How do I make Jukebox music that follows a player?

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Believe it or not, there are still players that listen to music discs in Minecraft, including me.

I tried making a command loop that would play different discs for me every 5 minutes. Here's what command I use:

/execute at Quijibo run playsound minecraft:music_disc.stal record Quijibo

This successfully executes the command, and the music starts playing, but if I move away from the point where I was standing, the music fades away, as if there was a jukebox playing the music that I'm moving away from.

What I want to do is have the music follow me when moving. Is this possible to do through commands?

Fabian Röling · Accepted Answer

In theory the minimumVolume parameter should fulfil exactly this purpose, but I couldn't get it to work. Maybe that's a bug. But the volume parameter of /playsound can in a way actually be used to specify a spatial volume instead of an audio volume! The trick, as described in the wiki (archive): For values greater than 1.0, the sound will not actually grow louder, but its audible range (a 16-block radius at 1.0) will be multiplied by volume. There will always be a gradual falloff to silence based on distance from the center of the sphere. That means that you can just enter the maximum value of a Float, except that it's for some reason slightly different in Minecraft. By just trying out values I found that the maximum value is: 340282356779733661637539395458142568447.99999… So you can use this command to play a sound everywhere: /playsound 340282356779733661637539395458142568447.9999999999 That way it only gets 0.000000000000000000000000000024936% quieter when you go to the other end of the world. This even works across dimensions for some reason. But when you go through a portal, the sound stops.

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