[GRO] Lullaby Build Song Plays Constantly

for completions sake could you please add tags for mod usage (if you use any or not) 

Forums wouldn't let me log in for a few days but they're added now. (Great job on the new forums, EA!)

Semi update, semi-secondary-bug-report, but now the song from Businesses and Hobbies that sounds beat-for-beat like The World is Not Enough by Garbage plays nearly every time I'm in buy mode, so I suspect it may have the same or a similar issue. The lullaby song is also still ever present. And I don't mind it (and in fact its one of my favorite sims compositions ever), so I didn't mention it, but Rodeo Time Again from Horse Ranch does the same thing. It's so much more often than other songs with these that it CANNOT be a statistical coincidence.

Hello all,

If any of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)? If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.

Instructions can be found here. Please also include a link to the thread the save is for.

Thanks!

I've sent a link to my save file alongside two streamable videos of the offending growing together song(s), I believe they are two separate songs but they're both annoying lullabys so I forget to actually listen to see if they're the same or not lol

In the DM I mention opening/closing buy mode repeatedly to see what plays, and getting the lullaby song pretty frequently, but forgot to note that simply letting the songs cycle I definitely get it in the first 3 songs nearly every single time.

Update on this: The song is actually a base game song that came with the Infants update alongside Growing Together. There are two nearly-identical songs. I suspect the small number of base game themes means this one appears to play more often than other pack themes, as base game themes are played more often than all pack themes in general.

So the game says "Time to pick a new song" and the base game is weighted significantly higher than any packs, so 9 times out of 10, it'll play a base game song. Then because there's only so many base game songs, 20% of the time, it'll be one of these two nearly-identical horribly out-of-style songs. 

I have created a mod to remove them entirely from the game. I don't know that this counts as a bug so much anymore but it still should be addressed IMO as it does diminish the experience of using build mode when such mismatched music can play so often.

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These are the two songs. They are base game. By nature of Base Game songs being weighted more heavily to play than Pack songs, and these two songs sounding completely different from Base Game songs, they play more often than other not-base-game-coded music, and they stick out severely due to there being two of them.

2x songs with unique sound added into the limited number base game song list that plays more often than any other music = far more frequent playing of "odd" sounding music

It's not a bug explicitly at this point but it's a design consideration that might warrant some looking into, and this is the information required to understand it

I also experience this issue on Xbox. It becomes so repetitive, I have to turn the in-game music off. 

I would love to see an optional music mini-player in the BB/CAS/WORLD UI. Could be a simple drop-down style, so it doesn't clutter things up. This way players could skip songs when they need better inspirational tunes!

I can't tell you how jarring it is to be in BB creating a cozy cottage in Henford-on-Bagely to suddenly have the "Spooky" music start playing. It really kills the mood and switches off any creative flow I had. I understand we have the option to remove which songs play, but I would prefer a skip button integrated into the existing UI too.

Overall, I wish the BG songs were not tagged to be played more often. Even if I like the songs, I burn out on them more quickly because they play too often.