"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