GUIDE: Planet sounds and how to know everything from System Map.

[PanPiper.]

I will be investigating the ammonia ones more,,one I found had oceans of ammonia,and continents,ammonia life too,and it did have sound,after 5 seconds or so in the quiet,there is bubbling ripple sound,hard to describe
Will try make a recording later on when back online and out exploring again

will try describe it,... Planet has a deep bass sound that pulses, like a heartbeat, eerie sounds and quiet,,
some winds come and go,every 30 seconds, with a chittering elecetronic sound,, sounds like a computer modem or fax machine at times. definately not regular wind sound.
Maybe its the strange Carbon-Ammonia-Based life. Managed to slideshow it as a video, got a link for recording now.
6-12 seconds and then again at 38-44 seconds ,. the strange chittering electronic wind type sound.
[video=youtube;gvV-CK1w5tM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvV-CK1w5tM[/video]

i will go investigate some other Ammonia as i find them,, that one i listened on galmap from previous discovered one earlier in the week

 

[Grey Steel]

You're POSITIVE this was an ammonia world? If it was, we need to check the other ammonia worlds, if not, this could be a major thing. Do you have co-ordinates?

I'm finding Ammonia worlds with sound. I'm finding it harder to find them without sound actually. You may be skipping a lot

I am guessing it is like some of the other types like high metal content that sound one way with no atmosphere but sound entirely different based on their atmosphere.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

I'm finding Ammonia worlds with sound. I'm finding it harder to find them without sound actually. You may be skipping a lot

I am guessing it is like some of the other types like high metal content that sound one way with no atmosphere but sound entirely different based on their atmosphere.

In the guide there's no more written they are silent, there's written they are WAY more quiet than other rocky planets.
Yesterday i discovered another 2, and now i have 19 in 2800 system visited, wich is completly on the average.
Ammonia worlds are that quieter than other planets than the difference is very clear. This is enough for the guide porpuse and i very gladly consider the argument exausted.

 

[iain666]

i very gladly consider the argument exausted.

I take it you're new to the internet? Arguments are never exhausted here

 

[CMDR Boozeman]

Hi,

Nice thread here!

Listening to stellar podies too and I think that Rocky world with terraforming canditate can also be found just listening. The sound is like HMC but the "guitar" is more intense with some wind blowing. Some of the rocky tc's that i found (not discover)


System ......................... Component
HIP 5442 ....................... 4A
HIP 5442 ....................... 5A
Synuefe UW-I d10-40 ...... A 2A
Arietis Sector FG-Y D68 B . 6A
HD 36560 ..................... 10A

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Hi,

Nice thread here!

Listening to stellar podies too and I think that Rocky world with terraforming canditate can also be found just listening. The sound is like HMC but the "guitar" is more intense with some wind blowing. Some of the rocky tc's that i found (not discover)


System ......................... Component
HIP 5442 ....................... 4A
HIP 5442 ....................... 5A
Synuefe UW-I d10-40 ...... A 2A
Arietis Sector FG-Y D68 B . 6A
HD 36560 ..................... 10A

Thanks for the info.
I have 150 terraformable high metals in my database, and i came to the conclusion that the difference in sound is only due to atmosphere composition, wich doesn't make for terraformable. Basically i could not discover an unique sound pattern that defines a terraformable, also becouse some terraformable don't have atmosphere at all while other are under venus like atmospheres.
I think that a basic knowledge of goldilock zones (distance from star versus star type) can give the best guessing about terraformable or not, and in my experience sounds are not clearly and immediatly helpfull.

If there's a sound pattern, but it requires you to listen to the planet track for a long time, the purpose of the guide that is making you save time, is gone.

 

[CMDR Boozeman]

Thanks for the info.
I have 150 terraformable high metals in my database, and i came to the conclusion that the difference in sound is only due to atmosphere composition, wich doesn't make for terraformable. Basically i could not discover an unique sound pattern that defines a terraformable, also becouse some terraformable don't have atmosphere at all while other are under venus like atmospheres.
I think that a basic knowledge of goldilock zones (distance from star versus star type) can give the best guessing about terraformable or not, and in my experience sounds are not clearly and immediatly helpfull.

If there's a sound pattern, but it requires you to listen to the planet track for a long time, the purpose of the guide that is making you save time, is gone.

Hi,

Just found out the same thing about terraformables. I will continue to scan rocky ones with atmosphere if they are somewhat right distance. Rocky + TC average DSS-price is now about 30700cr (based to 4 objects)

 

[Cmdr. Numa]

This all is a great find. However I'd go nuts if I went exploring without some music on my media player, so I don't hear the planetary sounds.

 

[iain666]

This all is a great find. However I'd go nuts if I went exploring without some music on my media player, so I don't hear the planetary sounds.

That's half the reason I don't listen to them.

That plus I like the anticipation of chasing across the system to a blue planet wondering if this one is an earth like and that would be gone if I could just listen to it from thousands of light seconds away.

 

[Zeeman]

Umm, I encountered an ammonia world earlier that wasn't silent in the system map. In fact, it actually produced a sort of hybrid between a water world and the noises made by Unknown Artefacts (you know, those alien things that everyone's buzzed up about?). Sort of... alien water bubbles and 'chirps' that I thought completely fit with the world-type.

Next ammonia world that anyone finds, turn the volume up and listen for it. I know I'll be doing the same at the next one I come across...

I have mentioned this before in other threads, but no one seems to listen, so I had given up. It's how I distinguish Ammonia worlds that have an annoying habit of looking like so many other types of planet...

Z...

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This Ammonia world sings very loudly!! I didn't discover it firstl but it sure was neat sounding.

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I actually found one almost exactly like that just a few minutes ago. I had discovered one a few minutes before that, and that looked like a large rocky planet (The description, oddly enough, was Ammonia & Water world)...

Seems to be a pocket of them that I have stumbled into, I've found 5 in the last hour. (I'm 65k Ly from Sol, so not an quick and easy p[lace to get to...).

Z...

 

[Gorrister]

Yes, another problem of visuals is that every star has a different spectrum, so different kind of stars can "color" differently the objects they light. We all saw pink icy moons orbiting brown dwarves.
I spotted a red water world that turned out to be pitch black: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=144513&highlight=dark+waters

And then it can happen something like it happened to you yesterday: a Blue planet that didn't sound like water, you went there and was a brownish high metal coloured blue by a type A.

Also definitly gas giants sounds different from class, and even their ring composition gives a different tone.

I would like to keep the guide easy and neat, so i doubt i'll insert information about gas giants, the interesting ones for this guide is if it bears life or not.

Regarding star colouring i would wait to have more data before changing the guide, but i'm definitly thinking to add a bunch of pictures. So everyone that spots a strange coloured planet FROM SYSTEM MAP that ends up not beeing what expected could please take a system map picture and post here.

Is there a way to distinquish gas giants with metallic rings from metal rich rings?

 

[Tad Lynch]

Is there a way to distinquish gas giants with metallic rings from metal rich rings?

don't know about sound, but i found metallic have a slightly different shade of light brown, if i can say that with only a handful metallic found~

 

[Gorrister]

Yes, but metal rich rings look the same as far as I have seen. Maybe the sound is different.

 

[Zelos1983_1]

First of all, thank you very much for your effort.

I'm testing this out currently, but, for some reason, I have trouble hearing it.

My setup:
loudspeakers / "night mode" / all sound effects + music off except for the stellar cartography

Now what I observe is, that everything for me sounds "the same" when I zoom in. There are some variations within the tune, but I cannot correlate this to what you have written. In particular, I do not hear consistently what you pointed out.

When I zoom out, the tunes seem to be more distinctively, yet the same problem occurs.

I also tried silencing the music and enabling the sound effects, then clicking on a planet will immediately produce a "chime" melody that lasts for couple of second until it near-silences. It sounds a bit more distinct, yet not much correlations for me.

Can you guys give me a few hints and point me in the right direction? is there a type of planet / body that is easy to train with?
Or is there something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

First of all, thank you very much for your effort.

I'm testing this out currently, but, for some reason, I have trouble hearing it.

My setup:
loudspeakers / "night mode" / all sound effects + music off except for the stellar cartography

Now what I observe is, that everything for me sounds "the same" when I zoom in. There are some variations within the tune, but I cannot correlate this to what you have written. In particular, I do not hear consistently what you pointed out.

When I zoom out, the tunes seem to be more distinctively, yet the same problem occurs.

I also tried silencing the music and enabling the sound effects, then clicking on a planet will immediately produce a "chime" melody that lasts for couple of second until it near-silences. It sounds a bit more distinct, yet not much correlations for me.

Can you guys give me a few hints and point me in the right direction? is there a type of planet / body that is easy to train with?
Or is there something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

I think you must turn music on (unmute is the option), and you can set music volume to 0 if you don't want to listen to the soundtrack. But if you mute the music i think you won't hear also other sound effects.
Also changing the dynamic range can mess sounds badly, i advice to leave it to normal.

BTW my audio options are:

Sound Effects Volume: MAX
Sound Effects Mute: Unmute

Music Volume: 0
Music Mute: Unmute
All Sound Effects Enabled

Dynamic Range: Normal

I have to edit the OP to explain this better, in ED even setting audio options can be difficult!!!

 

[Zelos1983_1]

Thanks a lot. With your hints and some modifications, I can hear it now.
I found it's best to use a headset for this.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Big update with CMDR Certhas recordings, audio setting and reediting.
Thank everyone for the contributions to this project

 

[Hazara]

Well done everyone - I wish I had read this 3,000 LY ago.. I have been ignoring gas giants, and had no idea planets sang.

 

[ThirdNostril]

Ammonia worlds sound so bizarre, gas giants with ammonia as well.

 

[Tad Lynch]

For ELW's i don't hear birds, but that may be because i don't use headphones, but i can hear something similar to an old steam engine powered train(sound starts slow and gets gradually faster), it's also in the video on the first page and i've only come across this on ELW's.

edit: it starts at around 0:17