Own music library in game.

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So it seems to have already been stated here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/suggestion-music-in-cockpit.340834/, but rather than pulling a necro I thought I'd start a new thread.

It's possible to run programs in the background, but I think it would be a nice touch if we could play our own music library from the systems panel and have that play over the ship's speakers. It would certainly help keep immersion when switching tracks, adjusting music volume etc. Especially when you have a decent 'space mix'.
Additionally for a multicrew setting, it might be an idea to have the captain choose the music for the crew to listen to over a tannoy.
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
+1
I'd like to be able to import my own music, and set various tags to it, like combat, supercruise, exploration, etc, so the game selects it at an appropriate time.

Playing music over multicrew is probably against various copyright laws though.
 

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CMDR Cosmic Spacehead said:
+1
I'd like to be able to import my own music, and set various tags to it, like combat, supercruise, exploration, etc, so the game selects it at an appropriate time.

Playing music over multicrew is probably against various copyright laws though.
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Well, I suppose copyright laws could be skirted by using public license songs. Imagine the nightmares you could inflict welcoming your crew aboard a 10k lightyear run while playing advertisements over the speakers like 'Demolition Man'.

Edit: Mouse is double click happy.
 

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Rezzing this because I know I'm not the only one who wants to utilize the player function for something other than Galnet.
 

lenna

lenna
TDU2 had the option of a personal music folder that own music could be loaded from - FD could adopt a similar thing with ED.
 

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rlsg said:
TDU2 had the option of a personal music folder that own music could be loaded from - FD could adopt a similar thing with ED.
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Wouldn't even be bad if there were emergency bulletins which would announce themselves over music.
 

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Have ways to listen in the mean time of course but it would be nice to have the music 'interact' with the game.
-Ship speakers
-Muted/turned down for announcements, news, docking permissions etc
The player is just sitting there taunting after all.
 

Deide

Deide
It would be better if Frontier created or collaborated with the community to make 3 or 4 different in-game radio stations; one for each super power (and Independent) and only accessible while in their space. Could even go with royalty free/public domain music. I can, for example, imagine a lot of classical and opera music in Empire space, maybe some blues or jazz in Alliance space and Alt/Prog Rock ballads in Federation space. Independent space can be full of dance and techno, haha.

And if people want to, maybe just have all the songs in folders to be easily added to or replaced with their own music. Or maybe a simple config that maps music locations.

Even better if they can make use of the advances in speech synthesis along the lines of Tacotron to deliver local news (not just Galnet) about elections, wars, disease outbreaks, alien presence/incursions, crimes and bounties - could work from a "control" radius over exploited systems. Could also distort the reception when you're close to certain types of stars and other fun things.

If Frontier is interested enough, they could even turn it into DLC to record some quality in-universe ads, and perhaps commission some music themselves.
 

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Not sure about commissioning things, but with a player already in place for the news, I can't see why just popping music into a folder to play isn't something already available
 

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I want the ability to have streaming audio from the interwebs. There could be FD-made and "curated/recommended content" from established content creators (Lave Radio, Obsidian Ant, Sagittarius Eye, etc.) available in the menus, as well as the option to manually type an URL (with all the appropriate warnings needed to let FD off the hook in case of explicit content, copyright issues and such).
 

Deide

Deide
Dead simple playlists or internet streams with no added functionality don't really add anything in my opinion. Easy enough to play externally.
 

Nasc

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External is one thing, but over the speakers and somewhat interactive (like playing Galnet now with interruptions from docking, damage, random ship computer etc) is another ball of wool entirely.
Not to mention no alt+tabbing to change station, song or volume. Just a quick breeze over to the sys panel.
 
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