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I think he means the Jukebox songs don't loop. There's no point to the Jukeboxes if they don't loop when you stick a music disc in. Who plays Minecraft only 3 minutes at a time? Who returns to their home base every 3 minutes? The most logical thing to do is have a music disc loop until you remove it from the Jukebox.
"no point" "most logical"......
No. The point is listening to the song.... ONCE. Want to listen to it again? Go to it with an empty hand and right click on it twice.
You want to listen to the same song hundreds of times in one sitting, repeating forever until you take it out? Really? Do you know what closure is, something ends and you're glad, not because it stopped, but because you experienced all of it, to the finish? That would really bother me if I popped a record in and had to make sure to take it out before it started again.
If you really want to listen to it forever like that, copy/listen from the .OGG file in your .minecraft/assets folder. Open it with VLC and set to repeat. Or, look up a 10 hour youtube video of it.
But no, what you want is not what everybody wants, and it certainly isn't "the most logical", it's just what you want. It's like saying "beef is better than pork, that's just logical".
You seem more offended than I am...
1) the music discs are a rare item in a standard survival game. You can find the 2 fairly easily in the various chests, but the rest are quite a hassle.
2) The music discs are instrumental or even just ambient. Music PERIOD is already far too rare in Minecraft. I wish the standard songs appeared far more often.
3) Chances are you're not going to create Jukeboxes willy nilly and put them all over the place in survival. I mean sure you could, but you're going to have limited diamonds and limited music discs.
"You want to listen to the same song hundreds of times in one sitting, repeating forever until you take it out?"
How do you get anything done by sitting in the same room for hours on end??
You argue that it is easy to eject/reinsert discs when you want to hear something again. Sure, that is easy. What's EVEN EASIER is simply ejecting a disc once when you're done with it. Again, why would you be spending hours in one single place near a jukebox?
The idea here is that you stick in a disc, you hear it a few times while you work, then you leave for a while, come back and then it's still playing when you come back so you don't have an extra chore to do.
I value multitasking.
What if Mojang just added a crafting recipe: 1 jukebox + 1 redstone = 1 looping jukebox. Or if that's too hard, just a simple audio setting in the menu. In fact, why not let people store all of your music discs within the jukebox itself, like, ya know, a REAL jukebox?
If they made it repeat, they should add a dedicated jukebox GUI. Just making it how it is now, but repeat endlessly would not be the right thing to do.
I don't get the whole "one room" comment.... for one, I usually don't make "huge" bases, in fact, if I put a jukebox in the center, it'd probably be audible in most of it. Why would you want to leave and then come back and start listening to a song in a random part? Most of the songs aren't uniform loops, and do in fact have recognizable sections.... with what you're saying you could start hearing it even at the end of the song.... I would be bothered if I wanted to listen to a record once and it started playing again before I could take it out, so I'd really be bothered if I missed most of the song and started listening at the end.... that just ruins the whole experience and most of the reason for listening.
My point about the room thing is the fact that no matter what you're doing, whether it's survival or creative, it's highly likely that you're not going to spend all of your time in the small radius of a jukebox's audio range. Therefore, your argument about hearing the music disc too much and ruining it is a moot point, according to my reasoning.
In any case, I hope you can see that I am bothered just as much by a non-looping jukebox as you are by a looping jukebox.
A jukebox GUI would be a reasonable solution. You could have a toggle for looping, and perhaps if Mojang cared about good design, they would allow you to store multiple discs inside one jukebox. After all, a jukebox has the same crafting recipe as a chest, just with the added rarity of the diamond!
Incomplete. If you mean in a jukebox, why would it play over? Right click on it and play the record again if you want to hear it. Otherwise, play the record from a command block using /playsound since this is now possible in 1.7. Then, find some way to loop it with redstone.....