Music Player Script
Crowd sourcing ideas

A while ago I started trying to work out how to make a BabbleOn script for a very simple music player. This would not be a complex coder made object like a radio or television, it would basically be 4 or 5 large scripts that could be toggled between and they each would randomly play 'songs' from their catalogue.

The idea would be that if the script was made (and worked), then eventually, maybe, a builder or coder might attach it to an in-game object for players to use for ambience and roleplaying.

These wouldn't be songs in the same sense how players perform music in-game, they would be a short series of simple descriptive messages to the room that could play in random shuffle mode and add some ambience to rooms for roleplaying.

For these messages I was imagining something like a DJ intro for each (coming up we've got whoever artist with whatever song), then 4-5 short feedback messages played through over 2-3 minutes with simple descriptions of the type of music playing. Such as:

From the music player you hear: (Ambient electronic music starts playing with ghostly background vocals.)

The idea being that there is something like 5 genres to flip between, and 20-30 songs in each for some background variety that lasts between 1 and 2 hours per genre. Potentially these could only play every minute and so last much longer overall as well.

Now this is not a thing that will definitely be implemented, even if I write all ~1000 messages and the script and it works, there may be no interest in implementing it, or anyone able to, or the script could be such a disaster it breaks the game if it runs, but I think this is potentially a cool way to expand the in-game universe with more in-universe band names and song titles (in addition to the ~100 player-named bands and song names that could be included) and I thought there could be some players interested in crowd sourcing band names and song titles to include... hence this post!

So if anyone has ideas for fictional bands and song names they might want included they can be suggested here. Again this is not an official project so whatever you come up with might vanish into the ether never to be seen or heard from again, but at a minimum I will try to write the content aspect of these over the next days or weeks (depending on how much I need to brush up on BabbleOn tutorials, this may be beyond my ability to make!) if there is some moderate interest.

Also soliciting suggestions for the names of the playlists/genres. In principle there could be lots of these but anything more complicated that cycling through them with scripting is very probably beyond me (if I can even manage that much) so beyond 4-5 it may be too clunky. I was thinking of generically having Pop, Electronic, Rock, Hip-Hop/R&B, and Ambient (aka Enyaesque Vangelis-y ambience) playlists as a first pass.

So, the object you're looking for is called a jPod for obvious reasons (Johnny Pod). It has existed thematically for a long time courtesy of Lena, but never really fleshed out.

I'd recommend making this the purview of NLM and leveraging the radio code appropriately. I'm just not certain if the pirate radio stations were expanded to include a catalog of shows like the tv system does - so that may or may not require some dev time.