Guild Wars 2

hello,i need help with getting the custom playlists to work.
iv tried and followed like 10 different guides including the one at the top of this forum,and several youtube videos,
iv tried 3 different mediaplayers,3 different playlist formats,3 different audio file formats,iv tried putting the music folder in my documents/guild wars 2,iv tried putting it in my game directory,iv tried putting it appdata/guild wars,
iv tried putting the actual audio files in the music folder. and iv seen some guides saying the music folder already exist in my documents,but this is not so for me,iv had to create the music folder,there WAS NO MUSIC FOLDER anywhere in my documents or game directory

non of the above has worked,can anyone give me a straight up guide to get this working,been trying for HOURS,its driving me absolutley NUTS!!

:C Dude, this is so sad. I’m having the same issues. I saw your post and got super excited :D, only to be disappointed for there has been no response. Sorry man if my post brought you any glimmer of hope xD

I’ve done it before. I recently whiped my PC and restored it and now I can’t figure it out >.<

Same here, I tried making a music folder and it didn’t work either.

Yup same here. Someone who knows something should say something.

If anyone has a fix for this it’d be greatly apreciated.

If you right-click on your playlists and open it with notepad, you can edit the directory to where your music files are located.
When I saved my playlists, Windows Media Player saved the directory incorrectly. My mp3’s were located in ‘C:\Users\Joopy\My Documents\Guild War 2\Music\Mp3’ but WMP saving them as ‘..\..\Documents\Guild Wars 2\Music\Mp3’.

See how WMP uses concise directory paths let alone completely omitting ‘My’ in Documents? Try opening up your playlists with notepad and manually inputting the correct directory paths.

They should read as this;

<media src=“C:\Users\yourusername\My Documents\Guild Wars 2\Music\Mp3\song.mp3”/>

Note ‘yourusername’ is the name of your computer user and ‘song.mp3’ is the name of the file.

I have edited my post to show a screenshot of the directory and an opened playlist file in notepad.

What operating system are you guy on? Depending on your OS, the game’s screenshots and music replacement directory are separate from the main game itself.

For Win 7 it goes in Documents/Guild Wars 2/Music/

And you would name your playlist accordingly to whatever playlist you want it to replace (NightTime, BossBattle, Defeated etc). For Win XP, it is in your main game’s folder, simply in Guild Wars 2/Music/

As a note, GW2 will not play compressed sound files. If your playlist directs to a sound file that is compressed, that file will not play. If a file is compressed, its filename will be blue rather than the standard black. When you use disk cleanup, part of the process is compressing old files – old files that are compressed have their file names turned blue. If you have no un-compressed version of these files, you can “trick” them into a “non-compressed” form by simply copying and pasting them.

It will also not play files with “odd” characters. These include but are not limited to:

@, &, =, %, ?, +, ’, etc. Whatever files you are trying to play, I would recommend putting them in a form where they have nothing more than letters, numbers, spaces, dashes, and underscores. This includes any extra info as well. I personally make copies of my music, rename it to a descriptive-ish file name with nothing but letters, numbers and dashes and spaces, and completely clear all extra info from the file.

Also note that Crafting is not used.

Also note that some playlists don’t play in a way you might think they play. An example being, in Hoelbrak, the City playlist does not play all over the city, but only in heavily congested areas, mainly. Whereas in Divinity, City plays everywhere.