Its not illegal to have a back up of something you purchased
No clue what that statement is supposed to mean or how it's relevant.
plus rct3 gives you the mp3s in your documents.
This thread isn't explicitly about the music from RCT3, it's about the feature Frontier created in RCT3 that played the music in the background while you played the game, thus allowing you to actually experience the music in RCT3 in a prominent way the majority of your time while in-game, with the option to disable this feature if you didn't like it.
The entire Planet Coaster album, "You, Me & Gravity" is available to listen to from the official Planet Coaster channel on youtube yet you decide to link to music that has been illegally uploaded...
But I still don't see what is wrong with playing the soundtrack through youtube?
In and of itself, there's nothing wrong with listening to the music on Planet Coaster's official youtube channel.
Theres no reason to say you dont know if the background music is good when you can play it from your phone anywhere anytime lol
Did you ever stop to consider...
Maybe some people don't have a smart phone?
Or maybe they do have a smart phone but used up all their data plan and don't have a wireless router to connect their smart phone to?
Or perhaps maybe their computer isn't capable of running Planet Coaster and playing videos on youtube at the same time?
What if you purchased a new phone and it didn't come with a AC adapter but instead just came with a USB cable?
Should you have to seek out an AC adapter from somewhere else?
What if you purchased a new car and it didn't come with a way to raise or lower the windows?
Should you be in the position of having to find a way to raise and lower the windows yourself?
What if you went out to dinner and ordered your favorite meal but the restaurant decided to stop providing you utensils to eat that meal with?
Should you be forced to procure a fork and a knife through other means?
This type of mentality that you are promoting takes the onus away from the developers and wrongfully puts it on the players...
A SIMPLE WONDERFUL SOLUTION:
Frontier implements a simple media player in-game.
The necessary underlying framework is already in place.
I hypothesize that it would be relatively simple to create this feature and that a single coder could do it in a week.
Add a menu option for "Play Soundtrack in Media Player Only".
Treat the Media Player as if you are in a ride, and that ride happens to be the Player Camera.
Code it so that when you get on an actual ride in the game, the media player fades out / pauses, and when you get off that ride the media player fades in and playback resumes.
Create a button somewhere in the main GUI, perhaps dead center of that bottom blue bar that's mostly empty, click that button and poof, a small playlist window opens somewhere on screen.
In that window is the music list similar to what you see when you add music to a ride EXCEPT next to each song / category is a box to place a check mark in.
You check mark the songs you want to listen to and poof! MUSIC!
AND/OR as a bonus feature they could add some VCR controls as well (Previous - Play/Pause - Stop - Next - Repeat 1/All - Shuffle)
Such a simple elegant solution.
Planet Coaster gets to keep it's current ambient/background music design, and those that want such are given the opportunity to listen to the soundtrack in a more prominent way while playing the game.
People would love this feature!
