Tutorials/Making custom game music

This is a tutorial about changing the music in Minecraft and the same technique can be used for any other sound effect. This tutorial is for 1.8.8 but should work with 1.8 an higher, 1.9 is not yet known but assumed to be the same. This tutorial was made in windows 8 but should be the same in any windows version and mac only differs in file access.

software
To make this project run smoothly install the following software

Notepad ++

Audacity

"Text Edit" can be used instead of notpad ++ on Mac and comes with OSX

Finding the required files
To start you will need to find the files you'll be replacing via resource pack. Open up your .minecraft folder if you have a link or other acces or hit "Windows key+r" and type %appdata% into the run window, the run window can be accesed by searching "run" in the start menu.

Once you have gone to appdata open .minecraft and open assets from the list, open "indexes" and "objects" in new windows and have your music avalible (like on the desktop)



Finding the Music file to replace
To start, open up the JSON file with your mincraft version in indexes with notepad++ and hit "Ctrl+f" or go to find in the menu. In the search windows type "music"