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The Conquerors Soundtrack Plays First

Compatible with: Age of Empires II HD base game, The Forgotten, African Kingdoms, Rise of the Rajas.

This mod was created by request. It allows The Conquerors soundtrack to play first in-game, followed by the Age of Empires 2 original vanilla soundtrack. By default, the game plays the vanilla soundtrack first, followed by The Conquerors.

It's just a simple case of renaming files but with the new Workshop system, having a mod allows you to easily switch things in and out from the mod manager instead of doing things manually. Enjoy!

Note: As this mod redownloads every in-game music file, it's a hefty download of around 140 meg. If you want to achieve the same effect without waiting for a download, just do the following:

• Right-click your Age of Empires 2 HD icon in steam, and select properties > local files tab > browse local files.
  
• Navigate to resources > common > sound > music.
  
• Create a new folder, a move files x1-x10 into it.
  
• Rename files x1-x10 to x11-x20.
  
• Back in the music folder, take the files already named x11-x20 and rename them to x1-x10
  
• Copy the files in the new folder back into the music folder, and delete the new folder.
  
• There's a file just called music1.mp3. Just leave that one as it is.

Why is this mod 141mb?

In order for a mod like this to work, it has to replace almost every in-game music track the game has (not including the new Rajas tracks), re-ordered as necessary. To do so without reducing the sound quality means using the original files 'as-is', hence the size.