Music
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There is Music - and then there are Sound-sets (docking sounds, comms sounds within the aegis, F3 shipyard sounds, etc).
Contents
OXP's
The following OXP's add music to your game:
Music for playing the game to
(these all need Library to function)
- Lib Music Orchestral Demo: Svengali's original demonstration .oxp (2016: 22Mb)
- Contextual Jukebox OXP by Arquebus of YouTube fame (2021: 115Mb)
- Dangerous Background Music OXP: Tsoj's DIY kit! (2021)
- Hyperradio Musicpacks - the tracks are now played using Library OXP (2008-14)
Alternative Docking music
- Delightful Docking (2012-14) - Smivs's improved Blue Danube
- Random Docking Music OXP (2010, 6.3Mb: Blue Danube & Angel's Tear, instructions for adding more)
- Replacement title themes for Oolite (2010)
- Random music for random-docking-music (Slartibartfast, Linux, 2021)
Alternative Game Start Music
- XenonUI adds different music for the game start (2015-date)
Missions
- A number of the missions & dockables OXP's also introduce music (eg Military Fiasco, Localhero OXP, Vector OXP, hOopy Casino, Taranis OXP, etc.)
Noise/Sound-sets
This is a list of the more modern sound-sets. See Category:Sound Sets OXPs for the complete list of a couple of dozen.
- BGS adds relevant noises - and has optional add-ons adding more (2010-date)
- BGS Soundset by P.A. Groove
- BGS Soundset/Images by Keeper
- BGS female comms chatter patch (2014, by Diziet Sma) - since combined into BGS
- Engine Sound: engine sound that follows the speed of your ship (2014-15)
- Engine Sound FG: engine sound that follows the speed of your ship, thruster sounds when maneuvering, and some additional sounds (2015).
- There are a number of old sound .oxp's importing sounds from older versions of Elite, etc. See here: All OXPs by Category (an old 2010-13 OXP list)
- Dangerous HUD contains a new sound-set (2018 - 3 HUD styles for each of 6 colours - white, purple, pink, green, blue & orange).
- The original 2009 version of Famous Planets OXP had music for visiting specific systems (Diso, Isinor, Lave, Leesti, Lerelace, Reorte, Teraed, Tianve, Tionisla & Zaonce). This was removed in the later versions. This version is now lost.
- Oolite Voice Control - For Windows only (uses glovePIE)
Lore
- Zaonce (Rough Guide) - see stadium description
- Reinen (Rough Guide) (local folk music)
- Sector1/Retila
- Jjagged Bbanner - originally from Frontier, but also appears in the Hotrods OXP
Oolite Community musicians (partial list)
Our Oolite community has been blessed by the talents of our musicians, who have contributed widely to our game. Not just music!
- NoSleep - first Oolite playtester, chum of Aegidian, wrote the music for game opening & docking
- Jonny Cuba - second playtester, chum of NoSleep & Murgh, wrote the music for hOopy Casino
- P.A. Groove wrote BGS Soundset by P.A. Groove and the original Famous Planets which then included his music!
- Svengali wrote BGS which has 130 sounds & Lib Music Orchestral Demo
- Keeper wrote BGS Soundset/Images by Keeper
- GS Agostinho created a sound-set for his Dangerous HUD
