The next release, 2.0.59, will include the cleaned up version of Vulcanus 7. The standalone OST should be updated soon as well.

No, it won't affect achievements.

There are also hidden settings for the music transition, for example setting music-transition-delay-ticks to some huge number will make it so that it will finish playing the current track.

It might be possible to tie it to the surface I am on, that way I do not have to manually adjust things so much? And can show the planets music off; as well as I can?


There is a ambient-music-based-on-physical-location hidden setting.

Having a mode where it plays tracks completely randomly is ...

I don't have any actions to take regarding this at the moment and it's likely we'll update SDL + SDL_Mixer before I'd make any progress on this. So moving this to Won't Fix.

Moving this to Minor Issues as the fix for this seemed too annoying when I looked at this the last time and it is indeed a minor issue.

Kazzik71 wrote: Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:31 pm @ the devs, any chance you could separate those noises on the audio settings menu? Please? Pretty please?

No, we're not adding any more volume settings.
A simple mod that lowers the volume of that specific sound or removes it completely can be created.

i didn't know "opus codec" was a thing nor that it was supported.

The support was added in 2.0.24. Opus codec is supposed to perform better than Vorbis in lower bitrate scenarios, at high bitrates there shouldn't be much perceptible difference.


I thought it could also be maybe an EQ in game ...

Thanks for the report, this is now fixed for the next release, 2.0.58.

I didn't change anything in the scenario itself, instead in general any surface which doesn't have a planet or space platform associated with it will play the Nauvis (base game) music.

It was also much more difficult to make the samples sounds "good" in the game, the compression to "max quality" .ogg was used ...


You could give the Opus codec a go. Although I don't think it will make a difference since the bitrate in your files is so high (for most of them at least).

With `Master` volume at 0.07 and `Music` volume at 0.11, the resulting volume of music will be 0.0077, which is just at the volume resolution of the audio mixer library we're using. Setting the volume any lower will simply round to 0.0.

So this is not a bug, but a technical limitation.

If possible ...

It should be (without the 's')

I'll test with your mod, there could be a bug.
Edit: seems to be working as expected once it's changed to position.

Thus I don't see much why `count_already_playing` even exist, what does it count if not already playing sound ???

If count_already_playing is false the aggregation is applied only on new instances of the sound set to be played on a given tick.


That would be great if play_sound take into ...

Can you try setting the preferred audio driver in Sound Settings to pipewire and check if it changes anything (the log says the pulseaudio driver is used on Factorio side but if you're using pipewire on your desktop, you might get better results if you set the preferred audio driver).

Just looking at the logs, there is no issue visible on the Factorio side. This might suggest a driver issue. You can try switching the preferred audio driver from pulseaudio (default) to pipewire.

When I zoom out in editor mode I don't hear any crackling in the music (or any other sounds).
Does this happen all the time for you or maybe on a specific planet/with specific music track (you can see the track name if you enable the "show-detailed-info" debug option).

Post a log, please. And if you changed some audio setting, let me know which.
A short clip showing the issue would also be helpful.

Thanks for the report,

This is now fixed for the next release

See 127889
Update to 2.0.44 which should mitigate the issue and wait for 2.0.46 for a proper fix.

Thanks for the report. Initially I wanted to put this under Minor issues as "that's just how walking sounds are done" but then I couldn't un-hear it and it bothered me, so this is now fixed for the next release, 2.0.46.