The only thing Action Music has over BattleBeats is two extra combat types: Intense Battle and Suspense. That’s about it. It’s also missing many features that BattleBeats has. Making new packs is basically impossible now since the author removed all his tutorial videos, and it seems like he abandoned the project

is action music any better or worse?

16th Note support was added recently, after I made the comparison table. I’m still figuring out how to add it without making the table look messy. For now, I’d say it’s pretty similar to mine, but mine has a few improvements and some unique/extensive features

Although you mentioned that it works with SBM, Nombat, and 16th Note music packs, you only compare it to SBM and Nombat, so I was wondering how this compares to 16th Note.

I see, thank you

This addon is mostly client-side and packs forced from the server aren’t directly supported. However resource.AddWorkshop() should work, maybe it’s being run after the packs are loaded?
You could try reloading packs after joining the server.
You can also experiment with Debug Mode and the Load Local Packs option

Cool.
Can I add packs from the server side?
I tried adding packs to the client using resource.AddWorkshop() but the pack for BattleBeats are recognised as LocalPack and pack such as SBM are not recognised.

20/10

I made a battlebeats pack. here it is. https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3542802193

Not yet, but it's something I might consider adding. For now, the only related toggleable feature is that combat tracks will play from the same pack as the ambient ones

Very cool, I don't know if this is a feature already, but can you create an option to connect Ambient and Combat tracks? Like, if Ambient Track 1 plays, so will Combat Track 1 play until the Ambient track has finished. It would make things feel a lot better if Ambient and Combat tracks were more consistent.

only other issue i've found is that with the "Anti-Screamer" mod enabled, the first song will be paused when starting a map. but, it's very easy to workaround, and i mean... duh, anti-screamer is supposed to do that, lmao

jokes aside, point is: no issues worth reporting but i'll let you know if i run into something.
thanks again!

Capitalization should work now after brackets, let me know if anything else looks off. Also, glad you’re enjoying my addon

ahhhh that makes sense. makes me feel quite silly for worrying about my capitalization now though lmao, i guess that's what i get for not checking.
thanks for the quick response and the quick fix! 'been having a lot of fun using and making packs for this

Oh, I’ll fix that later today. It’s happening because I use my own function to capitalize the first letters of words. When you upload files to the Workshop, all filenames get converted to lowercase, so I had to work around that

posting a screenshot of the bug separately in case steam gets upset about the link:
https://ibb.co/pjy9C71S

Found an extremely minor but unusual bug: if the song name has an open parenthesis, the next letter will be lowercase. ex: (Combat Mix) becomes (combat Mix). this occurs in both the music list and the notification in the top right. Not sure what's causing it but I've been able to reproduce it consistently on my end.

@objir It should be working now

battlebeats_enable_ambient option keeps getting reverted back to 1 after game restart, if set to 0.

Thanks for the help

I found out what packs were breaking it. It was just some pill packs

Well looks like you figured it out since the comment’s gone

Have you tried disabling every addon except this one and the packs? Sometimes other addons can override global functions and cause conflicts

I’ve tried that a few times

@Visionary Hmm, strange. Try reinstalling this addon and one of the music packs

I’m using battlebeats packs and they are enabled in the Addons menu

@Visionary Are you using BattleBeats packs, or other ones like Nombat or SBM? And are they enabled in your Addons menu?

I’m having an issue where it says in the menu no packs found when I have packs downloaded

Almost everything here is client-based, including track exclusions. The server only sends a signal to let the client know you're in combat, everything else is handled locally

is the individual track enabling disabling for server or only for client

@208 It should work now. I’ve added it as a new feature. Let me know if you run into any issues

@208 No, combat tracks only trigger when an NPC is actually aggroed on you not just nearby

Does this work on if NPCs fighting each other? (I'm aware addons like Action Music does this but it doesn't support VJ Base Npcs)

action music just has 4 types of songs instead of just background and combat, i didn't bother with stems for the same reason

@LilMonsterDemon Hmm yeah it would technically be possible but I don’t think it would be worth it in the long run. Making packs that way would be pain and honestly that’s not really the point of this addon.
The main reason I created BattleBeats in the first place was to fix issues I had with Nombat and to make pack creation a lot easier. I think there’s already an addon called Action Music that does something similar to what you're describing anyway

@LilMonsterDemon
i dont think that'd be hard to do at all, just sourcing the stems would be a bit tedious i reckon. there's also a possibility of many stems being made uniquely to fit the music system for the game they're for, so they may not even fit into the mods architecture without too much hassle in the audio editors

I know this may be a bit advanced and (maybe) difficult to have something like this but...

is there a way to possibly implement a dynamic music stem system like
Ambient: Instrument1, Instrument2 (just something to fill the silence)
Battle: Instrument3, Instrument4 (minor percussion tracks)
Intense Battle: Instrument3, Instrument5, Instrument6 (More intense tracks)

I don't know any other addons that try to implement a thing like this but if you do let me know

@godzillaman It should work, but if it doesnt could you let me know the console names of the NPCs they use? It should be something like npc_citizen for example.

@Ready No, at least not as of today. I might add support for it in the future though

There a way to make this work with NZombies Rezzurection?

are these compatible with 16th note and action muisc packs?

It mostly depends on your ambient and combat wait time settings. If those values are set really low the system will pretty much reset and pick a new track every time. For example if you set the combat wait time to 10 seconds and you exit combat then re-enter it after those 10 seconds it will trigger a new track to play

thanks for the new addition. I'm really digging it. Also, are the tracks suppose to restart when you enter and leave combat?

If you only want one specific track to play you can just exclude all the others in the pack settings and leave the one you like enabled

is there a way to force a specific track?

for example, instead of clicking "Force Next Track" until i get the track i want, is there a way to specifically choose, for example, C7 out of a specific pack to play during combat?

Ive added a new option called "Switch to current pack only" which might be exactly what you were looking for. Its available under Advanced Options in the BattleBeats settings

nice. Once again I applaud you for your efforts as I'm loving your addons and I hope to see more peak additions to the game I never knew I wanted

I'm working on adding playlist support, so you’ll be able to group and control music playback more precisely

Do you plan on changing it in the future or leaving it?

Yes, thats correct
Currently when a track finishes or during a switch when the ambient/combat wait timer is passed the system will randomly select a track from any enabled pack, excluding the last played track and any tracks the user has manually excluded.
This behavior also applies to the “Force Next Track” button, it will pick a random eligible track from all active packs