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How to fix the annoying, stuttery, clicky, glitchy music bug that's plagued Morrowind for decades, every time, the first time.

By The Maggot Guy

The long and short of it is that all you gotta do is open one of the sound files from the game, and don't close whatever program you used to open the file before you start up Morrowind and you'll be good. Also don't close it while you're playing because the bug will re-occur the first time you load a save.

HOW TO GET TO THE MUSIC FILES

Simply go to Morrowind in steam, right click on the title on the sidebar, click properties, then go to the tab called "Local Game Files".

Then, simply click "browse local files".

Next you'll want to go to data files, then music, then open any of the music files in the subfolders located therein. The title music is located in the "Special" folder, by the way.

HOW TO MAKE THIS PROCESS FASTER

If your music player is anything like Itunes you can just click play on the icon for whatever music file or voiceline you picked and it should fire it up again. This works and may be faster for you than going directly into the files each time. Just leave the music player open and you'll be good.

Pics coming to make it easier to follow.

No more frustration or deleting all your mods or digging through ancient old obscure windows settings to try and fix it! The solution was under our noses the entire time!

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Guide Index

Overview

Intro and TL;DR I guess

HOW TO GET TO THE MUSIC FILES

HOW TO MAKE THIS PROCESS FASTER

Outro I guess

Comments

Intro and TL;DR I guess

HOW TO GET TO THE MUSIC FILES

HOW TO GET TO THE MUSIC FILES

Simply go to Morrowind in steam, right click on the title on the sidebar, click properties, then go to the tab called "Local Game Files".

https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/1621814584861385690/DBDD64EC652D0E1FE0B9EAE9711FA6C100970A9D/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/1621814584861388062/5A6971A8E0F3F4BFA382AC4C4D384468D0B01DD9/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Then, simply click "browse local files".

https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/1621814584861388923/3408A01FEF510EC2EB8109FDC7EFBFFD0BFE466F/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Next you'll want to go to data files, then music, then open any of the music files in the subfolders located therein. The title music is located in the "Special" folder, by the way.

Your Morrowind folder will look a little different than mine, but it will still have the music folder.
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/1621814584861398787/4C6CF046CD83AAF104AA5AEB98B3AB8ED916A8B8/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

This should be the path to the Data Files, unless you have it installed on another hard drive than C, in which case I assume you know how to find the files anyway.
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/1621814584861402675/1F1FDF210A5A3313F057D8B8B75AB66B69FAD7C4/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

The Music Folder itself
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/1621814584861408730/740E0230FD620F38634E01BB4C9A846D93120833/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

The Files in the Music Folder
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/1621814584861413099/40ADFFE7D77E74AC91AF97E31EB79F437AFAC79F/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

HOW TO MAKE THIS PROCESS FASTER

If your music player is anything like Itunes you can just click play on the icon for whatever music file or voiceline you picked and it should fire it up again. This works and may be faster for you than going directly into the files each time. Just leave the music player open and you'll be good.

Should look like the thumbnail, if you're using itunes, but here it is again.

https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/1621814584861381267/723C9B43B01C67074AB38AB63EB9F484B144E274/?imw=256&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Outro I guess

No more frustration or deleting all your mods or digging through ancient old obscure windows settings to try and fix it! The solution was under our noses the entire time!

If you have any questions or it isn't working, just comment below and I'll respons as soon as possible unless it's been like 5 years, and even then I may still respond lol. May not have morrowind by then, but I'll still probably at least respond telling you that, haha!

I tested everything with VLC (from the internet, not the windows store version), Itunes, Windows Media Player, and Groove Media (or whatever the propietary music player Microsoft pushes is called). I did not test directly playing the music files from Groove, but it should work anyway. The fix also works with ANY sound file in the Morrowind directory, I just prefer firing up the main theme before gameplay instead of some random voiceline about me being an N'wah or whatever. I have not tested creating a sound file in a new folder in "Data Files" or Morrowind, but I'll test that ASAP and get back here with an answer.

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The Maggot Guy [author] 5 Sep, 2020 @ 1:26pm

The bug might also only occur if you're using bluetooth headphones like me, but idk. This fixed it every time lol

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