Audition

Audition is a client-side Fabric mod that thins out sound in noisy areas: mob farms, explosions and busy redstone builds. It drops distant and duplicate sounds before they start, so the sounds near you stay clear and fewer sounds compete for Minecraft's limited sound channels.

How it decides

Every sound request is checked before vanilla allocates a channel for it:

• Always plays: player, UI and voice sounds, sounds attached to you (such as music), and anything within 8 blocks.
• Always dropped: sounds more than 32 blocks away. Most vanilla sounds are already silent at that distance.
• In between (8–32 blocks):
  • If the same sound has already played this tick, repeats are dropped.
  • Each remaining sound gets a priority from its distance and category. Low-priority sounds are dropped. Quieter categories such as ambient and weather go first, and mobs and blocks are rarely affected at default settings.
  • The cut-off rises as more sounds are playing at once, so Audition gets stricter in noisy areas. Even in quiet areas, a few distant low-priority sounds can be dropped.

All the distances and weights are configurable.

Installation

Client-side only. Requires Fabric Loader and Fabric API. Put the JAR in your mods folder. It can be added to or removed from existing worlds at any time, and servers don't need it.