Mr Ranger,
Can I pick your brain for a sec? Please see here:
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=2509085&postcount=91
Is that feasible to implement with the media player in STO? Any legal and/or technical ramifications that you can think of?
If this is possible I imagine it would keep Cryptic out of the music business and would allow players to customize the in-game music at the same time.
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Hmm, yeah... could the game engine handle playing MP3 files from folders directly? For example, a \Live\Music\Ground Combat folder containing 5 mp3's which play randomly during ground combat?
Any easier?
Nice! It's certainly something I've wanted since closed beta. And yeah this would be a low priority request. If you think it's doable maybe you could bring it up in a meeting and get it slotted for Season 3 or something?
Otherwise, I'll have to start a thread and get a few trolls in there to bump it and turn it into some kind of hate and bile contest where we end up camping out your cubical with torches and pitchforks... you know... the usual request method around here!
Is there no way to script it so that the song comes on at the same time the Red Alert appears on your screen and the Computer says "You are under attack"? I am assuming that was what you meant by "I am in Combat now". Of course you would need a way to keep the song playing for a short time after the combat ends, so that you could get to the next group of enemies before the song cuts off, which would save the songs from restarting every 30 seconds or so.
(most likely) There's already code that determines what songs are played based on your activity. The songs are probably compressed in the .hogg files in the \piggs folder. So I imagine he would have to dig into the code to see where the triggers are and program them to play MP3 files inside folders instead.
Then we have the issue of what format the current songs are in. There may be issues of someone trying to play a .WAV file when MP3s are only supported. Or game crashing when a corrupted MP3 file is played. All that jazz takes some work.