in-game music & video player

[Aksinit]

Hello Commanders!
Do you have a music player in your car? It would be great to have it in your cockpit in Elite Dangerous too.
Trading and passenger missions will take so much time sometimes and how about in-game music and video player for listening you favorite music and watchig videos in small window.
Also its possible add an internet Radio and TV in the future.

 

[Frenotx]

I would love to have a stereo in my ship. I often have music playing in the background, but when in VR it feels strange. My music isn't tired to a location, so when I look around the sound doesn't change. Having in-ship speakers so the sound actually had a direction associated with it would help a lot with immersion. It would also open up the possibly for different acoustics in different cockpits. Make the music more distant and echoy on the larger bridges, etc.

 

[CMDR EDGEL0RD]

I would love to have a stereo in my ship. I often have music playing in the background, but when in VR it feels strange. My music isn't tired to a location, so when I look around the sound doesn't change. Having in-ship speakers so the sound actually had a direction associated with it would help a lot with immersion. It would also open up the possibly for different acoustics in different cockpits. Make the music more distant and echoy on the larger bridges, etc.

In game browser. With Elite-related content in it. Along with autopilot. It would take one man an hour a day to put inside a pile of Elite-related news and vids from youtube inside.

 

[Para Handy]

I enthusiastically support the call for a media-player on the dashboard - the ability to play internet radio and our own media files without relying on an overlay would be great. Not too keen on video but hey, whatever.

 

[UFO Reality]

Hello Commanders!
Do you have a music player in your car? It would be great to have it in your cockpit in Elite Dangerous too.
Trading and passenger missions will take so much time sometimes and how about in-game music and video player for listening you favorite music and watchig videos in small window.
Also its possible add an internet Radio and TV in the future.

+1 yes yes and yes

 

[Lestat]

I either use media player or youtube playing in the background. But I do support this idea. I think Frenotx idea is best.

 

[Billkwando]

Hello Commanders!
Do you have a music player in your car? It would be great to have it in your cockpit in Elite Dangerous too.
Trading and passenger missions will take so much time sometimes and how about in-game music and video player for listening you favorite music and watchig videos in small window.
Also its possible add an internet Radio and TV in the future.

This is something we all need, methinks. I'm on Xbox, but even the ability to control the various available background music players would be enough for me. If not through the HUD (though that would be awesome) then at least with media keyboard keys, or at very least letting us pause with the space bar. You can do that if you bring up the player in the sidebar, but obviously that isn't the same, and is a bit immersion breaking.

I need my nice relaxing Hirakawachi 1-chome if I'm ever going to embark on the grand quest FOR THE MUG!

I know you have lots of more important things to do, but this is something that would be really good to contribute to the "lived in" feel that Elite seems to strive for.

Remember, even Zefram Cochrane had his stereo and his Magic Carpet Ride when he first embarked out into space to make First Contact.

It could even be an SMB/network player, as Xbox supports that too.

Also, while the option to simulate the acoustics of the cockpit would be cool, I would prefer that be optional. Simulated environmental effects can be very annoying to some of us with keen ears and who know how our music is supposed to sound. It's why I was forced to turn off Venue Mode in Rocksmith, because as you unlocked larger and larger concert halls, they kept applying more and more unnatural reverb....and when you do that to a live recording that already his its own environmental factors on the recording (reverb, crowd, etc), then it just sounds terrible

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

-1

Why waste time and effort creating something in game that is easily achieved by any number of external methods?

 

[PocketPsycho]

Hello Commanders!
Do you have a music player in your car? It would be great to have it in your cockpit in Elite Dangerous too.
Trading and passenger missions will take so much time sometimes and how about in-game music and video player for listening you favorite music and watchig videos in small window.
Also its possible add an internet Radio and TV in the future.

Good Idea, I can't recall the exact game (I think it was one of the earlier GTAs or something) but something I played years ago would allow you to dump a bunch of music files into a specific game folder, you could then play those songs through the car's radio in game, it didn't have any options outside of on/off so something a little more advanced with track skipping and such would be great.

 

[Frenotx]

-1

Why waste time and effort creating something in game that is easily achieved by any number of external methods?

Because external players don't have positional audio like an in-ship radio would. Very noticeable in VR.