AWESOME IDEA - Built-in Ship media player

Sethioz

Sethioz
Edit, here's a video:

[video=youtube;VjG394-d1iU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjG394-d1iU[/video]


Hey, i just came up with really awesome idea, I hope devs will read this and add this feature.
so my idea is simple, yet detailed. Add media player to ships. Every ship should have it built into dashboard.
some might say "omg play your own music on background" NO, that's not my idea at all.

Idea is to give it realistic sound, so it sounds like it's coming from speakers that are in your cockpit and whenever there are critical messages, then ship cuts the music or makes it quieter and announces the message (such as proximity, under attack ..etc, you should be able to choose those from options, when to mute / turn music down).
And it should also have a small display on the dashboard, which is capable of showing / playing videos or if you playing music, then it should show song / radio station name. There should be option to play your own media files from your PC and to be able to connect to shoutCAST tv / radios via URL. It should also have simple playlist option (shuffle tracks, add, remove ..etc).
and perhaps add youtube function, so that you can play videos straight from youtube, in fact i find it very useful, because some trips can take time and don't need too much from the pilot, so it would be cool to be able to watch some music videos or something else on youtube xD

Additionally, it could be used to keep your passengers calm, that you have option to play music / video into the passenger lounge, it should be automatic, if you have it enabled, then passengers are generally more relaxed and satisfied with the trip.
 
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Sethioz

Sethioz
bump - because I made a video how the player should look like and added it into first post. I really hope commanders will like the idea and developers will make it happen :)
 

Lordfrith

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yeah i'd like an in game music player which you could link into your main music folder. Dunno how much work this would be to implement but i'm sure i've seen it in other games.

Sethioz said:
Additionally, it could be used to keep your passengers calm, that you have option to play music / video into the passenger lounge, it should be automatic,
if you have it enabled, then passengers are generally more relaxed and satisfied with the trip.
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heheh that would depend on what music you play. blast slayer at them for long enough and you'll see those passenger modules ejecting ;)
 

Sethioz

Sethioz
I really hope devs will add this. I really find it boring to fly 20000+ ls without any entertainment, just looking at stars passing by .... can be very boring.

Well playing music to passengers, it's not like game and tell what music you playing, it should just keep passengers more relaxed when playing music or videos to them, it's like the somewhat hidden feature in GTA 5 online, where if you go to take a shower and start "singing" into the microphone, then you get experience, it's quite hilarious. As long as game detects some vocals from your mic, then it considers it as singing and gives you experience lol.
So playing videos / music to passengers, could even make them tip you at end of trip.

Also i forgot to mention, that video player area could also be used for CAMERAS!! the utility mounts should support external cameras that you can buy, so when camera is in present, you can cycle through them, take control of the camera and point it at right angle. so you have "rear view mirror/s" in your ship.
Or additionally you can make the camera/s track target movement. It comes in handy in big ships that have turrets, so you can turn the ship right way to make turrets shoot.

haah, i should be consultant for developers :) I have so many amazing ideas that are not too hard to implant. I mean adding a camera doesn't really require much, just a tiny "dome" model and some lines of code to make it track targets and display another image.
 

RobLocksley

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Yup, would be nice to have a player.

Got VoiceAttack to mute/un-mute my Win media player; but I have to have one command to make Elite client the active window again - and sometimes it fails so...
+1, atleast something to play music or radiostations like Radio Sidewinder [yesnod]
 

Sethioz

Sethioz
Kyokushin said:
jsut buy second screen
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hahhahaha .. .there always have to a joking clown who says something really funny and hidious.
You do realize that multi monitor setup will not allow you to click off the main window right? and if you do, then game minimizes and you lose control over the game and its sound. DUH


Kyokushin said:
jsut buy second screen
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WindWpn said:
i think its already been done. See this thread:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...on-app-(with-simulated-space-traffic-control)

I use this and it is great! There is a solution to make it "look" like it is ingame. I tried it and since I have three screens, i simply have the small window on one of those. Video, radio, system traffic control.... very killer app!

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wind
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I don't really care for music, i can use winamp with hotkeys, always have actually, but it doesn't react to ship sounds, sometimes I listen to good songs and crank up the vol, so i can't hear when there's a warning or something going on in the game. That's why it has to be built into game and not stand alone.
However it does look cool, might give it a go just for the sake of it, but mostly i want to able to use videos while doing exploration or other things that take time. In combat, i prefer having no music or video, but exploration .. zzzZZZ
 

Monk

Monk
Sethioz said:
hahhahaha .. .there always have to a joking clown who says something really funny and hidious.
You do realize that multi monitor setup will not allow you to click off the main window right? and if you do, then game minimizes and you lose control over the game and its sound. DUH
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Not true. Windowed Borderless is your friend. I have YouTube videos running on my second screen and click over there regularly to select a new video or make a snide comment.
 

daddychew

daddychew
Oh Yes!!!! I was about to make the same suggestion myself. I was honestly just thinking music but yeah, as long as we supply the tracks/videos ourselves it shouldn't cause any copyright issue for FD as it is out of their control what we decide to play with it. I currently use voice attack, a VR headset and Winamp. Voice attack controls Winamp nicely with the hotkey but that is not a "shareable" experience.

For total immersion nothing could beat a media player that all on-board can hear and control, that would be amazing!! Even if it is simply over their headset/speakers as I assume the helmets we wear (if any in the cockpit) or the seats could have speakers in them though directional sound that changes as you turn you head etc would be even better :D

Please FD, please at least consider implementing this??
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
Been suggested OH SO MANY TIMES, and I still don't see why development time should be wasted on a bad media player when there's already a tonne of good ones kicking around that people can choose from according to their own needs.
 

Sethioz

Sethioz
Shadowdancer said:
Been suggested OH SO MANY TIMES, and I still don't see why development time should be wasted on a bad media player when there's already a tonne of good ones kicking around that people can choose from according to their own needs.
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because none of them work in-game like my idea. I'm not interested in using winamp or any other external media player as they do not react to game actions.
name one player that AUTOMATICALLY turns volume down when there are important messages in the game? i'm waiting .... and will be waiting ... because there's none. you completely failed to see the point of my idea.

If i want to listen to music, i can do that with winamp or use overlay to watch movies / videos, that's not my point. I want it to interact with game and i want to be able to record it onto a video.

what you said, is as good as saying "cars don't need music players / radio, just use your phone to play music"
 
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