"Atmosphere" - AddOn for complete control over BackGroundMusic

[Knebi]

Greetings.

I guess many of you might feel the same way that situational music according to a person's individual taste can be one of the most wonderful, motivating and emotion-catalysing aspects of a game.

The long abandoned AddOn "Soundtrack" created a possibility to link the own music (in form of mp3s) to many custom events like specific zones, battle-types or mobs. Currently a fan update is keeping the community of this AddOn "satisfied", but it is barely working as it should.

I hereby propose the recreation of an AddOn capable of giving the game your very own atmosphere in any specific situation you want.

Possible Features (partially from Soundtrack, curse.com):
Music-association:

> Zones

> Battle, depending on enemy-lv, elite-enemy-lv, boss
__(f.e. gray, green, yellow or via specific lv-difference to define by user)

> Battle, depending on mobname
__(f.e. "Austin Powers Theme" for "Heigan" etc.)

> Battle, depending on current zone
__(f.e. special music in conservatory of life, etc.)

> Battle, pvp, possibly depending on local ally/enemy-ration per option
__or target class or race per option
__or depending on own life per option

> Battle-music escalation, when "harder" mobs add or similar conditions

> Situational like:
- Mount (ground) + specific to mounttype (f.e. hawkstrider different music than bearmount)
- Mount (flying) + specific to mounttype
- Taxi flying
- Class specifics (like stealth, springt, invisibility, catform, ...)
- group or raid - music (would overwrite zone-music per option)
- victory-music specific for mobname (bosses), fight-difficulty, zone, etc.
- etc.

- misc
> Soundtrack solved integrating user-mp3s via python, still valid solution?
> Soundtracks GUI didn't handle long filenames well, limited (view)space for many
chars = bad idea

I assume many players could improve their gaming experience this way. Perhaps there is just another AddOn out there like I proposed, but I couldn't find it then. In this case: just tell me the AddOn's name.

I am sure it's quite a load of work to design an AddOn like described above, but maybe someone's interested?

In any case: thank you for reading this proposal!

Have a nice day and enjoy life

[nickyjean]

try Soundtrack. I used to use what your referring to but found it a little too much after a while and downgraded to epic player. Hope it's what you want.

[Knebi]

Uhh,

well, I already use Soundtrack, as I mentioned in my post above. However the fact is, that Soundtrack is broken in several very unpleasant ways and could also have a significant higher number of nice features.

=> a new AddOn is the best solution (or a complete remake)

But, it seems there's not much interest in this case, ...

What a pity!

so long

[Rutahnma]

I agree with Knebi. Soundtrack was by far my favorite addon for WoW, but unfortunately been broken for me for some time now, I would be very grateful to anoyne who could create a similar addon or rebuild Soundtrack.

[Rutahnma]

Why no love? /cry

[Soulofsin_007]

So, you want an addon that can assign a sound to event such as combat. I.E. you enter combat and have a sound that plays that says "Entering Combat" or something along that line.

Or when you mount have you have some random music played?