Turn off Jukebox

Hey, I was just wondering if it was possible to basically mute Jukebox, but in a way where it actually stops streaming the music to me. My internet sucks currently, so the sound is pretty choppy. Thanks.

You can mute it in the sense of silencing it -- which it sounds like you already know this -- go to the Settings gear icon at the top-right, and slide the Volume slider all the way down. I understand that you're asking more about stopping it from streaming the audio to you, in order to save bandwidth on your internet. I believe there is not currently a way to do that on here. It would be just asking your GM not to use Jukebox sounds for everyone, or muting your own volume slider as mentioned and hope that the internet magically figures out you don't need to load a sound that is muted. Wouldn't it be neat if Roll20 volume slider was optimized in such-a-way as to stop the loading of a Jukebox track, when the volume is set to zero? As far as I know it doesn't do that now. You could write a Suggestion for something like that on the Suggestions/Ideas forum if you like. While I've seen many suggestions about the Jukebox, this would be a new one.

Gold said: While I've seen many suggestions about the Jukebox, this would be a new one. I pray for a seek bar.

Yeah, I figured it probably wasn't a thing, unless what they use for it automatically comes with that feature of stopping the streaming if the volume is zero. I would make a suggestion, but I signed up a couple weeks ago, so I can't make a topic in that forum yet. Thanks though.

Nowebbasic said: Gold said: While I've seen many suggestions about the Jukebox, this would be a new one. I pray for a seek bar. Haven't noticed that request yet on the Suggestions either. (By the way you can Comment on existing Suggestions even if you don't have a Vote to spend.) Seek bar seems possible, since it's playing soundcloud songs and soundcloud itself has seeking when you play same-track directly on soundcloud site or app.

Gold said: Nowebbasic said: Gold said: While I've seen many suggestions about the Jukebox, this would be a new one. I pray for a seek bar. (By the way you can Comment on existing Suggestions even if you don't have a Vote to spend.) Threads say You can only post comments in this forum category if you are eligible to vote.

Ok, that's right. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Forum_Voting#How_many_vote" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Forum_Voting#How_many_vote</a>...

@Smuff: There is something you can do. It requires a bit of technical savvy, but is extremely effective. If you do this, you will want to keep a note in a prominent place telling you what you did so you can undo it later. I don't say this to scare you, just so you have a record because it's off the beaten path, and no one will ever think to look for it to fix your sound issues if you ever ask for help. Details: Sound files are streamed from a different server than the Roll20 server: cf-media.sndcdn.com You can configure your local computer to believe that it is that server, and thus those client initiated requests will go to your local computer, and fail. You will see an error like this in the console whenever music or sound effects are attempting to play, but you can safely ignore it: GET <a href="https://cf-media.sndcdn.com/kLN3YuElPYVA.128.mp3" rel="nofollow">https://cf-media.sndcdn.com/kLN3YuElPYVA.128.mp3</a>?... net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE You'll need to add this line to a file to tell your networking system to route all traffic for cf-media.sndcdn.com to the local computer (localhost: 127.0.0.1): 127.0.0.1 cf-media.sndcdn.com On Mac or Linux, you need to edit your /etc/hosts file. You'll need to do that as the super user. If you're on a pre-Windows 8 version of windows, it's c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ( Source: <a href="http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/10c/Local-DNS-m" rel="nofollow">http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/10c/Local-DNS-m</a>... ) If you're on Windows 8, you have more to do: <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/122404/how-to-block-websi" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtogeek.com/122404/how-to-block-websi</a>... To allow the sound again, just remove that line from whatever file you put it in.

@The Aaron: Thanks for the info! I probably won't do it, as I should have better internet soon, but I appreciate the effort, and I'll keep it in mind if a problem occurs that could be resolved with this. Thanks again!