music issue

[NiteFox]

Speaking of that,  is there a way to keep the CD from spinning up everytime I go into act5.  It's caused such bad delays occaisionally that I've had to disable music as a whole.  It only happens in act5, and I'm guessing its due to this seperate file.

Daemon Tools is your friend. Never got around to memorising the link, but Google should have all the answers.

And for the record I used to have a helluva lot of problems with Act 5 music too, but all that vanished the day I switched from hard, clunky, agonisingly painful CDs to virtual drives and a dumped ISO of my LoD disc.

Edit: And for the record, yes it is a seperate file. Ever wondered why when you do a full install of D2C the LoD installation still asks for the D2 Play CD? Because D2's full install leaves a few MPQs on the CD, the music MPQ being one of them. Since a full LoD installation runs off just the LoD CD, it gets these files off the D2 Play CD, since there'll be no need for the Play CD.

However, the LoD's music is on its own CD in a seperate MPQ file, naturally. Even if you do a full LoD install (Upgrade Installation from the launcher) this will remain on the CD and will never be installed automatically on the hard drive where it would be the most use. Truth is, Blizzard really suck with their CD-writing methods, though not as badly as Interplay. Nearly every Blizzard game I own (And I own them all except WC1 and WC3) has spin-up troubles when loading, or in the case of D1 spin-ups whenever items are dropped. Hence, a virtual drive is the best solution to this problem.