Gaming Music Update

I've updated my music organization schema! I also developed an Excel spreadsheet to help me more easily and consistently tag the MP3 files in my collection, for later searching and reference:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5aCjfAHYXoQYWk5YUhlN2tlTEk/edit?usp=sharing

(note: you will need to allow macros for this to run)

Here are the categories I use - you can modify or add your own if you download the spreadsheet:

Genre

fantasy

future

historical

horror

investigative

modern

pulp/steampunk

scifi

superhero

western

Dresden Files

Club

Dreaming

Nevernever

Summer Court

Winter Court

Locations

bar

boat

camping

castle

city

desert

dock

factory

ocean

outdoors

pub

ruin

rural

ship

snow

space

spaceship

suburban

tavern

urban

vehicle

Source

abyssal

alien

angelic

animal

beast

cars

demonic

magic

monster

people

pirate

radio

water

weather

wildlife Type action adventure ambient chase combat crowd environmental espionage long track military nautical pastoral quiet builds recreation religious social tribal warfare

Modifiers

dark

dreamscape

dreary

ethereal

gothy

hard

indie

jazzy

lively

lowlife

magic

melodious

music

new age

otherworlds

quiet

romantic

sinister

soft

somber

spooky

storm

tense

windy

Gaming Music Organization

I've collected a fair bit of gaming music, to provide ambiance and mood depending on the game I run. I'm not always using my laptop, so I have a number of playlists on an old iPhone-cum-iTouch. I've included movie soundtracks, Celtic music, electronic music, popular tunes, and RPG Background Loops from Plate Mail Games (who is running a followup KickStarter to produce more gaming music and sound effects).

I'm working on just how to sort the tunes. Here are the general categories I use:

Fantasy:

• Chase
• Conflict
• Ethereal
• Long Tracks
• Pastoral
• Quiet
• Quiet Builds
• Romantic
• Sinister
• Sneaky
• Somber
• Spooky
• Tavern
• Temple
• Tense
• Tribal

Dresden Files:

• Action
• Ambient
• Club
• Dreaming
• Goth
• Hard
• Indie
• Jazz Club
• Lowlife
• Nevernever
• Ocean
• Quiet
• Quiet Builds
• Radio
• Religious
• Spooky
• Summer Court
• Winter Court
• various cultural subgroups

Background Loops:

• Environmental
• Fantasy
• Historical
• Horror
• Modern
• Ocean
• Otherworlds
• Outdoor
• Pulp and SteamPunk
• Sci Fi
• Social
• Supers

Soundtracks:

• Dreamscape
• Fantasy
• Horror
• Modern
• New Age
• Sci Fi

How would/do you organize any gaming music you might use in your RPGs? Please take my survey below:

Gaming Music

I'm setting up my playlist for my tremulus game, using softrope, a sound mixer designed for gaming application. I'm getting to use many of the sound files I got from the Plate Mail Games Kickstarter. These background loops are about ten minutes long, set up to repeat seamlessly, and cover a wide variety of gaming soundtrack needs!

This thread about how to set up playlists in softrope happens to also include some other good links to gaming soundtrack resources: http://rpggeek.com/thread/657940/using-softrope-for-music-in-rpgs

• Celestial Aeon Project: http://www.mikseri.net/artists/?id=48147
• Netlabels: http://www.archive.org/details/netlabels
• Diablo II bonus tracks: http://www.planetdiablo.com/diablo2/files/
• NWN Community Music Pack: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Sounds.Detail&id=554

Note: for the NWN community pack, you can batch rename .bmu files to .mp3 with no problem. So glad I found the DOS command for that!