Request for Housing music changer ♪

LunaFlora · October 2

hi this is a request for the ability to change background Music in Housing.

This could be added via new House settings or a Collectible Furnishing, like Time and Weather Control.

if a furnishing it could be related to Y'ffre like how Time and Weather control are Alkosh and Kynareth items.
As Y'ffre in lore is also referred to as the Singer and the God of Song. And his Altmeri shrine looks like a Lyre.

screenshots from Monastery of Serene Harmony in Shimmerene, Summerset.

ideally we would be able to change our House background music to any zone's music, hopefully including zones exclusive to quests and delves/dungeons incase they have unique music. Via a list of all the zones.

some examples including delve and quest exclusive zones:
- Clockwork City
- The Shadow Cleft (Clockwork City delve)
"Midnight in Shadow Cleft" from the Music in Tamriel Volume 2 album. (i assume that is exclusive to the delve)
- The Reach
- Blackreach Arkthzand Caverns (has different music than the surface Reach)
- West Weald
- Mirrormoor (West Weald quest zones)
"ithelia, Prince of Paths" from Gold Road's album. it is also heard at Mirrormoor incursions.
- Scholarium, Eyevea
"Ulfsild's Legacy" from Gold Road's album.
- Solstice
- Vale of Reverly (Solstice delve)
haven't heard the soundtrack from there anywhere else.

Let me know what you all think and if you have any additions

edits

2 October
- changed image position.
- bolded zone names
- added another screenshot

MoonPile · October 2

Yes please! +

I'd love an option for ambient sound too, like the entrance in Hakkvild's High Hall.

Also, bard houseguests as another, separate music option!

freespirit · October 2

To add to this I would love the sound from Music Boxes to cover a larger area, hey why not the whole house?

If I am to pay my hard earned cash to buy a music box I love the music from, I do NOT want to have to buy several to cover the whole area!!

MoonPile · October 6

freespirit wrote: »

To add to this I would love the sound from Music Boxes to cover a larger area, hey why not the whole house?

If I am to pay my hard earned cash to buy a music box I love the music from, I do NOT want to have to buy several to cover the whole area!!

The one nice thing about this is the ability to control what plays where. Many of the music boxes high-pitched, "tinkly" / "metallic" sound is grating to some of us and, unlike zone music that's designed to be fairly nonintrusive, it's hard to listen to music boxes for a long time. So sometimes it's nice to have it isolated to an area.

But agree: especially for the cost, some crown items are too limited in various ways. It'd be nice if they had an option to cover a full house or a range, if that wasn't too hard to code.

And speaking of music boxes and sound, it'd be nice if they were on the Music volume slider or something, instead of Effects. Some of us have Effects turned way down for their obtrusiveness too, so we can't even hear music boxes. Some volume controls are really not obvious: a friend in a guild recently discovered that's why she could barely hear MBs. And I found out that the annoying Dwemer Spider mounting sound is for some reason linked to Footsteps (I typically have turned up, since they're rather soothing) instead of Effects (with all the other nuisance noises

): https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/789004366011056128/video-baandari-dwarven-spider

BretonMage · October 9

MoonPile wrote: »

And speaking of music boxes and sound, it'd be nice if they were on the Music volume slider or something, instead of Effects. Some of us have Effects turned way down for their obtrusiveness too, so we can't even hear music boxes. Some volume controls are really not obvious: a friend in a guild recently discovered that's why she could barely hear MBs. And I found out that the annoying Dwemer Spider mounting sound is for some reason linked to Footsteps (I typically have turned up, since they're rather soothing) instead of Effects (with all the other nuisance noises ): https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/789004366011056128/video-baandari-dwarven-spider

That's a good point. I never really bothered with music boxes before, since I could never hear much on the preview

The Nenalata one was my first music box purchase because it not only looked good, but sounded lovely.

I have since then bought a few more music boxes for their design but some of them can't be heard at the level I typically set my Effects to. All I hear is a faint tinkle. Eg. I've owned the "Y'ffre in Every Leaf" music box for a couple of years and still can't figure out what it sounds like.

Djennku · November 11

Isn't this what music boxes are for?

EDIT: They should add self-playing instruments for background ambience, like the music boxes, and what you could so is bury these in a wall, ceiling or floor for music sans furnishing. Sorry, posting this when I'm tired. XD

LunaFlora · November 11

Djennku wrote: »

Isn't this what music boxes are for?

EDIT: They should add self-playing instruments for background ambience, like the music boxes, and what you could so is bury these in a wall, ceiling or floor for music sans furnishing. Sorry, posting this when I'm tired. XD

no.
music boxes generally do not play zone music and are not for the entirety of a house.

the suggestion in your edit does seem nice too, just slightly different from my own post