"Right" Way To Play CD Track

[Baker]

Spirit said that Quoth has in the mod the ability to send to the client the "cd play xxx" command to play "cd music" [although I'm thinking MP3 or OGG, personally].

I think that's a great idea, but I'm looking for the "right" way to do it.

With DarkPlaces is there a proper way to tell the client via QuakeC to play a "cd track" or music?

The reason that the "cd play xxx" command is the wrong way in my opinion is that direct cd functionality shouldn't even accessible via a mod.

Although I think it would be hilarious for a server admin to have a mod repeatedly send "cd eject" and "cd close" to a troublesome player (LOL ) and have his/her cd player open and close.

Basically, some commands like "cd <anything>" should be offlimits to the server and the client should ignore such commands. (ProQuake 4, for example, won't act upon a server "unbindall" keys and do that; historically jerk admins would do that people they didn't like and abuse the "profile" command which would crash a client -- referred to as "superkick" in the NQ community -- something of which LordHavoc shared to fix for a couple of years back).

[mh]

I'd assume that it does it by "stuffcmd", which is quite evil and I'd totally agree with most of what you said here (where I disagree is that I think "cd play/stop/pause" should be allowed as mods could use it to dramatic effect). I'd even go so far as saying that some cvars should be off-limits ("vid_mode", anyone?) and unless it's explicitly marked as a server cvar there should be some means of interception, and clients should be allowed the option of rejecting or accepting the change.

I'd like to see extended QC builtins to replace most of the current uses of "stuffcmd" in fact, so that mods could do these things in a safer manner and without needing to resort to brute force.

[leileilol]

Quake does it by a SVC builtin actually

[Baker]

[Spirit]

[mh]

[Baker]

[mh]

[metlslime]

[Baker]

[mankrip]

[Spike]

looptrack isn't a true/false, its a second track to play (and loop) after the first has ended.
it was removed in quakeworld.

[Ranger366]

[Spike]