[Solved] Boombox + Copyright

I’d like to add a boombox gamepass that lets people play any music ID from the roblox site. But what about copyrights? Will simply allowing random person to play any song on the site stop me from creating such a feature? Did this issue come up in anyone’s game?

Edit: No any-id boombox on xbox

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How are they going to find music Ids to play on xbox? And how will they input them?

Boomboxes as found in a lot of popular games nowadays allow the owner of the boombox to broadcast audio to the entire server. His question is if it is okay to have this feature since anyone playing on PC/Mobile owning the boombox can play any audio to all players, which means copyrighted tracks will play on xbox players as well.

And @mael: you could add a toggle that allows players to mute the boombox audio locally. You should probably do that even if copyright would not be an issue as I personally leave any game that allows players to spam audio right away and I’m afraid others do too.

Summing up

Non-xbox version:

  • it’s k

Xbox version (different servers - xbox vs pc/mobile don’t play together):

  • copyright free
  • it’d be a pain to manually input an ID from there anyway
  • would need a hand picked selection of music then. ty

This will be a problem if your making the game Xbox compatible. Like wsly said add a local mute for xbox users, on the site it doesn’t seem to be strictly enforced.

@Maelstronomer Don’t do this on Xbox.

@Wsly You dare show your face here!!! :evil:

JK, you’re still awesome man. Sad to lose you.

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Aren’t XBox and PC/other servers separate? If they are then you could just disable the boombox for xbox and not have to worry about any kind of muting because nobody else could play music anyway.

Not 100% that this is the case though. This was also something I was wondering about .

Imaginaerum you’re correct

And a local muting system is a good idea for all platforms anyway (to let people mute it for preference)

Oh CRAP. This completely slipped my mind.

I just realized this aswell; I also have the spraypaint gear which will pertain a similar issue

aghhh