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).

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)

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

• 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).

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Lore

• Zaonce (Rough Guide) - see stadium description
• Reinen (Rough Guide) (local folk music)
• Sector1/Retila

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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