Ideas

Rising Rookie

5 months ago

Status:

Under Investigation

[ECO] Song ends with minutes of silence

Not sure if this issue has been brought up, but there is a track in Eco Lifestyle that after it fades out, it just remains quiet for nearly four minutes until the next track starts. The song is roughly ~3m 52s

Using simmer created tools, I discovered it has an instance # 0xC395A399C9DD0E42 and has a duration of 07m 45s.

Not sure if video links can be posted, but it's this song...

https://youtu.be/ZJWljvM6hF4?si=POf4tAT-kuyfCyyO

I am on the most current version:

PC: 1.116.240.1020
Mac: 1.116.240.1220

and this does occur on both PC and MAC versions. I do not have it on console so I cannot confirm there. It happens regardless of mods installed or not.

This issue isn't game breaking, but it ruins the immersion of the game with building and all of a sudden silence.

Edit By Crinrict: Added missing pack tag to title.

build and buy

cc or mods removed

mac

4 Comments

crinrict
Hero+
5 months ago
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SimsTime
Seasoned Ace
5 months ago
One of the Build/Buy mode music tracks introduced with the Eco Lifestyle expansion contains an unusually long period of silence — approximately 4 minutes — at the end of the track. This causes Build/Buy music to effectively stop playing for several minutes until the next song in the playlist begins. The game still registers that music is playing, but there's no sound during that time.
This disrupts the flow of the soundtrack and gives the impression that the music has stopped altogether.
This is the sound (without the bug): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJWljvM6hF4&list=PLZutfZtkMx7cu274SMEQm3AR6wHfmjc_0&index=2
Track Instance ID: 0xC395A399C9DD0E42
In fact, a mod was recently created to fix this: https://modthesims.info/d/692299/eco-lifestyle-music-fix.html
However, ideally this should be fixed by Maxis. Thank you.
crinrict
Hero+
5 months ago
Status changed:
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Under Investigation
MaliceMismanager
New Novice
2 months ago
Is that why this happens?? I've been wondering for so long omg 😭 Thanks for the mod link, hopefully it still works