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SqueamishNerd
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

The Background Music Shouldn't Change Arrangement

You know how the background music changes its arrangement about every other time you go to another category in CAS and BB? Every piece of background music has 2-3 arrangements, one louder, one more quiet and sometimes one in between. I find it very annoying that the arrangement change every other time I click somewhere when building or creating sims. Is there any way to make it stop changing the arrangements?

Observe that I mean arrangements. This post is NOT about changing from one musical piece to another, it's about the different versions of the same musical piece.

9 Replies

  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @SqueamishNerd, my game usually just changes the piece of music entirely, so I have never noticed any different arraignments of the same piece!  ๐Ÿคจ

  • SqueamishNerd's avatar
    SqueamishNerd
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    @PugLove888 You mean that the piece of music changes entirely every other time you go to another category in CAS or BB?
  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @SqueamishNerd, not if I go into another category, but if I exit and re-enter.  Sorry for the confusion! ๐Ÿ˜ณ

    I was thinking about the arrangement changes you were experiencing and the only thing I can think of is if you do into detailed mode in CAS how the music a little more subtle, but this is on purpose.  I remember the developers mentioning this before the game was released as they were demonstrating CAS for TS4.๐Ÿ™‚ But that is as close to what you are experiencing that I have noticed. ๐Ÿค”

  • RandomBuzziness's avatar
    RandomBuzziness
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    @PugLove888I am one of those weirdos that likes the BB/CAS music. I'll even stay in those modes just to finish a song ๐Ÿ˜‰

  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @RandomBuzziness, I like B/B and CAS music as well!  Some songs more than others, of course, which is why when I exit either B/B or CAS and then reenter , only to find out the song changed, I get a little sad! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
    But the best B/B and CAS music was found in TS1 and TS2! โค๏ธ

  • SqueamishNerd's avatar
    SqueamishNerd
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    @PugLove888  It's probably supposed to work like that, i.e. the arrangement change when going from clothes to face and such big categories, but, at least in my game, it changes no matter which category I click on, and it's not the same arrangement for a specific category. For example: Loud arrangement -> clicks on makeup -> subtle arrangement -> clicks on accessories -> loud arr -> clicks on hair -> subtle arr -> clicks on makeup again (expect subtle arr since that's what it was last time) -> loud arr... It's not consistent and it changes almost every time I go from one category to another. The same in BB, it would kind of make sense if the arrangement changed when going between build and buy, but it changes for every category within build and within buy. How could they have designed it this way? As a kind-of-musician (playing the piano since I was little), and having musical synaesthesia, it just gets really annoying. I love the music, but I don't like it when the arrangement change back and forth all the time. ๐Ÿ™

    @RandomBuzziness  Yeah, I LOVE the music too, I also sometimes stay in CAS or BB just to listen 'til the end of a piece, especially the music from Vampires, StrangerVille, and Realm of Magic. ๐Ÿ˜ The thing that annoys me about the music is that the arrangement change when I click on different categories. I don't mind the different arrangements if I just got to listen to one at the time, but when it changes back and forth between the arrangements it gets annoying.

  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @SqueamishNerd, it is funny but I've never noticed the arrangements changing.  Normally I would notice something like that.๐Ÿค” But then again, I get really involved in making Sims, so I'm more likely to notice the music when I'm in Build or Buy Mode. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

    I love the music from those 3 packs as well! โค๏ธ I also really like the Cats & Dogs music as a nice bubbly contrast to those! ๐Ÿ˜‰

  • RandomBuzziness's avatar
    RandomBuzziness
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    @PugLove888 There is a song from the Romance Festival I love so much that I attend that festival every time it occurs just so I can hear that song xD I wish it was available on one of the radio stations.
  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @RandomBuzziness, thanks for the heads up!  I will have to listen for it the next time the Romance Festival comes up! ๐Ÿ™‚