Enhanced Music and Control

Enhanced Music & Control -------- Enhanced Music & Control is an OBSE plugin that enhances Oblivion\'s music playback and provides script commands to further extend manipulation functionality to scripters. Its still a work in progress, but the progress has come far enough along that I\'m now ready to get input on it. This release adds commands for manipulating playlists, allowing you to build your own and replace the default music. Create new music for your mod\'s world, and swap out the Explore music with your\'s. Got a maddening boss? Swap the battle music with your boss\'s theme. Well, you can do that now in this release. Take a look at the Commands List in the download for the list of available commands and their usage. This release requires Oblivion 1. 2. 0416 and OBSE version 15, simply because its the version I was working with. I\'ve not tested it with other OBSE versions, but give it a try if you desire. -------- What It Does -------- What it does passively: EMC effectivly removes control of Oblivion\'s music from the game\'s own code and places it solely in the hands of the plugin. None of the game\'s functions are used to play the music. A DirectShow powered player within the plugin renders the music in it\'s place. This gives the plugin absolute control of how the music is rendered and gives the capability of enhanced effects such as fading between tracks and resuming a previous track from earlier. From a gameplay stand point, some of the first things you\'ll notice is that the previous track will resume after a battle is concluded. This prevents short Mud Crab beatdowns from interupting the regular exploration music. This is great if you have enjoyable custom music and get aggrevated that it gets cut off by battles before it gets to the good part. You\'ll be able to listen to the entire track all the way through to the end even if you continue to run into minotaurs and timber wolves over and over. :P This was the main reason I wrote the plugin. Kept stopping my lovely Eternal Sonata music... Further, short music changes will result in a resume as well. So, if you pop into an Inn (and the music changes as a result) then decide you don\'t need to do anything there and immediately exit, if it was within 10 seconds, the previous track will resume instead of a new one being selected. It also does it with battle music too, so if you kill one guard and exit battle, then get spotted by some more, the battle music will start back up where it left. Its really cool! I\'m unsure if this was an issue in vanilla Oblivion, but each song in each music type\'s playlist will play once before you\'ll hear a song again, and the playlist is automatically reshuffled after each full playthough. You\'re guaranteed not to hear the same song twice in a row or too quickly in succession (unless, of course, your playlist only has one or two song in it). The more music you have, the better it all work