That said, your average modern source port for playing Quake supports playing music from external files, so all you have to do is rip the music from original CD in the right format and put the resulting files with correct names in the correct place. Maybe it would be possible to completely fix CD playback issues by implementing the custom code (maybe there's a library out there that already does it?) that would read the music from CD and so on. There's also a requirement that the Quake CD be in the first CD drive (if PC has more than one), though that's the game limitation.
It would be possible to implement a workaround by adding the code that would periodically query the status of CD drive. Even original Windows executables don't support volume control, I guess because MCI interface that was used doesn't neither (some games of the time do try to change it via alternate paths, though these don't work today neither).ĭue to a bug since Windows Vista, music doesn't loop because MCI never sends notification that playback has completed. I'm not sure if any Windows source port fixes issues with music playback from CD.
