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Just read the part where the thread doesn't support ultima edition--so I can't expect a reply to any of this. Thanks for the bundle anyway, (the first link is out btw, only the mirror works).
Alright, so, it's not the best first move on a forum, but I'm gonna skip the search function just this once because I've been doing it a LOT recently. This is the story:
I went through and followed all your steps twice, but with a few differences: The first time, I thought that you meant open the .ini when you said go to config, so I made all the changes to file paths and such through the .ini. That meant that when I opened the program and ran config, while I had set it to look in the right path it hadn't selected the mp3 file reader and thus it didn't work the first time. Then I tried installing the graphics driver from aali, which didn't work because I'm using a cd-cracked version, and so I had to reinstall in order to reset the graphics, (I think I could have done much more harm than good by tooling around in the registry).
This time around I did everything by the letter and used the config menu from the ff7music.exe, so it has selected the correct .dll s and I've also specified the song paths and midi player. I also retained the OstRE folder for the music, which I had originally unpacked from the four 1-disc folders the songs came in by cuting and pasting all the songs in one cd to the OstRE folder w/o making any changes to the file names, and I left any duplicates in the original folder. Now, when I run ff7, the cutscenes don't lose sound, (amazingly), but the original midi is still playing, (including battle music, Shinra music, fanfares, and I'm not sure what it's called, but it's the music you hear when you leave the first reactor and meet aeris). I would have praised you when I first started troubleshooting the volume cut-out, but now I REAALY like the improved scores you linked, (you bastard), and I'm wondering what went wrong. The file path for the OstRE folder is C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\FinalFantasyVII\OstRE; should there be underscores (_) or is that what you meant when you said don't have spaces?
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Also, something that's rather wierd: I have a few saves of places where the sound would normally cut out that I got w/ a save anywhere hack, and right before the first mako reactor explodes the game loads up with just the siren, (and I could hear the cutscene sound and the blips afterwards); I checked this again and found that the original midi that plays throughout that entire opening mission restarted when I entered the battle, and when I exited it cut off again, along w/ the siren, and I only heard menu sfx and such.
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Gar, I tried moving the ff7 folder up into C:, now I can't get your presets, (wtf no profiles or anything anymore). The .ini is the same as the default but config in ff7music.exe is ignoring it and says that there are no profiles and that the current path to get to itself is under the old C:\ProgramFiles(x86).........
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Ok, the original ff7.exe didn't work, prolly f***ed up the registry; reinstalled again, ff7music got happy again and all the file paths are w/o spaces and such. Time to see if it works
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Alright, well, I got it to have a certain problem I think I've seen: the music is working at least, but when I start a new game, the original midi plays until the time that the action-y music is supposed to start,(when the train comes to a rest), and thats when the new music starts, that is, it starts from the beginning of the little aeris segment, and the original action-y music had and is still playing...time to recheck config, maybe I messed something up. I'll also check this thread, as I think I saw something like this before.
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Well, my having ultima edition might have something to do w/ it, I also see deleting midis and getting loopbe; looking to see if you aren't supposed to use loopbe anymore, (what was that missing 8th step?). <vista x64 btw
