Background music mod

[gigomaf]

Is there any mod that allows to play mp3 files from folder without preloading them on game start?

[hex]

Only OGG Vorbis audio files are supported, and all audio is preloaded to RAM at the moment.
I remember seeing a background music mod for minetest_game somewhere around here but it worked within those limitations.
Streaming long audio files instead of decoding them whole has been discussed but isn't yet implemented.

[gigomaf]

Any idea to workaround this? Maybe bat file to external player in background? I want to run Minetest by double click with music in background :)

[TenPlus1]

https://notabug.org/TenPlus1/ambience/s ... pi.txt#L89

[gigomaf]

Thank you TenPlus1, actually I'm using many of your mods including Ambience :) I will try that.

[edit]
Unfortunately game is crashing on media loading. It worked when I add one track, but it shows unknown C++ error after adding five tracks.

[Linuxdirk]

Wow, is MP3 still a thing? :)

What I do for casual playing is starting my favorite YouTube or Spotify playlist in the browser and then start Minetest.

This can be automated, though. Just add the two program calls to a batch file and run this instead of the Minetest executable. How to start your music player depends on what you use to play music.

[runs]

Wow, is MP3 still a thing? :)

What I do for casual playing is starting my favorite YouTube or Spotify playlist in the browser and then start Minetest.

This can be automated, though. Just add the two program calls to a batch file and run this instead of the Minetest executable. How to start your music player depends on what you use to play music.

Open Sourced Lame encoder gives good quality. And the copyright expired.

[Linuxdirk]

Open Sourced Lame encoder gives good quality. And the copyright expired.

Yeah, but there are codecs that give same or better quality with better compression (= lower file size). It’s not that MP3 was non-free till 2017 (or 2012 if you’re from Europe), it’s because MP3 is simply not a good codec anymore compared to more advanced and modern codecs.

[MeseCraft]

Check this one out, but I still need to fix a conflict it has with ambience.

I use ambience mod that tenplus1 maintains for sound effects in biomes.

But I find Clockgen's music_modpack works a bit better for me for music.
https://github.com/ClockGen/music_modpack

[distantkay]

Is there really no simpler way to put music in a specific folder and have it played in the game? + setting the playback interval through commands or through the settings file.
It's such an easily implemented option. Isn't it possible that it still does not exist?

[goats]

It's such an easily implemented option.

This is pretty much a case of, "if you want it, then make it," particularly if it is so easy, and nothing available satisfies you.

On the other hand, i would suggest that the minetest engine is far from the optimal choice for playing music. Just my opinion (and experience, at least with some mods).