Teen Metaverse Blog

Many people have them, use them, and love them, in-world music players, where you can add your music and play them anywhere in SL. The last big hit music player was Switch Spectres‘ MyPod. Since Switch has retired from Second Life, the only new music player has been the GPod. Now comes another music player, the XiVa, created by FoXxfire12 Thatcher. I received a copy of it for review, and I must say, I was very impressed not only with the quality of it, but also with the immense complexity of the scripting. First off, and most importantly, there is no skipping of the songs. Then, the entire system is run by notecards, you just put in the UUID of your song into a notecard, title the notecard with the name of the song, and you are ready to go! No cluttered object inventory. Then, you have loadable dances, to show everyone you’re jammin’, and dance balls, to make you avatar look very cool and flashy. You have volume control, customizable colors, private chatting with other XiVa users, HUD Hiding, and, the most exciting feature of all, sharing. You can share your music with other XiVa users, at the click of a button, you simply click the tools icon, share, choose a song, choose an avatar, and the song gets sent to them. All updates are firmware installations, so you don’t get a new object, updates are just installed, and your settings are kept. One more of my favorite features, is the Music Server, you can click on the money icon in the HUD Object, you then receive a list of available songs that you can buy, then, if you choose to buy one, it is sent directly to you object, ready to play. This device is incredibly complicated, and not even all of the functions were listed here because there are just so many (like the album sideshow)!and I would have never expected to ever see something this complicated made on the Teen Grid, but once again, I was wrong. Now, on to the negative (notice that it is in singular form), the price, as always, has constantly been a negative with FoXxfire12, XiVa is priced very steeply at L$1000. For the complexity of this system, the price is decent, but once again, for the average Teen Grid resident, it is very expensive, but, for those of you out there that are looking for a good music player, this is a very good reason to start saving!

XiVa can be purchased HERE on March 5th

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TSLB Rates “XiVa Music Player”: 5.00 Stars

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