NetEase Cloud Music — Guide

Writing a Disc at the Computer

The Computer is the general-purpose writer and the one that works everywhere.

1. Put a blank Music CD in the input slot.
2. Song url - a direct link to an audio file. Only mp3 and flac are supported, and the link has to point at the file itself, not at a page that plays it.
3. Song name - what shows on screen while it plays and on the disc's tooltip.
4. Time (s) - the length of the track in seconds. This is what the player counts down, so a wrong number makes the music cut off early or hang at the end.
5. Optionally tick Read Only.
6. Press Craft CD and take the written disc from the output slot.

The url field also accepts a local file path. That is convenient for your own music, but the file lives on your machine only - other people around the player will see the disc spinning and hear nothing.

Writing a Disc at the CD Burner

The CD Burner is the shortcut version. Instead of a link it takes a song ID from a music service and looks the rest up for you - title, artist, length, and lyrics where they exist.

Because that lookup goes out to the service's own servers, it only succeeds from regions those servers answer. Where it does not, the Burner reports that it could not fetch the song info, and the Computer with a direct link is the route that always works.

The Read Only tick is here too, and it behaves the same way.

Read-Only Discs

A disc written with Read Only ticked can never be rewritten. Feeding it back into either machine refuses the write instead of replacing the song.

That makes read-only discs the right choice for anything you hand to someone else or leave in a public build - a jukebox wall in a spawn town, a shop selling albums, a soundtrack for an adventure map. Leave the tick off while you are still experimenting with a track, because a normal disc can be overwritten as many times as you like.

The Music Player

Place the gramophone, then right-click it holding a written disc. The record drops onto the turntable and starts turning, note particles rise out of the horn, and the track name appears on screen for everyone in range. If the song carried lyrics, they scroll as it plays.

Right-click the block again with an empty hand to take the disc back and stop the music.

The player also answers to redstone. A signal starts and stops playback, so a lever behind a wall, a pressure plate in a doorway or a daylight sensor on a roof can all drive it. That is what turns a single gramophone into a doorbell, a shop jingle, or a night-time ambience that switches itself on.

The Big Megaphone

The Megaphone is not for discs. It takes a live stream URL in m3u8 form and keeps playing it for as long as it is switched on.

Its screen has four controls:

• Stream URL and broadcast name - what to play and what to call it.
• Broadcast Range - a slider, up to 96 blocks. Everyone inside that radius hears the stream.
• Save / Start / Stop - saving keeps the station on the block, so you can set it up once and switch it on months later.
• Select Preset Station - a menu of stations shipped with the mod, for when you do not have a URL to hand.

A Megaphone on a tower is the closest the game gets to a real radio mast: one block, one stream, an entire base covered.