Personally, this update is terrible. Roblox could easily pay for the lawsuit, instead about to break an unspeakable amount of games?! To me, The solution would be to make audios ONLY FROM NOW ON Private, then have a private/public switch. This way, we keep our original sounds, and have a choice to keep our audio to ourselves! I like the free audio part, but if roblox goes on with this without fixing Anything, It could be ROBLOX’s worst move.
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7 days left for the marketplace audio to end, this sucks
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Agreed. Waiting for one of those sick TV show turns like: “You know what were gonna cancel the update and just pay for the lawsuit!”. lol.
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Yes, Ro-Pro is perfectly safe. Great extension; lets you see when a user was last online, you can see how long you played games, etc.
“Yea!!! Some nice crab rave mix while running from demons! I love it!”
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I saw this post when it was originally published, and I have finally replied with my own thoughts and opinion.
I agree with the majority of the people here, the update sucks for everyone. For most, the upload limits will delay hundreds if not thousands of games by months, years and break millions of experiences I mean games. Play your favorite, inactive games while you can, as they may NEVER come back working properly unless the developer(s) return or roblox automatically makes audios public once they figure out something.
I’m also happy to see some developers provide compensation for in-game radio passes (bloxburg in specific so far) Again, that still doesn’t change that this update is terrible for everyone.
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Developers need a way to sort through roblox uploaded audio by genre and possibly some other filters as sorting through it right now is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
(I use RbxMusic Made by @sleitnick, however it is costly but does work well).
Also, why was audio “sorting” removed? I noticed it a while ago that I wasn’t able to search through recently updated or anything, making me resort to adding it into the url.
I guess the only way this has affected me is currently halting one of my personal projects which has lots of songs/sounds from the toolbox that are for meme/dance emotes.
- Sound effects being kept is good, but I also think that we need more, however I hope that the community will upload lots and I mean LOTS of different sound effects for users to use. As I find it hard to find certain sound effects (sword swings, wood footsteps, etc etc) as most don’t follow the correct usecase or are bypassed audios disguised as sound effects.
Anyways That’s my opinions and thoughts on the update.
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This is already bad enough, but the fact that even if the audio I upload gets rejected, (despite it not being copyrighted) there’s no refund on the upload limit? Can’t wait to wait an entire month just to try an upload new audio. 
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Thats true. It would be so frustrating having audio you uploaded denied, when you have such a low limit of audio to upload.
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Pressuring and blaming the only staff member who’s been answering questions on this thread is pathetic. Understand that staff members are probably as stressed as we are, the engineering team would not have rushed this update if they were given more time.
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It’s mainly because of the way they executed the update. While I completely understand the whole thing about the lawsuit, what I don’t understand is why they executed the way they did with features nobody asked for like “Hey, audios are free now! But now you only get a specific limit of how many you can upload a month!” and how they’re essentially crippling a majority of older games and boomboxes while doing so.
All I can really hope now is that they somehow work with the update in such a way where the audio update isn’t as incredibly bad as the initial first impressions of it make it seem.
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I don’t think snarky remarks will help to an employee that is genuinely trying to help us
you don’t understand this is a company with a HUGE employee count and due to that there will be a strict hierarchy
the person you are complaining to in particular probably can’t even make executive decisions when it comes to uploading stuff since that is basically the entire foundation of roblox and they wouldn’t really give away that power like flowers on valentines day
so how about take your own advice and reflect back on your reply before you just spread unnecessary anger out on genuine people
I’m pretty sure they were ordered to pay $200 million to the NMPA (National Music Publishers’ Association). They paid, and they’re being ordered to do extra.
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Oh! Apologies. I had no idea they paid.
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I did not know they were ordered to do extra, either. I did not look into the lawsuit enough to see.
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I’m absolutely triggered by witnessing what public experiences would be like when the update is finally initiated. Everyone’s games will be silent, and regardless of how well you can create experiences, they will all be ruined for good. We all know that sharing audios with each other is a good thing, but this will be challenged severely. However, there are several good sides to this. Annoying players who abuse their rights to play music in experiences (such as blurting out annoying noises) will no longer be annoying. Also, we veterans (such as myself, as I joined in 2012 but came back five years after getting compromised) already understand that it is better to express your original ideas all on your own, so this update emphasizes this. Overall, the audio privacy update enrages everyone, including myself, to no extent.
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The difference with tix is that it was abrupt yet phased out in an event that players got rewarded through. That was their easement.
We’re not players in their eyes. We don’t use the platform as they would, so abrupt changes don’t need a friendly warning beforehand. We’re not getting a reward, we’re getting punished for what both developers and players abused; the system that roblox created and failed to maintain. We’re getting a courtesy as to ease the pain, yet their courtesy isn’t universal and there’s a distinct lack of music that fits in just about anyone’s game.
Now, I’m not being ungrateful. I’m happy they gave us a warning at all, and a form of an easement as they try to figure this out because I know this is not the choice of the devforum staff or roblox engineers but I myself have been screwed over time and time again by Corporate Roblox and there’s no representation no matter how much an outrage is created. Corporate from my view and experience is SEVERELY out of touch with their playerbase and market and refuses to come near it with a 10ft pole.
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thats great change to fix issue with +18 audios
Looks like we lost the battle fellow devs. On March 22nd most game will go silent
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I’m really confused how youtube can just get out of these lawsuits but Roblox can’t? I thought youtube got out of it because they can’t possibly block it all, How is Roblox different?
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Roblox rather spend their money on rthro instead of improving their moderation. They just can’t see the bigger picture correctly!
They are straight up putting the blame on us, just look at the stock! The roblox staff are already ghosting me on this platform with no responses from anything.
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