[Fix+Suggestion] Harmonics disc sound distance

[RoarkCats]

The andesite jukebox seems to have a very short sound distance, perhaps due to playing the sound at a volume of 1 or 2 instead of 4 (volumes over 1 dont get louder but instead increase distance)

Vanilla jukeboxes seem to reach double the distance? I think they play the tracks at volume 4

This also gave me an idea for a suggestion:
Currently we only have the andesite jukebox, so why not fix this issue but then add a brass jukebox with configurable volume to allow for even greater (or lesser) ranges if you wanted to cover more or less of your base/vehicle/etc with music
If you wanted, you could also tie some of the playback modes/settings to the brass one to make it more worth while (or just add new feature improvements to the brass one as benefits)

[bitmochibit]

Hi! thanks for reaching out!
that's exactly how brass jukeboxes will work (and planned to be), they will let you choose how the pitch, volume and range changes along with other cool features!

[bitmochibit]

wait do you know that with analog levers you can already regulate volume of andesite record players?

edit: I see you mentioned volume and range so I think yes

[RoarkCats]

ngl, completely forgot about that since its been a few weeks since I vetted your mod for my pack :p

will say it's a bit confusing since binary power has different effects from analog power, and I still think the default range should be higher at least, maybe matching jukeboxes...? then analog allowing finer control up/down?

maybe the brass version you could control the range over which analog interpolates..?

[RoarkCats]

not entirely a fan of this solution either as it's also got downsides, but maybe it could be side dependent? as in if you power the bottom or top idk then it controls volume and if you power the sides it controls playback (is there a control for skipping a track too?)

[bitmochibit]

so I would like to have the andesite players more uncomfortable to use so to have other record players have a scope (such as the brass one) and have a sense of "progression"

certainly by design the brass one since better and harder to craft will have more qol and support of more consecutive record players with playlists; nope for now there is not a control for skipping a track since for andesite players you would need an automation made with mechanical arms and pause mode to skip tracks (if in pause mode and not powered arms can extract the record)

[RoarkCats]

hmm, I guess I get that, personally I think a better angle to take to make it uncomfortable would be to (when brass is out) just remove the pitchless modes forcing you to sync the rotation speed on the andesite one and have that be enough? I can see leaving the redstone control as is being fine, tho I still stand by the base volume (or maybe halfway between vanilla jukeboxes and what it is now?), but that's just my two cents, cool mod 👍 lookin forward to what comes!

[RoarkCats]

another idea might be to add stutters (config disableable) to the andesite one thinking like how a real record playback might hicup

[bitmochibit]

thanks for all the suggestions! I'm considering different options and I will try to make the next major update as balanced as possible!