I don't know if this has been suggested in this thread (it's a bit long), but what if the guitarists among us create some more music for soundsense and upload it? It might be good for exposure and it will also flesh out the game a bit, y'know? We could vote on them etc. We wouldn't have to worry about copyright infringement and the music will be composed with the game specifically in mind.
Would anyone have a problem with a 500/600 Mb soundsense folder?
I would have problem with 600MB folder because it would be painfull for my server. :-) Anyway ...
I would *love* to have original made-for-df music. For example, I enjoyed Hey Di Lee Hi -
http://tindeck.com/listen/nysxIf you can get together 4 tracks per season and 4 "siege/battle" tracks then we can replace most of third party music, then feel free to go ahead and get started! But:
This is 20 songs - which imho is quite hard because:
1) it must be coherent (it must fit together when songs are played back-to-back.)
2) it must be good enough quality (not that i think you guys are not good, but even best-of-best would struggle to make 20 decent songs on schedulle and you are going to make something that would be played and listened for hours.)
Also, I wans thinking about ... dun dun dun ... procedurally generated music. It would kinda fit dwarf fortress and it sounds fairly simple to independently chain several different backgrounds, foregrounds, melodies and whatnot together to make tracks on fly. Potential for terrible music is there thou.
It has also bonus of being able to insert some events to music (for example insert 10 seccond ghost theme to whatever is currently playing without disrupting it).