World Use Datapacks To Make Music Less Laggy

Assumptions made: Judging by how inconsistent the lag is for the pauses in between notes in wynncraft's custom music, combined with the fact that the music lags more than the gameplay, I will be assuming in this suggestion that Wynncraft's music makes use of a datapack, plugin or command blocks, to /playsound each individual note in the music to the player. If that is not the case and wynncraft is already using datapacks, for their music, this post is redundant.


Suggestion: In 1.13, datapacks were added to the game. Among the many things datapacks are capable of doing, one of them is that datapacks are able to play a midi file to the player, in response to a single command being executed in game. Logically, this should make music less laggy, since it is one continuous track.

This is an example of custom music being added to the game with the use of datapacks:

Potential Problems:
1. Wynncraft could already be using datapacks
2. They may turn out to be just as laggy as playing each note individually, nobody has really done this before online, so there is no evidence that a datapack would be any better
3. Increase internet traffic due to having to download midi files when joining server? not really sure how datapacks work when their installed serverside, but since the client doesnt need to install it i assume that its done automatically?

 

When I get home I'll test this method and report how laggy it is, and I think the server sends sounds to the client on the fly atm (theyre using a music plugin)

 

If they could switch to data packs that would be amazing, because then they could start using some proper music!

 

What? The note block music is great, that makes it feel like a Minecraft mmorpg server. switching to music that's not note block would kinda ruin it. Although, it would be fine if the player could choose between note block music and non-noteblock music.

 

You can keep your note block music if you really want to lol XD

 

lol the thing is that the note block music is original and removing it wouldn't be a great thing.

 

im sure you can still use the niteblock music in datapacks, just making it less laggy

 

This would be a great addition if it made the noteblock music less laggy. The music in wynncraft is great but it also sucks when every other note has a whole second pause between it.

 

They could compile each note block song into one music file, then play it
Shouldn't be too hard since almost all of Wynncraft's soundtracks are already on youtube
example

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like what tig said

 

Someone may want to consider the space taken up by 3 or 4 hours of midi files.

 

yeah that's an actual problem

If they were to add this, they'd have to remove several tracks and only play a few, or shorten the tracks by a ton

 

Yes only if it works

 

Ok, I'm back from my testing, and after running a server locally, giving it a gigabyte of RAM to play around with (I imagine the actual wynn server has more, but it also has more events to deal with), the data pack music was just as, if not laggier than using a plugin to play the music. I should clarify that I tried both methods locally, craftbukkit server running 1.13.2 with a gigabyte of RAM. Also, another point of note is this would require all clients to use 1.13.2. Interesting idea but looks like unfortunately, it isn't going to work. :(

 

Well, if they use datapacks, we will have to play only in 1.13 and more not 1.9+

 

Turning each song into its own sound file would not be doable because it would have to replace pre-existing files, which is not a possibility (there have been discussions in the past about this).

It sounds like you think Data Packs can play MIDI files directly, and that either the client can download the MIDI and play it client-side, or the server can read the MIDI file and do the /playsound stuff accordingly.
MrGarrettto made a program that creates a Data Pack based on MIDI files. In-game, it does not play the MIDI file directly, but instead uses some timers and a lot of /playsound commands to play the music--which is what the current setup does.