Music for my players in game

**Haggar** · May 6th, 2018, 15:54

Greetings all,

This is my first post, a new member to these forums, heard a lot of good things. I'm putting together a module for my players, we use Skype for communication. Would anyone happen to know how I can include some background music for them (ie when in town have some nice village music, when in a dungeon it would be some creepy music, when in an Inn it would be classic tavern music)?

Thanks,

Haggar

**Trenloe** · May 6th, 2018, 16:06

Welcome to the forums!

Many people use various voice apps (Discord, Skype, TeamSpeak, etc.) to communicate with their players and they use virtual cable setups to send background music through the voice app to the players. All of the sound setup will need to be outside of FG - some info in post #2 here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...l=1#post182730

The main thing you can do in FG is have sound links that trigger playing music on your computer - through various apps. This extension is very useful for that:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...ound-Extension You will still need to setup your voice app to play sounds to your players, or have the players with the same sound app and files setup on their side.

**shadelon** · May 8th, 2018, 00:41

I still have yet to find any kind of solution for getting this working on discord. Everything seems to be all TeamSpeak this and that, and I hate teamspeak lol I want to use discord for my games.

**LordEntrails** · May 8th, 2018, 00:44

There are several threads on using FG and Discord for sounds. The one I think you want is; https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...ound-Extension

But if that's not it, try the Site Search link at the top of the page.

**shadelon** · May 8th, 2018, 00:57

First of all, that thing does not say what bots are needed, nor give a link to the specific bots I can see. Second, I want to use tabletop audio. I don't want to have to have the sound files on my computer. lol

**Zacchaeus** · May 8th, 2018, 01:06

Originally Posted by shadelon

First of all, that thing does not say what bots are needed, nor give a link to the specific bots I can see. Second, I want to use tabletop audio. I don't want to have to have the sound files on my computer. lol

A quick Google search might be in order then
https://www.google.co.uk/search?ei=p...QmiLcC3SRt8%3D

**shadelon** · May 8th, 2018, 01:09

Great, now the question is do any of those work with tabletop audio? lmao Only thing they seem to mention is youtube this and that. lol

**Trenloe** · May 8th, 2018, 01:27

Originally Posted by shadelon

Great, now the question is do any of those work with tabletop audio? lmao Only thing they seem to mention is youtube this and that. lol

That should be very similar if not the same - youtube is audio from a browser, tabletop audio is a audio from a browser - so your computer should see them as the same thing.

**shadelon** · May 8th, 2018, 01:35

I just tried it. Doesn't work. It just goes straight to youtube and tries to search for something similar.

**Trenloe** · May 8th, 2018, 02:10

Originally Posted by shadelon

I just tried it. Doesn't work. It just goes straight to youtube and tries to search for something similar.

Find a bot that allows you to specify links. This one mentions "play music from... direct links": https://fredboat.com/ I haven't tested it - but read up and it and give it a go.

Anyway - I'd recommend you search through some of the bots and find one that allows you to specify a web page to play music. Then you can use a link to play a track or playlist from tabletopaudio - info here: https://tabletopaudio.com/blog/2014/...ing_playlists/

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