Warcraft II music bug and request

Warcraft I & II General Discussion
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Hello,

it’s been quite a few years since BNE edition released and it would be nice to see an old bug squashed where if any music track gets into the fading out part and you transition into another screen (so most often happens from victory screen in the campaign going to the briefing screen), the new music actually cuts out instead of the intended one, resulting in no music.

Additionally, it would be even nicer to have an option to go back to the DOS version music behavior where only a single track plays in a map, but it loops, as all the tracks were designed with looping in mind (and would also prevent more misinformation about the game not containing full music tracks, because they do, they are just not meant to cut out).

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I also noticed strange artefacts about music, not being cut at good moments, not smooth, contrary to Classic which didn’t have these issues.

But the behavior you describe about music looping was on War1. As far as I remember War2 DOS played each music in same order never looping same one. (I played with the CD, maybe MIDI music had other behavior)

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I think we’re both right actually, the music looped, but eventually faded out to switch to next track. Either way, I remember extracting the music files from the DOS version and the BNE edition and they were identical (despite the playback behavior not being the same).