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Let Music Play in Background

drakomagidrakomagi Member Posts: 124 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I'm just wondering if there is an option in the sound controls to let the game play its sound while in the background. This function would be similar to what Blizzard and Guild Wars, 1 and 2, have in their games.

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  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    I usually just go on youtube and a select some music collection I want to listen to or just select some music I have on my hard drive and play that in the background with media player.

    When I think about everything we've been through together,

    maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,

     and if that journey takes a little longer,

    so we can do something we all believe in,

     I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.

  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    Game has a music player option in it you can hook up to your itunes software.
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  • drakomagidrakomagi Member Posts: 124 Arc User
    Well, I'm referring to STO's in game music playing in the background if I have to Alt-Tab out for some reason.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,677 Community Moderator
    Not that I know of. I THINK some people may have recorded or ripped the in game music from their local files, but I don't know.
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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Windows key/AltTab -> Spotify

    It also helps to have the game run windowed maximized (makes multitasking very easy, less likely to break STO application)
    drakomagi wrote: »
    Well, I'm referring to STO's in game music playing in the background if I have to Alt-Tab out for some reason.
    Ah, I see. Question: is there any game that has any kind of audio while alt-tabbed? All the examples I have on hand right now don't. This might not be a simple change (ie. with the game and not how windows handles gaming applications), and I don't really understand why this would be necessary (sure, the audio cuts out but let's just say immersion isn't really a factor while you're doing other things. Personally I'd just recommend finding music on (the music streaming application of your choice) and go with that if you want uninterrupted audio. There's even some Star Trek on there...)
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  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    there are plenty of star trek music soundtracks on youtube and they are all very similar to what you have on sto.
    there are several star trek mega suite's see link below that last several hours in total.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcCYBk3e6b0&list=PL83DC1A08E8DD4C13

    theres even music compilation from sto on there.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgato2O87c&list=PLD6EF2849B7D30E5F

    When I think about everything we've been through together,

    maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,

     and if that journey takes a little longer,

    so we can do something we all believe in,

     I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.

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