CD Audio Support?

[Joe Biden]

Hi there, I dislike using streaming services, and instead opt to use my massive catalog of CDs instead. I also use Linux so Open Mic isn't available to me as an option.
I do know if that you directly supported CDs on Windows, it would automatically work in Linux through the Proton Compatibility layer.

[RHM, Acolyte of Starhorse]

If you can pull the files direct off the CD, then the game could read the music as it normally would. Beat Hazard is built off of supporting raw file formats for music

[Melodia]

I find it crazy that in 2023 someone would have tons of CDs, a CD drive their computer, and not digital versions if the music.

But I suppose I'd rather see people like that than complaining they only ever use Streaming because "no one buys music any more"....

[Joe Biden]

Originally posted by RHM, Acolyte of Starhorse:

If you can pull the files direct off the CD, then the game could read the music as it normally would. Beat Hazard is built off of supporting raw file formats for music

like i said before, Open Mic will not work since I'm on linux.

[RHM, Acolyte of Starhorse]

Best option I can think of is to rip the files off the CD into .mp3/.ogg/.flac files.
You can play any music if its in a file format. What im trying to get at is to just digitize the CD so you can play it in game.

[I_Burner]

Originally posted by RHM, Acolyte of Starhorse:

Best option I can think of is to rip the files off the CD into .mp3/.ogg/.flac files.
You can play any music if its in a file format. What im trying to get at is to just digitize the CD so you can play it in game.

^This. Since OpenMic isn't even an option for you, local music files are really the only way you can play this game with anything beyond the built-in soundtrack.

I get where you are coming from with wanting to pop a CD into a drive and play directly from that, but that would require building in a completely different system for indexing those tracks and the need to connect to yet another service in order to ID them. While it may technically be doable, that would be quite a bit of work for something that would be used by a very small number of players.

I ripped my old CD collection to FLAC in order to use it all in this game. It was a bit of a chore to convert it all, but I think it was worth it in the end. Now I can just fire up the game and play whatever I want.

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by Melodia:

I find it crazy that in 2023 someone would have tons of CDs, a CD drive their computer, and not digital versions if the music.

But I suppose I'd rather see people like that than complaining they only ever use Streaming because "no one buys music any more"....

I buy most stuff on CD still too.
Dont like Streaming and ddl onlineshops might not have the stuff i want.... or have a Region lock on it and can't be bought Digital here....

[Melodia]

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

I buy most stuff on CD still too.
Dont like Streaming and ddl onlineshops might not have the stuff i want.... or have a Region lock on it and can't be bought Digital here....

I mean yeah, I use CDs as well, I have thousands of them (and that's not an exaggeration). I always find it so odd when people seem to not even comprehend the fact it's trivial to get music from a CD to a hard drive to the point they will actually pay extra for a digital version...

[Starg]

Also, it's a good idea to have a digital backup of all those CDs.

[Joe Biden]

Originally posted by Starg:

Also, it's a good idea to have a digital backup of all those CDs.

while i agree, there really isn't an experience like popping in Smash Mouth ASTROLOUNGE and listening to the 5th track in the album. Having the entire album allows you to appreciate the works of the artists not in a vacuum like streaming services have so ingrained us to do.

[まりさ]

Would not be hard to implement audio cd support? Developer could add CD TEXT and CDDB/GNUdb online CD database support with it.

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by まりさ:

Would not be hard to implement audio cd support? Developer could add CD TEXT and CDDB/GNUdb online CD database support with it.

You probably could index a CD already if you want....the problem would be, everytime the game changes randomly a track it wont be found if it is not on the currently inserted CD.

Modes where Music is randomly selected would not work as a lot of tracks would not be found.

Most tracks on CDs are not tagged (there are some where the titles are tagged by the distributor).
Using a Online Database to index the tracks with that is a bad idea as one CD can have Multiple Entries......and some of those might even not be correct (i had to correct titles because of writing errors of the contributor to the db).


If one has a CD drive in the pc/an external drive already it would be for that person way easier to rip the cds onto their harddrive or network storage as no one would want to fiddle with cds just for a game/on PC.

[EnemyHostile]

Originally posted by ioletsgo:

Hi there, I dislike using streaming services, and instead opt to use my massive catalog of CDs instead. I also use Linux so Open Mic isn't available to me as an option.
I do know if that you directly supported CDs on Windows, it would automatically work in Linux through the Proton Compatibility layer.

All I play is CD's that I personally own. Never used the streaming services or open mic. I'm sure they're fine, but I guess I'm old school, I prefer the physical media to the digital. It work great with my CD rips and even vinyl / cassette rips. Just gotta make sure the game has recognized where your music is on your PC, other than that, the music you have on physical media works just fine.

[Middy]

Originally posted by Hideo Kojima:

Originally posted by Starg:

Also, it's a good idea to have a digital backup of all those CDs.

while i agree, there really isn't an experience like popping in Smash Mouth ASTROLOUNGE and listening to the 5th track in the album. Having the entire album allows you to appreciate the works of the artists not in a vacuum like streaming services have so ingrained us to do.

This is contradictory. I only ever listen to full albums and there's absolutely nothing about streaming services preventing me from doing so. Why did you only play track five if having the entire album is so important to you? Skipping tracks is for casuals.

[AD2001]

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

Originally posted by Melodia:

I find it crazy that in 2023 someone would have tons of CDs, a CD drive their computer, and not digital versions if the music.

But I suppose I'd rather see people like that than complaining they only ever use Streaming because "no one buys music any more"....

I buy most stuff on CD still too.
Dont like Streaming and ddl onlineshops might not have the stuff i want.... or have a Region lock on it and can't be bought Digital here....

Fellow CD purchaser here also! I rip the music onto my PC for not only just using on PC but for preservation.