Minecraft Java Edition, Minecraft Commands – How to Make Jukebox Music Follow 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?

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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 <sound> <channel> <selector> <x> <y> <z> 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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Minecraft – Command to detect affected armorstands

I assume, based on your previous question, that you want the number of affected armor stands stored on the player. For that there is no need for CommandStats or /tp. You simply need to ensure the commands are activated in the correct order for a /fill clock (see here for a tutorial that covers activation order via /fill).

Otherwise, the set of commands is essentially the same as those in your previous question, albeit adding instead of setting to mimic CommandStats.

Prerequisites:

Objective to state how many armor stands were near the player.

/scoreboard objectives add ASNum dummy

Clock commands:

The following must be run in numerical order on a clock.

Reset the player's ASNum score to a default of 0.
```
/scoreboard players set @a ASNum 0
```
Cause armor stands around the player to increase their "ASNum" score by 1. This causes the player's score to be equal to the number of armor stands around them, rather than always 1, to mimic CommandStats.
```
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand] ~ ~ ~ scoreboard players add @a[r=10] ASNum 1
```

Players with an ASNum score of 0 would be those not within 10 blocks of an armor stand. Players with a score of 1 or higher will have that many armor stands around them.

/say @a[score_ASNum=0] had no armor stands near them.
/say @a[score_ASNum_min=1] has at least 1 armor stand near them.
/say @a[score_ASNum_min=10] has at least 10 armor stands near them.

Minecraft Java Edition – How to Prevent a Jukebox from Dropping Its Disc

You could run a simple repeating command block killing all item entities in the area of the jukebox, replacing the X Y and Z values with that of the block above the jukebox:

/kill @e[type=Item,x=...,y=...,z=...,r=2]

This could invoke some other problems though, as all items nearby will be destroyed. There are ways around this, such as adding all of the item entities with the ID of music discs to a scoreboard.

/scoreboard objectives add discs dummy
/scoreboard players set @e[type=Item,x=...,y=...,z=...,r=5] disc 1 {Item:{id:"minecraft:record_chirp"}}

Note: this is specific to chirp music discs. To find the id of any other music disc, use F3 + H ingame to reveal all items' ids on their tooltips, or use an ID list.

Then killing only the item entities both nearby and that are actually music discs:

/kill @e[type=Item,x=...,y=...,z=...,r=2,score_discs_min=1]

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