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Power a Jukebox with Redstone to make the song loop

I love to use a Jukebox in my home and collect music discs to play in them. They can create such a nice atmosphere, yet they're so limited--you can't loop the music. I'd love to be able to have a musical aura around some of my builds. Being able to loop music discs using redstone would go a long way to giving the player more creativity in what kinds of feelings and atmospheres they want to create

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    You know u can loop songs already right?

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    How?

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    It really would be nice to have jukeboxes loop on their own, I really like listening to "mall" but I don't like having to go all the way back to the jukebox just to take it out and put it back in. This would allow for greater enjoyment of the game in my opinion

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    or better yet, someway to put multiple discs in a jukebox and have it loop through them all.

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    There's no way on java but on other editions use a hopper clock with dispensers.

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    In addition to being able to loop the song, it would be really great to also allow some play/pause functionality via redstone and maybe read out the progress of the played audio via a comparator. Right now, the comparator will output the ID of the disc inserted, which is not bad but also not really useful at the same time.

    My vision is the following:

    1) if the jukebox is not playing, powering it will cause the song to start playing if any disk is inserted
    2) a comparator outputs signal strength according to how far the song has progressed (0 at the beginning, 15 when it is finished)
    note: with 1 and 2 combined, you can already implement looping (just trigger the jukebox when the output reaches 15)
    3) when the jukebox is playing a song, powering it will pause the track. the jukebox should remember where it left off and continue playing at that position, unless the disk is taken out.

    This would allow for really good control over the music. Also, Jukeboxes should work with dispensers and hoppers to allow changing out discs automatically, but that is already proposed in another suggestion: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360028758251-Jukebox-hoppers-

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    Yea I think it would be amazing if you could trigger a song when you enter into your base or just to trigger songs in general

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    Claysoldier007 you can only loop song on bedrock edition and not on java

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    I think that records should just loop by default. After they added "pigstep", I've really wanted to listen to it on loop, but like you say, you need to go restart it manually every 3 minutes or so.

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    please, this needs to be a thing, especially with pigstep out now, I could listen to that song on repeat for ages and powering a jukebox with a redstone block or a torch so it could loop endlessly would rock!

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    How about jukeboxes with a stored music disk only playing when being powered by redstone? 

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    Clay, This only works on Bedrock Edition, sadly java does not have the same redstone mechanics, and certain things that work in bedrock will not work in java.

     

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    Redstone machines can be made to make the songs loop in current vanilla Minecraft.

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    i would like to link multiple jukeboxes together to all play the same song when 1 of them is activated, kind of like giving it speakers (maybe make speakers a thing?)

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    At least let it loop in java, this function would be very useful

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    This has been a suggestion for years. Other versions have the ability to loop jukeboxes. Java should, too.