RimTunes | Smart Music Engine

🎵 RimTunes

Your colony. Your soundtrack.

Import your own music, create playlists, tag songs for different situations, and choose between manual playback or a dynamic soundtrack that reacts to your colony.

Two Ways to Play

Choose a mode on first launch and change it anytime in Settings.

• Dynamic Music System - RimTunes selects music to fit your colony's current situation.

• Manual Mode - Full control over playlists, song order, shuffle, repeat, and playback.

Both modes include: custom music import, playlists, song tags, hotkeys, volume normalization, smooth transitions, and the mini-player overlay.

Dynamic Music System

Turn your library into a living RimWorld soundtrack. Tag songs for specific conditions and let RimTunes select suitable tracks automatically.

• Danger - Tense music during raids and combat, calmer music when danger passes

• Time of day - Daytime, nighttime, and custom time ranges

• Weather - Rain, snow, fog, toxic fallout, and more

• Seasons - Spring, summer, fall, and winter

• Game conditions - Map-wide events and conditions, including supported mod content

• Biomes - Deserts, forests, ice sheets, tropical maps, and more

• Royal titles - Optional Royalty DLC integration

RimTunes avoids recently played tracks, supports smooth transitions, and can use either your whole library or one selected playlist.

Example: Tag a song as Peaceful + Night + Winter for quiet snowy evenings, then forbid it during danger so it never plays in a raid.

Mini-Player Overlay

Control your music without opening the main window.

• Draggable overlay with corner snapping

• Play, pause, next, and previous controls

• Seek bar with click-and-drag seeking

• Scrolling song titles for long names

• Double-click to open the main RimTunes window

• Auto-hiding controls and lockable position

• Avoids RimWorld tutorial popups automatically

• Scales with RimWorld's interface scale

• Customizable colors for the background, text, buttons, and progress bar

• Silence countdown between tracks

Import Your Own Music

• Local files - Import music from your computer

• Direct audio links - Add supported audio files from direct URLs

• Existing game music - Browse RimWorld music and music included with installed mods

When available, RimTunes automatically reads artist and title information from audio files.

Supported formats:

• .mp3

• .wav

• .ogg

Tracker formats such as .xm, .it, .mod, and .s3m are not supported.

Playlists

Create playlists for every colony, biome, mood, faction, or disaster.

• Create, rename, delete, and reorder playlists

• Drag and drop songs to change their order

• Copy and paste songs between playlists

• Merge playlists without duplicate tracks

• Choose custom playlist icons

• Shuffle tracks and choose repeat modes

• Export and import playlists through the clipboard

• Library - Browse every available song in one place

• Mod playlists - Automatically created for installed mods that include music

Song Tags

Tell the Dynamic Music System when a song should, or should not, play.

• Mood - Tense, Peaceful, Ambient

• Time of day - Day, Night, and custom time ranges

• Seasons - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

• Weather conditions

• Game conditions and events

• Biomes

• Royal titles when Royalty is installed

Each tag can be set separately for every song:

• Default - No preference

• Required - The condition must be active

• Forbidden - The song will not play while the condition is active

Playback

• Smooth crossfades between songs

• Separate transition settings for peaceful and dangerous situations

• Optional silence gaps between tracks

• Shorter breaks during combat and longer breaks during peaceful gameplay

• Optional idle silence after a period without activity

• Pause or skip silence gaps whenever you want

• Optional volume normalization for a more consistent music volume

Custom Hotkeys

Five fully rebindable hotkeys:

• Open or close the main music window

• Show or hide the mini-player overlay

• Pause or resume playback

• Next song

• Previous song

Supports Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and Cmd modifiers.

Mod Compatibility

• Automatically discovers music included with installed mods

• Creates separate playlists for mod soundtracks

• Keeps RimWorld's music volume synchronized with RimTunes

• Works with vanilla music and supported mod-added music

Languages

🇬🇧 English • 🇨🇳 简体中文 • 🇫🇷 Français • 🇩🇪 Deutsch

🇷🇺 Русский • 🇪🇸 Español • 🇺🇦 Українська

Requirements

• RimWorld 1.6

• Harmony

No DLC is required.

Royalty integration is enabled automatically when the Royalty DLC is installed.

Credits & Links

Created by DepsCian.

GitHub - DepsCian/RimTunes