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Stellaris Dev Diary #90: Official Sound Track

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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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.
 
TheDungen said:
Except there's no adjecency system in stelalris. Those thigns on the screenshot are hypelanes.

More likely then each tier will allow you to build a frontier outpost in a range from the star port which increases as the star port is upgraded.
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or the teir of the starport is just the teir of the starport, and borders are managed though a different system.
 
Rip Off Productions said:
or the teir of the starport is just the teir of the starport, and borders are managed though a different system.
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That is by far more likely than either of the other scenarios.
 
TinyWiking said:
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
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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.

Sounds like I'll get all the Soundtrack updates anyway as I've already got a "soundtrack" folder in my Steam files, but it's a tad unsettling to consider Steam doesn't recognize my Nova Edition purchase at the very least.

Anyway, I'll submit a ticket down the road if need be. But either way, your future plans going forward for the Stellaris OST are really awesome. The music is just so nice to listen to outside of the game.

Can't wait to rock Synthetic God on the go!

 
Aaron D. said:
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.
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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 ;).
 
@Dnote

Regarding that soundtrack (and also the soundtrack ingame):

Will there be someone (re)mastering it so that all the soundtracks are at the same volume.
As of now some are louder then others - and I need to fiddle with the sound control every ~5th track (I keep them at 5% so they are at the edge of audible ... some are more of the quiet type that fall into the silence).


Sincerely
 
Dnote said:
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.
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Personally I wouldn't mind if you ever decide to change that.
 
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.
 
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