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Version: 1.6 The mod turns the Spectral Drum from the Untold Legends quest into a "walking" music player which will accompany you on your journey. Just summon it via the “Bardic Knowledge – Advanced Music” summoning spell and talk to the Drum afterwards. The spell can be crafted at the Tanning Rack if you have at least one of the rewards from the Untold Legends quest, no matter which one you have chosen. BUT if you don’t want to do the Untold Legends quest, you can add the spell tome to your inventory with this console command: startquest BB03AddTomeDrum Confirm with Return or Enter key. The console command starts a quest which adds the book to your inventory without a notification. After the book is added, you can stop the quest with this command: stopquest BB03AddTomeDrum You can: add up to 300 songs which are assigned to 6 playlists* command the Spectral Drum to wait, follow or vanish choose from various buffs for you and your companions (the option “No Buffs” is also possible; Settings > Buffs) pause the music playback of the playlist (a silent track will be played instead) stop the playback of the default music temporarily using the “Remove Default Music” option * These consist of the categories Town, Tavern, Home, Combat, Explore and Dungeon. Additions since version 1.1: added optional playback continuation after you commanded the drum to vanish (disabled at default > Settings menu, page 2) a remote control that opens the music player menu even when the drum is not there; the menu opens when you equip the misc item. You can find the remote control option on page 2 in the Settings menu Since version 1.5 it's possible to play the custom music without getting interrupted by any combat music. This is done with the "No Combat Music" setting which you can find in the menu of the music player under Settings > Combat Music. Two optional special music tweak plugins (since version 1.6). Variant A gives the default special music of the game (e.g. level-up or discovery of a new location music) a higher priority than the custom music of Spectral Music Player. So the special music will always play when the situation requires it. The B variant gets rid of the special music entirely so that you don't hear the special music tracks after the playback of the music player is stopped. Please activate either the A or the B variant of the Special Music Tweak and load your chosen tweak after "Spectral Music Player.esp". The music player in action: chapters: 0:00 ingame default music removal (temporary), 0:17 music playback, 1:34 commanding the drum, 2:24 setting the Track Timer, 2:37 combat action, 3:21 works for dragons, too (toggleable) Buffs (each one is toggleable): Fortify Stamina Rate: +50 (the spectral drum's original buff; is applied to you and your nearby allies in combat) Fortify Speech: +25 (is applied to you outside of combat) Advanced Combat: +5 Attack Damage, +25 damage resistence, +25 magic resistence (is applied to you and your nearby allies in combat) Downloads: Nexus Mods Google Drive Recommendations Favorite Misc Items: hotkey misc items like the remote control of the music player Immersive Music: A music package that makes you forget that it doesn't belong to the game. I used it to test the playback functions. Updating From version 1.5 to version 1.6 Replace the old .esp and .bsa files with the new ones. Once you have loaded your savegame, talk to the drum and exit the menu of the Spectral Music Player afterwards. This initiates a fix that reduces the risk that other followers turn hostile towards the drum due to friendly fire in combat (see changelog for more information). From previous versions to version 1.5 Start the game and load your current savegame. Stop the current playback of the playlists. Dismiss the drum by commanding it to vanish. Save your game in a new savegame slot. Exit the game. Make a back-up of this savegame in case something goes wrong. In the next step, we need to delete all traces of the plugin from your savegame with ReSaver (part of FallrimTools) - this process is called savegame cleaning. It makes sure that the bug fixes for the Anniversary Edition (since version 1.4) take effect and the new combat music setting "No Combat Music" (since version 1.5) is available in your savegame. Download and install FallrimTools: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5031 Start ReSaver. Open the savegame that you created before in ReSaver. Expand "Plugins (ESP & ESM)". Right-click on the entry "Spectral Music Player.esp" and choose "Delete plugin changeforms". Right-click on this entry again and choose "Delete plugin script instances" this time. Save the savegame under a new name so you can find the edited savegame faster when you want to load your savegame in the game. Replace the old .bsa and .esp files with the new ones. The final step is about adding the drum summoning spell back to your character because the game sees the plugin as a newly added mod after the savegame cleaning. Start the game and load the edited savegame. Open the console and type in this command: startquest BB03AddTomeDrum Confirm with Return or Enter key. The console command starts a quest which adds the spell tome to your inventory without a notification. Open your inventory and use the tome "Spell Tome: Bardic Knowledge - Advanced Music" which adds the summoning spell to your character. Stop the quest using this console command: stopquest BB03AddTomeDrum Save your game. How to: If you just want to play the mod with its default settings: step 1 and step 4 are the important ones Step 1: Add the music Step 2: Activate the Spectral Music Player.esp Step 3: Access the Spectral Music Player menu Step 4: Adjust the track limits Step 5: Choose a mode Step 6: Choose the combat music type which is played during combat (Settings > Combat Music) Step 7: Select a Playlist and enjoy! Disclaimer: The mod is open-source in a non-commercial use*. Feel free to do what you want with it as long as you mention my name (Selene310187) in your credits. * only exception: I allow Donation Points on Nexus Mods

Hello everyone, Very recently you've been very helpful to me fixing errors in my companion mod and thus making it portable to Skyrim Special Edition. Being eager to continue development on my mod, there's one very last issue about my companion's appearance I haven't been able to fix myself so far, but I'd very much like to eliminate it first before moving forward. Therefore, I thought that I might find some more help with my troubles here again. As it says in the title, this one is about some rather strange neckseam issue I'm having with my companion on both old Skyrim and Skyrim Special Edition. I've already cut on this issue in my previous thread, though I thought it was reasonable to open a new one dedicated more to the point, since my initial issues in the last thread were entirely solved there already: Please understand I'm new to this site and I don't mean to spam or misuse this site's functions. Please take a look at the screenshots I've attached here, do you see this very slight seam? The first guess obviosuly is that the skin textures do not quite match, though I can assure that they do, and I've encountered this neckseam with several other skin mods installed on my companion. I was also told that this might be caused by normals on the body meshes being set to "yes" in NifSkope, so I went ahead and fixed that, with the same outcome. My best guess right now is that the warning the Creation Kit for Skyrim Special Edition threw might be related to this issue somehow, but if so I have absolutely no idea how to fix this. This is what it gave me when I loaded my plugin from old Skyrim and saved it for the very first time in Special Edition format: Maybe anyone would be willing to take a closer look at my mod, help identifying the problem and find a solution for it? My mod is attached to this post for both versions of Skyrim for you to get, there's also a third, "unfixed" version of it for old Skyrim from the time before I touched on the errors with my mod reported to me in this thread. Any help to wrap things up about her appearance by solving this issue would be greatly appreciated!