EVE General Discussion

For anyone else that may have previously pulled a copy of the mp3 files while they still were stored locally on the PC, below is a list of differences (new tracks) that weren't in the previous 67 tracks available through the old jukebox.

6. Bonanza Excavation
22. Gas Giant
33. Is Anybody Out There
53. Pirates Den
70. Stellar Shadows
72. The Day After The Storm
83. Unidentified Phenomenon

Minus of course all the menu screen theme tracks, which I'm totally stoked to have found here because otherwise I was having to find them on Youtube.

I still think Nouvelle Rouvenor Hero is one of my favorites, but I'll give these new ones a listen and see how they do. Thanks again Mikhem, this is work well done and very appreciated.

Ah, Red Glowing Dust...

Made mining worth it just for the added relaxation factor.

Also, too bad the Trinity login theme isn't on Soundcloud. That's the first EVE music I ever experienced. Big nostalgia factor.

The only song I want in EVE is Permaband - HTFU.

Couldn't care less about the other "music" (really just ambient noise that is way worse then just having a playlist running in the background with normal music).

I'm still confused why they would remove the jukebox. It was a nice feature of the game and not breaking anything.

Did the artist demand royalties or fall out with CCP or something?

BTW, forgot to say: OP, thank you for doing this for us.

The answers to your questions are out there, but I might as well make the effort to spread the information to yet another jukebox thread.

CCP didn't want to leave the jukebox in the game for several reasons, some were stated directly, some might have been read between the lines by me.

They didn't want to maintain the code - might be because it was something many players didn't use, I don't recall - but many players do play eve without sound.
They did not want to leave any code in the game that they were not going to maintain.
When they removed the code, they took the opportunity to replace it with a "dynamic music experience" or whatever, meaning that the music that plays in game is determined by where you are, and what you're doing, meaning you won't hear certain tracks until you go to the places where they live, like null space or wormholes.

They might have changed how stuff works since, but those were the things that were said back when the jukebox was removed.

To answer your questions more directly:
More code always means a higher risk of something breaking, which is why they don't want to keep code they aren't going to maintain, and since they didn't want to maintain the jukebox code, that does mean it increased the odds of stuff breaking.

And they didn't fall out with the artist, they're still using the same music.

I added Oceanus and Phoebe release themes to song list. They are without numbers now.

edit:

Enjoy!

ooo, thanks for the reminder to update my page!

All the new expansion themes are now available as MP3s.

http://www.modenstudios.com/EVE/music/

I added Rhea and Proteus release themes to list. Enjoy EVE music!