[REL] Radio Saigon on air now!

[Ziem]

As mentioned in this threadàhttp://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=109256 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=109256)

Radio Saigon is as of now airing. We play for you hits like J’attendrai by Rina Ketty, La romance de Paris by Charles Trenet, golden oldies like Paris, Je t’aime D’amour by Maurice Chevalier and many many more. We will help you to get through those boring watchhours. Tune in to frequency 122 ! Radio Saigon…this commercial free radio channel is made possible by the good taxpayers of Vichy France and the Empire of Japan


Some technical stuff:

This radio mod is JSGME Friendly.

IMPORTANT!!!!


--- Before you unzip and install please add the following lines to your radio.ini file to be found in the ~data\sound\radio map. (don't forget to make a backup before you add or change things)

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000


1) Make sure that your frequencies are in the correct order (lowest first, highest last)
2) I took frequency 122 following the "Changing radio washington to many small stations" thread guideline. If however you want to change the frequency please make sure that you leave enough space in between frequencies otherwise you experience interference

--- To install please unzip the file to the mods directory and use JSGME to install this mod

1) JSGME will install the mp3 files in the ~data\sound\radio\saigon map
2) All mp3 filenames start with the year in which the song was recorded. So for example the people who do not want to hear songs recorded in 1943 while they are still playing in 1942, just cut/paste the 1943 and later recording dates (included in the soon to be released volumes II and III and IV) to a temp folder and you can copy them back when you survive 1942 and get into 1943

have fun and happy listening!



Download link àhttp://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_French_MusicIzip/;7079872;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_French_MusicIzip/;7079872;/fileinfo.html)







For more info on French Indo China during WWII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina) and

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/seasia/wwiifrindoch.html (http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/seasia/wwiifrindoch.html)

VOLUME 2 AVAILABLE NOW ---> http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_FM_Vol2zip/;7157644;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_FM_Vol2zip/;7157644;/fileinfo.html)

[CaptainCox]

Great WORK! will add this immediately. Cheers!

[GreyOctober]

OOOOOOOOOOO ME OUI! C'est magnifique! :up:

Thank you!
Grey

[Alex]

@ Ziem : merci beaucoup ! :rock:

[Beery]

Thanks Ziem! This is a 'must have' for me - my skipper loves Rina Ketty and the crew are a bunch of Francophiles - For some unknown reason they all spent time in France before the war.

[tedhealy]

Grat selection of music, thank you much for the mod:up:

[Ziem]

Mes amis....an easter bunny... volume 2 of radio Saigon...go get it here....
--> http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_FM_Vol2zip/;7157644;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_FM_Vol2zip/;7157644;/fileinfo.html) with all time hits like "la mer" Charles Trenet & "en parlant un peu de Paris" Henri Garat..


Happy hunting......


Z.

[bunkerratt]

merci beaucoup !.....:|\\

[Ziem]

although the song "la mer" by Cherles Trenet is hard to beat (legend has it he wrote it in 20 minutes in 1943 while being in the train from Narbonne to Sete) I got quite a lot of the immortal guitar player Django Reinhardt....the man was already a god in France during the 30's...And yes, Radio Saigon has some of his records....
simple question...are there some sailors out there who want to listen to this king of swing? We're talking about song like St. Louis Blues and Twelfth year.....

Z.:)

[Beery]

although the song "la mer" by Cherles Trenet is hard to beat (legend has it he wrote it in 20 minutes in 1943 while being in the train from Narbonne to Sete)...

I love La Mer, but as a realism junkie I'll probably have to give it a miss, as I understand it wasn't recorded until 1946.

[Crosseye76]

Very, Very nice. Well done !

[Ziem]

although the song "la mer" by Cherles Trenet is hard to beat (legend has it he wrote it in 20 minutes in 1943 while being in the train from Narbonne to Sete)...

I love La Mer, but as a realism junkie I'll probably have to give it a miss, as I understand it wasn't recorded until 1946.

True, concerning that one I cheated a bit but you can play it in 1945, because I googled a bit and found 2 1945 recordings.

one of them found here --> http://www.abeillemusique.com/produit.php?cle=12119

Z.

[Captain_Jack]

Awesome addition to the Radio...but just one little question for History's Sake:


Would Japanese Occupation forces allow Western French Music to be played on the air in Indochina? After all one of their goals was to remove the western influence from Asia. I'm thinking that Japanese Music would be played in all the areas under occupation.

Just a thought....

[Ziem]

Understandable and that's what i thought too, but after reading a bit about on the www I think they were alowwed to play french music especially because Vichy france collaborated with the axis. And french indo china was still officialy ruled by vichy france so my best guess is that it was allowed. Unfortunately i do not know anybody who lived in french indo china in those days, so he/she could give us certainty. Another thing which came to my mind, did for example french polynesia have a radio station?

Z.

[Forlorn]

Also what would be a realistic range for the station, maybe like 1500sm?

[Kataki]

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000


Is that the correct position for the Antenna? I seem to be picking up saigon only east of the 180° longitude international date line.

[XanderF]

File 2 is downloading fine, but file 1 keeps saying it's corrupted.

Upload again?

[dean_acheson]

I keep getting a message that says that the file is corrupted.....

[Hunter]

Nice mod! Very useful both for SH4 and SH3.

[TopCat]

Yes! Vol 1 is corrupted. :cry: Plz plz upload again! Vol. 2 is great! :up:

[XanderF]

Any updates? "Accidentally" lost my system this week, so did a complete format + reinstall. Downloaded this again, and, sure enough, file 1 still corrupt.

[Ziem]

Hi..

Sorry for late response. Have been abroad the past weeks and didn't have the music on my notebook. But now I'm back and I'll take a look at volume 1. and update it this week.

Ill also check the location of the station...


Z.

[IRONxMortlock]

Thanks for the mod.

I've downloaded it twice and the archive is corrupted for me too.

Does anyone have a link to a working file?

Thanks,

M

[SOCRATIS]

I've tried downloaded Vol 1 but is corrupted and the http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_FM_Vol2zip/;7157644;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_FM_Vol2zip/;7157644;/fileinfo.html) (for Vol2) open the main page of files.filefront.com (http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_FM_Vol2zip/;7157644;/fileinfo.html) :hmm: (http://files.filefront.com/Radio_Saigon_FM_Vol2zip/;7157644;/fileinfo.html)

Does anyone have these files?

Thank you

[dean_acheson]

this hasn't ever worked for me, I quit trying a few months ago.

[Stary Wuj]

Please, upload again :p Links don't work....

Best Regards

Stary Wuj

[AVGWarhawk]

I also posted in the 1.4 compatible mod thread. Since I have the station manager I believe I will download this and add it to my radio:up:

[Wilcke]

Thank you, its just not a cruise without that radio and the music!:up:

[Elder-Pirate]

Since there seems to be some demand for it, I've uploaded my working copy to my site:

http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/

I'll leave it up until someone tells me to take it down.

Somewhere in the pot I've d/l one of your mods called "GI Jive" with 1940's music ( love it :up: ) and after hearing the Lady disc Jockeys voice before each record I looked her up ( googled ), interesting Lady.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=127529

Thanks fred8615 :rock:

[fred8615]

Since it was a small enough file, I've added this to the Subsim downloads area, under SH4 Sound FX mods.

[Harmsway!]

All I get is static.

All I get at frequency 122 is static.

This mod was installed with JSGME after adding the radio channel to radio.ini. The readme says to add the channel to radio.cfg but I have no such file. Is the ini file what you ment. Please help all this mod does is make static.

[BillBam]

All I get is static.

All I get at frequency 122 is static.

This mod was installed with JSGME after adding the radio channel to radio.ini. The readme says to add the channel to radio.cfg but I have no such file. Is the ini file what you ment. Please help all this mod does is make static.

It should be radio.ini and can be found in SH4>data>sound>radio

[Harmsway!]

Like I said; "This mod was installed with JSGME after adding the radio channel to radio.ini."

Nothing but static. Although the channel 122 does appear.

Wild night ah??

[BillBam]

I assume you have check to insure the Radio Saigon folder is in the Radio folder. Not sure what the content of the mod is (music? events?) but if it is event only it is possible there are no events scheduled for the time frame you are listening to.

I had similar problems with radio stations and then found that it was because I was using win7 (same with vista) and installed in the Program folder. I made a setup outside of the Program folder and had no problems.

[Harmsway!]

I assume you have check to insure the Radio Saigon folder is in the Radio folder. Not sure what the content of the mod is (music? events?) but if it is event only it is possible there are no events scheduled for the time frame you are listening to.


There is a Saigon folder inside the Radio folder. In fact I can dial in Radio Saigon. When I mouse over the radio the balloon says 122 Radio Saigon. The year is 1942 and there are plenty of items that begin with that year.

[fred8615]

There is a Saigon folder inside the Radio folder. In fact I can dial in Radio Saigon. When I mouse over the radio the balloon says 122 Radio Saigon. The year is 1942 and there are plenty of items that begin with that year.
Are there any files inside the Saigon folder? The station does come with a few songs included, and no events. If there are files there, try playing them with your media player. If they're not there or won't play, it's possible the files were corrupted when you extracted the station, or maybe when JSGME installed it.

BTW, I was going to announce this after uploading, but I figure I can do it now. I've put together a set of 670 french songs that I'll be uploading to my music hosting sites later today. Now you don't have to listen to the same few songs over and over again on Radio Saigon. :DL

[fred8615]

As promised, the French music set is now uploaded. Use the link in my sig below for details.