music / sound effects on 360

[wintersquall]

what are my options for disabling music / sound effects while playing ffxi on 360? other than the volume button?

i'm a xbox360 tech noob.

my 360 WILL play my ipod, but i don't think it can do that while in a game. also, is there any way to have sound effects only on and music off? i've looked through all the config menus and can't find anything other than master volume up/down.

i've always, always listened to the in-game music and SE, but it's slowly driving me crazy and the new battle music thing is the deal-breaker.

need options.

[Tajin]

You can play while in game, and yeah the only way to disable music is with the volume slider. If you play music from your iPod it will replace the ingame music.

Unless they changed it in a patch.

[wintersquall]

so, i CAN listen to my ipod in-game on 360 (i assume i'd have to just copy everything onto the 360's HD since both usb ports would be taken up on FFXI with wireless). guess i haven't tinkered around with the system enough to figure out how to do this, i'll work on that.

but that means no in-game sound effects either.

i hate playing games without sound effects, but the music drives me nuts sometimes... wonder why companies don't offer this feature? can't be THAT hard >.>

[Tajin]

You get sound effects AND iPod music. and no you should have enough ports in the 360 for an iPod a keyboard and wireless >_>

[wintersquall]

are you seriously saying that if i plug my ipod into the 360 and get it going during a game somehow (i'll work on figuring that out tonight)... that what i will hear through my surround sound is the in-game sound effects ONLY, layered right on top of whatever hot song i have running on the ipod?


this... cannot... be true. (i'm being serious here)

[Waluigi]

are you seriously saying that if i plug my ipod into the 360 and get it going during a game somehow (i'll work on figuring that out tonight)... that what i will hear through my surround sound is the in-game sound effects ONLY, layered right on top of whatever hot song i have running on the ipod?

That is how most of the 360 games work. I played Oblivion to mp3s that were on the hard drive and still heard the NPCs talking like idiots as I ran through town.

[wintersquall]

ok... this is going to change the ENTIRE WAY I PLAY VIDEO GAMES!!

(i may seem over-excited, but i've been told this can't be done many times... and there's been THOUSANDS of times that i've wished for this... sometimes i have to play with effects only on those games that allow it because the music makes me want to throw something)





how do i do this?

[Tajin]

Well you need the iPod patch for the 360. Go inside the game, turn both music and sound effects volume to a decent level. Hit the xbox button on your controller and select the source to be the ipod and voila.

[wintersquall]

and it automatically places the sound effects over the music?

[wintersquall]

it works....

that is the coolest thing. ever. thanks!

[isladar]

It does work; when my friend comes over to use the Xbox for events or Salvage or something, I get to hear him singing along to Danzig's "Mother" quite often. So yes, you can do this.. but there are terrible, terrible consequences.

[wintersquall]

ouch... yeah, there are drawbacks. glen is the only person who can possibly sing that song without sounding like a total tard.

i'm just so excited... i might be able to do dynamis again someday, without hearing the GODDAMN "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH-OO. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh-ooo" shit. drove me fucking bugnuts, a big reason i quit going.


it's also given me incentive to get more and different types of music for my ipod, which is always a good thing.