EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

[Mr.Papercut]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

As long as they don't stuff it with Ozzy Osbourne again I'm fine...

[edwing]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

Plenty of rappers worse than Tyga, Lil B. and Young Thug, just a couple I think of right off the top of my head.

Sure, ranking anything is relatively subjective but there's no denying that he is pretty bad and deserves to be put in with all of these other new-age "rappers". When you get famous because of a song called "Rack City" you lose all respect from me. And don't even get me started with Lil B and his dumb curse

[NC12]

Greatest Madden related news I've heard in years

[jpdavis82]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

Greatest Madden related news I've heard in years

Yes, for now, there's more good news to come.

[MajorSupreme]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

Yes, for now, there's more good news to come.

Stop playing with my emotions.

I think it'd be awesome if they went the 2K route and composed the soundtrack with previous popular songs. "Way Away", "It's Me Snitches", etc. got me hype pre-game.

[jpdavis82]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

Stop playing with my emotions.

I think it'd be awesome if they went the 2K route and composed the soundtrack with previous popular songs. "Way Away", "It's Me Snitches", etc. got me hype pre-game.

Not playing with your emotions, there's some good gameplay stuff coming

[splff3000]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

My only hope is that the PS4 version is built to support Spotify streaming appropriately (meaning, mute the menu music automatically) for when the soundtrack inevitably runs its course.

It should work like that for ps4. It worked like that for madden 15. I'm actually looking forward to it. It's not the greatest addition by any means, but it's gonna be great for me when I'm in one of my long practice sessions. Also, in the past, most of the artists that were used were not mainstream by any means. I wonder if EA agreed to put them on Madden if they could share the rights to the songs. It would make sense seeing that, back in the day, being in Madden meant instant artist/song recognition. People knew the songs. I remember on more than one occasion hearing a song from madden outside of madden and instantly thinking that's a madden song. Anyway, I'm not upset about the playlist, especially since it only probably consisted of uploading the songs to Spotify into a playlist then sharing said playlist.

[charter04]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

Well. Good News? I always enjoyed the sound tracks. My favorite was the NFL films songs. It just seems like typical EA to take something out and then a few games later bring it back and try and make a huge deal about it.

The spotify thing is cool I guess.

I'm hoping the gameplay news is good. lol

[NimitsTexan]

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I always enjoyed the "NFL Film" theme songs; for the rest, I just turn them off (more of a classical music guy myself; generally do not enjoy most modern music). If anything, more on the disappointed side of this news, as I found the menu music from the last Madden game or two less annoying than usual in sports games.

[Facts]

sigh, here's to hoping for Custom Stadium Sounds in M17. They have the code for it from the NCAA games.

[Hooe]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

sigh, here's to hoping for Custom Stadium Sounds in M17. They have the code for it from the NCAA games.

The XBOX One doesn't support user-triggered music download to system storage in any capacity and the PS4 only just got music playback from USB thumb drives into the operating system. On top of that, NCAA Football was created for an entirely different console. The code for the feature as it exists in the previous game is not relevant to its inclusion in a future game on the new consoles.

I'd love to see custom stadium sounds brought back too, but I don't think that we're going to see it anytime soon, unfortunately.

[SmashMan]

Re: EA Trax Returns to Madden NFL 16, Teaming Up with Spotify

and the PS4 only just got music playback from USB thumb drives into the operating system.

For what it's worth, the PS4 video-editing app ShareFactory also supports importing audio for people to use in their videos. The interesting part is that these files (after importing them into ShareFactory) are still accessible in the app after you remove the USB drive; so they're actually being stored on the system somewhere.

Now, whether or not game developers have access to the same tools that allow this to happen...

[jpdavis82]

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I always enjoyed the "NFL Film" theme songs; for the rest, I just turn them off (more of a classical music guy myself; generally do not enjoy most modern music). If anything, more on the disappointed side of this news, as I found the menu music from the last Madden game or two less annoying than usual in sports games.

You'll still have the option to listen to the orchestrated Madden theme music(25 & 15). I'm not sure if they'll have nfl films music yet.

[MAGboyswifT27]

I'm actually glad they're being EA Trax back. I was over the EA custom music..

[dtlm6]

This was something that I wanted brought back for a very long time.