Custom Musics

[charlyb01]

Custom Musics

As you may know, you can now add your own musics via a Resource Pack! You just have to follow a few steps so that Music Control will recognize your musics properly. You can find an example down below 😃

Custom categories

For each resource pack, custom categories can be created with the name of your resource packs' namespaces.
Musics that are in the assets\soundpack_namespace\sounds\music folder will be added to the new category Soundpack Namespace. Note that musics shouldn't be placed anywhere else or they won't be detected properly.

Example:

• assets\soundpack_namespace_1\sounds\music folder will add the category Soundpack Namespace 1
• assets\soundpack_namespace_2\sounds\music folder will add the category Soundpack Namespace 2
• assets\soundpack_namespace_x\sounds\records folder will add music in it to the Disc category (it won't create new discs!)

Musics' names

For a nicer display of the custom musics when a new music is being played, you can add them a custom name too! I recommend you to display the name of the music's author and the music's name if you plan to share this soundpack. Indeed, that's a nice and easy move that let people using your soundpack know who and what they are listening to! 😉
For this, you just have to complete the lang file located in the assets\soundpack_name\lang folder as follow (you have to use the filenames without the .ogg extension). Note that you don't have to create several lang files as the default one will be used in every language. However, you should create one in each namespace (not like in the following example)

{
    "soundpack_namespace_1:music/my_custom_music1": "Author1 - My Custom Music 1",
    "soundpack_namespace_2:music/my_custom_music2": "Author2 - My Custom Music 2"
    "soundpack_namespace_x:records/my_custom_music3": "Author3 - My Custom Music 3"
}

Music not working?

Here is a non-exhaustive list of common mistakes.

• sounds.json not correct: Json files rely on proper {, }, [, ] use.
  Make sure every opening braces have their closing braces.
  I would recommend using a nice text editor / IDE to make your life is easier, such as Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code.
• Category not correct: Do not change the "category" : "music" in your sounds.json.
  This category is used by the data packs to tell in which channel it should be played (see Minecraft "Music & Sounds" options).
• Filepaths not recognized: Minecraft can only read [a-z0-9/._-] character in path.
  Avoid using special characters, this advice is valid not only for Minecraft. If wou want to display nice titles, rely on the lang file instead.
• Files hierarchy: Music files must be in assets\soundpack_namespace\sounds\music. Do not forget the last music folder.
• Music file format: Music must be in .ogg format.
• Music file compression: The song bitrate must not be too high (don't know the maximum).
  Some users had issues because they downloaded a music in ogg which was way too big and not recognized by Minecraft.
  Default Audacity ogg export settings works fine if you think you have this issue. However, if you got all of your songs the same way,
  it's likely not your issue.

I hope you enjoy this new feature!
Feel free to comment about it there, and share your best soundpack!

[charlyb01]

Music Control - More Musics
Official mod's Resource Pack! Refer to this one to create one on your own 😉

[charlyb01]

Backlog for Music Control v1.5 (and earlier):

Worlds categories

You can add musics you want to a specific category already included with Music Control. That means you can add custom musics to OVERWOLRD, NETHER, END, or DISC categories.
Musics that are in the:

• assets/soundpack_name/sounds/music/game folder will be added to OVERWORLD
• assets/soundpack_name/sounds/music/nether folder will be added to NETHER
• assets/soundpack_name/sounds/music/end folder will be added to END
• assets/soundpack_name/sounds/records folder will be added to DISC

Custom category

For each resource pack, a custom category will be also created with the name of your resource pack.
Musics that are in the assets\soundpack_name\sounds\music folder will be added to this new category.

[SmarterCob]

Question, where would the custom music be located after it is added? I can't seem to find it.

[charlyb01]

What do you mean exactly? If you created a Resource Pack as explained above, once you loaded your resource pack in your game, you need to open the music menu to add your music to events, or you can play them directly in the menu. You can search your added music with the search bar.

[musondanolan]

Is there a way to disable the name of the song automatically popping up every time it starts playing? I like how most of the soundtracks fade in slowly, so you barely notice they've started.

[charlyb01]

Hi,

It's a config of the mod. You can edit them if you have the Mod menu installed, or directly in .minecraft/config/music_control/cosmetics.json 😉
It is the atMusicStart field that you need to set to false.

[musondanolan]

Thanks! This is a really great mod!