There's a neat feature in the GW2 client that isn't widely known to the player base: you can add in your own custom songs and playlists to the game, and the game will implement them into its dynamic music system.
For example, you can listen to your snazzy jazz album whenever you're in a capital city like Divinity's Reach, experience Final Fantasy 6 overworld theme while exploring the world, and have it dynamically switch to the greatest AC/DC heavy metal hits when you enter combat in a dynamic group event.
So how do you go about achieving this feature we know was from Mabinogi before? Here's how:
Quote from Anve94 of Reddit:
Hey guys,
Let me open up with a quote from Jim Boer (Arenanet Employee) about this.
[QUOTE=Jim Boer]No matter how fantastic a game’s music is, when you hear the same music for the thousandth time, you start wanting to change things up a bit. Many players will simply turn the game music off and play their own collections. The problem is that an external music player has no context as to what’s going on in-game. Guild Wars 2 will offer a solution for this as well. We’re giving players the option of choosing external music playlists that the game’s audio engine will use as a replacement for the default in-game music. Players can choose different playlists for background ambience and battle music, for instance. Additionally, when appropriate, such as during cinematics, the game can revert back to in-game music temporarily to give the best possible cinematic experience, then resume the custom playlist when it’s done. Did you know you can replace the (awesome) music in the game and substitute it with your own?
This a feature in the game that in my opinion does not recieve enough recognition.
Here's how you do it:
[INDENT]Go to you documents folder -> Guild Wars 2 -> Music.
Create a playlist using your favorite media player.
The music files have to be in a format that FMOD supports by default: .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .wav, .aiff, .mid, .it etc.
The playlist formats that are supported are: .wpl, .m3u, .pls, .asx, and .wax[/INDENT]
To play your playlists you have to give it a specific name. The playlist names that are currently recognized by the game are:
- Ambient
- Battle
- Underwater
- City
- MainMenu
- NightTime
- Crafting
- BossBattle
So if you have a playlist in the Guild Wars 2 Music folder called 'City', this playlist will start to play when you are in Hoelsbrak! Awesome!
Hope this little guide helps you!
Please enjoy![/QUOTE]
Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/z0fff/psa_remember_you_can_play_your_own_music_in_gw2/
To randomize the songs in a playlist:
Quote from nick47H of Reddit:
You need to add a 1sec silent song as first. Way it works is that it will always play 1st song then randomise after.
here is a link for one for you http://duramecho.com/Misc/SilentCd/Silence01s.mp3