EVE General Discussion

In case anyone forgot.

I've come back after two+ years, and even then, the whole Jukebox dilemma had run its course. I have returned to the game, and was perplexed by how there hadn't been some other sort of music player in-game. We need another proper in-game music player with the ability to add custom tracks, just as we have before. I've played for hours now with the dynamic music option both on and off, and have yet to hear half the songs I heard when playing with the Jukebox around. There's simply no excuse for an outlying problem such as this, for this kind of timeframe. This issue needs to be resolved. And if someone actually thinks that an external music player is a solution. It isn't. It isn't in-game, and I could very well do that for just about every game I play. But that defeats the purpose of the game utilizing its own soundtrack. Games may as well have the soundtrack available separately so you may play it on an independent music player while playing the game. There is simply no excuse for this at this point. We were of course convinced that the Jukebox was broken. Codec problems, was it? It doesn't really matter, now. What matters is that an essential, supplementary component of the game's experience is completely missing. And now, you might think I am speaking as if there is no music whatsoever. But the dynamic music option only ever goes through three songs, that I've heard. I never get a chance to hear anything else. The so-called "dynamic" music option isn't quite... NOT dynamic. It is in fact, very static.

I have yet to hear "Doomed Forever" play during gameplay. It's sad that i have to play it externally to relive those awesome EVE moments. Such an epic track.

The devs doing ANYTHING about this?

just use a diffrent player in the background...

The dynamic music feature does require you to actually... well, DO something before you hear different music. Such as travel to another area of space, or enter combat.

I don't find anything wrong with the concept at all, however they do need a wider variety of music available... perhaps those wonderful performances by the Icelandic symphony... or perhaps the option to include songs written by others about EVE (once properly vetted of course).

so you take a break,,,,,you return,,,,, first thing you do,,, to the forums,, whine! where the music player?

you're perplexed? really? all the amazing new features, ships and abilities and the juke box or lack of has you perplexed. sorry but lol really?

as much as the old juke box was handy,,, yes nothing but handy and as much as i liked it, it's removal has never impacted my game play.

how is using an external music player impacting your game play? honestly, no bs i'd like to try understand how something as silly as this changes the game so much for you while all the changes since you where away have not.

EVE has sound?

In all seriousness, most of us use external programs in the background. The Imperium even has its own radio channel which many of us tune into while grinding sov.

Yeah, i've kept that garbage on forever. It keeps playing the same songs. And i've figured out how to skip the songs a while ago. I think even the last time i was on. I can't believe it's been this long, and CCP being CCP, they just brush it aside like a group of Nonchalants, regardless of the fact that it may be a crucial part of the game experience. The Jukebox and all of its functions have been around since the beginning. And then it gets scrapped. Now we have a lame, broken music player. I've only heard about 8 different songs from the soundtrack. And i've used both music options. I've been patient. And there's still nothing. No progress. They can't make a goddam MUSIC PLAYER after 3+ years? WOW.

I don't know if it's still a thing but Cabal back in the day had this. The novelty of the idea was cool but having to copy the music from wherever I originally had it and pasting it in the music directory, as well as converting to a different format, was more trouble than it was worth.

To add to this, the ingame jukebox didn't have all the functionality I've come to appreciate from dedicated music players. While you can bind Next, Previous, Play/Pause, and Stop to hotkeys, you'll never have the functionality of something like Winamp in the Eve Client.

All things considered, I'd take Winamp over the Eve Client any day.

Yeah it's a shame CCP keeps changing or removing things that work perfectly fine while ignoring the things that actually need to be fixed or removed.

Even though I liked having the option to listen to the old Jukebox, most of the time I used an external music player and listened to Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien.

In my opinion it fit's great with Eve.



DMC

I too miss the Jukebox, there is no control of the Eve-Online Original Soundtrack.

I keep hearing the first few tracks over and over again, end up muting and going to an external music player.

Music creates the vibe, even if we had a function to enable us to skip the next track to hear the tracks further down the OST playlist.

Old is now New again, this includes Eve's OST. It was part of Eve and I miss it.