A feature I loved about The Sims 2 was how easy it was to customize music for the various modes — buy, build, neighborhood, etc.
As far as I can tell, The Sims 3 only lets you add music to the custom music folder — no customization for various modes 🙁
Does anyone know if it is possible to somehow include custom music per mode?
Best Answer
Currently there is not a sure-fire way to do it, no. The only way that it could be done is to use Sims 3 Package Extractor (s3pe) to replace the current build music in the FullBuild1.package file. If this was all you had to do it'd be easy. However in The Sims 3, EA thought it'd be a grand idea to package the music in it's own proprietary format ".snr/.sns". This is also known as the EA Layer 3 audio format. They also used this format in Command and Conquer 3. To get something encoded in this format is the problem. There are no known converters that will encode into it. I myself, have gotten ffmpeg to convert out of this format into mp3 for some files, but not the other way around. I did not put more effort into it after that and moved on to more enticing projects.