Music
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Music in Old School RuneScape is mostly in-game background music designed to enhance a player's gaming experience and fit with the environment the avatar is in. Music in Old School RuneScape draws inspiration from classical, world, and progressive rock music. These are unlocked during gameplay by going to a particular place or during a quest.
An in-game counter at the bottom of the interface can be used to check how many tracks players have unlocked. Players who unlock all non-holiday music tracks will be able to purchase the music cape from Olaf the Bard, and subsequently unlock the Air Guitar emote. Unlocking the holiday music tracks is required to trim the music cape.
To unlock Holiday event music from all past years, players must complete the current year's event for that holiday. As of 25 September 2024, there are a total of 790 music tracks (not including unlisted and unused music) found in Old School RuneScape.
On 6 March 2007, RuneScape's existing music tracks were updated as part of an audio rework; Old School uses these reworked tracks. The original versions can be found under the "Versions" section of articles for music tracks released prior to March 2007.
Track list
The following section is a full list of all music tracks. Song names in bold indicate that they are exclusive to Old School RuneScape, while song names in italics indicate that they are holiday tracks.
Updated tracks
The following tracks have been updated since Old School RuneScape was released:
- On 26 February 2015, the original unused version of The Trade Parade was replaced with the present version using updated instruments.
- On 7 June 2016, the unlisted track Massacre was removed from the game.
- On 7 June 2018, Clan Wars was updated as it was incorrectly using pianos instead of drums.
- On 26 September 2019, the unused tracks Game Intro 1, Ambience 2, Ambience 3, Ambience 4, and Fade Test were removed from the game.
- On 23 April 2020, Predator Xarpus, Arachnids of Vampyrium and Dance of the Nylocas were all reworked.
- On 4 June 2020, Conspiracy was extended in length while Distant Land was slightly changed.
Changes
| Date | Changes |
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| [[{{#explode:26 May 2021| |0}} {{#explode:26 May 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:26 May 2021| |2}}]] (update) |
An option (classic mode) is added to disable the shuffling system. |
| [[{{#explode:28 April 2021| |0}} {{#explode:28 April 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:28 April 2021| |2}}]] (update) |
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| [[{{#explode:1 March 2018| |0}} {{#explode:1 March 2018| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:1 March 2018| |2}}]] (update | poll) |
Players may now right click music tracks to "Unlock hint" and be told which location the music track is unlocked in. |
| [[{{#explode:28 April 2016| |0}} {{#explode:28 April 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:28 April 2016| |2}}]] (update) |
All unique random event music tracks are unlocked the first time you enter a random event that has its own unique music track. |
| [[{{#explode:6 March 2007| |0}} {{#explode:6 March 2007| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:6 March 2007| |2}}]] (update) |
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Trivia
- Old School RuneScape has various unused songs, such as Athletes Foot, Autumn in Bridgelum and an unfinished version of The Adventurer. These songs are usually either temporary event songs, or remnants of songs intended for release after 2007.
- The shortest music track is Race Against the Clock, at 01:00 in length, while the longest song is Museum Medley, at 11:10 in length.
See also
- Music/Free-to-play, list of free-to-play music tracks
- Unlisted music tracks
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