Perhaps a portable orchestrion player?

[Enkidoh]

Unfortunately, despite this being a very popular request from players I do not believe it can be implemented (SE are well aware of such a request, but I seem to recall Yoshi stating why such an addition cannot be done, but I have no citation for that).

As I understand it how the client plays music is it has two seperate channels set aside for BGM: a primary music channel for background music (that can often vary depending on the time of day or where you are in a zone), and a secondary channel for 'event' themes (such as battle music). When a secondary theme needs to play, it mutes but does not stop the primary channel, while cueing up the secondary, keeping the secondary channel cued but also muted when switching back to the primary. It appears the Orchestrion normally uses this secondary channel by default, thus muting the normal background music without actually replacing it (and cancelling it completely when the room with the Orchestrion is left).

Thus the problem with providing a portable Orchestrion; it would cause conflicts in the client with normal battle music and event themes that are required to play at a moment's notice (battle music isn't usually required to be played inside an Inn Room or private dwelling naturally so this wasn't considered a problem when the Orchestrion was first added to the game).

Thus due to the huge amount of recoding and changes under the hood required to implement such a portable Orchestrion, I sadly don't see SE adding such a player to the game alas (don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a portable Orchestrion, but I also understand why that cannot be unfortunately). May I be proven wrong though (and I want to be in this case)!