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7 Apr @ 8:02pm
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Mute Saferoom Intros

Description
this addon mutes intro jingles. the ones that play when you load in a map, not entire intros though. like if you were to load no mercy on map 2, it'd play just before the saferoom music kicks in.

these are not muting the whole intro sequences when you load the first map, figures yes? just want to make sure.

if you want to enjoy saferoom music more I suppose.

the addon made, came up from a suggestion from another addon I have, Ena Dream BBQ saferoom music
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3458175438
thanks to LuckyRoot


this isn't a script, even if the file size seems that way.

how was this made...
I copied blank.wav, and replaced each intro with it. it's a very short length file that is just pure blankness. one frame of no sound.

that being stmusic
bloodharvestintro.wav
deadairintro.wav
deathtollintro.wav
nomercyintro.wav
youhadbetterpray.wav

USUALLY when you do that, you will hear sound screeching instead of it being just silence.
because soundcache works that way. it knows each length of a file, and has to fit it with something accordingly. I suppose when the file length doesn't match the soundcache file, it has to fill the length with something else. that being whatever sound cracks or glitches.

BUT so far I haven't encountered any sound screeching, nor glitches. it's pure silence for me, even if I haven't rebuilt my soundcache

if you encounter anything, please let me know! I will try to figure out how to fix that issue.


obligatory tags, ignore these. I don't even know if they work or not... but whatever.
mute saferoom intros, mute saferoom jingles, mute saferoom sound, no saferoom intros, no short intros, mute short intros, mute l4d2 intro sounds, mute stmusic, no stmusic



have fun, probably

6 Comments
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Palladium346 7 Jun @ 9:45am 
Probably because it's a type of music file that is cued to play once without interruptions or loops. So all it is told for the intro music is to play... and that's it.
MusicTron3000  [author] 7 Jun @ 9:39am 
yeah figures, and thank you. the good way to mute sounds is, indeed, to mute it and keep the length just like that. but the file size still may end up very big, when you have to mute a lot of sounds, even if it's just silence.

I figured to experiment. this may be useful to save up storage, using blank.wav

this addon doesn't screech. probably? so far hasn't.

like let's say you mute some survivor voice line, and shorten the length of it. the muted part will be muted. but at the time point, where there's supposed to be something, noise or silence, the part which you shortened; is not present. game compares length of the file and the soundcache's logged length. (I think??)
and then, can't figure out what to play if there's nothing, not even silence. so it screeches. I guess...

however, this, for reasons I don't know, still works, even if it has length shorter than should be. how? idk. maybe because blank.wav is like 1 frame long? or maybe cause it's music? but thanks :YuukaHappy:
Palladium346 7 Jun @ 8:24am 
Well, first time seeing this. Haven't tested yet, but if I do hear glitched noises at some point during which an intro would have been present, I'll let you know. All I do know is that a set of working mute survivor mods said that the modder went in and muted all the survivor lines individually without changing the file length or other stuff. Just simply set the volume in editing to 0, and it works a treat.
MusicTron3000  [author] 12 Apr @ 3:39am 
good for you
and well thanks, I'm plentifully relieved
LuckyRoot 12 Apr @ 2:37am 
Also, I've been meaning to tell you that I love your custom thumbnails and preview screenshots/videos. I can tell you put a lot of effort into them.:2016villain:
LuckyRoot 12 Apr @ 2:37am 
Appreciate the extra effort.
I've been using this mod for a couple of days, and I didn't experience any screeching either. I should try the method in the near future as well. It could come in handy especially when making horde music mods, because you have to silence a lot of audio files for those, and they end up causing the mod file size to be like 194 MB or more.