SSE To xwm or not to xwm... that is the question!

[cumbrianlad]

Hi.

 

I really must stop making all my posts start with 'Hi'! I'm sounding like a stuck record. Anyway...

 

Hi. Doh!

 

I was tinkering with music files for my mod and basically just wanted to quieten down the 'Dungeon' music. Simple. Except the music files are all stored in xwm format, even though the music tracks point to '.wav' files. I had no issue using Multi_XWM to convert the files I needed into .wav for Audacity to use, dropping the amplification by 10 dB and converting the result back into xwm.

 

The only problem was that the 'Music Track' in Ck only lets you select a .wav file. My issue with this is that it wasn't such a big deal to me to have the vanilla music files playing that I was prepared to add three 18 MB wav files to the mod. If I can use the xwm file format, it only adds 3 MB, roughly. That I could live with.

 

Can I use the xwm files and change the file extension to .wav so that I can use it or will this not work? I'm thinking that when you create dialogue, the 'Info Response' form points to MyQstMyTopicMYdialogueLine.wav, but it doesn't matter if it points to a .wav file or a .fuz file... the dialogue still plays. I've seen many mods that include wav, lip and fuz files, when they only need the much smaller fuz file. I hate bloating my machine or anyone else's machine with unneccessarily large files!

 

So...

 

Ignore the hidden text if you will. It's just for fun! If you cn answer he question, fine. If not, have a laugh at the spoiler text!

 

 

"To xwm, or not to xwm. That is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous megabytes,
Or to take arms against a sea of file bloat troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache of the thousands of kB shocks
That flesh (and HDD or SSD) is heir to: 'tis a consummation of my HDD*
Devoutly to be wish'd... not! To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of unladen C:\drives (Or E; or F:, whatever drive Skyrim's on) what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life, or at the very least, increases my load times." (W.Shakespeare, after SSE took 30 seconds to load)

 

* or SSD. I didn't think the line scanned properly if I added SSD to it. Call it 'Poetic License' if thou will, but I'm sticking by it! Yours Faithfully W.Shakespeare.

 

Wise words, indeed, Bill! We should all learn from your Elizabethan wisdom! I may have slightly misquoted Shakespeare, there, but I'm pretty sure this is what he was really concerned about. He was ahead of his time, that bloke.

 

"Damn it! I knew I should have waited for those Ryzen chips to come out!" (W.Shakespeare, after upgrading to a now redundant motherboard. He'd also run out of thermal coupling and Coronavirus(AD1595) meant that his local computer store wasn't able to open, along with Mrs Miggin's Pie Shop! In those days it was hard being a famous bard. They even struggled to get 3G! Coronavirus(AD1595) made it even harder for our aspiring bard!)

 

P.S. I invented Coronavirus(AD1595), too. I just thought it gave the thing a modern look. Call that poetic license!