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Greetings!

Welcome to a new filler dev diary for Stellaris, normal service will resume next week according to the game’s illustrious leader, @Wiz.

This week we wanted to talk to you about music for Stellaris and what our intentions are with it. Since the game came out, we’ve continuously added new music through the paid content that has been released, but to date, have not made this music available outside of the game itself. Going forward, our plan is to ensure that all music for Stellaris is available through other channels as well, as it is excellent and we’re aware that our fans enjoy listening to it even when they aren’t playing the game (not sure when that is, but apparently so).

The first part of this endeavour will be to make the music available through Steam. Rather than add multiple new music packs each time we create new music, we will be rolling all existing and new music into the Stellaris Official Sound Track (OST). In conjunction with this, the price of the OST on Steam, will increase from $4.99 to $6.99 (USD or regional equivalent), with the information displayed on the store page changed to reflect that the OST is all music ever created for Stellaris (this price change will apply to all countries). This is going to be a living OST, it will contain music from the base game, Leviathans, Utopia, Synthetic Dawn and all future paid content as well, for one fixed price.

The price change and update to add the additional music will occur on Thursday 2nd November 2017. That is two weeks from today.

Those of you interested in buying the OST, now is a great time to do it, before we change the price. Everyone who currently owns the OST, and those that own it by the 2nd November, will naturally get all the music at no extra charge.

The next step after this will be release all the music onto streaming services, such as Spotify. Currently you can find the base game music on Spotify, but we are in the process of updating our label with Spotify which should be done in the next couple of months. Once that is done, the rest of Stellaris’ music will be uploaded there as well, and we’ll announce it through the community channels when it is done.

To recap, here is the important information:

Stellaris OST on Steam
  • Price change from $4.99 to $6.99 on Thursday 2nd November (USD or regional equivalent).
  • OST will contain all music for Stellaris, existing and new, updated with each new release.
Stellaris OST on Spotify
  • All new music will be uploaded to Spotify by the end of the year (if all goes to plan).
Stellaris OST for Nova/Galaxy owners
  • You will also get all the songs we add in the future
  • Please note that you will still be able to buy the Stellaris OST in Steam as that has a different item ID than the game bundle, hence Steam doesn't know you already own the OST!
To finish this off, here is a screenshot from @Wiz of something… not sure what.

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@Dnote I have a question regarding OST.
I bought the galaxy edition upgrade, but on Steam it is not listed that I own OST even though I have it downloaded on hard-drive. Will something be done about that and will I get new tracks automatically?

You should, but can you submit a Support ticket, so our team can look into this. There might be a peculiar way that they've set up the bundle on Steam that causes it to behave differently to how we think it should. https://support.paradoxplaza.com
 
So, I have something called "Stellaris: Digital OST". Is it that OST, you were talking about, or something else?

That might just be a naming convention issue between regions, this is the link to OST on the Steam store, http://store.steampowered.com/app/492740/Stellaris_Original_Game_Soundtrack/ that I get from browsing the store at work. If you think this isn't what you have, submit a ticket please.

We have a couple of weeks before the changes come into effect, so there is time for us to look into these issues before it happens, rather than being surprised after the fact :)
 
Rather than umpteen users in the same boat, myself included, all bombarding support tickets over the same issue, can you not just give someone in support a nudge please, i.e. @TinyWiking? Must be easier performing a retroactive fix for all rather than a per enquiry one.

This is an existing issue with how CKII and EUIV bundles/collections are listed on Steam too; for example "Collection - Europa Universalis IV: Ultimate Music Pack" isn't marked as owned despite owning the component parts, the same goes for "Collection - Crusader Kings II: Ultimate Unit Pack", etc.

I am following it up from my side, but giving all the moving parts, having it logged in the system helps avoid it slipping through any cracks.
 
Quick follow up, this does appear to be how the Galaxy/Nova editions were created in Steam, we're looking into the solution. But the fact remains that if you own the Stellaris OST, whether from a direct purchase of it or through the Galaxy/Nova editions, you will receive all music for Stellaris that we have released and will release.
 
I've updated the first post (like a ninja!) but I'll repeat myself here:
  • If you own the Nova or Galaxy edition you will be provided with all the music we add in the future free of charge
  • You will still be able to buy the Stellaris OST from Steam as that item has a different ID than the bundle for Nova and Galaxy, hence Steam doesn't know you already own it
 
I assume that buying the soundtrack separately if I already own Nova/Galaxy edition will not actually give me anything new, only transfer some money to Valve and you? Is that correct?

EDIT: Excluding buying it as a gift, of course.
This is correct and Valve will love you forever. Your wallet, not so much :p.
 
Thank you. Please keep us updated if you resolve it with Steam. :)

We're looking to combine the two OSTs into one, as they contain the same thing. But either way, if you have the OST on Steam, you will get all the music.

@Dnote Will the music files have the same quality as the ones you get from the game folder or at a higher sound quality? Don't feel like buying this if I could just get the same exact thing sans the DLC I don't own music from the game folders.

I don't know, I'll poke our resident Audio genius tomorrow.

@Dnote It has been asked in this forum about a month ago, with no answer: since the OST contains more music than the original game, will it be possible to add those tracks to the game easily, or we still have to double check duplications and add them to the game manually?

(I bought Infinite Frontiers, then upgraded to Galaxy, and got the book twice, so the same would happen with the music.)

A bit unreleated, but a problem in all Paradox games: can you make it save the settings to the music player? Each time I start the game, it is set back to defaults. (For some reason, the video settings does the same.)

EDIT: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-music.1045276/ There it is.

EDIT2: There is also the Digital Artbook, which misses everything since the base game release, also there are a few things out of date.

Nothing is changing with how you add music to the game, by default this music is bundled in with the paid content that we release, so we add to the game via those, if you are doing it manually, it's like adding any other music track.

I'll ask the team about saving settings tomorrow.

Just wondering, will the Galaxy/Nova editions be getting a price increase like the individual OST?

No price change on Nova or Galaxy editions.
 
@Dnote

how much time does Wiz take picking out pictures to send us? does he just like quickly put one together, does he carefully try to figure out what should be seen in what order, does he have a folder set up that you all can grab from before posting these things?

these questions are serious.

I does is have to know.

Let's be serious for a moment here... no one really knows what goes on in Wiz's head.. he is a mystery to everyone. Maybe he spends weeks planning out his teasing, maybe it's all spur of the moment, or maybe he has a voice in his head dictating his every action.

We just don't know.. ;)
 
A little update, we're aware that the Stellaris OST is available through other channels, like Amazon and Apple Music, we're exploring what to do with these as they work differently to Steam and Spotify (where we have clear ways forward).

We'll figure something out, but as we have no time line for a solution, we didn't want to make any promises at this stage as to when that will be.
 
Product IDs on Steam are strange.

I own a "Stellaris - Nova Edition (Pre-Order)" key according to my personal Account Licences page. The OST (23 track version) is included in my local files.

But the Steam Store page for Stellaris says that I do NOT own either the Nova Edition Upgrade Pack or the OST.
This is indeed the confusing part of Steams setup. I'll elaborate a bit:

You own product X. Product X is called 123 in Steams backend (also know as app ID) and your product (123) also includes several other app IDs within itself.
We then release one of the apps from pack 123 as a separate product on Steam and this gets its own app ID, let's say 124.
Steam now goes "Oh, hey, you don't own this app ID, would you like to buy it?" because Steam doesn't understand that you already own it, but as part of a package.
This is why, for example, upgrade packs show as not owned despite you actually owning the upgraded version already as it's app ID differs and doesn't exist in your Steam library.

I hope this clears things up a bit ;).
 
This change is now live, the Stellaris OST on Steam has been updated with all music for the game and will keep being updated as we release new music with content in the future.