[Shadbase]

So, I've already made a bug report about this in the past, but that'd be a HUGE ASS necropost of over a year or so, so I wanted to just make a new thread.

As per... introduction of the system, Soundcloud embeds in profile are both unable to be lowered volume-wise, and will continue playing after closing a profile after muting said max volume music until you can open your own profile and mute it.
This leads to people being consistently hit with 100d1000 sound damage, because people often use hard rock, or bas eboosted EDM dubstep in their profiles on Soundcloud.
This is presumably a bug, because I doubt that this sort of thing is intentional when the YouTube embeds work perfectly fine as long as you let them load before muting or closing the profile.

The running theories after asking more knowledgeable people than I about those systems is this:

Soundcloud's volume issue:
---- > Soundcloud may no API control for volume.
This would mean that SL2's volume slider cannot control Soundcloud's volume slider, because there is no code assisting it to do so. YouTube embeds do this, but as it is, nobody can tell if this is something that is a part of SL2, or a part of YouTube's embedding feature.
Also, going onto Soundcloud itself and lowering the volume so it's site-wide (which is what you could do for YouTube before the volume slider added in new chat), does not work. I have tested this myself, and it just doesn't.
---- > Possible venues to look at for a fix:
- Seeing if SL2 can be coded to fix the possible API control so that Soundcloud now works the same as YouTube in volume.
- Seeing if SL2 can be coded to allow changing the volume by the user.

Soundcloud's nonstop pain after muting issue:
---- > SL2 is not sending a proper "stop" command that Soundcloud embedding will listen to.
Soundcloud's unending sound damage tends to happen more often than not in this scenario:
- > I open a profile to see who just walked by as a glance.
- > This user is using Ram Ranch (base boosted) on Soundcloud.
- > I rush to hit the mute button and cry about my ears over OOC or Discord, cursing Soundcloud users who do this to me.
- > I close the profile after reading it in peace
- > Soundcloud starts again, at the same volume
- > I scream and open my own profile, with a YouTube embed, to make it stop.
It's good to note that hitting the mute button and then closing a profile will make the song start from where you muted it, and not at the beginning.
As well as that, if someone also doesn't have any music set on their profile, the mute button will now control that same Soundcloud music, which can only be solved one way (beyond closing the game):


The guess is that Soundcloud is either ignoring, or doesn't have some sort of "stop" command that tells the embed to go away after the profile is closed if the music gets muted. I could not tell you HOW the hell it works fine if it's not muted, but if it is muted it doesn't.
----> Possible venues for a fix:
- > Look for some sort of inconsistency with how SL2 is handling Soundcloud songs when unmuted and muted.
- > Check to see that closing the profile is sending the proper command when it's closed, as right now it seems to not be doing so.

I'll likely keep checking this in every time I have a new thought about what could potentially cause this, but I'm not familiar with BYOND code, so I can only guess at things and confer with people that sort-of do.