Sophisticated Pulse-Eloquent Acoustic Kymatologic Eidolon Reverberator

🎶 ...or just sPEAKer

This is sPEAKer, my first ever mod!

Unlike the bugle, sPEAKer is an independent audio source. You can just press play and enjoy your music. Drop it, toss it around, audio will just not stop!

_{sPEAKer at the PEAK.}

The main feature of this mod is that it works as a true portable speaker. Instead of playing 2D music for everyone, it leverages spatial audio to make it part of the immersive experience of PEAK.

_{It won't stop playing if you drop it.}

Additionally, it supports MP3 and WAV out-of-the-box on top of your regular OGG files.

You can also download mixtapes from the Thunderstore or put together your own and share with friends, or even upload them too!

🎮 Controls

Playback control uses your regular interaction buttons, whatever they are.

• Primary: Play/Pause toggle

• Secondary: Next Song

• Scroll: Volume Up/Down

Note: The following actions are not Controller compatible.

• Shift + Secondary: Previous Song

• Ctrl + Secondary: Toggle Shuffle

• Alt + Secondary: Cycle Loop modes

• P: Activate Drone Mode

• Local Volume Control: Is available via Pause Menu:

  

  This slider only affects your own playback.

Manual Installation

1. Install BepInEx for PEAK
2. Install required dependencies:
   • PEAKLib.Items
   • PEAKLib.Core
   • SoftDependencyFix
   • MonoDetour_BepInEx_5
   • MonoDetour
3. Place the mod files in your BepInEx plugins folder
4. Launch PEAK

Adding Music

After launching PEAK, your main music folder will be created:

.../plugins/onlystar-sPEAKer Music

You can place audio files directly in it, or you can use mixtapes.

📀 Introducing: Mixtapes

A mixtape is simply a folder containing your collection of audio files.

Just create a new folder inside your main music folder (onlystar-sPEAKer Music) and drop your songs in it. The name of the folder will be used as the mixtape's name by default.

Optionally, you can also include a mixtape.json file inside your mixtape folder:

  {
    "name":  "Undertale Bosses",
    "author":  "onlystar"
  }

This takes priority over default naming, and will be shown in-game when a song from your mixtape starts playing.

_{Yes, it's "Mixtape Name - Song Name"}

The idea behind mixtapes is that they are easy to share and organize.
Further updates will support extended metadata. Probably.

🪽 Featuring: Drone Mode

Instead of having a dedicated slot, you can make sPEAKer engage Drone mode and it will follow you around!

👉 Drop it, press P and you will be followed anywhere you go.

Bundling a mixtape for Thunderstore

If you want to upload your own mixtape as a standalone mod, just put an empty sPEAKer.json file in the same folder as your mixtape folder.

You can follow the instructions in Manual Packaging as described here.

Your package should include manifest.json, README.md, /plugins folder and (hopefully) a 256x256 icon.png.

Your manifest.json should list sPEAKer as its dependency:

  {
    "name": "Demo_Mixtape",
    "author": "onlystar",
    "version_number": "1.0.0",
    "website_url": "",
    "description": "",
    "dependencies": [
      "onlystar-sPEAKer-1.8.0" // add this line
    ]
  }

This way, you can point your friends to your mixtape and their mod manager will install sPEAKer along with it.

The plugins folder of your package should look something like this:

plugins/
├── sPEAKer.json
└── boss music/
    ├── a true hero.ogg
    ├── omega flowey.mp3
    ├── ...
    └── mixtape.json

sPEAKer.json is the way of telling sPEAKer "this folder contains music".

Once your package is ready, ZIP it and upload it to Thunderstore.

💡 TIP: Don't delete your original package!

Updating your Thunderstore mixtape

If you wanna add songs to an already published mixtape, add your songs to the original (uncompressed) package and bump the version up in your manifest.json:

  {
    "name": "Demo_Mixtape",
    "author": "onlystar",
    "version_number": "1.0.1", // previously "1.0.0"
    "website_url": "",
    "description": "",
    "dependencies": [
      "onlystar-sPEAKer-1.8.0"
    ]
  }

ZIP it once again, and reupload it.

Disclaimer: Make sure you have permission to upload the audio files your mixtape contains to Thunderstore.

Config. Options 🪚

These are options you can change before starting your game. You can find them in BepInEx/config/onlystar.sPEAKer.cfg or via your mod manager.

🎛️ Technical Notes

• For the best experience, everyone in the room should have the same tracks and mixtapes.
• In the current version, the host owns the tracklist canon, which means everyone must play the host's catalogue.
• If you are missing a song your host has, don't worry! Every song is hashed by its contents on load. Playback will resume as soon as they start playing something you do have.
• Large files (4MB+) and mp3/wav files can cause significant lag spikes when reading them. Because of this, loading was placed as soon as game awakes, so the lag spike happens when game is loading and not during gameplay.
• Shuffle randomizes your list every time you toggle it on, so you might get repeated songs if you toggle it more than once.
• Be aware of ExternalAudioFolderPath when moving your game to another folder, as it is generated only the first time the mod loads. If you're having trouble, delete config/onlystar.sPEAKer.cfg and it will find the correct path again (albeit losing your configs, if you changed any), UNLESS you installed sPEAKer through a shared profile.
• When sPEAKer is installed through a profile code, it carries over its configurations too. This is intended Thunderstore behaviour, and unfortunately it breaks ExternalAudioFolderPath as the path will be from the original profile's machine. Each time the profile is updated with new mods, the configs will sync again, making it pointless to correct the configured path for your local machine. In other words, you cannot change any of your local configs in shared profiles.
• If sPEAKer detects it has been installed through a shared profile, folder reading/creation will fallback to plugins/onlystar-sPEAKer Music permanently for that profile. This does not affect downloaded mixtapes (which is most likely the main source for music in shared profiles anyway).

Coming up next... 🔮

• [1.9.0] Input update (Keybinds and Controllers)
• [2.0.0] [REDACTED]
• [2.1.0] UI update (Song Selection and Queue)
• A long break from modding

Created by onlystar - Bringing music to the PEAK experience!