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A /playmusic command that functions like /playsound

Currently, mapmakers can include custom music with their creations in the form of resource packs. Unfortunately, mapmakers have little to no control over when this music plays.

If a mapmaker wants to play custom music, they must use the /playsound command, which does not actively follow the player's location and can be buggy.
A /playmusic command can help alleviate this issue by implementing Minecraft's perfectly good music system in a way that mapmakers can control.

The /playsound command can play sounds that are in the Sounds.json file.

A /playmusic command could use a similar JSON file for its music, perhaps Music.json or something of that sort.
The /playmusic command can have a similar syntax as the /playsound command:
playmusic (music) (source) (target) [volume] [pitch] [minVolume]

This /playmusic command could also have a /stopmusic counterpart.

The advantages of such a command are music that can follow a moving target, and being able to change the music volume without affecting all other sounds. These are two things that /playsound cannot do.

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    This would be helpful especially since music.game, music.game.creative, and music.game.nether are all random. They could add music.sweden or music.blind_spots and more as separate music options. There’s also a glitch in which if you play music, it would play two different tracks at once.

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    I like the idea. But I think that the music should at least follow the player so it doesn't quiet down when they try to move away from the music like the sounds do. But none the less, great idea

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    I would also love an option to loop the music. Like, set a specific time (min,sec) for it to loop back to when the song ends.

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    You can actually make it "follow" the player by setting it's volume to something really loud like 1,000,000. It will stick to the max volume and not get quiter

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    You can make it so the music follows the player, that's not the problem. The problem about the music is that you can't pick a specific song some of the time. You can pick something like "play a song that plays in this biome". If you want C418's Mice on Venus to play for instance, you'd have to use a resource pack that adds the song, and use the playsound command to target that. It's a bit faffy.