FATE Music Player

Take over the soundtrack of FATE Reawakened. FATE picks music from slots — town, dungeon, Fate events, main menu — and this mod lists every track in each slot so you can keep it, mute it, replace it, or add your own.

Everything lives in pause menu → Mod Settings → FATE Music Player.

Each song is one row

Part of the row	What it does
▶	Plays the first five seconds, with FATE's own music stepped aside. Press ■ to stop.
Title	The track's name.
Select	Pins this track to its location: whenever FATE asks for that slot, your pick plays instead of the shuffle. Only one song per slot can be selected.
Check box	On/off. A song turned off is skipped from then on.
Loop timer	Seconds of the song's end that overlap its start. At 0 the song ends and starts again at the loop point, like the game. Turn it up and the end melts into the beginning, so a track that does not loop cleanly still runs without a seam. Dragging it, or using the arrows, plays the song's ending into its start at the new overlap so you can judge it by ear.

Every category heading has a Defaults button that puts that category's toggles and selection back, and clears the loop timers.

What else you can do

• ADD SONG under a category opens a file window; pick an .ogg, .wav or .mp3 and it joins that category with the same preview, select, toggle and loop-timer rows.
• EXPORT SONG PACK writes a complete Thunderstore package of the songs you added, keeping the categories and slots you gave them.
• RESCAN SONG PACKS after dropping a pack in by hand.

Slots you never touch keep vanilla behaviour, including the game's own fades and shuffle.

This mod's music obeys the game's own Music volume slider (Options): turn it down and every track, preview and loop-timer blend follows, exactly like FATE's own soundtrack. There is deliberately no second, per-song volume setting.

Song packs

Install a pack like any other Thunderstore mod. Its songs appear under their own categories and compete only inside the location slot they declare. Packs are additive by design:

• Installing a pack adds rows; it never rewrites your selections or your own songs.
• A pack's songs are identified by the pack folder, so removing the package removes exactly those rows and leaves everything else as it was.

Pack authors: see PACK_FORMAT.md. A pack can ship a loopSeconds per song, and whoever installs it can still tune the loop timer by ear.

Where things are stored

Path	Contents
BepInEx/config/FateMusicPlayer/library.json	Only the changes you made (toggles, picks, loop timers) plus songs you added.
BepInEx/plugins/FateMusicPlayer/packs/<pack>/	Installed song packs.

Requirements

BepInEx 5 (BepInEx-BepInExPack-5.4.2305) and FATE Mod Menu 0.4.0 for the settings screen and its song rows. Without the menu the mod loads but has nowhere to show its list.

FATE Mod Menu is a package dependency (MikhailKillsZombies-FATE_ModMenu-0.4.2), so a mod manager installs it with this mod; only a hand-installed copy needs the menu dropped into the same profile. Song packs do install this mod automatically — every exported pack declares MikhailKillsZombies-FATE_MusicPlayer-<version> as a dependency.

Known limits

• Music is selected per location slot. Two different locations that share one slot in the game share one list.
• The menu shows up to about 250 songs in total (one row each, against the menu's 256-setting cap); larger collections are reported in a note.
• The loop timer overlaps on a second audio source, so a blended song cannot use the game's own fade-out for that slot.
• Files are decoded on first use, so the first play of a custom song can be silent for a frame or two. A decode that fails is named in the log, with the reason, and tried again after ten seconds, so a file that was briefly unreadable recovers without a restart.