Music randomization

A good part of why I keep coming back to play PoE is due to the large extent of variety and randomization of areas. The music, although good, never changes for any given area. Sarn Theme, for instance, will always play in the same area, no matter how many times you open a new instance.

I think there is currently about 30 tracks in total in PoE (I counted 27 but that includes the opening theme, but is missing the Library theme) so it's a rough estimate. 30 is a surprisingly low number for a game that's been in development for ~4 years (more?) so I wouldn't feel there's much of a problem if we can say, double that.

Now a big thing I found years ago when I played Diablo 1 (ignoring the music here), is that on single player, you had randomized quests. Sometimes a single playthough would have King Leoric as a quest, and other times, he would be gone. Perhaps replaced by the poisoned water quest on another level. It gave me a feeling of "oh wow, things weren't like this before".

Coming back to PoE music, it would be nice to occasionally open a new area, and suddenly you're listening to a music track that you've never heard before. I'm not talking about a 50:50 chance, I'm talking about rare music, as rare as finding a corrupted area, only substantially more rare. Imagine there were an additional 30 super-rare music tracks in PoE that only played 1/50th of the time. I've turned PoE sound off and use my own music etc, but this would give me incentive to listen to the in-game music while playing.

On that note, this music would be very fitting for Path of Exile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF_KwjPVa-g
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