Area specific music

[Hubcapp]

Similar to later games, it would be nice to have a toggle to enable or disable music. It would be nice to use libADLMIDI to produce these sounds, to give the midis a lo-fi sound.

[thelegendofbrian]

Would we just use RS tracks from 04/05? There are a number of sources we could take the coordinate data from and adapt to the RSC map. http://rsmusicmap.corymartin.net/ is one site.

It’d be doubly nice to have a way for servers with new or non-canon areas update or add to the track list. Having the server manage/host the midis would also take any copyright liability off of the client.

[Hubcapp]

Yeah, we could just use Ian Taylor's RS tracks from 2004. But it should be possible for the user to easily substitute in arbitrary midis.

The original RS2 soundfont sounds wrong to me in RSC, but it could be an option. @sean-niemann implemented it in his single player client here if you'd like to try a demo & feel how it feels. (Their project is licensed under GPLv3 by the way, which is compatible with our license). Their implementation currently lacks fading the music between zones, which I think is needed for zones where the music style changes abruptly (e.g. between Rimmington & Port Sarim)

Stated in OP, I think libADLMIDI would be a great fit for RSC.

Re: "It'd be nice to have a way for servers with new or non-canon areas update or add to the track list"; It is not currently a goal of RSC+ to support non-canon areas. The code for loading the cache from the server would have to be put back in in order to support new landscapes. And I guess that's where you would want to load a "music1.jag" file. It's not a goal of RSC+ currently because custom private servers that exist currently use a lot of inauthentic opcodes in addition to adding new areas, so even if you're loading the cache from them, the RSC+ client would have to be modified heavily, to the point of being a private server client, which is not a direction I'd like to see it go.

Personally I'd like for there always be an option to load cache locally, so I know that I'm using only authentic content. It gives the user more control over the program if it doesn't rely on the server for its cache.

I was thinking for this issue, we would have like a "sound pack" that you'd have to acquire from outside the client. And maybe just drag and drop in a "music.zip" file that RSC+ would read. Some other 3rd party loader for RSC+ could insert that music.zip file automatically in order to get around copyright liability.