Hi there,

I'm a fan of more musical variety in my game so I bought all 4 volumes of Music for the Ages.

Now, this feels like a silly basic question but as for adding the music into the game, do I need to manually move any of the files into the Humankind\Soundtrack folder or does it just know to automatically pull tracks from the steamapps\music folder?

It should automatically play them as they are currently within your Steam folder. Pick the Khmer for example and try to listen for the new tracks. :)

Hi,

Where can we find the mp3/flac files ?

Hmmm, that's not so good then. I thought that each one added 2+ hours of music to the game as per the Steam page:

HUMANKIND: Music for the Ages includes hours of traditional music, improvised by many amazing talented artists. The 4 volumes of more than 2 hours each, features an extraordinary palette of instruments from around the world. This music is played in the game according to the civilizations chosen by the player.

I guess it is a little ambiguous but I read that to mean that it added new music which would play when you selected a particular culture. I'm not buying the last two until I have it confirmed that it does ADD music to the base game and that it is not already there. I don't regret my purchase though because I'm sure it goes to support and reward the musical talent.

Discab wrote:

Hi,

Where can we find the mp3/flac files ?

The local files were contained in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\music for me

Katrina wrote:

Hmmm, that's not so good then. I thought that each one added 2+ hours of music to the game as per the Steam page:

HUMANKIND: Music for the Ages includes hours of traditional music, improvised by many amazing talented artists. The 4 volumes of more than 2 hours each, features an extraordinary palette of instruments from around the world. This music is played in the game according to the civilizations chosen by the player.

I guess it is a little ambiguous but I read that to mean that it added new music which would play when you selected a particular culture. I'm not buying the last two until I have it confirmed that it does ADD music to the base game and that it is not already there. I don't regret my purchase though because I'm sure it goes to support and reward the musical talent.

Right, same thought here but also like you said, no regrets as I'm all about supporting great music.

Melliores wrote:

It should automatically play them as they are currently within your Steam folder. Pick the Khmer for example and try to listen for the new tracks. :)

MagicCuboid wrote:

I don't think these soundtracks ADD music to the game... I think they just let you download all the background music that plays based on which civilization you choose. Am I wrong?

edit: Amplitude employee just confirmed these tracks are already in the base game in the comments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8af5lRZ8HBM

Ah, i see, alrighty good to know.

Thank you all for the info and help!

You'd have thought this would be a very simple matter for some community manager to clarify for us. It's not a trivial matter either as will become clear later. I can't argue with that comment from an official on Youtube because he/she declares that it is not DLC but at the same time, some of the new music is copyrighted and streamers need to be alerted to this if the base game contains copyrighted music.

@Katrina The music may be copyrighted as a general rule but all four volumes are available free of charge on Youtube. You can clearly play and use that music during a stream if you want to, it will not cause any issues. I guess that is also one of the reasons they uploaded it on Youtube. Check their description :

Original Soundtrack: (P) & (C) 2020 Sega / Amplitude Studios Music production: G4F Prod Under exclusive license to G4F Records - https://www.g4f-records.com/en/

It is licensed to the music producer to use as well and they decided to make it available for general use.

Whether it does add new tracks or not to the game, we will need an official response. Be as it may, the purchase of the volumes gives you FLAC versions of all the tracks, which is more than worth the price if you like the music.

There was a streamer on Steam who posted...

The game contains multiple copyrighted songs

I've had my videos on youtube claimed... why on earth would you guys NOT use original music? I mean, you're not some indie dev who gets their music on Fiverr for 10bucks, are you?

The song "Midare" got claimed by "SIAE_CS"
The song "Chidori No Kyoku" got claimed by "Polaris Hub AB"

If I can't stream/upload content on a game due to copyright claims, then I'm just going to refund the game. Rather take my money elsewhere tbh.

Proof of copyright claims: https://i.imgur.com/QiICeLE.png

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Now, I don't know if this is real or not but he was told by another poster that the music mentioned was from the 'Music through the Ages' DLC and not the original soundtrack. I'm not entirely convinced that the DLC music is available to the folks who didn't buy the DLC. Unfortunately, I bought mine after a few hours and so didn't really get to experience all the music in the game so I am probably wrong to think that.