Dofus ships several hundred pieces of music. Asterobot doesn't download them with the game files, since no bot ever plays a sound, but the Music tab of a Game page fetches them for you and plays them in Asteroboard.
Get the music
Until there's something to play, the tab shows No music yet and tells you which step is missing.
1. Download
When nothing is downloaded, the tab says "This version's audio banks aren't downloaded yet."
- Click Download. Asteroboard shows Download started, with "The audio banks download in the background."
- Wait for the download. A progress bar shows "Downloading..." with a percentage.
Asterobot downloads the four sound banks that hold the music, about 900 MB. The game's other sound banks, mostly combat and interface sounds, stay out: the whole set is about 2 GB.
This is an ordinary download of more files for the version. It waits in the same queue as the other downloads, and the version's row in Game Manager shows Downloading in the meantime (Download a game version). If it can't start, Asteroboard shows Couldn't start the download with the reason.
2. Extract
Once the banks are downloaded, the tab says "The audio banks are downloaded but not extracted yet." and how many banks there are to extract.
- Click Extract the music. The button reads Extracting... while it runs.
- When it's done, the player and the track list appear.
This extracts the music and nothing else: the version's game data isn't rebuilt, and its Extracted and Ready columns don't change. If it can't start, Asteroboard shows Couldn't start the extraction with the reason. Later on, Extract data or Re-extract data on the version extracts the music too, and Remove extracted data deletes it (Extract game data).
When the tab can't read the version's music at all, it shows Couldn't load the music.
Play
Click a track in the list to play it. The player above the list has, from left to right:
- play and pause;
- stop;
- previous track and next track;
- loop, which repeats the current track while it's on;
- the title and album of the track playing, or "Nothing playing";
- the volume.
Under them, a bar shows the position in the track and its length. Drag it to move through the track.
The play queue is the track list as it stands when you pick a track: filtered, sorted, and across every page. After the last track, next track starts again from the first one. Previous track restarts the current track when you're more than 3 seconds into it. Play, with nothing loaded yet, starts the first track of the list.
The track list
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Album list | Shows All albums, or one album with its number of tracks in parentheses. Each album is one sound bank. |
| Filter tracks... | Keeps the tracks whose title, album or size contains what you type. |
| Columns | Hides or shows the Track, Album and Size columns. |
| Column titles | Sort the list by that column. |
A badge on the right counts the tracks shown, with their total size. The list shows 25 tracks per page, and says "No track matches this filter." when the filter leaves nothing.
Keep listening while you browse
The music keeps playing when you leave the tab. On every other page, a small player appears in the top bar, with play and pause, the track's title, which takes you back to the Music tab, and a button that stops the music. Stopping forgets the queue, and the small player goes away.
Asteroboard remembers the volume and the loop setting in this browser, but not the queue: after reloading the page, pick a track again. The music plays in your browser from your Asterobot, so it stops when you close Asteroboard.