Music randomizer?

[Mike800]

Is there a music randomizer for OGG and MIDI tracks?

[Li'l devil]

Most music players have shuffle option, which makes the tracks play in random order.

Oh, wait, you meant music in Doom maps.. well, sorry, can't help you here, I think it's impossible.

[Trusty_McLegit]

Here you go http://www.best-ever.org/download?file=demonsteele-nowthatswhaticallmidi-v3.5.pk3

This is an addon for demonsteele, though you don't need demonsteele to use it

[Mike800]

This randomizer is limited to the included midis.
I'm looking for a randomizer for music of my choice.

[Trusty_McLegit]

Well you could modify it to use your music. I don't think you could make a mod that would play any music you wanted on the fly. You could just turn off the music in doom and play your music in Spotify or iTunes or whatever

[Dragonfly]

This can be done via a mod with LOADACS, and would work in ZDoom based mods. This effect won't be possible in vanilla/boom ports.

The code below is untested, but it's an example of what you could do.

Script playRandomSong OPEN {
    // First, define all songs lumpnames in an array.
    str randomSong["D_SONG01", "D_SONG02", "D_SONG03", "D_SONG04", "D_SONG05", "D_SONG06"];

    // Get a random number between 1 and the amount of songs, then subtract by one so it matches the array.
    var randomChoice = (random(1, 6))-1;

    // Play the song which was randomly selected.
    SetMusic(randomSong[randomChoice]);
}

Also, I guess this is a question for anyone else who happens upon this thread - can you get the size of the array within ACS? For example, random(1, randomSong[]);?

[Gez]

Mike800 said:

This randomizer is limited to the included midis.
I'm looking for a randomizer for music of my choice.

If you want something that dynamically creates a list of music tracks and randomly choose between them, you won't get that. You'll have to create the list of music files yourself.

But hey, if you use ZDoom, you can try playing a playlist instead of normal music. You might find updating an .m3u playlist easier than recompiling ACS all the time.

(Jimmy's Jukebox uses an advanced script where you don't need to recompile ACS to change the list, because it's reading values out of a LANGUAGE lump, but you still need to update it manually.)

Dragonfly said:

Also, I guess this is a question for anyone else who happens upon this thread - can you get the size of the array within ACS? For example, random(1, randomSong[]);?

No.

Or if you can, I'm not aware of how.

[Dragonfly]

Gez said:

an .m3u playlist

-snip-

No.

Or if you can, I'm not aware of how.

I had no idea it was possible to use a playlist! That's pretty cool. Also, total bummer about not having the ability to get the length of an array; which is actually a pretty common thing to be able to do in many programming languages. Oh well!

[Turbo Saber]

Mike800 said:

This randomizer is limited to the included midis.

Not true. It actually allows you to add up to 9999 songs (as well as replace the existing 350 songs).