In-game music player?

Jasmer · 08-25-13, 06:14 PM

Is there an in-game music addon that lets you play custom playlists AND allows you to retain the random-feeling gaps between tracks like the default engine does?

Phanx · 08-25-13, 09:47 PM

I'm not aware of any. However:

Addons can only see files that are inside the AddOns folder, so you would have to copy all the files you wanted to play into that location.
WoW doesn't support the MP3 format anymore, so you'd need to transcode all of your files into the Ogg Vorbis format (.ogg extension).
Addons can't directly read the contents of folders, so you'd have to hard-code the list of files into your music player addon, or write an in-game config UI for entering such a list.
Addons can't determine the length of audio files, so you'd have to hard-code the length of each file in your addon, or write an in-game config UI for entering that info.

Dridzt · 08-26-13, 03:39 AM

EpicMusicPlayer is as close as you're going to get (and is a pretty cool addon overall)

Malsomnus · 08-26-13, 04:00 AM

Originally Posted by Phanx

WoW doesn't support the MP3 format anymore

That's pretty weird, Raidbot uses an MP3 sound file and it seems to work just fine.

Dridzt · 08-26-13, 04:10 AM

It does support mp3 but they've flip-flopped a couple times in the past so it's not surprising people are unsure about the current status.

Malsomnus · 08-26-13, 04:21 AM

Originally Posted by Dridzt

It does support mp3 but they've flip-flopped a couple times in the past so it's not surprising people are unsure about the current status.

Oh. Hmmm. Do you think I should be switching to ogg as a preemptive move, just in case?

Jasmer · 08-26-13, 08:32 AM

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Also, WoW currently does indeed support mp3 format, and the music files in their own MPQ archives are indeed mp3 format. So far the ogg format files I've noticed are interface functions, emote speech, things like that.