According to FFF-435 :
The selected tracks have been remixed to enhance and intensify its dynamics to give them a proper album format experience. All the recording sessions with the musicians and the electronic compositions are paying off here. Many sections of tracks that were originally ...

My understanding after reading that FFF was that all the music for the new planets would be procedural, but after hundreds of hours playing Space Age I'm not sure.

The procedural music is only a small part of the whole soundtrack. Most of the music are regular tracks. There are 10 procedural ...

Thanks for the report.
I've asked our sound designer and at least for now there are no plans to tweak these sounds.

This is now implemented for 2.1.

Mostly like I've described in my previous post.

LuaPlayer will have a current_music read (name of the AmbientSound or empty when nothing is playing) and there will be an on_player_music_changed event (this includes both a track starting and finishing playing).

Implemented for 2.1.

Last change: When you switch to randomize-all playback mode (hidden setting) the surface binding will be ignored.

With the music API there will be a new track_type and those tracks will be unbound, so it won't interfere.

Alright, this is how it looks like, from AmbientSound docs:

planets :: array[SpaceLocationID] optional
The track can play only on specified planets.
If neither planets nor surface_names is given, the track plays on space platforms and in the space map.
Cannot be defined when play_on_all_surfaces ...

Thanks for the report. The issue is now fixed for the next release, 2.0.73.

The problem was caused by switching to remote view of the same surface while riding in a cargo pod. As you have probably noticed, changing to a different surface should bring the sounds back to normal.

Thanks for the report, the issue is now fixed for the next release, 2.0.73.

What is happening here is that the create-entity trigger effect which consequently sets tiles which will destroy the vault entity which in turns causes the position of the sound to play in the play-sound event to be empty ...

Looking at the Pirate Ship mod specifically, the surface names are created as <crewid>-<destination_index>-<type>-<subtype> , where type can resolve to "Sea", "Island", etc., so it should be straight forward to bind tracks to specific surface types/subtypes using my proposed surface_names binding ...

Another thing, AmbientSound::play_on_all_surfaces property could be useful.

How are the island surfaces named? Or more like, how would you like the music to be bound to those surfaces?
If you know what the planet_music string would be, can't you just incorporate that into the name of the surface?

My assumptions was that such surfaces created on demand would be named ...

Currently, all ambient sounds (music tracks) are either bound to one planet or to all space platforms (and space map). For surfaces which don't have an associated planet or space platform, there is a fallback to play Nauvis-bound tracks on them.
This is not very flexible and not at all friendly ...

Alright, after much procrastination deliberation, this is what I'm starting with.

As the original post suggested, I'm making siblings to play_sound:

LuaGameScript::play_music() will play specified music track for all players in the game
LuaForce::play_music() will play specified music track for ...

Eketek wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 4:17 pm I looked a bit more closely at variable ambient sounds ...

You're either asking to completely change what variable tracks are or asking to create an entirely new system of dynamic tracks. That's not going to happen.

mmmPI wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 11:40 am

HermanyAI wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 6:40 pm while being simple enough.

no But it does illustrate some of the questions that makes it difficult to have a straightforward proposition . There's too much "open questions at the end" for me, i'm a bit lost.

Same, I'll keep ruminating on this, though.

Just a little note: I've loaded your save and confirmed that the sounds don't play because technically most of the map is in fog of war, including where the character is. So the only sounds that played at that moment are the GUI sounds which don't care about fog of war.

You can post the save with the issue and I can take a look.

What is the issue with sound effects you are trying to show in the clip?