Additional Localization Music

[Simsbaby]

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For Nightlife, Pets, and Apartment Life EA included additional music for various other localizations. If you have any of these expansion packs, you already have the extra music in your games data files, it just isn't using them. Replacing the main music files with these will add the extra songs to your game. Nightlife has more Housemix, Pets and Apartment Life have more Pop.

To install these, replace the EAxis files with these in the following locations. If you don't have one of the expansions you can extract the MP3s with SimPE. Backup your files if you want.


Place Nightlife Housemix.package in...
C:/Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 Nightlife/TSData/Res/Sound

Place Pets pop.package in...
C:/Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 Pets/TSData/Res/Sound

Place Apartment Life pop.package in...
C:/Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 Apartment Life/TSData/Res/Sound

Code:

Nightlife Music
Adam Freeland - Busy
Andy&Lucas - Madre
Andy&Lucas - Mi Barrio
Annie - Chewing Gum
Annie - Heartbeat
Christian Forss - Hubny Harb
The Faders - Jump
The Faders - What it takes
Hyper - Sim the Builder
Jeanette - Run with me
Junkie XL - Sims 2 Uni Theme
LUX Spencers - O blay wobba zoon
Musikk Feat. John Rock - Summer Lovin'
Timo Maas - Sims 2 Theme
Victoria - Cry

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Pets Music
Aly & AJ - Chemicals React
Finely - Run Away
Isabelle Huang - Hit it
Kisha - Sowieso
Krezip - Can't You be Mine
Kristen Dez - Come On Come On
La Oreja de Van Gohg - Dulce Locura
Lene Marlin - What If
The Pussy Cat Dolls - Don't Cha
Roni - Never Coming Back
Saving Jane - Girl Next Door
The Smokebreakers - Baby Let's Dance
West End Girls - Suburbia

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Apartment Life Music
Gabriella Climi - Sweet About Me
Good Charlotte - Where Would We Be Now
Janelle Monae - Violet Stars Happy Huntting!
Jem - Crazy
Katy Perry - Hot n Cold
Lola - Mozdulj Mar
The Ranetki Girls - Ona Odna (She's Alone)
Shock of Pleasure - This Is A Test
Vanilla Sky - On & On
Wainwright - Can't Believe My Eyes

[Lorelei]

What format are they in, if not MP3? Just curious. I have only added MP3s to the game in the past.

Also, tell me moar about this "use SimPE to convert them to MP3" trick; PLZ, I am intrigued.

[Li'l Brudder]

When you extract them, they come out as .xa files.  Programs such as Xantippe convert them to MP3.

[Simsbaby]

They're all package files, which is how the game's music is.  As for using SimPE, I should have said to extract them. You just export the songs and you'll end up with regular mp3 files.

When you extract them, they come out as .xa files.  Programs such as Xantippe convert them to MP3.

Radio music is in MP3 format.

[Relle]

Also, tell me moar about this "use SimPE to convert them to MP3" trick; PLZ, I am intrigued.

http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_2_music  There is a guide at the bottom, if you use the cursed SimPE.

If I've already gone through my files and extracted NL/Petz-specific music, I already have the non-US localisation songs, right?  (ETA: Yes. Yes I do. Should have looked more closely at the list.)