Can we have our own ingame music please?

Macy

Macy
I did the Hutton Orbital run, yeah i was bored. I got to hear all the Super Cruise music tho. It's very good and atmospheric. However, wouldn't it be great to have our own music tracks playing in game. I know i can just play my music while playing but it would be so much better if the game triggered certain tracks for certain events. My list would be something like:

Super Cruise -- Jeanne Michelle Jarre "oxygen "

Combat -- Motorhead "Ace of Spades"

Mining -- Something mellow and calming. Maybe some Nat King Cole.

Engineer bases -- The Benny Hill tune. 😅

Any other suggestions?
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
+1 for this. Sure, the in-game combat music is exciting, but I'd prefer my own soundtrack. Flipping up the Rift's headphones to listen to the music on my phone is somewhat lame.
 

Macy

Macy
Bryan K said:
+1 for this. Sure, the in-game combat music is exciting, but I'd prefer my own soundtrack. Flipping up the Rift's headphones to listen to the music on my phone is somewhat lame.
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I'm sure I've been able to do it in other games. I remember replacing the mp3 files in X2. Surely it wouldn't hurt if we could do that?

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Wasiu said:
I thought everyone mutes game music and plays youtube / spotify or galnet / sidewinder radio. Sometimes I even play old winamp playlist with old elite 2 music :)
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I've only muted some of the ships voice. "Friendship drive charging" was driving me mad.
 

DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
Not sure about this but I think there are some crossover between the SFX stems and the Music ones.
I know with the "listen to the planets in the system map" trick that the recommendation is to have the music "unmuted, but turned right down".

But I am a total wav file replacing guy.
I got my daughter to do a voice read when she was four and replaced all the files in my NavMan.
So the voice in our navigator was this tiny kid "In five hundred meters turn left". We had it for years, and she loved showing it off to her friends. Some cretin stole it from the car which was sad, but I do like the idea that someone bought it from a pawn shop or something and she's still out there somewhere - telling some junkie lowlife how to get to their methodone sign on. Or maybe in a family's crappy second car.

So I'll plus one for this trick, even though I think it will probably break stuff.
And also you have appalling taste in music.

You need to listen to more tasteful stuff like this Irish band that used to support U2:
[video=vimeo;201372794]https://vimeo.com/201372794[/video]
https://vimeo.com/201372794
 
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Jaffz

Jaffz
Just have YouTube or iTunes or whatever running in the back ground. I always have the EVE music, never played it, but the music is awesome
 

SeaFireliv

SeaFireliv
Jaffz said:
Just have YouTube or iTunes or whatever running in the back ground. I always have the EVE music, never played it, but the music is awesome
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I just play my own music in the background, it isn`t hard. But an ingame thing might be less hassle.
 

Gypsy12

Gypsy12
What would be awesome would be so simple. Each ship has a reverb model attached to it. All they need to do is run a send from Spotify etc to the main game, (asio 32) and the audio will sound like it was coming from the cockpit when it is sent back to the master channels. Or else just give us the reverb models to plug into a VST.
 

Macy

Macy
DNA-Decay said:
Not sure about this but I think there are some crossover between the SFX stems and the Music ones.
I know with the "listen to the planets in the system map" trick that the recommendation is to have the music "unmuted, but turned right down".

But I am a total wav file replacing guy.
I got my daughter to do a voice read when she was four and replaced all the files in my NavMan.
So the voice in our navigator was this tiny kid "In five hundred meters turn left". We had it for years, and she loved showing it off to her friends. Some cretin stole it from the car which was sad, but I do like the idea that someone bought it from a pawn shop or something and she's still out there somewhere - telling some junkie lowlife how to get to their methodone sign on. Or maybe in a family's crappy second car.

So I'll plus one for this trick, even though I think it will probably break stuff.
And also you have appalling taste in music.

You need to listen to more tasteful stuff like this Irish band that used to support U2:
https://vimeo.com/201372794
https://vimeo.com/201372794
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Yeah my friend did the same with my satnav, got my kids giving the directions.
My taste in music isn't all bad, i like some Led zep occasionally or pink floyd, white stripes, rage against the machine. Oh and remember The Levellers ?
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
I'd really love to have an in-cockpit media player - I have already lost 6 hours Elite time because of Eurovision Semi-finals and Saturday night is obviously a write-off too, I'll never get in the top 10% of the CG like this....

;)

P.S. I really mean it about the media-player, a skinned VLC does not make up for the lack of an in-game one....
 

Tarman

Tarman
I'd like my music fed through the game proper, for both atmosphere and more consistent audio leveling. Plus when your canopy blows unless you have "Earbud" setting your music would disappear, not to mention hearing your tunes after getting back to the station also means aliveness. Super tangental feature but would be cool.
 

Xious

Xious
I was thinking the same thing when I first starting playing the game.

Who wouldn't want to personalize their ingame music?
 

Spyro Jance

Spyro Jance
Macy said:
I did the Hutton Orbital run, yeah i was bored. I got to hear all the Super Cruise music tho. It's very good and atmospheric. However, wouldn't it be great to have our own music tracks playing in game. I know i can just play my music while playing but it would be so much better if the game triggered certain tracks for certain events. My list would be something like:

Super Cruise -- Jeanne Michelle Jarre "oxygen "

Combat -- Motorhead "Ace of Spades"

Mining -- Something mellow and calming. Maybe some Nat King Cole.

Engineer bases -- The Benny Hill tune. ��

Any other suggestions?
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Lol - great track listing suggestion (I listen to Devo's 'Working in a Coal Mine' while mining)
 

FoxTwo

FoxTwo
My memory is hazy, but I seem to recall that there was a suggestion that players should have a music player that plays their own music/listen to internet radio. All this was long ago, before ED launched, or just right after.

At the time I thought it was a good suggestion too... after all, ETS2 (Eurotruck Simulator 2) does this, and it further reinforces immersion that you're a trucker driving on European roads listening to European internet radio stations. I thought a similar thing could be done for ED too (and voila, Lave Radio and Radio Sidewinder happened).

But yeah I'm disappointed this has still yet to appear in the game for us.
 

Thetele

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How Euro truck simulator 2 and american truck simulator do their "radio" should be default Feature/thing in most games.

They have build in internet radio, so you can brows, choose and listen real internet radios from in game (without any other programs or browser than euro/american truck simulator open) and you can also use mp3 files that are on your computer. It works so well that is should be standard in games.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Thetele said:
How Euro truck simulator 2 and american truck simulator do their "radio" should be default Feature/thing in most games.

They have build in internet radio, so you can brows, choose and listen real internet radios from in game (without any other programs or browser than euro/american truck simulator open) and you can also use mp3 files that are on your computer. It works so well that is should be standard in games.
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Couldn't agree more. [up]
 

TOGSolid

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Y'all should look up the Rebel Galaxy soundtrack. That quickly turned into a central pillar of my ED tunes and if you own that game the soundtrack is just sitting there in a folder free to copy out. There's a full Rebel Galaxy playlist on Youtube if you're curious.

A jury rigged solution for custom ingame music could be done via some macros tied to different in game keys/controls so that if you, oh say, deploy hardpoints it'll also load your combat playlist for whatever music player you use (preferably set to Random so that you get something different each time). If you active your FSD it loads your travel music playlist, if you deploy your landing gear it'll load your station music playlist, etc. It wouldn't be a perfect solution but I think it'd get the job done pretty well.

Also, Media Monkey has long been my go to for a really well done music player. It's pretty light weight but very powerful, great for organizing your media, and the global hotkeys let you control it even while in game making it pretty much perfect as a background music player.
 
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