Another terrible idea, involving the jukebox, and discs

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Licensing is an issue. A much bigger issue is the bandwidth cost of having large .ogg files streaming to everyone in range of the jukebox. This cuts into server performance and raises the actual cost of hosting this dumb game.

Last I heard, the host does not want us storing and streaming music files from the server. Obviously we occasionally do use an admin button to upload music from our own computers during an active round, but that's usually not done too often.

.xm, .mod, .s3m, .it and a couple other tracker formats are much friendlier in filesize, and .midi files are downright tiny. That said, I don't know if we'll ever be storing music on the server for the jukebox in any format. I'll ask around, but it's probably not going to happen.

" What happens if a person walks into the bar after a song has already started playing?"

They won't hear it. Figuring out an override for that would be an awful lot of work and I don't think it'll happen.

You can bullshit the rest of 'em, but not me. Limited use .OGGs and .MODs will not impact the server cost whatsoever, given that the former are stored at 96kbps for streaming and the latter are old as fuck. MODs can be played until the end of time without Rick getting a bump in any sort of server cost whatsoever.