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+The most important things to understand about the music in Shadow Warrior:
+
+The demo/shareware version of the game uses MIDI. There are actually
+.MID files stored within sw.grp.
+
+The full/registered version and/or expansion pack uses CD audio
+tracks. They *can't* use MIDI: there's no MIDI data inside its .grp
+files at all.
+
+So there are 2 completely separate procedures for getting the music
+to work, depending on whether you're playing the full/expansion or
+demo version.
+
+Full (Registered) Version, Wanton Destruction expansion
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+For these versions, jfsw doesn't actually support CD audio from a
+physical CD [*]. It does, however, support .ogg files made from the CD.
+You can use CD ripping software to rip these from the original CD,
+or download them (for free, account creation required) from:
+
+https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_warrior_complete
+
+...or download it from Steam (also for free). The same files are available
+there, under the name "Shadow Warrior Classic".
+
+The .ogg files should be named "track02.ogg" through "track14.ogg", all
+lowercase (there is NO "track01.ogg"!), and placed in either ~/.jfsw/
+or /usr/share/games/jfsw/
+
+Run the game, and the music should play. If not, use the in-game menus
+(Options, Sound Menu) to enable the music and turn up the volume.
+
+If you followed the steps below to get the demo music to play, you'll
+have to re-edit ~/.jfsw/sw.cfg and change the MusicDevice back to 0.
+
+If you're never going to play the demo version, there's no need to build
+jfsw with fluidsynth support (although, it won't hurt anything if you do).
+
+Note: When using the .ogg soundtrack, under some conditions, it seems
+the background music stops playing after loading a saved game. If this
+happens to you, toggle the music off & back on (under Options, Sound
+Menu), which should start it playing again.
+
+[*] There is some code in jfaudiolib that's supposed to play CD audio
+    but it's (a) SDL-1.2 only, and (b) broken.
+
+Demo (Shareware) Version
+------------------------
+
+For the shareware version, the MIDI data is already present inside the
+sw.grp file. To actually hear it, you'll have to:
+
+1. Build and install fluidsynth. Doesn't matter whether or not
+   optional jack-audio-connection-kit and/or lash are included (jfsw
+   doesn't use them though).
+
+2. Build and install fluid-soundfont.
+
+3. Build and install jfsw. When installing, the description should say
+   the package was built with fluidsynth.
+
+4. Run the game once, and exit it normally, to get it to create a config
+   file. You should now have a ~/.jfsw/sw.cfg file.
+
+5. Edit ~/.jfsw/sw.cfg, find the line that says "MusicDevice = 0", and
+   change the 0 to a 6. This enables fluidsynth.
+
+6. Run the game again. Make sure the music is enabled and the music
+   volume is turned up (under Options, Sound Menu).
+
+Unfortunately, the edited config file won't work with the full version.
+You'll have to change MusicDevice back to 0 (meaning 'autodetect') to get
+the .ogg tracks to play. Other possible values are 1 (SDL) and 7 (ALSA).
+
+There's no direct way to change which soundfont jfsw uses. What it does is
+look in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/ and pick the first soundfont it finds, in
+sorted order. Basically it does the C++ equivalent of:
+
+$ ls /usr/share/sounds/sf2/*.sf2 | head -1
+
+If the only sound fonts in that directory are the ones installed by
+the fluid-soundfont package, it will choose "FluidR3_GM.sf2", which is
+reasonable and sounds good.
+
+If you want to use a different soundfont, try something like this:
+
+# cd /usr/share/sounds/sf2/
+# ln -s MySoundFont.sf2 000-jfsw.sf2
+
+Check with the ls command above, to make sure 000-jfsw.sf2 sorts first.