Soundworks

Press your own MP3 files onto records and play them in the world. Everyone nearby hears the music in stereo, even without owning the files. Build your own sound network with record boxes, servers, antennas, radios, terminals and speakers.

All blocks and the blank record are in their own Soundworks creative tab. A pressed record shows the artist (read from the MP3's ID3 tag, otherwise "Unknown Artist") instead of "custom".

How to use

1. Put MP3 files into the music folder in your game directory. In-game you can see them (and open the folder) under Options > Music & Sounds > Soundworks.
2. Place a Record Press, insert a Blank Record (and optionally a dye for the inner ring), pick an MP3 and click Press. While pressing, the window shows "Pressing ...".
3. Put the record into a normal jukebox, the Turntable or the Jukebox.
4. Turntable and Jukebox have sliders for speed (75 % – 125 %) and volume (0 % – 200 %), both defaulting to 100 %.
5. The Jukebox holds 27 records and can play them as a playlist, shuffled or once, and skip to the next song.
6. To copy a record: put the pressed record into Source (copy), a blank record into Blank record, then click Copy.

Sound network

• Record Box – 27 record slots, in the same wood as the turntable. Boxes that touch each other (in any direction, without a limit) form one big storage, and clicking any box opens the whole wall. Scroll with the mouse wheel and filter by artist and title. Boxes are placed standing, or lying when placed while sneaking (sneak + empty-hand right click switches).
• Server – holds 9 records. Give it an IP (digits and dots), a name and an optional password. Servers with the same IP and password form one network, so you can add as much space as you like. The lamp shows its state: red = offline, green = online, blinking green = a song is being streamed from it.
• Antenna – click it and enter an IP (no password). A server is only online while an antenna with the same IP is loaded.
• Radio (1940s style) – enter an IP and password, then search and play any song of the network from anywhere in the world. It has the same speed and volume sliders as the turntable and its own speaker frequency.
• Terminal – a small display for a wall or a table. Enter an IP and password to see which song is stored on which server (shown with the server name). It has a search bar.
• Speaker – enter a frequency. Turntable, Jukebox and Radio each have a speaker frequency, and every speaker with the same frequency plays that device, so you can fill a room, a house or a whole town with one song. A frequency can be used by only one sender but by any number of speakers. Each frequency plays as a single stream, so there is no echo.

(Servers and antennas only work while their chunks are loaded.)

Recipes

• Blank Record (x2): 4 coal/charcoal in a plus shape, iron nugget in the center
• Record Press: piston on top; iron ingot, black dye, iron ingot in the middle; 3 stone at the bottom
• Turntable: diamond, wool below it, 3 iron ingots below that
• Jukebox: note block, turntable, note block in a row; a chest below
• Record Box: wooden slabs around two sticks (slabs on the top and bottom rows, sticks left and right in the middle row)
• Server: antenna on top; iron ingot, record box, iron ingot in the middle; iron ingot, redstone lamp, iron ingot at the bottom
• Antenna: copper ingot on top; redstone, iron ingot, redstone in the middle; iron ingot at the bottom
• Radio: antenna on top; planks, redstone, planks in the middle; 3 planks at the bottom
• Terminal: 3 glass panes on top, 3 iron ingots in the middle, 1 iron ingot below the center
• Speaker: antenna on top; planks, note block, planks in the middle; planks, redstone, planks at the bottom

Any bugs or problems with this mod? Feel free to let me know.

Thanks for playing!