Musical Times
by Fishy_Dish
Musical Times is a Forge management mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 that switches the background music by time of day, location and game state, and it plays custom .ogg tracks placed in folders.
What it does
Music selection depends on the situation. Separate tracks are assigned to daytime, nighttime, the main menu, the Nether and the End. A boss bar also changes the music during fights, and the mod works with modded bosses as well as vanilla ones.
Custom songs are loaded from .ogg files placed in the mod's music folders. A config file sets the time between songs, the master volume and the songs volume, and each folder can be enabled or disabled. Leaving a folder empty makes the mod fall back to the default music for that situation, and the menu folder can be disabled to play Minecraft's own menu music instead.
Musical Times runs on the client alone, so players install it and servers do not need it. It is published for Forge only, with a single build, 1.0.0, for 1.20.1. It is released under All rights reserved and is not open source.
Key features
Scenario-based music
Playlists are chosen by scenario, so the soundtrack changes between day, night, menus and dimensions.
Boss bar music
Music switches when a boss bar appears, including bosses added by other mods.
Custom .ogg tracks
Players place their own .ogg files in the music folders and the mod plays them in their place.
Folder and volume settings
Each folder can be toggled, and a config file controls the gap between songs, the master volume and the songs volume.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Custom soundtrack
A player who wants their own music for each part of the game can fill the folders with personal tracks.
Modpack soundtracks
Modpack makers can ship their own music sets, with the credit for each track given as the author requires.
Who it’s for: Players who want their own soundtrack in 1.20.1 Forge worlds, and modpack makers who want a music set tied to in-game situations.
Questions
Does Musical Times need to be on the server?
Which file format can custom songs use?
Can the default menu music be kept?
In the catalog
Musical Times is one of 8,016 Management mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,698 Management mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Allows for custom music files. How to use - Place your.ogg files into the musical times folders, folders are listed as Each music folder has a config file, in here you can change the time between songs, master volume and each songs volume. You can also enable / disable the music for each folder.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/musical-times
- Owner
- Fishy_Dish
- Published
- 2025-11-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-16
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15