Jukebox
From Roll20 Wiki
The Jukebox is the fourth tab of the Sidebar. This feature allows the GM to accesses the sounds and music from Tabletop Audio, Incompetech, BattleBards, and Fanburst.
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Finding and Adding Audio Tracks to the Jukebox
From the Jukebox, click the +Add button, then select Track from the revealed sub-menu to open a popup window with tabs for audio source options. There are tabs for the current four sources of audio we have available through Roll20: Tabletop Audio, BattleBards, Incompetech, Fanburst.
Regardless of what audio tab you're searching under, you can always preview individual tracks by pressing the Play button.
Tabletop Audio
Tabletop Audio is a site created to provide 10-minute-long background audio tracks for RPG gaming sessions. Roll20 has teamed up with Tabletop Audio to incorporate their library of audio and music into the Roll20 Jukebox. You can find out more about them on their site: http://tabletopaudio.com
From the Tabletop Audio tab, use the Search For: drop-down menu to filter the Tabletop Audio tracks available. You can narrow down your search by genre (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Historical, Modern, Nature, Horror, and Music are the currently available genre options).
BattleBards
BattleBards is another site partnered with Roll20 to bring you a portfolio of audio and music tracks integrated inside Roll20's Jukebox.
From the BattleBards tab, use the Search For: drop-down menu to filter the BattleBards tracks available. You can narrow down your search by track category (Monsterscapes, Music, NPC Scripts, Racial Languages, Sound Effects, and Soundscapes are the currently available category options).
Incompetech
Incompetech is a site created by Kevin MacLeod that houses a prolific library of music tracks that he has composed and made available to the public. All of Incompetech tracks are shared under a Creative Commons license: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. The Roll20 Jukebox has a collection of over 1,000 different Incompetech music tracks that spans a large variety of genre types.
From the Incompetech tab, use the Search For: to search via keyword. At present, keywords only seek out ones that are in the track title. We recommend going to Incompetech's site directly for more enhanced search options that are categorized by Feel, Tempo, Genre, and Length. Once you find the tracks you want, enter their titles in the keyword search of the Track Selection Window to bring them up.
 | Note: Most of Incompetech's library has been imported to Roll20's and in most cases, you should be able to find the track you want after searching through Incompetech's website. However, some of MacLeod's works are hosted on other royalty free/creative commons resource sites. Due to exclusivity reasons, these tracks may not be available in Roll20's Jukebox. Also, Incompetech's library is constantly updated with new works as Kevin MacLeod creates them, so a recently made new track may not have been uploaded to Roll20's library yet. |
Using Your Own Music/Sounds through Fanburst
Fanburst is a free online service for musicians and creators to upload and share their music: Unlimited uploads for artists, unlimited streaming for fans. Roll20 has integrated Fanburst so that you can stream audio from their extensive library into your own games.
From the Fanburst tab, use the Search For: field to search via keywords. At present, keywords only seek out ones that are in the track title.
| Note: Fanburst’s TOS prohibits the streaming of copyrighted content. Upload at your own risk. |
Transferring SoundCloud Audio to Fanburst
In September of 2016, SoundCloud, the principle music resource utilized by the Roll20 Jukebox since its inception, privatized their API access. This prevented Jukebox playback for any tracks hosted by them in the Roll20 Jukebox. If you had hosted your own audio on SoundCloud for use in Roll20 games, there is a one-click option available to copy your SoundCloud library to Fanburst when you create a Fanburst account.
Presently, if you have any SoundCloud tracks in a campaign, these will remain listed in your Jukebox. You will not be able to play them, but you will retain the ability to obtain the SoundCloud URL of these tracks. Clicking on the Cloud icon that appears when you hover over a track will open up the SoundCloud URL in a new browser tab.
Adding Tracks to Your Game
Add your desired music/sound tracks to your campaign's Jukebox library by clicking the + button that hovers over the track listing (this is directly to the right of the play button). This adds the track at the bottom of your track list in the Jukebox.
Organizing Your Jukebox Audio Tracks
Once you begin adding audio to your Jukebox, you're likely to create a very robust library of audio tracks before too long. There are several methods Roll20 gives you to keep all your tracks organized.
Renaming Tracks
You can rename a track once it has been added to the Jukebox tab of the Sidebar. To rename it, hover over its entry in the Jukebox until it highlights in yellow. A type cursor will also appear. Click anywhere over the title to make it editable. Type a new name for the track and press Enter to save the change.
Rearranging Tracks
When you hover your mouse over any audio track in the Jukebox, an icon displaying three horizontal lines will appear to the left of the track listings. This icon is the handle for the track. Clicking and dragging this icon allows you to rearrange the order of current track list.
Removing Tracks from the Jukebox
To remove tracks from your Jukebox, right click the Track title in your Jukebox to reveal a sub-menu. Click the "Delete Item" option to remove the track from your Jukebox.
Creating Playlists
Very similar to Journal Folders in functionality, you can create folders within Jukebox's track list called Playlists. Beyond simply keeping batches of related tracks together for organization purposes, a Playlist can be played directly. This allows you to cycle play through various tracks without manually having to stop and start playback manually.
To add a track to a Playlist folder, click and drag the track's handle icon to move items into the folder. You can pull tracks out or swap tracks between Playlists in the exact same fashion.
One thing to note about The Jukebox Playlist system is that it is only 1 level deep, sub-folders are not available in the Jukebox.
Adding Playlists
Click the + Add button, and then click Playlist. A popup window will appear to prompt you to give the folder a Name. Click Ok to add the named folder to your Jukebox.
Playlists Options
Right click on a Playlist to reveal these folder options: Sort A-Z, Rename Folder, or Delete Folder.
- Sort Playlist Tracks: Choose Sort A-Z to organize the tracks within your Playlist in alphanumerical order.
- Rename Playlist: Choose Rename Folder to rename that Playlist. This will bring up the name popup window that you saw before when you first created the Playlist.
- Delete Playlist: Choose Delete Folder when you want to remove the Playlist entirely. Deleting a Playlist does not remove its track contents. All tracks that were within the folder are moved to the root Playlist (The default Jukebox track list).
Popping-Out the Jukebox into a New Browser Window
You can pop-out the Jukebox to a new browser window. To do this, double click on the Jukebox icon at the top of the Jukebox tab of the Sidebar.
Playing Music/Sounds in Game
Any tracks added to your game can be played by pressing the play button next to the track or playlist in the Jukebox tab of the Sidebar. All players in the session will be able to hear the sounds. You can play more than one file at a time and all individual files can be looped by pressing the loop icon next to the track. Each track has its own volume control which can be used to normalize their volume.
Play from Playlists
Playlists have additional play options. Next to the name of the playlist you'll find a "Play" button as well as a toggle for the "Play Mode" of the playlist.
Back to Back
"Back to Back" indicates that each track will be played individually one after another. When the end of the playlist is reached, it will start again from the beginning. If an individual track is looped within the active playlist, using this option will cause the individual track to keep looping when the playlist gets to that track.
Shuffle
"Shuffle" indicates that the tracks will be played in a random order. Order is synchronized across clients, so that tracks will play in the same order for everyone. The playlist will continue playing shuffled until you pause it manually. You should not use looped tracks with this option or it will just loop the same track over and over.
All at Once
"All At Once" indicates that all tracks in the playlist will start playing once the playlist is began. Note that it is up to each track's individual loop settings to determine if it will loop after it plays once. You can mix and match looped and unlooped tracks with this option.
Now Playing Widget
At the top of the Jukebox is a small "Now Playing" widget. This tool is visible to players in game and will only display tracks that are currently playing. Pressing "Play" will add tracks to the widget and GMs can stop directly from this widget.
Play on Load
There is a new option under the Page Settings dialog box at the bottom which will allow you to choose a Jukebox track or Playlist which will automatically play when you move the players to the page. Note that this only takes effect when a GM moves the Player Ribbon to the page, not for the "split the party" feature (since the Jukebox is global, not player-specific).
Master Volume Control
In addition to the Game Master's control of individual track volume in the Jukebox tab, each person connected to the game can also use the Master Volume Control located under the My Settings tab to control the volume level of all music being played.
