Cockpit suggestion : Panel tab for playing music or/and videos

[LaVolte]

Hi !

For the sake of immersion, it would be great to have a panel option to play music in the cockpit, taking in account the soundstage of the canopy (or the CMDR helmet).

The music would be placed in a folder within Elite Dangerous install folder (or User default folder in Documents or Music).

Same idea but with video, copy the video file in the destination folder and play it in a little panel with transparency (or not) and the sound would take into account the canopy soundstage (or the CMDR helmet).

It would be great for Exploration/Mining/Trading/Travel ect...

I have no idea of the implementation difficulties though.

Fly safe CMDRs !

 

[Maolagin]

Neat idea! As a bonus, FDev could then make some extra scratch selling a tape deck cosmetic for your cockpit.

In all seriousness, it's an interesting idea to provide some way for end users to pipe audio through the same filter chain as the rest of the in-cockpit sound effects. But it also sounds like a support headache for Frontier. You have various formats (once you support audio files requests will come in for additional file formats, plus support for apps like Spotify etc), dealing with the differing rules and technologies on the console platforms, and maybe even licensing issues once people start streaming their gameplay with copyrighted music coming out of the game instead of a separate player. So I'd like to see such a feature, but I kinda doubt that we will.

On the other hand, it would be cool and not terribly hard to set up an audio filter chain that mimics the appropriate soundstage, and reads the game journal to figure out which one to use. You might consider shopping the idea around on the 3rd party apps forum.

 

[Thor42]

this would be great, maybe using a application window with a colour filter over it to make it holographic looking. oculus's beta used to let you pop out windows and place them in the VR cockpit, it was great for youtube vids. doesn't work anymore though

 

[Darcanis]

I'd love access to my music in game! I can do it now in VR by bouncing in and out of game to a external player, but it would make more sense in game instead and less immersion breaking. Ship can travel faster than speed of light and scan entire systems in seconds, but has no MP3 player!

 

[Lance Corrimal]

I've been playing "euro truck simulator" some time ago, and there you could actually use the car radio and set any stream url. I'd even set it to the streaming urls for local radio stations for the area i was driving around in... XD

 

[BinakAlgo]

It would be nice indeed. I also think that FD could make special soundtracks to sell in the shop, like the ones that Paradox does for their Hearts of Iron games (I really like their composer), those just cost a buck. But well, I'm not in charge of marketing in FD or anywhere else for that matter.