Good evening ladies and gentlemen! It's 9 PM and we're going to start this evening with some fine jazz... Okay, so perhaps not an actual radio. My suggestion is to implement a radio block which will play music whenever you are in your base (Or take it with you, and place it to play music while killing wildlife) The music could come from: - One's disk drive.or- Attached to the server files.It would be even better if there could be different 'frequencies' people could use, so you could set it up that several people on the server can listen to the music of their own liking. Idea added thanks to ShotgunWizard: Radio stations (so actual radio after all) that play community made music. Each attached to different radio stations (jazz, rock, metal, country. You name it/make it) to which one can tune into for instant music of the desired genre.
Perhaps there could be a couple of radio stations set up across the universe that you could tune into. i.e. space classic rock, space country, space rap. the song played could be community made, so you have a sort of in-game micro music industry
As a fan of the late great City of Heroes and its /boombox emotes (which let you drop a music-producing boombox on the ground to dance to while idle), I heartily support this idea. Doubly so if you can both broadcast your own music, as well as ShotgunWizard's idea of community-created music being featured as "official" channels for the ingame radio.
Having a radio in-game would bring life to the game. Perhaps people can submit music created for the radio stations (so they may help out the game if they choose)!
Or, you could build a radio tower on a planet and broadcast any music you wanted to that solar system. That could get really cool in multiplayer !
There already was a radio thread but this one is a bit different. I personally would love to be able to add some of my music to the game, but I would only do this in my own personal base. To me, being able to hear it anywhere would be a bit bothersome and would take away from the overall feel of the game to me personally; but if people were to want to hear it everywhere they could still be able to do that.
The only problem with that mate is that if there were more than one group of people in the system and they both set up radio towers, who would have the power over the other? Would there simply be 2 channels to tune into or would they not work because 2 are active?
I would prefer a music block that didn't need disks or if they did incorporate them then make it like a jukebox and have the option to store discs inside of it, that way you wouldn't have to deal with all those discs in your chests.
We could ditch CDs altogether and use something more recent, such as storing them on a single "hard-drive" or some sort. It would have the ability to Upload songs from anywhere on your computer to store in the Game's files, so that you can access them in-game.
Hence my idea was to add a radius to it, and not make it global. For one this gives you the possibility of having different tunes in different parts of his/her base, and it would allow for different people to play different tunes at the same time. Perhaps a sound option where you can decide the maximum sound level?
It would be cool to have a radio reaching through a whole radius, one floor with some jazz, second with some rock. And it all goes on. Nice suggestion.
There could be an MP3 file folder in the starbound folder where you can place your music and bring up the radio in game that takes songs from this file
I think this is a cool idea, and to add one thing not mentioned here yet, put a radio in a mech or jeep and go cruising while listing to your favorite tunes! oh, and for whose radio would over power the other in the idea of 2 global radio towers, it would become a power war! and then a real war!! >: D have them launching nukes/hydrogen bombs at each other so that their radio is the only radio in the solar system!!! >: ) okay, maybe a little to violent, but you get the picture! all in all, I support this.
