Music Player as part of your ship !

[FiringFox]

Hello Commanders !

I've seen many people talking about an integrated music player in ED, especially on Reddit. So here is my feature and graphic proposal:

Music Player Features :
- Accessible via left or right panel
- Songs sorted by folder, album, artist or playlists
- Potentially acess to radios (we would enter the radios URL in options)
- Possibility to bind keys for media buttons (play, pause, stop, next...). Default could be from F5 to F8.

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Music Player Behavior :
- Sound may be modified to sound like they are from the ship speakers (for this feature, I think we can trust the excellent team who worked on sounds ! )
However in the options we would be able to ajust this setting from creepy to normal.
- Sound becomes creepy when overheating (such as actual voice coms) or when hull is taking damage.
- When music is stopped (not paused), the game original music plays normally (cause we like it !) and vice versa.
- Music volume lowers or mutes when someone is talking in voice comms, and resets when he is finished.

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Graphic design proposal :
I made this photomontage to give a preview of what it could be, I hope you like it !

I really think this would add to the immersion (especially with sound modifications) because for now, listening to music while playing just doesn't fit it x) Furthermore some poeple don't have the ability to control their music while in full screen !
So this is all ! As usual, you guys at Frontier rock, I hope my proposal is clear enough and that you'll like it
Do you want this music player ? Do you have any suggestion to make it better ?

With respect.

CMDR Col. Jack O'Neill

 

[PredatorDrone902]

Intrested

Very Facinating Idea Firing. I look forward to this to be implemented into the game. Maybe get some International Radio stations in there like the BBC and the NPO. maybe some other ones too

 

[SavingPrincess]

+1
I like your graphical implementation, though I would throw it on the right menu as that seems to handle more "ship functions." Media key support on most keyboards would be great as well, along with regular keybindings so this could be controlled via VoiceAttack, etc.

 

[dermax]

I'd go for this in an instant. I enjoy the in-game soundtrack, but you can't tell me "Ride of Valkyries" wouldn't be awesome while lining up for an attack run.

 

[Vahur Kahur]

I think it's a waste of dev resources. You can play your music very easily without this feature.

 

[FiringFox]

I think it's a waste of dev resources. You can play your music very easily without this feature.

Ahaha I know that, my second screen is devoted to music ! But the goal here is make it more immersive And everybody doesn't have that second screen to manage their music

 

[Vahur Kahur]

Ahaha I know that, my second screen is devoted to music ! But the goal here is make it more immersive And everybody doesn't have that second screen to manage their music

Sorry, I don't find looking at menus all that immersive. I'd rather see them spend these resources on something immersive in a sense like making stations of different allegiances and economies look different, adding different background music based on allegiance, improving missions and beacons and signals, etc. But, you know, opinions.

 

[FiringFox]

Sorry, I don't find looking at menus all that immersive. I'd rather see them spend these resources on something immersive in a sense like making stations of different allegiances and economies look different, adding different background music based on allegiance, improving missions and beacons and signals, etc. But, you know, opinions.

Please read the whole thread before answering ^^ By saying immersion i wasn't talking about the menues, but about the sound design and the interactivity that makes it feel more immersive. This, added to the conveniency of the menus. I've seen a lot of people in favor of it, have a look at Reddit by example.
And finally, the thread isn't to schedule the dev's projects, but to tell why you like / dislike the proposal, and then talk about ideas. The devs then chose what they want to do, this isn't our point.

Thanks

 

[Vahur Kahur]

I understand all that and my position did not change. Like I said, just my opinion that this not the right way to start increasing immersion.

 

[FiringFox]

I won't make you change your mind I know, I just wanted to make sure we're talking about the right subject, not that you say it sucks because you want other things first

 

[Kren]

I feel that allowing us to script widgets/tabs for the left/right UI's would be a better suggestion, then we can make our own mp3 player widget along with a bunch of other things that they, then, would not have to spend time on.

 

[FiringFox]

I feel that allowing us to script widgets/tabs for the left/right UI's would be a better suggestion, then we can make our own mp3 player widget along with a bunch of other things that they, then, would not have to spend time on.

That indeed would be a good idea ! What other widgets are you thinking of ?

 

[Googol]

I feel that allowing us to script widgets/tabs for the left/right UI's would be a better suggestion, then we can make our own mp3 player widget along with a bunch of other things that they, then, would not have to spend time on.

No, no. Forget the UI, I want an 8-track on the dashboard

 

[djabor]

I posted a similar thread a while back, just without the photomontage.

As for immersiveness, @Vahur Kahur,

you are missing out a very important point: not all of us sit staring at the screen. A lot of players enjoy the game with some sort of VR kit like the Oculus rift DK2, in which
case everything you need to control outside the game itself is a extremely annoying, experience-breaking action.

Besides, this forum is not prioritizing suggestions, it's listing them. Nobody is saying that this is the most important feature of the game. It is, however, a feature a lot of people would definitely want.

 

[Kren]

That indeed would be a good idea ! What other widgets are you thinking of ?

Oh man, you could do a lot.. especially if you could add in web requests.. maybe a panel where you type in an item type and it tells you what systems nearby you could potentially find that item.. db based or even market type based to start.

how about a web browser? teamspeak channel integration? video player for that long haul through centari prime

 

[FiringFox]

Lots of possibilities indeed But I don't think we are gonna have this one day simply becaus of the possibility of "cheating" by that I mean having easier trade datas etc. :/

 

[Gase]

I love this idea. It reminds me of some of the Grand Theft Auto games allowing players to create custom radio stations using music from their own computer.

Of course now that I've moved over to using Spotify I wonder if it would be possible to integrate Spotify playback - I'm not even sure if Spotify has a playback API for third party embedding though.

 

[CMDR. GALAHAD 1960]

I think that would be awesome, right now I use foobar 2000 and my k70 rgb. it's ok but not so immersive please keep working on your ideas

 

[FiringFox]

Just saw someone made another interesting concept of UI integration for a music player :
[video=youtube;q0yMqKMU_Hk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0yMqKMU_Hk[/video]