Musician
Listen to and play music with nearby players. For the first time in World of Warcraft, your character can literally become a bard!
Description
Musician allows your character to play music that can be heard by the other players nearby, provided that they have installed the add-on as well. Any song file in MIDI format can be played. There are 20 instruments available including lute, harp, trumpet, violin, war horn but also drumkit and electric guitar. It's also possible to perform live music using your computer keyboard as a piano.
How to use
To listen to the music played by the other players, there is nothing to do but having the add-on installed. The music can be heard within a range of 40 meters. It's possible to block the music from specific characters using the player menu. If you have enabled the nameplates, a 🎵 icon will show up next to the name of the players who also have installed Musician. In addition, super cool musical notes will animate while playing!
To play music, click on the minimap icon to open the menu, select Import and play a song then follow the instructions. Songs can be saved in game using the optional Musician List add-on. To play live, click Open keyboard in the main menu. It's also possible to play with a MIDI keyboard using Musician MIDI.
There is a lot of other features. Check out the README and the Wiki to learn more. In addition, you can join the Discord server to get live support, share music, report bugs etc.
Plugins
- Musician List – Save and load your favorite songs in game.
- Musician MIDI – Perform live music using your MIDI keyboard.
- Piano – Add a piano to your instrument list.
- Instruments v1 – Restore some of the old instruments sounds before they were reworked in 1.6.
Useful links
- Discord server – Get live support, share music or just chat with the growing Musician community.
- Wiki – Detailed user guide, FAQ, tips and tricks to extend your gaming experience with Musician, music producer guide to make your own songs for Musician and technical documentation to create plugins.
- GitHub repo – Contribute to the project or just have a look under the hood.
- Patreon / Paypal – Support this useless and way too much time-consuming project.
When i configure the keyboard i have nothing between the / and Shift on the fourth row and it wont let me save
Man...wish more would get this addon; even if they're not on a RP Server.
In reply to Illutian:
Agree. If you want you can promote it in your guild, friends etc. Show them the video above, it's quite convincing :D
In reply to LenweSaralonde:
I mean...just playing Thundercats theme song as the raid is about to start (so ~2 minutes before the start time), should be enough! :P
Has the channel ordering been worked on? Because this keeps happening to me when I log in on a regular basis:
It always tends to be the first before General/Trade/LocalDefense.
In reply to Dragojev:
It's supposed to be in last position but sometimes regular General / Trade / LocalDefense take too much time to be joint so it ends up in first position. I'll fix that in the next release: https://github.com/LenweSaralonde/Musician/issues/41
So, I decided to give this addon a try, and absolutely love it.
But for some reasons healthbars of allies are missing.
Shift+V just shifts the names a bit higher (hiding the guildname with a "blank" healthbar).
I am using russian interface, so I am assuming it could be due to that factor :(
EDIT:
Found out that it is used for "special animations" by your addon. Is it possible to hide that feature somehow? because switching it off in settings of addon does nothing for me :(
In reply to MasterN1X:
By default, Musician hides health bars in nameplates of friendly players who are not in combat and have full HP. You can change that in Musician's settings.
In reply to LenweSaralonde:
Yes, which is why I added. "Switching it off in settings does nothing for me".
I don't know why, but unchecking that option did nothing to me.
I am not getting an lua error for it either.
EDIT: removed screenshot, as it is not relevant to the issue I had.
In reply to MasterN1X:
Do you have other addons installed that may affect the nameplates ? What if you disable all addons except Musician ?
In reply to LenweSaralonde:
I fixed it. And you were correct, it was due to another addon overwriting nameplates even when turned off.
I am sorry for bothering with issue completely irrelevant.
Atleast "Hide player and friendly health bars" actually works now.
Feel free to delete my comments ^^;
In reply to MasterN1X:
No problem, and that's not irrelevant because sometimes there are actual bugs in the addon and comments such as yours remain the best way to be aware of them and fix them. Glad you fixed your issue :D
In reply to LenweSaralonde:
Can you add a small feature though?
Addon sets Musical chat channel to /1 automatically. I'd like to have it as /5 or smth.
Option for it would be much apreciated.
In reply to MasterN1X:
Did you join « General » chat ? It’s supposed to wait for basic channels such as General, Trade and so on to be joined before joining the Comm channel to have it at last position. Try reordering the channels in the chat settings as well.
In reply to LenweSaralonde:
Sorry for late reply, but it goes back no matter what after the reload. I assume it has to do with chat names in russian client.
Also, I am right to assume that there's no way to reduce amount of notes that fly above players heads? ^^;
The Add on absolutely refuses to update through the Twitch app since the latest built was released. No amount of fixing made that work on my end...
Edit: And, every other add on updates as usual, with no trouble.
In reply to Lueeify:
The Twitch app sometimes messes up with the Classic / Retail versions. Try downloading the addon manually from the website when this happens.
I'm having trouble with losing quality when I convert mp3 to midi. Does anyone know of a free converter online or have any suggestions how to remedy the issue?
In reply to sevril_kestra:
You can't convert MP3 to MIDI.
MP3 is a sound file (audio recording) while MIDI is a musical score.
Some tools exist to sort of attempt to extract some musical notes out of an audio recording in MP3 but these are not reliable since it require some advanced AI to do so.
Try to find a MIDI sequence of your song using Google (Search song name + MIDI)
Should the TRP3 integration work in Classic? I scanned my map for other TRP3 users but did not see any Musician users on the map. However, I can clearly see a couple people with TRP3 that also have a music note icon next to their nameplate.
Edit: nevermind. This was happening because of the other bug I mentioned in my previous post. For some reason, the TRP3 checkbox wasn't showing up at first. If I open the options enough times, it eventually showed up.