EVE General Discussion

EVE music is just depressing elevator music that makes me want to activate self-destruct on my pod

Actually it was because the jukebox code was old, buggy, and interacted with the rest of the sound system in unpleasant ways, and didn't integrate with modern mp3 (or other) file formats. So to bring it up to date would have been a significant coding work. So rather than delay actual game features for a significant length of time, they removed it so they wouldn't have to spend time working around an obsolete system which limited them in some other ways.

And maintaining an in game player up to date when people already maintain out of game players that are free, (but can't be bundled with commercial software so CCP can't just steal the program and put it inside EVE), seemed a poor use of time to them. Is it sad we lost a feature. Yes. Was that feature worth the cost of something else. Probably not. Could they make it easier to use an out of game player by creating easy download bundles of music and allowing players to submit to those bundles also, probably.

You should know that the game already haves a music player, and the players have limited itneraction with it through the "sound to 0" "shuffle" function. What the current music player lacks, it's a playlist and playback UI.

And it doesn't haves it because someone wanted to create "soundscapes" for EVE, by linking certain themes to certain systems and creating a thematized ambient music generator function for null and WH, which responds to the amount of killings in the system.

Onviously, that someone didn't bothered to ask to the people who actually would pick certain themes to play back at certain times/systems, nor tried to listen to the same 4 themes for an hour while mining. That someone was extremely fascinated by his "soundscapes" idea for the all so important null/WH crowd, which are notorious appreciators of EVE music and sound.

Yeah the music in EVE used to be great, now its just dull.

They should have never removed the jukebox and the music that was there. It pissed off more players than it made players happy.

you're a ****.

EVE has music

I can't remember the last time I heard or listened to it. It was good when we had the jukebox and you could choose which tracks to listen to. Some plonker got rid of it though.

Problem here is not the removal of jukebox.

Problem is removal of certain great tracks completely and that some of the greatest tracks plays only in low sec.

New players are simply cut of from great music of EVE.

And the music was one of the main aspects why i joined this game.

Simple two step solution:

1. There should be an option in audio settings. A check-box "dynamic music = on/off" should solve this problem. And it should be turned off by default so new players would enjoy great EVE music whenever they are in hisec / lowser or any sec.

2. Give us back great tracks like Below the Asteroids, Nouvelle Rouvenor Hero, I Saw Your Ship etc... Those tracks were best and you removed them

It's a matter of priorities as always and no feature is immune to it. There are no infinte dev resources, so you pick and choose which new features to work on and which to ignore/put in the queue. Part of that is deciding how much resources are you going to put in maintaining old features vs developing new ones. With the jukebox the value wasn't there and it wasn't compatible with the plans of future music development which includes partially procedurally done music. Since everyone has a music player on their computer and the music is freely available to anyone who wants it, jukebox was deemed a dead branch in need of pruning.

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Bring it back!!

I have yet to find these on CCPs Soundcloud page.