I had this idea when watching a Starbound video that had music in it. I love music and Starbound, so yeah. I hope it makes sense. Here's the idea: - An in-game UI music player that lets you import your music libraries. Maybe have to find or craft a portable music player device to enable it. - Craftable speaker systems that can be placed inside buildings or spaceship - Craftable subwoofer that can be placed and connected to the speaker(s) - The music from your computer is played via the in-game music player which can be connected to the speaker system to play (stream) the music to nearby players. If it's not connected to a speaker system, only you will be able to hear the music. - Play, stop, pause, switch song and volume controls in the music player UI (also affects the speaker system it's connected to) - Dynamic effects for realistic feeling: the bigger the building that music is being played in, the more reverb is added, music gets lowpassed if you're outside the building and the door is closed, music is quieter when you are further away, and louder when closer to it etc. No effects if it's only played via the music player to yourself. - Without the subwoofer, the music is highpassed to like 200hz (no bass) - The Starbound music fades out when starting a song on your music player, and fades in again when stopping or pausing the music. Same goes for when you walk closer or further away from the speaker system. For those who didn't know: Lowpass means that all the high frequency content is cut off from the signal, and highpass means that the low frequency content is cut off. For example if you're standing outside a club and you can hear the muffled sound from the music, you're not hearing any high frequencies because it's not coming through the walls. That's kind of what low pass is. If you're listening to a song on your laptop speakers and it has no bass, you could say it's "high passed". I hope you liked my suggestion. Now we'll just need dancing animations. Starbound rave parties?!
I don't see all the complicated stuff like the dynamic part being implemented but some kind of music player, hopefully different kinds for aesthetic reasons, will make it into the game and can be wired up to different kinds of speakers/intercoms to increase the range.
It's definitely possible to implement the dynamic effects as well. You can code VST plugins that does different things to an audio signal, so why not.
I would love to see this, but I don't care to see it on release this is one of those things that would make a great addition through either a patch or mod.
