Music and Melody

Summary

Music and Melody is an easy-to-use, incredibly powerful & customisable music overhaul

Music Player. Browse, install and play any vanilla, modded or custom music with a fully-fledged music player. Queue, Shuffle, Loop and save any music, any time
Control. Easily disable tracks or albums you don't want to hear, and create Events for those that you do
Events. Control how your music plays. Make entire custom music systems that replace vanilla, listen to structure-specific music, revert music to the old days - really, anything you can think of! And you can do it all right in-game, even if you're not a developer! There are a plethora built-in Events can be enabled or disabled at your will
Soundtrack Expansion. This includes a large, custom Music & Melody Album, featuring dozens of new songs tailored for each location they're added to - whether it be biome-specific, structure-specific, for caves or even somewhere else, all created by community composers
Fix Vanilla Shortcomings. Recent updates have destroyed the weighting and balance of music, both new and old, and this is only getting worse in new updates. Music and Melody not only reweights every music pool, but adds additional fixes for vanilla bugs (such as creative music not playing when it should), and additional quality of life features (including Jukeboxes no longer overlapping with background music)
bring your own music. Importing music is handled in-game and is incredibly easy, with support for .ogg, .mp3, .flac & .wav formats across all Music & Melody features
extensible resource-driven features. Resource Pack, Mod and Modpack developers alike can make entire custom music projects with detailed music playback conditions and high configurability, all through Music and Melody's resource-driven features as documented on the wiki

Check out the Gallery for images, and check out the Wiki for comprehensive documentation on Albums, Playlists, Events & Themes, alongside a full player Guide!

Music Player

Yep, that's right - Music & Melody both overhauls and extends control of music playback systems and gives you an entirely self-contained music player alongside it!

Albums

Music and Melody introduces Albums, and lets you view and edit all available Albums in a new menu accessed from the sounds or mod config screen.

Here, you can view all unique albums, whether they're from vanilla (every vanilla album is included, alongside Music & Melody's own new one!), Music and Melody or a supported resource pack / mod. You are able to enable and disable entire albums, or even individual tracks at your leisure. Whilst browsing an album, you can play any song to drag that Album right into your Now Playing, or add it to your custom queue. Further, if you're a player, you can easily drag any .ogg file you want into config/music_and_melody/album to have it appear in-game.

Albums are entirely resource-driven, so check out Album documentation on the wiki!

Custom Playlists & The Music Player

Playlists and Albums go hand-in-hand. You can queue any song into the game, control your Custom Playlist and even save and share it with friends!

The Music Player screen allows you to shuffle, loop, skip re-order and everything else you'd expect from a fully-fledged music app. To bring up your current playlist, simply press the bound keybind (default: H) or access it from the pause or title screen. Playlists can even be dynamically loaded through your own events!

Playlists are entirely resource-driven, so whether you're a player or developer you should check out the Playlist documentation.

Events

Events are a unique, built-in-editable way of controlling dynamic music playback. The event system is so comprehensive that it makes both vanilla and modded ways of playing custom music in-world (eg for biomes, structures, etc) entirely redundant. You can check for various conditions like the time of day, weather, dimension, etc.

Events can be edited in-game from the Events menu, accessed from the Playlist or config screen. A guide on doing so can be found with the Event documentation.

Built-in event presets, made entirely within the client-side event system, which can be enabled or disabled in-game, include:

Stronghold music
Ancient City music
Wither music
Snowy music
Dark Forest music
Savanna music
Sky Music
Cave Music
Ocean Monument Music
Woodland Mansion Music
Nether Fortress Music
Trial Chambers Music
Classic C418-only preset (defaults to disabled)

Themes

If you don't like how the menu looks, you can fix that easily by changing to another theme, or making your own. See the Theme documentation.

Config

Location:

all config files (and folders) are located in config/music_and_melody
client config is config/music_and_melody/client.json5
data config (stores internal data, should not be touched by users) is config/music_and_melody/data.json5
server config (optional features when installed on the server) is config/music_and_melody/server.json5
custom albums / imported music is stored in config/music_and_melody/albums/[album_name]
custom playlists should be stored, and are generated (if saved in-game) in config/music_and_melody/playlists
custom events should be stored, and are generated (if saved in-game) in config/music_and_melody/events

Client Config Features:

Music Rebalance. The reweighting of every vanilla music pool with an emphasis on restoring variety and reducing repetition added by poor decision-making in recent updates (see this explanation and MC-308155 for context). This does include re-adding C418 music to biomes Mojang removed certain tracks from, making common tracks slightly rarer, and rarer tracks more common, and a ton more smaller changes
Jukebox Fading. When you're listening to a music disc, background music temporarily fades away
Fade Speed. The speed at which music fades in and out between using Jukeboxes or switching Events
Creative Fix. A fix for MC-299683, restoring the ability for Creative music to play in all Overworld biomes. You can also tag a biome in #music_and_melody:has_creative_music if you want a non-Overworld biome to have this fix
Under Water Fix. Based on the Creative Fix, this fixes MC-306710 and enforces the under-water-exclusive music being able to play in all rivers and oceans. You can also tag a biome in #music_and_melody:has_under_water_music if you want a non-river or non-ocean biome to have this fix
Event Weight Fix. This fixes a flaw (not necessarily a bug) in vanilla code that makes sounds.json files ignore the weight specified for "type": "event". The fix is only applied to entries that specify an explicit weight, ensuring safe compatability with vanilla & modded sound pools, whilst allowing Music and Melody to utilise this fix in its own pools. This also allows the further fixing of Creative music frequency, seeing as Creative music references the music.game sound event
Menu Buttons. Whether the Music Player icon-button should be added to the Title and Pause screens
Automatic Discs. Whether Album-less mod discs should populate a fallback Mod Discs album
Allow Events. Whether the Event system should function
Online Functionality. Whether internet-dependant features should function

Features that require Music and Melody to also be installed on the server:

Count Disc Uses. Whether putting a disc in a Jukebox should count as using the disc. Used for determining whether a music disc is unlocked for survival-mode playback
Sync Structures. Whether structure information should be tracked and sent to the client. Used for Events with structure-specific conditions
Improved PvE Detection. Whether the server should provide clients with more reliable PvE tracking detection for the pve_score event

Once again, for further documentation, you should check out the Wiki!

If you have any feedback, issues or contributions, you're welcome to open an issue or pull request on the GitHub page

Music and Melody has full integration with Simple Music Control, which offers additional features such as fancier music popups and customisable music frequency, down to the second! Further, Simple Music Control provides now-playing popups and no-loading-interruptions playback for 1.21.1

If you're a composer, or you just think you've found some fitting music you'd like to see added, open an issue or reach out to me on Discord as @rebel459

If you'd like some new music discs, also check out Legacies and Legends!

Music Credits

F7c82 - https://www.youtube.com/@F7c82

Shauny Jang - https://www.shaunyjangaudio.com

Jorclai - https://www.youtube.com/@Jorclai

Soul_ - https://www.youtube.com/@soulwynmc

bhuv_ - https://www.youtube.com/@bhuv_

Firel - https://www.youtube.com/@FirelMusic

Technotech - https://www.youtube.com/@technotechmusic

Johan Johnson - https://minecraft.wiki/w/Johan_Johnson

Antimo & Welles - https://www.youtube.com/antimowelles

Freja Nelson - https://www.youtube.com/@frejanelson