FF7 Music, a little help would be appreciated

[Rayfe Knight]

Hey guys. I just joined up. I've been browsing the site after finding it for roughly 6 hours trying to get this damn FF7Music thing working.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression from the faq that came with it that it would allow me to play .mp3's in place of the god awful midi's.

So far I have:
installed the animevamp patch:
uninstalled it after reading what a piece it is:
installed the Chocobo race patch: Bringing the game to v.1.02?
installed FF7music, following the readme to the letter:
installed Cetra to patch ff7.exe for use with ff7 music
reinstalled Final Fantasy VII after it did not work the first time:
reinstalled ff7music and Cetra: still did not work.
installed a different version of FF7 music that patches FF7.exe on it's own: this caused the game to to crash on load of game.
Completely uninstalled Final Fantasy VII, deleted any folders left behind and now am installing it fresh.

I would really appreciate any help you guys could give me in getting this thing to work as I am a complete fan of FFVII and would enjoy listening to a better score as I played it.

My system specs are:
OS: XP home
AMD 2.8 gig processor
712 mb RAM
nVidia 4 graphix card (I have yet to have a problem with the graphix in this game.)

Like I said any help with this would be much appreciated.
(Also I'm not to shabby with Photoshop, I'd just thought I'd throw that out there in case there was a need for that on this forum)

[Kurono]

Well, these are the steps I took to get everything working:
1. Installation of the game. (Full of minimal doesn't matter)
2. The 1.02 patch.
3. The chocobo patch.
4. If you want the music to be like the PSX version, download the FFVIImusic+PSF pack from here: http://aaronserv.dyndns.org/hosting/ffsf/download_7.html
5. If you want, set the game to Windows 98 compatibility mode. It helps reduce load times when entering areas on the world map.

If you find that the game crashes often (most likely it's FFVIImusic), update Highly Experimental (it's the PSF plugin) to v2.07. It should help make the game crash less. Well, it helped me anyways. http://www.neillcorlett.com/he/

[Shango]

Make sure to check that everything is in the directory that the readme says.