Can't seem to configure FF7 music again

[blueropes]

So, I had FF7 music working great on my last laptop, just bought one today, and it's just not cooperating.  I just copied over my whole ficedula folder from the install I had on the last laptop, changed a few things since I'm using Windows 7 on this one and I had Vista on the last one.  My issue is when I try to enter the 'paths to search for music files' they won't stay there if I decide to save and exit, when I come back the only thing there is 'mp3'.  And in the drop menu for profiles, there is only 'ps', if I try to add a new one and click on a song I want to change, when the browse window opens up to select a song, I'll double-click on the folder holding the soundtrack and then FF7 music will completely close.  And weird things like if I want to change the prebuffer and buffer ahead settings under the wave out plugin, I'll hit ok and save and exit, but when I come back it's like I never changed anything.  It's kind of frustrating, on the last laptop I had great music but the card and memory were so crappy it couldn't handle all the mods, and now I can handle the game visually but can't hear a thing, heh.  Anyway, I hope I've provided enough info for some help, any at all would be great, thanks guys, take care.

[sl1982]

Must be a problem with the laptop. You better give it to me 

Are you running ff7 music as admin?

[blueropes]

Haha, yeah I'll send it right over;)  Yeah I've tried running it as admin, and the first thing I did when I powered it up was disable user account control, a lesson from vista and obesebear

[Landarma]

About music file paths, I recommend you to edit .ini file manually, because FF7Music sometimes screws it when you enter multiple file paths, then save configuration.

[blueropes]

Yeah I've been doing that, when I had just one file path, it seemed to actually work and save it, but when I tried to copy over the old file paths from the last music.ini, it went back to showing just 'mp3' there, and the only profile available is 'ps', even if I delete 'ps' from the profile list line in the .ini and save it, really weird.  So what I'm going to try is having all of the songs in one folder, if it'll only let me work with one file path, and see if it'll play the music.

Still no dice, though I am able to save the settings now, so thanks for the tip on configuring through the .ini file, just sucks that's the only way I can do it now, I had multiple file paths and profiles I was able to edit through FF7 music, I even have to change songs through the .ini.  But even though I can save the settings, I'm still not getting any music in game.

[sl1982]

Yeah I've been doing that, when I had just one file path, it seemed to actually work and save it, but when I tried to copy over the old file paths from the last music.ini, it went back to showing just 'mp3' there, and the only profile available is 'ps', even if I delete 'ps' from the profile list line in the .ini and save it, really weird.  So what I'm going to try is having all of the songs in one folder, if it'll only let me work with one file path, and see if it'll play the music.

Still no dice, though I am able to save the settings now, so thanks for the tip on configuring through the .ini file, just sucks that's the only way I can do it now, I had multiple file paths and profiles I was able to edit through FF7 music, I even have to change songs through the .ini.  But even though I can save the settings, I'm still not getting any music in game.

Did you modify the config file for aali's driver and get rid of the # in front of ff7music?

[blueropes]

Yep, that's an old fix I took care of a while ago after reading other posts, can't blame you for checking though.

Gah, this is killing me, just did a fresh install, midi works fine but as soon as I uncomment the plugin in the opengl cfg, and pick a profile in ff7 music, I get nothing, and I'm too spoiled to keep playing with midi now, heh.

Well, I can't change things quite the way I used to, but it's finally working.  I pulled the folders of music out of the ficedula folder and shortened the paths by just using having C:mp3, instead of C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ficedula\mp3.  But I still can't understand why now I have to make changes in the .ini file and can't have multiple file paths, even there.  But, whatever, it works.  Thanks to everyone for helping out.

[Maelstrom]

oh wow i'm a retard...you need to put the MP3s in the same folder as ficedula?  i just had a separate folder for it outside in the main FF7 folder lol.  i was wondering why no songs were playing.  i'll test it out.  also, i heard that the FFT remastered soundtrack doesn't have the aerith death scene song?  can anyone confirm or deny please?

[blueropes]

I don't know if that's set in stone, I had it working that way set up with the mp3 folder inside the ficedula folder on my last laptop and it worked fine.  This time around I actually have to keep all of my music folders in just C:\ or when I try to save the file paths in the .ini file they won't save in FF7 Music or play in-game, weird eh?  Did you check a few posts up at what sl1982 mentioned, make sure to uncomment the ff7 music plugin line in the opengl.cfg file, delete the # in front of it, that usually slips my mind after a fresh install.