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Posted November 04, 2012
Hi all,

I have a problem with no repeating music in One Unit Whole Blood and want to switch to MIDI music, but selecting Generlal Midi in Setup in Music Setup do not work, music in game is still CD audio track, so how I switch to MIDI music properly please ?
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Posted November 04, 2012
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venomx93: Hi all,

I have a problem with no repeating music in One Unit Whole Blood and want to switch to MIDI music, but selecting Generlal Midi in Setup in Music Setup do not work, music in game is still CD audio track, so how I switch to MIDI music properly please ?
Shadowcat posted a DOSBox build that addresses the non looping CD audio track issue: Here

To disable the CD audio, edit your dosboxBlood.conf file with a text editor so that it mounts game.gog, rather than game.inst. It should be in the autoexec section at the bottom.

imgmount D game.gog -t iso

Addendum: GoG has updated the One Unit Whole Blood installer and has changed the way it referenced the DOSBox conf files. The [Autoexec] section can now be found in the dosboxBlood_single.conf or dosboxBlood_addon.conf (for Cryptic Passage) files.
Post edited December 14, 2012 by DustyStyx
Posted April 07, 2014
Commenting out the imgmount line in dosboxBlood.conf seems to work too.
Post edited April 07, 2014 by chris631
Posted April 07, 2014
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chris631: Commenting out the imgmount line in dosboxBlood.conf seems to work too.
Yes, that would do it as well, though that would also remove access to the cut-scenes. Since venomx93 did not express that as a desired result, I do not recommend it as a solution.
Posted April 07, 2014
Removing the OGG files works too
Posted February 01, 2016
I want to mention that for some reason, if you are using bMouse MIDI won't work no matter what you do. I don't understand why, I used to be able to do just this. When you mount .gog instead of .ins it will still play the CD music. If you remove the .ogg music files it just wont play anything at all. But as soon as you remove bmouse from the folder it will work.

I don't want to necrobump for no reason, I hope this information will be helpful to someone as it was a pain in my ass for over an hour.

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Actually bMouse was never working at all. Spent all day trying to figure it out but found out I forgot to change Controller Type in the Settings executable to Keyboard + External, not Keyboard + Mouse. As for the MIDI issue I installed OUWB (wont let me link but its available on the forums) which allows you to switch between MIDI and CD through batch prompts which for some reason works just fine.
Post edited February 02, 2016 by ScumCookie
Posted February 03, 2016
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ScumCookie: I want to mention that for some reason, if you are using bMouse MIDI won't work no matter what you do. I don't understand why, I used to be able to do just this. When you mount .gog instead of .ins it will still play the CD music. If you remove the .ogg music files it just wont play anything at all. But as soon as you remove bmouse from the folder it will work.

I don't want to necrobump for no reason, I hope this information will be helpful to someone as it was a pain in my ass for over an hour.

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Actually bMouse was never working at all. Spent all day trying to figure it out but found out I forgot to change Controller Type in the Settings executable to Keyboard + External, not Keyboard + Mouse. As for the MIDI issue I installed OUWB (wont let me link but its available on the forums) which allows you to switch between MIDI and CD through batch prompts which for some reason works just fine.
I can't replicate this. I downloaded & did a fresh install using latest Blood installer (setup_one_unit_whole_blood_2.0.0.21.exe), copied bmouse 0.6 into the Blood directory, and changed the dosboxBlood_single.conf thus:
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

@ECHO OFF
mount C ".."
c:
imgmount D game.gog -t iso
#imgmount D game.ins -t iso
cls
bmouse.exe launch blood.exe
#blood.exe
exit
Ran the "One Unit Whole Blood.lnk" from the desktop and the MIDI music started playing just fine.
Posted August 12, 2018
I've tried just about everything in this thread, and I can't seem to get the MIDI music to actually play. I can disable the CD soundtrack completely by commenting out the lines in the .ini file, but that doesn't cause the MIDI music to play. I've tried using the blood.exe -nocd command in the dosbox_settings.conf file, that doesn't have any effect at all and neither does replacing game.ins with game.gog in the line "imgmount D game.gog -t iso". If anyone has any other suggestions for the MIDI audio, I'd like to hear them, since the MIDI soundtrack for this game is great and I'd love to play through Blood using it.
Posted August 16, 2018
Use this launcher.

Select Launcher options and CD Music - off

https://www.moddb.com/games/blood/downloads/simple-ouwb-launcher-v20-ogg-soundtrack-mods
Posted August 19, 2018
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FrEaKz86: Use this launcher.

Select Launcher options and CD Music - off

https://www.moddb.com/games/blood/downloads/simple-ouwb-launcher-v20-ogg-soundtrack-mods
I tried this with the no CD music option (and again as a command line parameter), and it was still playing when I launched the game. I don't know if my version is haunted or something.
Posted January 13, 2019
I've been able to find a way to start my game using the MIDI music and not the CD audio! Basically I just removed the "imgmount D "..\game.ins" -t iso " line from dosboxBlood_single.conf on a clean install and it worked. I'm not sure why it didn't before, but now I can finally (re)play Blood without the music blowing out my speakers and drowning everything else out.
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