kieranmillar
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Hearing just the ambient tracks for the style gets repetitive and dull after a while, how about cycling through all of the tracks for that style?

Bonus suggestion: Jukebox.

P.S. I thought there was already a thread for this, but it seems not.

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kieranmillar
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So a quick peek at the source code seems to show that upon going into edit mode it just points the game at the ambient track. Some styles have more than one track play when playing "ambient", this seems to be defined in drod.INI. So it looks like detecting when one set of music has been cycled through so you can play another may not be all that easy to implement.

So here's a quick and dirty alternative. Add a new type of music for each style called editor. If this is not present in drod.INI on startup, construct it by adding the ambient and puzzle tracks. Now a player can choose what music he wants to play in the editor for each style by editing drod.INI to suit his or her tastes. No need to implement a jukebox UI and everybody can set their own preference.

2020 Edit: Why not have the editor play all of the ambient, puzzle and attack tracks?

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I like the editor track list idea! Sounds pretty simple to do. (If you want to provide a patch, that'll make it much more likely to appear soon.)

...there are a lot of neat ideas on this board. Once I've actually released something more recently than 2014 and we have outstanding bugs fixed up I'd probably like to work on just adding a bunch of this new stuff for a while.

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kieranmillar
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Bumping because I'd really like this to be implemented

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I implemented this myself. PR