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AzureAzule
5 years ago

Music playlist doesn't seem to shuffle

Product: Command & Conquer Remastered
Platform:Steam-PC
Summarize your bug The music tracks played aren't random. The game "shuffles" the playlist, but then uses that exact playlist and plays the same songs in the same order pretty much for every mission.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Enable "shuffle" in the jukebox options and play a mission, you'll hear the same songs in the same order all the time. This also occurs when using the "=" key to skip to the next track.
What happens when the bug occurs? the same songs in the same order all the time.
What do you expect to see? The music track played to be completely random

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I believe I have the settings correct, but the music playlist doesn't seem to shuffle. I am playing on Steam and have also attached a screenshot of my options menu. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

6 Replies

  • SnakeheadMonste's avatar
    SnakeheadMonste
    5 years ago
    @AzureAzule hey buddy, quick question.

    from the screenshot attached, i can see that you multiple tracks which plays almost identical music, could you remove the current playlist and just added a couple of tracks with different theme music and check, if the music player works as intended?

    well, the music player maybe shuffling to next tracks, but.. because you have a lot of tracks that sound similar, you may feel it is not working.

  • AzureAzule's avatar
    AzureAzule
    5 years ago

    I'll look into that, that's actually not a bad idea. It seems to me that the playlist does shuffle the playlist around, but after it shuffles, it continues to play the same tracks. The music was the same for many of the missions I played, but I've since found some missions that changed the playlist, though the game still continued to play the same tracks in a row. 

    So, here's a kind of example explanation:

    Not shuffled playlist looks like (as seen in screenshot):

    Track 1

    Track 2

    Track 3

    Track 4

    Track 5

    Track 6

    Track 7

    Track 8

    Track 9

    Track 10

    Shuffled playlist (example):

    Track 7

    Track 4

    Track 9

    Track 3

    Track 6

    Track 2

    Track 8

    Track 1

    Track 10

    Track 5

    Then the game will play the exact same tracks listed in the order of the shuffled playlist. Perhaps it's just my expectation of what "shuffle" means. I expected the game to play a random song on the playlist. Instead, it takes the tracks in the playlist and shuffles them and then plays that same playlist in pretty much every mission. I'll see about experimenting more and get back to you.

    Thanks for the reply!

  • SnakeheadMonste's avatar
    SnakeheadMonste
    5 years ago
    @AzureAzule well buddy, its a remastered game. maybe thats the intended behavior of a shuffled track, due to the game engine limitation.

    yes please, do experiment a little and let me know... i would also learn something different. :D
  • AzureAzule's avatar
    AzureAzule
    5 years ago

    So, I created a new smaller playlist with tracks that I would most easily recognize as I can't recall the title of each track, but some are easy to know, like "Act on Instinct" and "Hell March." I've included a screenshot of the playlist and options. I loaded a saved game and listened to the playlist, while skipping to get a sense of what tracks were playing. For brevity's sake, the game played "Untamed Land," "Fight, Win, Prevail," and "Act on Instinct." I loaded another save and it played the same tracks in the same order. I think perhaps it's not really a "bug," but it just doesn't function as I expected. It does shuffle the playlist, obviously, but it saves that shuffled playlist and plays it with each track in the same order every time. You may be right about the game engine.

    Thanks for the reply!

  • AzureAzule's avatar
    AzureAzule
    5 years ago

    Is that the intended behavior? It seems so, which means this isn't a bug and I just thought "shuffle" meant it would play a random music track, like when you listen to a CD on "shuffle." Thanks again for the reply!

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