Boombox Controller Remastered

2.1.0

Protection

• Volume normalization (loudnorm, -16 LUFS) during conversion to stop earrape. Playback > NormalizeAudio, on by default. Tracks cached by 2.0 are not re-processed: run /bcache clear once.
• Vote to skip (Playback > RequireVoteToSkip, host setting): track changes asked by other players need more than half of the modded players near the boombox. Not applied with 2 or fewer players. /bplay and /bstop are not voted; use OnlyHostCanControl for public lobbies.

New commands

• /bsearch <terms> and /bplay <terms>: play the first YouTube result by name.
• /badd <link|terms>: append to the queue instead of replacing it (needs a 2.1 host).
• /bpacks, /bpack <name>: browse and play music packs from other mods (BoomboxMusic folders). In a modpack everyone has the same files, so they play in sync with no download.
• Ship terminal: command box play|search|add|stop|skip|queue|volume|packs|pack|help (not boombox, which is the vanilla store purchase).
• Ship terminal input limit raised from ~25 to 1000 characters (like the chat), so long links and search terms fit.

Immersion

• Walkie-talkies relay the music with a radio filter (no extra network traffic). Immersion > WalkieTransmission.
• The boombox pulses subtly with the beat. Visual > PulseWithMusic.

Integrations

• Brazilian Portuguese translation (Languages = pt).
• LethalCompanyInputUtils (volume keys in Settings > Controls) and LethalConfig (in-game options menu), both optional.

Engineering

• Builds without the game installed through LethalCompany.GameLibs.Steam (exact versions pinned).
• Protocol version range (accepts 2-3). 2.1 still writes version 2, so 2.0 and 2.1 players can share a lobby.
• Unit test project (BoomboxController.Tests, xUnit) and a GitHub bug report template.
• CI workflow that builds and tests every push.

2.0.0

Complete rewrite of the download, audio and network layers.

• YouTube: yt-dlp is now always the latest release (daily yt-dlp -U), with deno as JS runtime, optional browser cookies and SHA-256 verified downloads. Fixes HTTP 403 / anti-bot failures.

• Audio: every source (Opus/WebM, AAC/M4A, MP3, FLAC...) is transcoded by ffmpeg to OGG Vorbis (or WAV PCM16) before Unity loads it. Clips stay compressed in RAM, are reference counted and destroyed explicitly.

• Performance: downloads, conversions, hashing and cache cleanup run in background tasks; only AudioClip/AudioSource work happens on the main thread through a dispatcher. No more freezes or lobby timeouts.

• Multiplayer: new host-authoritative sync over Netcode named messages. Only metadata is sent; every player downloads locally; the host waits for all modded players (or a timeout), starts a shared timeline and re-syncs it; drift above 0.3 s is corrected. Late joiners catch up automatically. Failed downloads fall back silently to a vanilla song.

• Playlists with auto-advance and prefetch of the next track; /bskip, /btrack, /bqueue, /bstop, /bcache.

• Local tracks are shared by content hash only (never uploaded) with an in-game warning.

• Disk cache in <plugin>/Cache with size/age limits.

• Patches are Postfix/validated Prefix with vanilla fallback; the hover tooltip no longer replaces the vanilla method.

• Multiple boomboxes are supported independently.

• Commands are no longer echoed to the public chat.

• 1.2.2

  • Another blocked link has been added.
  • Checking for characters in playlist names and song uploads from your computer.

• 1.2.1

  • Now, when you turn on the boombox, random music will play. If the /btrack command is not used.
  • Fixed a bug related to the /btrack command.
  • Uploading a playlist from YouTube has been converted to an asynchronous stream.
  • Uploading songs from the computer was converted to an asynchronous stream.

• 1.2.0

  • Allows to upload songs from your computer.

• 1.1.9

  • Automatically switch the track to the next one when playing the playlist.
  • Added weight for the boombox 0.
  • Added a character to the list of characters with automatic replacement.

• 1.1.8

  • Added the radius of the commands at the boombox (Setting in the configuration).
  • Added support for shortened link from youtube: "music.youtube.com".

• 1.1.7

  • Rewrote the logic of logReport.txt file recording.
  • Banned the use of my mod with another mod: "BoomboxSyncFix".
  • Added support for shortened link from youtube: "youtu.be".
  • Fixed an error that came out after sending a command without arguments.

• 1.1.6

  • Code refactoring has been done.
  • Rewrote the method of sending messages to chat. For compatibility.
  • Added toggle to enable and disable visual boombox elements.
  • Added a check for broken zip files. Automatically re-downloads them.
  • Fixed a bug with the config for music.

• 1.1.5

  • Revamped the chat command system (for compatibility with the LethalExpansion mod).
  • Allows boombox to continue playing music after switching slots (inside your inventory).
  • Optimized the code a bit.

• 1.1.4

  • Optimized the code a bit.

• 1.1.3

  • Added bindings to change the volume buttons.
  • Memorizing the volume number after quitting the game.

• 1.1.2

  • Changing the color of the boombox.
  • Adding a picture to the back of the boombox.

• 1.1.1

  • Fixed an issue with uploading videos to boombox when invalid characters were present in the title.

• 1.1.0

  • Fixed the bug that the track was not uploaded via SoundCloud.
  • Fixed a bug with displaying the name of the playing track.
  • Prohibited entering links with search_query value (example link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=test).
  • Added automatic deletion of downloaded music when you quit the game.

• 1.0.9

  • Fixed a bug with displaying the name of the playing track.
  • Fixed a bug when single tracks were not working after playlist.

• 1.0.8

  • The track uploading has been optimised.
  • Added support for YouTube playlists.
  • Added command to switch tracks (for playlists).

• 1.0.7

  • Added track position change in the boombox.
  • I cleaned the code a little bit :)

• 1.0.6

  • Improved synchronization of songs via SoundCloud.
  • Added protection so that you can't write to the chat. When the /bplay command is being processed

• 1.0.5

  • Fixed a bug where when entering the correct link from YouTube, the message "invalid link" was displayed.

• 1.0.4

  • Added support for SoundCloud links.
  • Added protection from invalid links.
  • Rewrote downloading additional libraries into multithreading.
  • Added Russian language. You can change the language in the mod's configuration.

• 1.0.3

  • Updated additional libraries for security reasons.
  • Added protection if additional libraries are not loaded

• 1.0.2

  • Fixed an issue where the track download confirmation text was not displayed in chat.

• 1.0.1

  • Update README.md.

• 1.0.0

  • Hello, there is nothing new here yet.