Players can customize the music they want to hear in-game by adding playlists (and sound files) to the Guild Wars 2 documents folder.

Customizing [ edit ]

Find the Music folder in the GW2 documents folder. The default location is Users\[Your Name]\Documents\Guild Wars 2 , next to the Screens folder (i.e. where GW2 places your screenshots. Please note that this will vary depending on your operating system. For Windows XP for example, it is in Program Files\Guild Wars 2 . In Win7 it is in Documents\Guild Wars 2 . On Mac OSX it was in /Application Support/Guild Wars 2/p_drive/User/Application Data/Guild Wars 2 , but is now in /Users/[Your Name]/Documents/Guild Wars 2 . You may need to create this folder if it does not exist.

Methods [ edit ]

With windows Media Player.

Make a new folder called "Music" inside Documents\Guild Wars 2\ (Documents\Guild Wars 2\Music) Right click on that folder and select the "Include to Library" option then select Music; the folder will be part of your Music Library after that Open Windows Media Player and create a new playlist using one of the defined names (for example MainMenu) Fill the Playlist with Music you like (you can add/remove later as well) Right click on the playlist and select "Open File Location" For the final step, cut the playlist and paste it inside your Music folder (Documents\Guild Wars 2\Music)

With VLC media player.

Create a folder named with the associated playlist name Put all the MP3 music you want inside of it Right click on the folder and choose "Add to VLC playlist" In VLC, go to media and choose "Save Playlist" Select .m3u and name it with the associated playlist name, eg: BossBattle.m3u For the final step, put the generated .m3u file in Documents\Guild Wars 2\Music folder.

With iTunes.

Right click then "Export" to the Music folder mentioned above in Customizing in .m3u format works seamlessly with the game mechanics.

Complementary information [ edit ]

Example

If you create a playlist called Ambient.m3u , the game will play that while you travel around the world (instead of the default ambient music).

Testing

To test how this feature works, create a playlist called MainMenu . Then export that playlist to the Music folder mentioned above in Customizing. Load the game and the selected music should now play on the character selection screen.

Order of Songs

You can open the playlist file with a basic text editor, such as Notepad, to see what order the files have been placed in. Guild Wars 2 will usually play the file at the top first, and for MainMenu it will never randomize the order after that; for all other playlists, after the first song plays, the next is chosen at random. The same song can be chosen more than once before going through the entire playlist, or even repeated several times. Songs will continue to be chosen at random until a new playlist is accessed (say, Underwater), at which point the first song of that playlist will play.

Certain areas in the game, such as Heart of the Mists and most Dungeons, have their own soundtrack that ignores any custom playlists. Other places in Guild Wars 2 do not have music at all, such as some parts of the Dragonbrand. When entering these areas, custom playlists will only continue to play until the end of the current song.

Some cutscenes, such as viewing Vistas, will end the current song and advance it to the next one after they finish.

Available playlists [ edit ]

The game currently recognizes eight playlists:

Playlist Used during Ambient Default playlist when no other criteria are met Battle "Large" fights involving many foes (~5 or more enemies); some personal story steps; PvP; when player's health reaches 50% or lower (the custom music will continue to play until combat ends) BossBattle World bosses and some Dungeon bosses; some personal story steps; some Activities Crafting While using a crafting station (not tested). [ verification requested ] City When inside one of the main cities, such as The Black Citadel, but not always Defeated Upon being Defeated MainMenu At the character select screen NightTime When in some explorable areas and it is nighttime (the moon is out) Underwater Any time the breathing apparatus is equipped. Overrides most other playlists Victory Music that plays after World bosses or Meta events

Each playlist can designate a primary and secondary playlist to look for. Most playlists default to Ambient if they do not exist; this allows you to create just one custom playlist to override the in-game music.

Supported media [ edit ]

Playlist formats

.asx

.m3u

.pls

.wax

.wpl

Audio types

Anything covered by FMOD (by default) including:

.aiff

.flac

.mp3

.ogg

.wav

Many old-school formats are also supported including .mid or .it files. Native iTunes playlists are not supported. .m4a files are not supported.

Bugs [ edit ]