Music Control
by Pardys
With Music Control, players choose which music and sound events play, and skip tracks, from a client-side panel for Fabric.
What it does
The mod gives players control over Minecraft's background music. A music panel lets a player pick any music or sound event to play when the panel closes. Each music can be linked to the sound events it may play under, and the reverse. New events are added for biomes, dimensions and some miscellaneous conditions such as rain, thunder and night.
A Play tab keeps a history of recently played tracks so they are not picked again at random until the pool is exhausted, and the history length is configurable. Filters in the menu narrow the list by name, with special characters for more advanced matching. Custom tracks can be added through resource packs.
Music Control is client-side only, so servers do not need it and players join without installing anything on the server. It requires Fabric API, runs on Fabric 1.18 – 1.21.9, and is released under the MIT License, so the source code is open source and public.
Key features
Music panel
A GUI screen lets players select any music or sound event, opened with the M key.
Track controls
Keys skip to the previous or next track, pause or resume playback, and show the name of the current track.
Volume and category keys
Keys raise or lower the music category volume and switch between music categories.
Dimension sound events
Dimension events replace the general game music in the Overworld and can play on fallback, half the time, proportionally, or never.
Miscellaneous sound events
Events for raining, thundering, night and similar conditions can play always, half the time, or proportionally to their music count.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x9 of 9 versions with builds
1.20.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.19.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.18.x3 of 3 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Silencing empty biomes
Setting a biome event to never play lets biomes without music stay quiet for a creepy atmosphere.
Avoiding repeated tracks
The history keeps recently played music out of random selection until every track in the event has been used.
Who it’s for: Players who want to choose their background music, skip tracks or tune music to biomes, dimensions and weather on the Fabric client.
How it compares
Craftify is a Fabric and Forge client mod with all rights reserved, not open source, for 1.8.9 – 1.21.11. CreeperFamily Music Mod is a Fabric client mod, not open source, released under All rights reserved for 1.21.11 – 26.3. Endless Music is a Fabric client mod under the Apache License 2.0, open source, for 1.20 – 1.21.5.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music Control | Fabric | 1.18 – 1.21.9 | Client-side only | 2025-10-06 |
| Craftify | Fabric and Forge | 1.8.9 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2026-04-27 |
| CreeperFamily Music Mod | Fabric | 1.21.11 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-17 |
| Endless Music | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.21.5 | Client-side only | 2025-08-26 |
Questions
Does Music Control need to be installed on the server?
Which game versions does Music Control support?
Does Music Control need another mod?
In the catalog
Music Control is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 13,427 mods support Minecraft 1.21.9.
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What the author says
NO PORT TO FORGE PLANNED! (but feel free to port it by yourself and link it) This mod allows you to take full control of Minecraft music. If you ever felt like you had to wait too much time between music, or if you ever wanted to skip a music, this mod is made for you.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/music-control
- Owner
- Pardys
- Published
- 2023-05-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-10-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15