MPQ music editing - is it accepted here?

[Jumbo]

If I was to change the music used in Gaias (currently added custom music unchanged of course) by editing mpq's, would it be against forum rules to upload it here to others if due credit is given? I can't find any specific rules regarding music and many maps (including Gaias) already have custom music taken from other games. Therefore I want to know if I can do this or if it is against the rules.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

While it's illegal to use copyrighted music, I guess posting a modified MPQ on a non-commercial basis should be okay.

I also thought about creating a custom MPQ replacing all the WC3 themes with custom ones, but discarded the idea for those legal reasons.

 

[Jumbo]

Damn that sucks! I spend a lot of time pitching files up so that they were appropriately pitched down/equalized to normal levels in Gaias' "Sound/music" system. The results were pretty nice.

EDIT:
So it would be okay if I were to upload such mpqs here, giving appropriate game/artist credits?

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Damn that sucks! I spend a lot of time pitching files up so that they were appropriately pitched down/equalized to normal levels in Gaias' "Sound/music" system. The results were pretty nice.

EDIT:
So it would be okay if I were to upload such mpqs here, giving appropriate game/artist credits?

Since you are a private non-profit person, I doubt you'll have to fear any consequences.
But the fact remains that it's still piracy of some sort, since anyone can download that MPQ and extract the music files.

So i'd say if you want to do that, use the pastebin and make a thread where you tell people about your MPQ and give them the link via PM.

I can probably even sticky that thread if you wish.

 

[Jumbo]

Use the pastebin? What do you mean by that? Sorry for my rookie understanding . Anyway I'll make a thread with info today.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Pastebin is a page on hiveworkshop where you can upload stuff in private. People can only download and access this stuff if you give them the direct link.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin.php

 

[Jumbo]

I see, very nice feature! By the way, do you want to try my "music addon" out?

Update: Currently having trouble uploading the files. It is veeeeerrryyy slow. When done, I will make a thread.

 

[Jumbo]

It seems impossible to upload MPQ files to Pastebin. It takes hours to upload files of that size and when I came back the site had autounlogged me.

Update: Bad news. It appears to be impossible to upload the zip through pastebin. Even when (after 5 hours) it "succeeds" the uploading nothing really happens and it just deletes the pastebin I had created for the file to be in. Do you have any other advice Zwie ?

 

[LordDz]

How big is your MPQ in filesize?

 

[Jumbo]

Separately, the files (war3 and war3x) are 467.289kb and 429.466kb.

I tried to upload them in a ultra compression 7zip with a total size of 790.777kb.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Maybe upload it somewhere else. Dropbox has been a very stable and relyable service for uploading.

 

[Jumbo]

I'm on it.
Update: It's up on dropbox.