I play with my own music.

I can't listen to one guy's music for hundreds of hours, no matter who it is

i rather like the ingame music but will certainly try this out when i get home

I'm going to try it. I know saying this is a blasphemy , but I find Skyrim's music somehow... lacking. I loved the music in both Morrowind and Oblivion, but for some reason I'm bored with music in Skyrim. I don't really know why, maybe it got too repetitive, or maybe it's just a personal preference. There are some great pieces, though.
I think playing without music might be a new, unique experience and if for no other reason, I'll do it out of curiousity.

I have but I like it better on. It goes with the environment, and I like listening to it when running around in the wilderness.

i used to play silencely like you but then..

i love the music also, no chance i put this off

I turn the music off with every game I play, and Skyrim's not an exception. I enjoy the environment sounds without music a whole lot more. As someone's already said -- you don't have music following you around in real life.

I went with the music off... for like ten minutes, i couldnt stand NOT listening to the greatest sound-track off all time.....

I am the type of person that turns off the music in pretty much every game i play. However, when it comes to the Elder Scrolls i make sure its turned up to the max, Morrowind,Oblivion and Skyrim all have stunning music.

But it should Danmit!

In any game the first thing I do when it starts up is disable the music. I enjoy hearing the ambient sounds instead of looping music. Its much harder for me to hear whats going on or who is sneaking up on me with music blaring as well.

While I'd not knock someone trying it with no music, nor having specific times without it, the music by Soule made the Elder Scrolls. I'd no more completetly turn it off than I'd stop playing. The day a Bethesda Elder scrolls game does not have music by Soule, is the day there is no Elder Scrolls.

It would be like the Good, Bad and Ugly without Morricone, the Seven Dwarfs without Hi Ho!

Modern composers of talent use video games as their platforms. We are seeing genius here. If Bach were writing today, it would be in a video game.

I ened up turning music off too.
Not because I couldn't stand it, but I needed peace.
There is nothing epic crossing over a bridge, so keep your instrument off you bards !

Will be great to have a silence track like in Oblivion

Agreed. In everyone of my other games music is always turned off. Skyrim is the only game I leave on.

Oh really.

The Music won't work for me, just cause my armour is 'Too good'.
Why beth, why?!

Not saying it's not good objectively, but modern classical music is very much about theory and people who push the boundaries of it, Jeremy Soule writes good compositions, but there is nothing unique or unusual about, it's grand, romantic, and pretty derivative...in that sense I guess he is the "John Williams" of video games.


Comparing Jeremy Soule to Bach, or even Morricone....i'm gonna assume you're trolling, or just don't know anything about music.

Not saying he's bad, he's very talented.. but he has a ways to go before being ranked with names like that.

Soule is an extremely uneven composer, he can make brilliant pieces(like MW main theme or some of his TA tracks) but he can also make generic "hollywood epic" crap. Skyrim got the latter, sadly.

For now I'm still playing with music, but will definitely be turning it off on my second playthrough.

Thank you. If there's any modern composer that does deserve the title, it's Clint Mansell, and he has nothing to do with video games.

See I started doing this in Fallout: New Vegas and it really elevated the survival feeling. Now I would agree that turning off the music in Skyrim would add to that experience, but the Elder Scrolls games aren't wasteland survival games, they are fantasy games. The music adds to the fantasy element, without it, it may seem bland.

I turned it off, cause I like walking along and hearing a distance echoy dragon roar and spining around to look for it, rather then the music start playing. Just yesterday I was strolling through the college of winterhold grounds and an ancient dragon landed right ontop of me before I knew what was happening, he didn't roar or dive bomb me, just landed right ontop of me, scared the (*#@ out of me. If I had the music on, I would of known he was there before he even got near the college.

I preffer the howl of wolves, and the scraqe of the draugh bones on stone, the crackle of fire and whispered conversations from the next room over, then a continious sound track playing in the background.

The music adds a certain cinematic quality. Yes after 100+ hrs even the greatest music can become tiring. Soule does a really nice job with certain sections of this soundtrack.. On others it kind of fades in to white noise for me. But I just leave it on, because it did let m know that I was being gnawed on by a mudcrab while in a conversation with a courier that I couldn't break out of. Skyrim would need something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx6FO6ZdmkQ which is about Finland, so I think it's appropriate. The finale would be great for long boats sailing off to the Summerset Isles for the next installment. lolz.Today Skyrim. Tomorrow the world!

Maybe I'll try it. It was pretty unrealistic when suddenly this epic battle music plays as soon as I see a bear xD!

I used to be a music listening adventurer like you, but then ... I turned it off.

Game would be pretty dull without it.

Cheers

Nope, I love the music.