True Music Jukebox

Are you tired of swapping cassettes and vinyls after every track? Is the effort to find batteries doing more damage to your sanity than the zombie apocalypse, itself? Well, now you can load hundreds of cassettes and vinyls from the infamous True Music into a handy multipurpose jukebox and dance until you’re undead! And the music syncs on multiplayer!

1. First remove and then unsubscribe from the old version of True Music Jukebox! (!!!)
2. Get True Music (and it’s prerequisites)
3. Subscribe to some good True Music track packs.
4. Find or build yourself an epic jukebox (but don’t forget electricity)!
5. Turn it on, fill it with cassettes and vinyls, and crank it up to ELEVEN! *

To use a jukebox, simply interact with it once after finding or placing it in the world and turn it on. This will convert the jukebox into a container object. After that, you can move (or "load") True Music cassettes and vinyls into the jukebox. Once tracks have been loaded, you can play them using either any loaded track’s inventory menu or the jukebox interaction menu. Powered jukeboxes will play continuously. You can create a queue of specific tracks that will play next in the loaded playlist, and you can lock the queue if you want to loop through a subset of loaded tracks.

Jukeboxes can hold ELEVENTY arbitrary Zomboid weight units (110 AZWU) of your finest tapes and vinyl records. There is no track limit.

By default, zombies will be attracted to the sound of the jukebox up to 50 squares away. The range at which zombies can hear a jukebox at full volume can be set using sandbox options.

* Jukebox sound is controlled by Ambient Volume in sound settings.

Jukeboxes can be given the power to improve the moods and health of players who hear them in many ways; they can even quench your thirst if you want them to be that magical. These features are off by default; enable them in sandbox options if they are up your alley!

This mod features icons to help people navigate its menus nonverbally. All buttons still do what their button text says they will do; buttons that say "play", "enable", or "turn on" do exactly that. However, the icon for buttons that toggle things on and off will reflect the CURRENT state of that option, not the state it will be in after it’s pressed. We made this decision because we wanted the icons to appear "on" when the associated toggle is "on" – e.g., the Jukebox icon is green when it’s on. This pattern can be inverted on our game options page.

Want to remotely access a jukebox’s playlist and queue? Simply enable portable jukebox keys via sandbox options, add a jukebox to your key ring via the jukebox’s main menu, and open the context menu on your (or any) key ring to control the box at any range. You may rename jukeboxes to remember locations more easily. Controller input is supported via the in-game keyboard.

In sandbox options, you can determine the audible sound range of the jukebox (a special setting exists for zombies); note, however, that our option for players will only work if you use our custom sound mode (the default sound mode of this mod). If you are using Project Zomboid’s 3D sound effects, however, be aware that we are not able to control the sound range; it will drop off in volume according to whatever is deemed realistic by Project Zomboid.

Want to get a jukebox as fast as possible? Just choose the Jukebox Hero trait at character creation, and you will spawn with a Jukebox Starter Kit for building your very own jam station! You will also learn a recipe for making jukeboxes out of scrap.

True Music boomboxes and cassette players use 3D audio effects that many people find annoying because they have excessive bias toward one ear, and that ear is often the wrong ear (it’s based on player position, not head orientation). We do not like the sound of that audio, so we replaced it with something we like much better. However, you may enable that form of 3D audio using both game options (for the individual level) and sandbox options (if you want to force your entire server to use the same 3D sound as True Music). Just be aware that we do not control the audible range of that sound mode.

We have spent many hours confirming that you will hear the same songs as other people, and tracks will change at almost the same time. Feel free to contact us if you believe you have ideas that can significantly improve this aspect of the mod!

We have not seen any desync in testing lately; however, if for some unexpected reason a jukebox does become desynced for one or more players, there are two things that will likely fix this. If the data is only wrong clientside, reconnecting should fix the issue; if the jukebox data is somehow corrupted serverside, then picking up a jukebox and putting it back down will reset its data.

True Music Jukebox now has its own page in the Game Options menu, where players can control a wide range of settings from jukebox volume to hiding menu options.

We want True Music Jukebox to be available to every player in every language! Please learn more via our permanent discussion about language support.

We will push feature updates on Sundays at 10 PM EST whenever those updates are ready.

Come join the True Music Jukebox community[discord.gg] on Discord! In the future, we plan to warn people there if we need to do an unscheduled update for any reason (such as bug fixes that we consider urgent). We are also able to respond to usage questions, bug reports, translation requests, and feature suggestions faster on Discord. Please join us!

This mod was written and will continue to be improved with compatibility as a high priority. It was tested alongside hundreds of mods, and it was fully compatible with all of them. It also integrates smoothly with Lifestyle: Hobbies. If you have any information regarding a potential incompatibility, please visit us on Discord and ping us!

You can add this midsave. Starter kits and manuals will not spawn in places that the server has already initialized with items.

Please read our Modpacks discussion.

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