Why does it seem like so few of the songs from the Minecraft soundtrack ever actually play?
I absolutely love the Minecraft soundtrack. However, it seems like that a very select few of the many songs that C418 has written and produced and released in the Minecraft - Volume A & B albums are ever actually played in the game.
Looking in the .mnecraft/resources/music/ and .minecraft/resources/newmusic folders there are only a total of 14 songs (calm1.ogg, calm2.ogg, calm3.ogg, hal1.ogg, hal2.ogg, hal3.ogg, hal4.ogg, nuance1.ogg, nuance2.ogg, piano1.ogg, paino2.ogg, & piano3.ogg.)
Obviously, that explains the lack of variation in the soundtracks played. but does anyone know why so much more music was written and not used?
Edit:
Reading in the Minecraft Wiki (Volume B, Volume A), it appears that more music (from Volume B) is in fact included in the game, but is simply non-existent for me?
Does anyone know why I only have a select few that actually ever play or even exist for me?
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What minecraft version are you running? The "newmusic" resource folder is different depending on whether or not you've run the new versions or not. In any case, this isn't an easily answerable question just due to its general nature. I can try to help to the best of my ability, nonetheless. If you haven't run the newer versions, you could simply have not downloaded the resources.
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Why is Minecraft music so rarely?
The main point of the occasional nature of music in Minecraft is to build atmosphere. Minecraft is a, somewhat, lonely and isolated game (if you're not playing with tons of people yelling over Skype) so the game tends to be quite silent and atmospheric.Why did they change the Minecraft soundtrack?
As the official patch notes explain, it's just a new autosave indicator for single-player worlds and a few minor world generation changes. These features and the new music will hit the live game with the Minecraft 1.18 release date.Does Minecraft still have the same music?
Unfortunately, the new music does not include any new tracks from original Minecraft composer, Daniel 'C418' Rosenfeld. The new music is currently available on Spotify but will be coming to other music streaming services \u201ca bit later\u201d.Did they change the Minecraft music?
These changes are obvious, but there were a few changes that are way more subtle. Many players may not have noticed, but there have been a few new music tracks added to Minecraft. Here's where it will play in the game after the update.The History of Minecraft's Music - What Happened to C418?
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I listened to this, and ALL of these are in 2017 xbox one edition (Java) If you play the dead version of minecraft xbox you will hear ALL of these ie Flakes is in one of the free maps and others are played within the game.
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