Oblivion

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Are you sick and tired of blustering wind playing ALL THE TIME while you're outdoors in beautiful Oblivion nature? Especially when you're sunk into headphones. Jeez. Blustering right in your ears.
How about the long, drawn-out cicada noise from Atmospheric Oblivion? Bzzzzzzz.
I sure was.
I went and found every instance of 'wind' I could locate in /Data/Sound/ - including those added by the Weather Inside mod and the Storms and Sound mod - and renamed a blank wav file over and over again until EVERY wind sound was replaced with silence. I also isolated the cicada sound from Atmospheric Oblivion and replaced it.
It was worth it.
This will have the side effect of a marginal performance boost outdoors, much like Quiet Feet, since Oblivion won't have to process constant >500KB blustering noises, but 58b silence instead.

Installation: either unpack this archive and paste it directly into /Oblivion/Data (the file structure is set up from there), or download it with Nexus Mod Manager and activate it (no archive invalidation necessary), or drag and drop the archive into Nexus Mod Manager and activate it, or drag and drop it into Wrye Bash and install it... If you can fathom other ways to get these empty sfx into your Oblivion data, that will probably work too.

This does not depend on any of the mods it replaces files from. You are free to open up the archive and delete those files if you're inclined, but they add a literally infinitesmal amount of space to this mod.
The files for Weather Inside are in /Sound/fx/ambient/weatherinside
The files for Storms and Sound are in the root of /Sound/fx/ambient (the amb_windXX files)
The file for Atmospheric Oblivion is in /fx/plxsnd
The 'void.wav' file in the /Sound/fx/ folder is the original silent .wav I used, so that you may copy it to replace any other sfx you don't want to hear anymore.

I may elect to update this with more files replacing sounds which annoy me, which I will put into separate files instead of taking this one down and reuploading (sorry, the 15 people who saw my 1.0)

Enjoy,
sonophilos