Player Features and Ideas Discussion

+1 . bring it back

Huge +1 for me - bring the brilliant jukebox tool back to the game!...

I currently have the Music in-game turned off... therefore i have to load up YouTube to listen to the songs i use to have playing.... and tbh i don't want to have my browser running in the background all the time! let alone switching between them to replay them (yes i do have a playlist in YouTube with the songs but that's not the point).

Honestly, I'm going to sound "elitist" by saying this, but the only people who really need a jukebox feature or have any justification beyond personal desire for asking for it are people who play EVE on PCs or laptops so pathetically underpowered that they can't run any sort of MP3 player application in the background. For them there is a legitimate need, at least of sorts, for this sort of option, but just what percentage of players are in that boat? Given how CCP has been updating the graphics and forcing players to update their hardware if it isn't up to snuff (presuming they wish to continue playing) I don't see that percentage as being very high, especially not with some of the low-"cost" options I've seen for playing music over the years.

There are 71 music files unpacked in EVE\res\audio\Jukebox that you can load up and play in whatever third-party application you so desire. That application will have all of your favorite features and designs that CCP might not or will not implement in whatever Jukebox in-game application they might design. You can update and/or install the necessary codecs if they don't come already built in to your player, and you have as much control over the application as it gives you. That's usually more control than CCP will likely provide with a new jukebox and definitely more than the old one had.

While I think it would be nice to be able to have more control over the in-game music selection (especially those awesome songs played during combat missions) I honestly do not believe that CCP should spend development resources on recreating the proverbial wheel here. If I had a choice between them redoing the Jukebox or tweaking the audio engine itself to provide better quality sound with a lower CPU hit I'll pick the latter option every day of the week and twice every other day.

So my account was inactive whenever this change happened and although I do miss a little the ability to play some of my favorite eve tracks whenever I desire I really can't be the only one that really likes the new system? Before it I very very rarely listened to EVE music (only every now and then for some nostalgia) and now I listen to it all the time. I'm even enjoying it much more now that it fits more with the area I am in and what I'm doing. Perhaps its because I like to solo pvp so it doesn't have to fight with comms? I'm finding its really helping my immersion.

Signed, because it was there already but taken away, and we cba to alttab all the time just to change tracks etc. since it is easdier to do ingame WHILE keeping tabs on the current situation of your ingame assets.

Want it back.

Signed.

Hello everyone,

I have updated the first post. I have been away for a few weeks due to illness but am now back again.

We have reached 206 signatures.

Now we need to focus this to the attention of CCP and the CSM. I'm unsure how to show this thread to CCP as I doubt they will look at it willingly without it being brought to their attenion - anyone have any ideas?

I will create a petition and try and contact their support team. If you know or know how to contact some CSM members then please make them aware and show them this thread.

count me in. account is back in 2008 total 3 years of playtime with JUKEBOX!!! please eve bring it back!

+1.
I too was shocked and unhappy when I realised that they had removed the jukebox. It just hasnt been the same since.