REQUEST: A Portable Orchestion Player

Hello, I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in UI...

Dear SE, I would like to make a request for a Portable Orchestion Player (POP).
So when we're out roaming the world we could listen to the 10 song playlist we have set up inside our personal housings.
Obviously it wouldn't work in dungeons or while mounted, but when stood around in a city, or out slapping level 1 monsters with a level 70 weapon we could listen to such things as Pa Paya (for example).

Would it be possible?

There are so many beautiful songs, I would love to be able to listen to them without having to be inside a residence.
Please consider :D

Thank yous and much love! O/

I agree this would be nice to have.

Pr make the regelia be able play them, that be nice like ffxv travelling around with jukebox on. :X

Make it available only with the 4 seater car mount and let other players nearby hear your music. I'm joking but it would be a hilarious joke patch.

Considering how long it took them to give us an option to not have battle music to play at all, I can't imagine how difficult such a request would be BUT I'd love to see this added too.
The orchestrion is wasted on inns and housing given the nature of those areas. I'd love to listen to Under the Weight while crushing squirells outside Gridania or other various battle songs in the overworld/dungeons and more importantly in the housing zones (not actually in a house) since thats where people frequent the most aside from hub zones.

I think I can safely speak for most people that we're probably a bit sick to death of the housing theme playing on loop for literallty 6 years. So this would be a great feature to.....add variety to a rather painfully mundane existence...

Tie it to the tomestone emote and let us play the songs like we usually would with our smartphones. ;)

Have you considered using:
Your phone
Youtube
Any offline media player
Speakers connected to another device that could play the above?

Also, I recall Yoshi saying custom music was already hard to implement. What is stopping you from using anything from this list?

I'm going to relate this to something Soken talked about relating to changing mount music during the NA Fanfest 18 Q&A Panel

He said specifically that a mount could only have one song loaded on to it due to dev team's coding issues. Everyone complained about Sephirot bird only having the first part of the song and not the second like the others and Soken said you would have to get an overwhelming response to choose which one they would do.

I'm gonna say if the coding is just like that having a custom playlist on the go would probably be a pipe dream. It would be fun to have though.

This has been requested in the past and would be nice to have, but the official response (I think I remember) is that in order for this to work you would need to load all of your orchestrion songs every time you zone somewhere. It's not an issue with housing areas because they're limited, but to have all those audio files load every single time you zone would be too much to handle unfortunately.

Considering how they can't even get an orchaestrion to play music as the BGM in a house I don't think they can manage making it portable.

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Originally Posted by Gula

Have you considered using:
Your phone
Youtube
Any offline media player
Speakers connected to another device that could play the above?

Also, I recall Yoshi saying custom music was already hard to implement. What is stopping you from using anything from this list?

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Not everyone has half the means you described (console players with no PC such as myself I know it's easy for pcmasterracers to forget we exist but I digress) and believe me when I say it's not as enjoyable to play it of your phone or even with speakers/headphones as it is when its coming from the same monitor. Some people would just like that option. But yeah I stated before it took them years to give us the option to turn off battle music so I agree this would probably be very difficult for them to add.

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Originally Posted by GenericMagus

Considering how they can't even get an orchaestrion to play music as the BGM in a house I don't think they can manage making it portable.

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I am very sorry, I don't understand. Is it not background music if it's playing in the background? :0
You open the orchestrion, double click the song, press yes, exit menu, and poof! BGM?
I don't understand coding and things so maybe I'm wrong :<

It's Final Fantasy, it would have to be something charming, cute or beautiful. Something like a Bard who plays music, our toons would stop to open a locket or music box. Or possibly something we teach a pet to do. If our pets learned to play music and that little swirl of notes like is around the moogle weapons and songbird emote, and a preset song on a pets collar/locket could play maybe? Who knows, maybe if we collect a certain amount of pets they can dawn little instruments and play a preset song as like an emote with them gathered like a little band...you would have to set up the ones you would wish to play in the band and the song you wanted them to play from the music thing back at your Inn/home/FC room...and our toons would wave around a stick before them like a conductor. What do you think?

EDIT: Or following you around in a line like these cats in the video? https://youtu.be/lAIGb1lfpBw

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Originally Posted by Angelov-Mercy

It's Final Fantasy, it would have to be something charming, cute or beautiful. Something like a Bard who plays music, our toons would stop to open a locket or music box. Or possibly something we teach a pet to do.

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Please, please, please stop using that word.

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Originally Posted by Angelov-Mercy

Who knows, maybe if we collect a certain amount of pets they can dawn little instruments and play a preset song as like an emote with them gathered like a little band...you would have to set up the ones you would wish to play in the band and the song you wanted them to play from the music thing back at your Inn/home/FC room...and our toons would wave around a stick before them like a conductor. What do you think?

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That's way too intricate, over the top and unneccessary. Plus it's way too much effort for the devs so you can exclude it before even thinking about it.

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Originally Posted by Colino

Please, please, please stop using that word.



That's way too intricate, over the top and unneccessary. Plus it's way too much effort for the devs so you can exclude it before even thinking about it.

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I'm not sure why it would grieve you?

My idea was just something to unlock a perk like learning to fly on each new map. But less tedious.

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Originally Posted by Angelov-Mercy

I'm not sure why it would grieve you?

My idea was just something to unlock a perk like learning to fly on each new map. But less tedious.

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If by pets you mean minions then imagine all the work they'd have to do to add animations to every single minion in a style that would make sense to each minion. THAT is a lot of work.

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Originally Posted by Vanitas

If by pets you mean minions then imagine all the work they'd have to do to add animations to every single minion in a style that would make sense to each minion. THAT is a lot of work.

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It's just an idea, but the devs are creative artists, I'm sure they could work something out to our liking should the OP's project be undertaken.

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Originally Posted by Vanitas

Not everyone has half the means you described (console players with no PC such as myself I know it's easy for pcmasterracers to forget we exist but I digress) and believe me when I say it's not as enjoyable to play it of your phone or even with speakers/headphones as it is when its coming from the same monitor. Some people would just like that option. But yeah I stated before it took them years to give us the option to turn off battle music so I agree this would probably be very difficult for them to add.

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I'm probably the most poor player you'll ever talk to, it's manageable. Not if you buy it all at once, but over time. The cost of a PS4+XIV+Shadowbringers if preordered could cover the cost of a PC that runs XIV on medium settings.

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Originally Posted by Angelov-Mercy

It's Final Fantasy, it would have to be something charming, cute or beautiful. Something like a Bard who plays music, our toons would stop to open a locket or music box. Or possibly something we teach a pet to do. If our pets learned to play music and that little swirl of notes like is around the moogle weapons and songbird emote, and a preset song on a pets collar/locket could play maybe? Who knows, maybe if we collect a certain amount of pets they can dawn little instruments and play a preset song as like an emote with them gathered like a little band...you would have to set up the ones you would wish to play in the band and the song you wanted them to play from the music thing back at your Inn/home/FC room...and our toons would wave around a stick before them like a conductor. What do you think?

EDIT: Or following you around in a line like these cats in the video? https://youtu.be/lAIGb1lfpBw

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Thanks, now I want an army of cats playing music at my request....

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Originally Posted by Eriane_Elis

Make it available only with the 4 seater car mount and let other players nearby hear your music. I'm joking but it would be a hilarious joke patch.

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And give it an emote where the front end bounces up and down!