
So now, lets look at the war.txt and peace.txt. The order of which the tracks list in the text document is the order that they are played in. Now, if you save this file and load up HoI2, and wait for the Overture to stop, you'll notice that the War of 1812 is playing. This is the playlist for music while loading before the title screen and for the main menu. You should see only one line of text "hoi2-overture". Now, we want to HoI2 to load this song up when we are loading the game instead of the normal start-up music. And since HoI2 reads whitespace (read: spaces and tabs) as an indication to mvoe forward, having it named "Tchaisovsky 1812.mp3" won't work.

Now, for ease of use, rename it to something like "1812.mp3" or "tchaikovsky1812.mp3." Why? Remember those three playlists I mentioned? They are text files. Take that mp3 and copy/move it into the mp3 folder. So, lets say we want to add Tchaikovsky's War of 1812 to the soundtrack. Without editing these files, no matter what mp3s you add to the music subfolder, HoI2 will not play them.

These are you "playlists" for lack of a better term. txt files: looby.txt peace.txt and war.txt. Modifying the playlist for the in-game music played for HoI2 is not only easy, but very quick.Īfter opening the music subfolder, there are a dozen or so mp3 files along with three. Like all modding, please backup all files before modifying anything
