Editing Sound Files

[PhuN]

First off if I missed anything super obvious in the guide feel free to flame. 6):
Guide:
I looked through the guide http://www.mmowned.com/forums/model-...-pictures.html on changing the music to whatever you would like to for ingame music and a few others not on the site but I am still having trouble with what I want to do.

What I did:
Basically I want to either completely get rid of the sounds that play after either the Horde or Alliance win for a battleground. I know the names of both files, I have tried the method in the guide but the sounds still play. At first I tried to delete the files but realized that would not work rather fast(copied common.MPQ). So after that i just wrote my own MPQ file and configured it the same way as the common.MPQ file is set-up and put in the sound files I wanted (In this case, a .wav file with no sound in it). But still its playing the normal sounds, not sure what i am doing wrong.

The thing I'm askin:
So basically all I wanna know is where I went wrong or a better way to replace those ending bg sounds with a silent .wav file or a way to just get rid of them completely.

[Evolution]

Could you upload the MPQ? Then I can take a look at it.

[PhuN]

Ok I uploaded the file, here you go. I just named it as "a patch" and put it in the data folder.
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[[Soul Eater]]

Name it to patch-4.MPQ

If you just put the patch in data folder with a random name then it doesnt work.

[PhuN]

I have the "Druids of Azeroth" skins labeled as patches 1 through 9 so I just named it patch-a.MPQ. The extra skins for like shaman I made patch-b and patch-c and those seem to work so i figured making it patch-a.MPQ would work but it doesn't seem to want too. I don't believe I named it wrong but maybe its not in a right order or something if it needs to be.

[[Soul Eater]]

No not really. Patch must be named patch-X.MPQ

with X as number that varies from 3 till 9 (patch-2 already exists and patch-1 can't be used as far as I know)

Otherwise it won't work, trust me.

Try deleting one of those patch-X.MPQ or merge them together with Glitchy MES and then rename the patch with sound files to patch-X.MPQ

[PhuN]

The patches I have listed as patch-b & patch-c for the skins pack seem to work fine but I am trying to combine them all into patch-9 right now so will see if it works. The sound file names are exactly the same even if they are case sensitive.

[Noodel]

Good way to just remove sounds is through DBC "SoundEntries.dbc"
You can even add new sounds in with it.

[PhuN]

I put all the data from the patchs into patch-9 and it seems to work but have yet to finish a bg and to test the sound. Not entirely sure what the DBC editor is or even where the "soundentries.dbc" file is located.

[PhuN]

All the files in put into the patch-9.MPQ work except the sound files, the normal seem to play no matter what.

[Knomez]

... mute ftw?

[PhuN]

I guess muting the sound at the end of ever bg is possible but why do that when you could just change them to nothing so you don't have too.

[BACKABACKA]

Whats wrong with the sound at the end of the BG? I mean changing sounds is such a hassle as seen above.

[PhuN]

Honestly nothing, but for a long time I have wanted to get rid of them, since they are just loud and annoying. I just want to know what I did wrong in the MPQ file if anything, from the guides I read it does not seem all too difficult.

[PhuN]

Good way to just remove sounds is through DBC "SoundEntries.dbc"
You can even add new sounds in with it.

Thanks Noodel, researched it for a while and finally figured out how to edit anything I wanted.

I was considering making a guide for something like this since all of the ones I looked at had bits and pieces or were not specifically about this. What do you guys think?