✨ Feature Requests

I would like to see a estate level tab set up that mimics the sound tab in the land settings. This would allow you to change the media settings for music across an entire estate at the same time. This would allow the changing of ambient music across several regions with out the use of scripts or hopping from sim to sim. Even in a modest estate of 12 sims checking all the music urls can be a issue. One issue I can see with this type of request is some parcels on some estates should be exempt, like in rental sims. I would propose that there be a check mark at the parcel level that would exclude such changes, such as a setting check box that can be set by the tenet or others, maybe it would be a group ability to change this setting. An of course there would be a setting at the estate level that would exclude this ability.

Straightforward gaming feature, common to things like engine sounds--but also anything that "changes speed or intensity over time". I'd like to propose llAudioSoundPitch(float pitch_multiplier) This function would affect playback for the currently attached sound in the following way: final_pitch = sound_asset_pitch x emitter_pitch x sound_instance_pitch x pitch_multiplier Where final_pitch is the sound played by the viewer, sound_asset_pitch is the pitch sampled from the audio asset, emitter_pitch is any distortion up or down currently applied by the viewer due to motion, and sound_instance_pitch is the current multiplier already in place (if there is one). Defaults are 1 for everything except the original asset. Eg, subsequent calls of llAudioSoundPitch(0.5) at timed intervals will successively cut the pitch in half, altering the sound. In this way, a single sound file can be made to serve many uses, decreasing the need for "speed up", "slow down", "idle", "full speed" sound assets.

Right now, there is a problem with the special regions like Voice Echo Canyon, where there is no WebRTC-implemented way of echoing your own voice back to you. I suggest, that once voice echo is implemented in WebRTC, that having voice set to "echo" should be a thing that any parcel owner can set. This means any sandbox or other region could have voice echo parcels, essentially meaning that Voice Echo Canyon itself becomes unneeded as a region, and could potentially be shut down, as its functionality is now available to everyone who has a parcel to spare.

I'm not sure when this may have changed, but there's no longer any option available for notifications of what is currently playing on the Music or Media stream where you are in-world. I really miss these, as I like to know what song a DJ is playing in case it's one I'd like to acquire for my music collection. 🙂 (Apologies if this is a duplicate request — I did try searching, but couldn't find anything relevant.)

I have moved several of my regions to the WebRTC beta. While there are many improvements there is a noticeable step down in bitrate quality. I would like to see a higher bitrate implemented.

Separate the sound slider / mute buttons for Avatar and World sound sources. I am rather disatisfied with having to mute "sounds" in world at music clubs and social venues when people get spammy with gesture or have objects on their persons that emit repetitive, annoying sounds. This has the effect of muting ALL SOUND sources which is less than ideal when i just want to listen to a DJ's music or relax to the ambient sounds, waves on the beach, birds or what ever else is in the area.

As more and more online radio station offer - sometimes exclusively so - AAC streaming audio (likely mostly for it's higher quality bitrates equal to MP3 streams) it'd be nice for parcel audio to have support for that as well.

Although some of the default collision sound effects are quite good, the most commonly heard sound (caused by avatars bumping into wood) has a resonant quality that doesn't occur when a shoe bumps into a wall in real life. Since it is heard so often, updating this one sound effect would have an outsized impact on the qualitative experience of using SL for all users. This is not a request for the default material to be changed away from wood. Although metal might make more sense for sci-fi builds, and I personally use stone (as Firestorm allows overriding it), wood has always been a reasonable neutral starting point. This is also not a request for viewer overrides for the default collision sounds—there are quite a few and the UI would be a lot of work for something so obscure. I know how to use llCollisionSound(). I just really think the default needs to be improved, as it is ancient but prominent.

Create a prim box or sphere, as you enter it you near 100% audio of what ever is defined in a script/edit panel/etc when you have multiple ones overlapping they will mix as you move through them and as you attinuate as you move further away but instead like now where it's a single point of audio it's a volume of audio. to help expand on the depth and detail of scenes Details are below (if you know you know where i go this from) Emitter Shape - Choose between a point emitter or a volumetric emitter (also known as an audio volume) if you want a sound to fill a bigger or smaller area. Choose from the following: Point - A point emitter is appropriate for smaller, focused sounds that originate from a specific coordinate. Cuboid - A volumetric emitter, shown as a green box. Cuboid Size controls how far the sound goes before falling off. Enter XYZ values to change the sound shape. A typical use of a cuboid is filling a larger space with ambient sound, whether that is a room in a building or an outdoors environment. For example, a field of crickets at night. Sphere - A volumetric emitter, shown as a green ball. Similar to the cuboid type, you can specify a Sphere Radius that determines how much area the sound fills before falling off. A sphere is useful to fill curved spaces where a cuboid may feel unnatural.

Can we get a sound generator like llParticleSystem() and llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast() but with sounds instead of particles? Like llSoundSystem() ... Or whatever is appropriate for the purpose; I'm not a sound expert ... Even with some simple beeping you can still compose melodies or just beep; with a more sophisticated version, we could have sound effects for scripted objects; and a new form of art would be invented.