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Custom music discs!

Custom music discs can be a great way for people to learn to compose actual music!

Once a skeleton kills a CHARGED creeper with a bow it will drop an "Empty vinyl".

A "Vinyl recorder" can be crafted like the juke box except the diamond is replaced with a diamond block.

The recorder has a GUI that requires the empty vinyl to be inserted into it, then another GUI replaces it, the MIDI. An empty vinyl can be left in a recorder at any time without erasing the composition, but cannot be removed unless you terminate the composition.

The MIDI should have separate layers, one for each instrument.

Once you finish the composition, the recorder will require you to sign the disc. Then just pop it into a juke box to play it!

Also, a record copier should be added to copy a written disc to an empty vinyl.

This should be an endgame feature.

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    I like this idea, but the only thing is that composing music in Minecraft doesn’t exactly belong in Minecraft.

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    Dogez4Dayz if it's in Minecraft, it belongs in Minecraft.

    Besides, people already use note blocks and command blocks to compose music, I'm offering a simpler, yet more flexible way for players to express themselves.

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    One thing you could do is record note blocks to a new music disk

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    James Douglas this is basically using note blocks, MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

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    Would this include a way to record speech for narrating adventure maps or for fake cheering for a stadium?

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    thats a great idea! ive always enjoyed making music with note blocks but the size, and how long it takes is a bit repetitive. your idea would allow more sounds to enter the game. i dont know if this is a problem for everyone or if its just me but there is nothing more annoying than tuning a note block and going one click too far. a minecraft midi would be so much less annoying. and if anyone is against this, then whats the difference between a minecraft midi and a book and quill. writers got their wish, now its time for musicians!!!

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    That would be awesome! It would be pretty hard to kill a charged creeper though.

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    Maybe also adding voices using text to speech, or even recording the actual voice of the player who made the disk

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    Yeah, great idea! You should make a Bendy and the Ink Machine music disc; the item will look like a music disc with ink poured on top of it.

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    You  know cuphead the 50ese cartoon game there is them song that’s called Brothers in arm I think that it would be a good song as music disc so 1 to 10

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    I believe a better way of implementation would be to have a 'recorder' that records any sounds nearby, and then can play them back. Note blocks included. This would allow for, in a way, what you want, while simultaneously allowing for more variety. Imagine someone recording, say, an enderman, and then being able to play that sound whenever. Or maybe record a note block contraption. Whatever the case, the idea has merit.

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    that doesnt just give use to the diamond block but also helps the music disk ideas circulating

    (ps4 player) i could do with some offline music disks as well (maybe some from the wargames soundtrack or spleef) also a block that extends the sound to the whole world like a speaker block

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    it would be good when you can put in mp3 from your compputer

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    like skeleton horses or music discs in general, these items are hard to obtain but you can still seek them out at anytime, it doesn't need to be an endgame feature but it should still be difficult to obtain. This would be a very complicated feature and take a a lot of time to add so I also feel it should be a more important feature, if not as many players can use it to their hearts content then what's the point of adding it?

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    Yeah, incorporating speech and custom music recording ingame would be perfect for creating adventure maps for sure 100% support this idea it has my upvote!

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    Yes! I want to listen to my dubstep music(that isn't copyrighted) when I play Minecraft!

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    My idea from my post (Which got deleted for some reason.) was: You can use a grindstone to turn any music disc (Even custom ones.) into blank discs. When put into a recording thing, it will record all note block and jukebox sounds for a maximum of 6 minutes. (As the longest music disc currently in game is 5:45) You can take it out at any time, and it will only end up playing for however long you leave it in. If you leave it in past 6 minutes, it simply will remain in the recorder until taken out, and the extra time in the recorder won't affect the song. As I stated earlier in this very lengthy comment, it will only pick up the jukebox and note block sounds, and since they are tracked separately from the other in game sounds, it won't be too difficult to implement. When you take it out, a gui will open up, and you can name it. The inner rim can also can be dyed to any of the 16 colors. It would also be able to be copied the same way a book can. The reason this will be balanced, is that you still have to build the note block machine to be able to record the song in the first place.

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    Aye, great idea. This is important to some music creators (like me) and it would be fun to be able to hear music other than the stuff on the original music discs. What about importing MIDI?

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    shouldnt it maybe be crafted with an emerald instead?`

    i think emeralds dont have much of a use in crafting

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    It would be cool if you could record your voice on the music disks

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    This would be awesome along with Disk Copier Block Station. 
    The potential for players to build Music Shops/Discos/Store Music/ simplified elevator music /etc. On the servers would be real! 

     

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    I really agree, this would allow players to become even more creative with music. It would basically make music easier to compose as there is no longer a need to take up hundreds of blocks with noteblocks, but noteblocks would have to be used until you got to endgame, as you said.

    Could you also please go a bit more into depth about the MIDI? Would we be able to add layers for each instrument and maybe duplicate instruments (maybe these instruments are the blocks which we have to insert?). And how would we choose the note pitch and length?

     

    Edit: After reading through the comments, I agree an emerald could be an alternative. And maybe actually composing the song will take up a diamond/emerald and the respective block?

    Also, recording voices would not be such a great idea. On a private server with people you trust it may be alright, but people could really ruin it. People can be really horrible and allowing us to record voices would give them more oppurtunities to do so.

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    Neat idea.

    The recorder should require resources to make the music with:

    • Insert blocks to add different instruments (corresponding to the sound noteblocks make when stacked on them)
    • It will consume noteblocks to add notes to the music.

    There will be a data limit if it is encoded in the NBT data (similar to the NBT data limit on books).

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    I like it but maybe instead of being super expensive and endgame its endgame without being super duper expensive and the composing thing is a bit un-minecrafty so maybe instead it opens a window and you have to click and drag a .ogg file just to make it simpler for those of us who are musically un talented

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    Maybe not really a GUI.

    In my opinion, it doesn't fit into Minecraft that way. So I propose this:

    Disc recorder is an item that you put a disc into via crafting it with it (no changes about obtaining both, Diamond block and Charged Creeper kill is good). Then, you can move into your noteblock creation, play it and rightclick with the recorder. Then you keep walking alongside the blocks (recorder only captures noteblocks in range of, say, 30 blocks?) and record the track to it's end and rightclick again. Disc pops out and you have your own Music disc that is basically a small version of your noteblock song. You can then duplicate it like books, by putting an Empty disc and Music disc in crafting grid.

    Technical stuff:

    It should be saved in a format similar to MIDI - by that I mean no "actual music", just when and how noteblocks play. Other way, you can easily grow Minecraft a server world up to gigabytes. Also, duplicating doesn't make a new Music ID.

    A limit of lenght is absolutely needed. I suggest maybe 10 minutes? That's up to Mojang tho.

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    Voiceover would be impossible to add. Not all platforms have a microphone. 

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    This Guy: I want Music disc recorder!

    Resource Pack Creator: We have Music disc recorder at home.

    Music Disc Recorder:

     

     

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    My idea is you unlock sounds when you hear them in the game, like creeper explosion, cave sounds, and even party pillagers.

     

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    Yes!
    Custom music disks are a great idea!
    You should also make it so music disks can play on PE.

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    So, how I think this should work is thus: 
    You craft a "recorder" or "microphone" block. 
    When the recorder is placed in a mine cart and sent down a track with attached note blocks, it records the sounds of only the note blocks as it passes by, with a duration that matches the length of the mine cart track. 
    If placed outside a mine cart, it would record all ambient sounds. 
    From there, just take the custom vinyl out of the recorder block and put it in the jukebox to play it. 

    You could also use a "Mixer" block, which would have an interface similar to the Anvil where you could combine two tracks together using another empty vinyl. This way, players could make more elaborate tracks and even somewhat remix the tracks that are already in the game. 

    I don't think the empty vinyl tracks should be quite so difficult to obtain though. Making them craft-able would be preferred. I wouldn't think of a blank vinyl as a rare reward, as it wouldn't do anything for players that don't want to make their own music. 

    One of the coolest uses I can foresee for this is adding a musical jingle to secret piston doors.