to take to introduce the musical sounds (and not only musical):
1. Search on the internet (or wherever you think) for wav files that match your desires. These are small sound files that will be played in the game. These files should be small - about 100Kb - in order to be withstood by the CS client, and in order to be easily downloaded by the player that connects to the server. You can try the wav files used for phone ring tones. You copy these files in HLDS\cstrike\sound\misc.
2. Modify the “miscstates” plug-in.
3. Install the “precache” plug-in. Very important!!! Without this plug-in, the sounds are impossible to be heard by the players. You will be the only one that hears these sounds because the others will not have them installed in the cstrike\sound\misc.
The most simple method of adding musical sound in the Counter Strike 1.6 server is to get the plug-in from
here and to install it as it is. So, download it, unzipp it wherever on the disk and:
a. Copy the miscstats.amxx file in HLDS\cstrike\addons\amxmodx\plugins over the one that is already there.
b. Copy the files from the sound folder in HLDS\cstrike\sound\misc.
c.
Install the precache plug-in in any other amxmodx plug-in (the amxx file should be copied in amxmodx\plugins, then the plug-in should be edited in amxmodx\configs\plugins.ini).
d. Copy the precache.txt text file in HLDS\cstrike\addons\amxmodx\configs. If you have correctly installed everything, then you should hear during the ga,e the following sounds:
- a short piece of Parazitii track at the beginning of the round
- you will hear the “impressive” sound for the last alive player of the team
- during the round, at some frags you will hear a piece of the track “dinpacate”
In order to install any piece of track that you desire (between the limits that are withstood by the CS client), you will have to know what it should be modified in the miscstats plug-in. After you have downloaded and unzipped miscstats.zip, open the folder, and you will find the miscstats.sma file, that you should copy in HLDS\cstrike\addons\amxmodx\scriptings.
Open the sma and search for the line marked with (1) in the help page. (search carefully scrolling down; the plug-in is big enough and you should search carefully). Here you have the “firstblood” sound, that can be heard at the first frag of the round. If you want to replace it, write the name of a wav file that you desire.
Ex: from play_sound("misc/firstblood") - you can do
play_sound("misc/maneanasoala")- replace only the name of the wav file.
