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This is awesome!

I can't wait till it is finished...

Allrite, I went ahread and added some new strips to mix. Cheers!

Well, I'd prefer to have new features over more time spent bugfixing.

Toady has fixed all the bugs that were bothering me (mostly the hospital ones, along with laggy ghosts), and he's already spent a ton of time fixing bugs that could have been spent working on new features. And I'd rather have necromancers attacking my fortress with an army of zombies than, say, the correct values for the various materials in the raws. Because I don't really care whether copper has the right tensile strength (I seriously doubt that will change my playstyle at all), but I do care about fighting a desperate last stand against heaving hordes of ravening undead.

Well, while we are being selfish here, I would prefer fixes to bugs that bother me over features you would want.

Or, what about this: He could work on features I want to have but leave any undead bugs unfixed because I could not care less about that stuff working properly, that would be your problem.

Either works for me :-)

When we get rid of caravan schedulle in favor of more worldgenny approach, you might get multiple caravans from different civilizations at once. (should be FUN if they are in war...), so you might need to set up multiple depots in order to be able to give each caravan offloading place.

That would naturally give in to "marketplace feel" of your trading district. Especially if you take your time to design warehouses, offices for your Trader(s)...

Also, cats only adopt dwarves who like cats.

Indeed, and with more animals avaiable for "liking", chances of getting those are slimmer too.

Quick technical question. Does the log output distinguish between types of ranged weapon, and are there any current or future plans to include separate sounds for them? I'd really like to add a sound pack to my current modding project.

It can be done - part of message is item used (bolt, arrow ...), so it can be distinguished.

I supposed you want to add guns and bullets, eh?

Suggestion: Add a button to launch DF from Soundsense or have Soundsense launch DF automatically.

I ask this because for whatever reason, I can't seem to make a batch file launch soundsense; all it does is open up a command prompt. Probably because SoundSense opens a cmd window of it's own.

are you calling soundSense.bat in your batch file? I suppose you could edit that one to include launching dwarf fotress instead...

Nice post! 

Rock pots, man....rock pots.   

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because he was blithely just cooking Elephant Tallow Roasts all day long with the stuff slathered liberally over the kitchen.

What an image.

Just ... set reserve barrels in stoc'p'ile menu to 5 or so.

Ah, perhaps you could have it so the balance code is normally disabled or bypassed and only enabled for sounds in the .xml file which have either randomBalance or balanceAdjustment applied to it?

It is supposed to do that (only display message when ss is supposed to be balancing accordign to xml but can not in order to notify author that some tweaking is needed), if it is not acting that way, it is bug on my side.

Have you installed a mp3 codec?  Linux does not come with one by default. 
If you have not installed one you can get this error because your OS has no way to play mp3 files.

That message relates to already decoded file and is about incompatible sound api of operating system. Also, mp3 decoding is handled completelly by SS, no extra plugings are needed.

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Nice detective work :-)

I use mp3gain ( http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ ) to normalize volume. Supposdely, it should be lossless operation. Oh well...

Could you try using it on files you downloaded and see if it could be the cause of the problems?