Would be nice if you could disable the use of /melody if you wanted a more "authentic" feeling. As a bard who played since 1999 I rarely used melody after it was implemented...I of course had twisting ingrained in my memory. Once I fell asleep during an RZ raid in time and woke up...fingers still twisting...apparently I kept all 4 songs up the entire fight while asleep for about 10 minutes.
As far as the client goes...there are several bugs with singing songs...they lock up occasionally preventing you from twisting. Also whenever you twist every pulse actually removes the song and then re adds it like it overwrites itself as a buff...so I imagine this is controlled serverside in some respect...I imagine that the serverside is waiting for a command that the song successfully played before going onto the next song (i.e. if you had high ping times melody rates would be different based on lag levels)...based on how songs are handled I imagine they are emulated to be much like spells instead of like songs. The fact that /melody sings the first song gives the impression that it is waiting for a response from the server to stop singing that one and start singing the next that it is simply not getting.
As far as adding it *purely* client side I'm sure its possible, as macroquest allegedly had a feature that could do it...it would simply look for the casting dialogue and when it disappeared (the song was sung) it would stop the song and move onto the next one. However, if someone develops this, it would be available to anyone who downloaded it.
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