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Collie Buddz

Brutor Tribe

Minmatar Republic

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#1 - 2014-09-13 06:22:25 UTC | Edited by: Collie Buddz

Every now and then when I happen to be in high sec, I like to turn on the in game music. The problem is I find that it's the same bland ambience everytime, regardless of where I go. Why did you remove so many of the amazing oiginal compositions that were a part of what made me fall in love with Eve so many years ago? Some might say it's the nostalgia in me talking but I honestly feel bad for the new players, who don't get a chance to experience the great atmosphere it added.

I found this site a while ago which I think has every track that was ever in game, in high quality, that you can download.

Link

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Prince Kobol Likes received: 2,558	#2 - 2014-09-13 06:37:16 UTC 5 Don't worry I'm sure CCP Whitenoisetrash can help. .. hang on a minute

Sobaan Tali

Caldari Quick Reaction Force

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#3 - 2014-09-13 11:32:58 UTC

Best thing to do is to bookmark that website (which I have, btw nice find), get a folder on your hard drive going with your favs, or all of them should you wish it, and roll out the old media-player-behind-Eve trick. The jukebox is gone for good until CCP wises up and reintroduces it, so at this juncture, this is the main alternative.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."

Indahmawar Fazmarai

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#4 - 2014-09-13 12:46:41 UTC

Prince Kobol wrote:

Don't worry I'm sure CCP Whitenoisetrash can help. .. hang on a minute

Well, provided how he was on the team who kiled the jukebox, I'm not sure how that's an issue. Maybe the next guy will carve his niche by leting us listen to the game music within the game. Roll

Also, removing the jukebox was CCP's design policy at its best: ignore people who uses the feature and kill it to suit the tastes of people who don't give a damn of it. Absolutely briliant.

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Andromeda Xenakis Silvershield Universal Likes received: 4	#5 - 2014-09-13 13:18:36 UTC 2 I am a new player and I already turned the music off since it was pretty repetitive and didn't get me in the cold alone in space mood. Looks like quite a treasure of clips in your link. Would be nice to have those available in-game.


Indahmawar Fazmarai Likes received: 5,954	#6 - 2014-09-13 13:26:23 UTC 1 BTW: website bookmarked. Some of the themes there give me goosebumps after not listening to them for so long!

Indahmawar Fazmarai

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#7 - 2014-09-13 13:34:43 UTC

Andromeda Xenakis wrote:

I am a new player and I already turned the music off since it was pretty repetitive and didn't get me in the cold alone in space mood.

Looks like quite a treasure of clips in your link. Would be nice to have those available in-game.

Oh, they were! There used to be a jukebox with most of the themes available, so you could just play whichever suited you or just let the list shuffle randomly. Plus adding your own mp3 to the playlist.

Andromeda Xenakis

Silvershield Universal

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#8 - 2014-09-13 13:47:17 UTC

Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:

Andromeda Xenakis wrote:

Sounds like a neat feature that they should reintroduce along with their old music content.

Claud Tiberius

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#9 - 2014-09-13 13:54:29 UTC

Collie Buddz wrote:

You should come to null. The music is even more dull (and repetitive).

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Belt Scout

Thread Lockaholics Anonymous

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#10 - 2014-09-13 14:30:58 UTC | Edited by: Belt Scout

Claud Tiberius wrote:

Collie Buddz wrote:

You should come to null. The music is even more dull (and repetitive).

Just like the folks that live there.

Low sec FTW \o/

EDIT: That wasn't a fair statement. Null has it's exciting moments. Like when some ahole with a voice like a 13yo girl is screaming "PUSH F1 NOW, SLAGS!!!! into teamspeak.

They say most of your brain shuts down on the EvE forums. All but the impatient side, and the sarcastic side. No wonder I'm still awake.

**This IS my main so STFU.

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Jarod Garamonde Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation Likes received: 2,681	#11 - 2014-09-13 14:33:39 UTC 11 Below the Asteroids - gone Nouvelle Rouvenor Hero - gone It Ends Here - gone I Saw Your Ship - gone my soul - crushed :( That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right... `[#savethelance]`

Glathull

Warlock Assassins

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#12 - 2014-09-13 16:03:54 UTC

It feels repetitive and boring because it's all fundamentally in the same key, i.e., it starts on the same tonic and ends there. It's practical because it allows any track to flow pretty easily into any other. And it doesn't really get very adventurous harmonically for the same reason. I think it's playing it too safe, honestly.

I'm kind of toying with the idea of writing some alternative music that gets a little more harmonically interesting but still allows the same flow from track to track and just see if anyone likes it. I don't know. We'll see. There are some tracks that I really like. I kind of want to riff on those.

I honestly feel like I just read fifty shades of dumb. --CCP Falcon

Collie Buddz

Brutor Tribe

Minmatar Republic

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#13 - 2014-09-13 17:09:46 UTC

Claud Tiberius wrote:

Collie Buddz wrote:

You should come to null. The music is even more dull (and repetitive).

I think wormhole space is on par. It's just random gloomy sound effects and sleeper noises.

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Crumplecorn Eve Cluster Explorations Likes received: 2,059	#14 - 2014-09-13 17:42:49 UTC 1 If you do happen to be using the in-game music, you can skip a track by going into the options and briefly dropping the music volume to 0. Witty Image - Stream Not Liking this post hurts my RL feelings and will be considered harassment

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Velarra Likes received: 558	#15 - 2014-09-13 17:44:09 UTC 4 Eve has music?

Ms Forum Alt

Doomheim

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#16 - 2014-09-13 17:56:08 UTC

Does anyone know why the duke box and the Eve music was removed? I know the .mp3 patent expired, but I wonder if they just didn't want to pay the musician who made it any more. Regardless it's still good to listen to - it really reminds me of the old days.

Oh god - it also reminds me how over the last 10 years my life hasn't really changed at all.

I'm going to go jump off a tall building. Bye. Lol

Ranger 1

Ranger Corp

Vae. Victis.

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#17 - 2014-09-13 18:32:16 UTC | Edited by: Ranger 1

Ms Forum Alt wrote:

The music is still there. You get different music depending on where you are and what you are doing.

However if you stay in the same systems doing the same repetitive tasks over and over, yes, it's going to get a little boring after awhile. If you insist on doing that, stream them or download them and play them whenever you like.

The Jukebox was removed because it was:
Substandard.
Buggy.
A pain to maintain.

So they tied the music into the more robust event/location system and left it to you to use your choice of the plethora of superior free music players available... and made sure you had ready access to all of the EVE music, including the renditions done by the Icelandic Symphony which have never been available in game.

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Mr Epeen It's All About Me Likes received: 11,530	#18 - 2014-09-13 18:45:04 UTC 3 The first thing I do when firing up any game is turn off the sound track and other incidental music. Not only does it ruin the immersion but it masks the aural clues that I spent a fuckload of money buying a 5.1 surround setup to take advantage of. But maybe that's just me. Mr Epeen

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Felicity Love Doomheim Likes received: 2,225	#19 - 2014-09-13 18:45:16 UTC 1 ... budget cut... happens when resources are wasted on immature concepts with poor planning and horrible development... so "Good Ideas" and maintenance of existing "Good Stuff" suffers... "EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse. ( Pick four, any four. They all smell. )

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Jur Tissant Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation Likes received: 370	#20 - 2014-09-13 19:54:21 UTC 1 Low/null/WH music is just depressing at times. Jukebox plz.