Talk: Sounds.json

Sounds to "follow" the player[]

me and some friends are working on a minecraft map where we want a custom sound to "follow" the player down a minecart ride is it possible to do without breaking the sound file into chunks and setting them to be played 86.161.237.57 23:05, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

You have come to the wrong place for help with custom maps. Try the [Minecraft Forums]. –KnightMiner ^t/_c 03:32, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

i have a thread open on minecraft forum but no one is replying 86.161.237.57 09:47, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

That does not make this the right place. Talk pages here should only be used to discuss the relevant article, see the talk page guidelines.

Also, your post has not even been up for a day. Most people are not online within a few hours of every post, I am just a strange exception. –KnightMiner ^t/_c 14:08, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

To do so, you must put in a command block: /execute <target> <x> <y> <z> /playsound <sound> <player> [x] [y] [z] [volume] [pitch] [minimumVolume] . Check the Execute section. It can help. Fyreboy5 (talk) 12:46, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

That would make the sound originate at the location of the player when the command is run. But if the player moves, the sound would still be coming from that location and would fade out as the player moved away, rather than follow them.
-- Mr Pie 5 (talk) 04:28, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Specific Sounds With /playsound[]

Is it possible to have playsound use specific sounds rather than the whole event?
-- Mr Pie 5 (talk) 01:12, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

If you mean such as ambient/cave/cave1 always, then no. The sound actually played will be randomly selected from one of them for that sound, so ambient.cave.cave may play ambient/cave/cave3, or ambient/cave/cave10. Fyreboy5 (talk) 22:12, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

150+ New Sounds for 1.9[]

I would like this page to show all of the sounds added in 1.9, because it said that there are new sound events. I would like to know what I can type to play these sounds. I would help with this myself, but A: I can only play on the weekends (reason why will not be stated), and B: I'm not as talented as the rest of the community. Fyreboy5 (talk) 22:17, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Alright; now there's an "Upcoming 1.9" subsection. Anybody who has any interest improving that table, or the page as a whole to more accurately reflect any more 1.9 changes, such as syntax, please feel free. I can vouch that it matches the 1.9-pre2 sounds.json, because I generated the wikitable with a script directly from that file. Cheers! – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 21:04, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Am I blind or was it removed? I probably just can't find it because it's such a long page, but it's not at the Contents section either. PancakeIdentity (talk) 21:42, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

1.9 was released, we never keep the upcoming sections after a release (at least not intentionally). It might be a good idea to work what actually changed into the history section, though until then you can just click the "History" tab on the page and find a revision from before 1.9 was released. –KnightMiner ^t/_c 22:35, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

when 1.9 was released, the 'upcoming' section was moved to the main Sound Events section, and the previous main Sound Events section was moved to a subsection called 1.8.9. And yeah I agree, we should probably devolve the old section into history -- but seeing as how it's as asset file, and not so easy to find old copies of, we would probably have to make do with one 1.9 section, no snapshots. – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 00:15, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Weight does not use float/double values[]

At least as of 1.10.2, the "weight" attribute does not accept decimal values. Using 0.5 as a weight resulted in this nice little subtle error: https://gist.github.com/RoboMWM/18f5db56252eb24ec533533a53ba5dd0

The PC Tech Guy (talk) 01:42, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

"In-game events" column[]

Should the "In-game events" column of Sounds.json/Java_Edition_values be kept? The section has been empty since 1.9, while the "Java Edition values before 1.9" list does have descriptions for most sound events (but the Bedrock edition's list doesn't). Although it is clearer to have the descriptions, most of the sounds event names seem self-explanatory. -Sonicwave ^talk 02:04, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Thinking about it further, maybe it would be appropriate to put subtitles in that column instead. That also doesn't seem too hard to automate (compared to having manually-written descriptions), since the subtitles would be taken directly from the en_us JSON file. –Sonicwave ^talk 06:11, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Sounds should be listed in their /playsound form[]

Soulds should be on a table in their /playsound form, like mob.pig.ambient or ambient.cave or random.fizz, becaus there is no list of the sounds in this format anywhere on the wiki, or maybe it should be on the commands/playsound page – Robonate135 /_contr 18:20, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

The playsound names are listed in "Java/Bedrock Edition Values" under Sounds.json#Sound events. –Sonicwave ^talk 18:39, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Can you guys add some hash list?[]

I can't find some of minecraft sound files at .minecraft assets folder (i'm linux user, for example new nether music. All other music files are here. At hash list I can't find new nether music, altrough I'm using 1.16 minecraft version, and my Minecraft account is legal. if I'm looking at any files called for example Rubedo, there's nothing. At hash list on my computer there's no Rubedo word too. in the compartment "files in minecraft" there's name of file. I have no some of files from this list. Do You have it? If yes - can ya add a list od hashes to this site?

Open assets/indexes/<version>.json, then search for what you want to find (eg, search "music"), you'll find the file hashes there, the first 2 characters are the same as the needed folder in /assets/objects/.

The hashes change all the time, so it's not really useful to list them on the wiki. Dhranios (talk) (Join the wiki videos project!) 14:13, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Usefulness of sound event tables[]

After updating Sounds.json/Java Edition values to 1.18, I am wondering if these sound event tables are even useful. Both the Java and Bedrock tables are already some of the largest pages on the wiki despite providing no additional information that's not in the JSON files themselves. The Bedrock table has also received few updates since 2019 and I don't think it's feasible to update either table without using a script, which is how the Java table has been kept updated for a while (perhaps since 1.9).

The list of individual sound locations and their parameters certainly stands out as the biggest space occupier, but even if they were removed, there'd still be a long table listing every sound event in the game, which would grow with every update. Is that something that could be considered useful or are the individual sound sections on feature pages enough? –Sonicwave ^talk 01:20, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

 Comment: I think that listing every sound event and categories are redundant to note, with the reasons you provided. I don't mind removing the tables. ManyOursOfFun (talk) 12:45, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Block sound categories source[]

In Bedrock Edition's files, I remember there being a file that would list the content in the block sound categories section. I don't remember what it's called, though, or where it's located. - CrowdingFaun624 (talk) 06:18, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

I found it, it's blocks.json in resource pack folders. - CrowdingFaun624 (talk) 16:35, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Split "Block sound categories" into new page[]

Since 15w43a, when the way sound types are made changed by no longer depending on concatenation with "dig." and "step.", this section no longer fits in with the page. It should be moved to a separate page. - CrowdingFaun624 (talk) 07:15, 2 January 2023 (UTC)