[REL] Radio Stations and Music Mod

[fred8615]

I have created several radio mods for Silent Hunter 4, as well as separate music files, divided by year for the WWII era, or by decade for the "oldies." Most music file songs are in mp3 format, some in wav and/or ogg. They can be used with any radio station or the Gramophone.

Most files are in 256MB multi-part RAR format. You MUST download all the parts in order to extract properly!

Radio stations do not include music, only the appropriate news and/or entertainment programs. Except for the KGMB, KOTR, NHK, and Radio Vladivostok stations, they are subdivided by year for the music files. While you can control programs in the "Events" folder, you can't control the music. And hearing a song about Iwo Jima in 1942 is just ...wrong. :nope: Except for the KOTR station, only episodes from December 1941 through August 14th, 1945 are used. Not all episodes of a program may be available.

All radio stations include readmes. These contain installation instructions, more information, and the channel info you'll need to copy and paste into the "radio.ini" in order to hear the radio stations.


Files marked with an asterisk (*) are available for download here on Subsim.com's Downloads area, under SH4 Sound FX Mods.


Download from Mediafire:
Music: http://www.mediafire.com/?pgn1xoif7rbf7
Radio Stations: http://www.mediafire.com/?ykwl5sqfi4eyk


Here is what I have available:


Music Files

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1940s Music


1940 Music - 3 files, 754 MB total. 359 songs from the year 1940.


1941 Music - 3 files, 743 MB total. 363 songs from the year 1941.


1942 Music - 3 files, 580 MB total. 268 songs from the year 1942.


1943 Music - 1 file, 378 MB total. 186 songs from the year 1943.


1944 Music - 3 files, 512 MB total. 259 songs from the year 1944.


1945 Music - 2 files, 505 MB total. 240 songs from the year 1945.


V-Discs - 9 files, 2.03 GB total. 1,202 songs from the wartime V-Disc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Disc) program. All are in OGG format. Intended primarily for the Gramophone.


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Other Music


1910s Music - 5 files, 1.01 GB total. 428 songs from the 1910s or earlier.


1920s Music - 5 files, 1 GB total. 584 songs from the 1920s.


1930s Music - 7 files, 1.68 GB total. 1062 songs from the 1930s.

NOTE: The 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s files do contain the same songs released by different artists in different years, but not the same year. There is only one version per year. If you use these songs in the Gramophone, I recommend you use my SH4 Randomizer, or the Gramophone Songrandomizer to avoid hearing the same song more than once in a row.


British Music* - 3 files, 622 MB total. 390 songs by British singers and/or bands from the WWII era or before.


Chinese Music - 8 files, 1.99 GB total. 437 traditional Chinese songs in MP3 format. Includes a readme file with more info, and info to create a separate radio station for these songs.


Country Music - 16 files, 3.89 GB total. 1850 songs from the WWII era or before. Songs are mostly in MP3 format, with a few in OGG format. Includes a readme file with more info, and info to create a separate radio station for these songs.


French Music* - 8 files, 1.92 GB total. 670 songs from the WWII era or before. Some songs are in English, but are by French artists or by artists who were most popular in France. There are some more Josephine Baker songs included, but no duplicates from the separate set of her also available. Songs are mostly in MP3 format, with a few in OGG format.


More French Music- 3 files, 617 MB total. 241 songs from the WWII era or before, or possibly after. Some songs are in English, but are by French artists or by artists who were most popular in France. There are some more Josephine Baker songs included, but no duplicates from the other sets.


George Formby Songs* - 1 file, 322 MB. 94 songs from the British novelty song singer. Note there are no duplicate songs from the British Music file above.


Hawaiian Music* - 4 files, 961 MB. 342 songs from the WWII era or before.


More Hawaiian Music* - 1 file, 458.89 MB. 148 songs from the WWII era or before.


Japanese Koto Music* - 1 file, 309 MB. 30 songs performed with the traditional Japanese Koto, which is a string instrument. Some songs also feature vocals, in Japanese of course.


More Japanese Music* - 1 file, 406 MB. 135 Japanese songs from the 1930s or earlier.


Josephine Baker Songs* - 1 file, 80.4 MB. 21 songs from the American born French superstar. 1/3 are in English, the rest are in french. All were recorded in France in the 1930s.


Russian Music* - 9 files, 2.17 GB total. 855 songs from the WWII era or before. All songs are in OGG format.

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Radio Stations


KPO (NBC) radio station - 34 files, 8.33 GB total.

This will add the real life NBC radio station KPO in San Francisco. It includes NBC news broadcasts, some speeches, the Abbott and Costello, Amos and Andy, Battle Stations, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Duffy's Tavern, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny, Kraft Music Hall, Lum and Abner, Red Skelton, Spike Jones, This is War, and Words At War entertainment programs. Readme contains info to change the station to KFI, Los Angeles as that is the actual station program listings that were used.


KPO (NBC) Add-on - 7 files, 1.56 GB total.

This add-on greatly expands the D-Day news coverage, as well as correcting the time of some programs. It also adds new episodes of the following: 2 Duffy's Tavern, 2 Fibber McGee And Molly, 2 Lum and Abner, 2 This is War, 4 Abbott and Costello, 4 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, 5 Bob Hope (also adds a longer version of the D-Day show), 5 Kraft Music Hall, and 12 Red Skelton to my KPO radio mod. It also adds the following new series: An American In England, Dear Adolf, Dinah Shore, Eddie Cantor, Old Gold Comedy Theater, Speaking Of Liberty.


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Armed Forces Radio Service stations - 21 files, 5.13 GB total.

This is a set of up to 4 radio stations. These stations (Honolulu, Midway, Guam [from September 1944], and Wollongong, Australia) play programs produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service. Programs included are Command Performance, G.I. Jive, G.I. Journal, Mail Call, Melody Roundup, and One Night Stand. It does not include any news. The readme file includes alternate channel info to create one global range station, or two 4000 nautical mile range stations.


AFRS Add-on - 13 files, 3.19 GB total.

This will add 7 Command Performance, 9 G.I. Jive, 17 G.I. Journal, 6 Mail Call, and 57 One Night Stand episodes to my AFRS radio mod. It also adds the following new series: At Ease, Downbeat, Front Line Theatre, Jubilee, Mystery Playhouse, Sound Off, and Yank Bandstand.


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KGMB Honolulu radio station* - 4 files, 882 MB total.

This will add the real life CBS radio station KGMB in Honolulu. This station plays news produced by the CBS network, as well as some speeches. This station is famous as the one both the Japanese and the American B-17 bombers used to home in on Honolulu on the morning of December 7th, 1941. It does not include any entertainment programs.


KGMB Honolulu Add-on* - 1 file, 117.79 MB.

This will add 1 new news bulletin, 1 Edward R. Murrow, and 25 World News Today episodes to my KGMB radio mod.



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KNX (CBS) radio station - 9 files, 2.2 GB total.

This will add the real life CBS radio station KNX in Los Angeles. It includes CBS news broadcasts, some speeches, and the Burns and Allen, Danny Kaye, Fred Allen, Orson Welles' Radio Almanac, and This Is War entertainment programs.


KNX (CBS) Add-on - 2 files, 320.39 MB total.

This will add 1 new news bulletin, 1 Burns and Allen, 1 Edward R. Murrow, 2 This is War, 3 Fred Allen, and 25 World News Today episodes to my KNX radio mod. It also adds the following new series: An American In England, and Dinah Shore.



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NHK Radio Tokyo* - 1 file, 67.7 MB.

This will add the real life Japanese radio station NHK in Tokyo. It includes a couple of speeches (in Japanese of course) and the few "Zero Hour" propaganda programs that can be found. The music segments of ZH are what became known as the "Tokyo Rose" broadcasts. Unfortunately, no programs are available before August, 1944. And those that are available are not very good quality. But they are authentic.


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KHJ (MBS) Radio Station - 16 files, 3.98 GB.

This will add the real life Mutual Broadcasting System station KHJ in Los Angeles. It includes MBS news broadcasts, some speeches, the Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, and This is War entertainment programs.


KHJ Add-on - 1 file, 282 MB.

This will add 2 This is War, 4 Adventures of Superman, and 29 The Lone Ranger episodes to my KHJ radio mod.


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Wartime Public Service Announcements* - 1 file, 1.74 MB.

These are 9 American PSA's from WWII. Extract directly into the same folders as the music for your radio stations so they will play randomly while you are listening to the radio. For historical realism, these should not be used with any foreign stations, or my AFRS stations if you have them as they didn't play commercials and such. Includes readme file.


Wartime Public Service Announcements 2* - 1 file, 11.9 MB.

These are 23 American PSA's from WWII. Extract directly into the same folders as the music for your radio stations so they will play randomly while you are listening to the radio. For historical realism, these should not be used with any foreign stations, or my AFRS stations if you have them as they didn't play commercials and such. Includes readme file.


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KOTR San Francisco Radio Station - 62 files, 15.3 GB.

This will add the fictional radio station KOTR in San Francisco to your SH4 radio. I created it for use as a way of playing programs from before the time frame of the game. Something like when network TV shows go into syndication after a few years on the air, but which radio programs back then never actually did. The programs included are: Amos & Andy, Baby Snooks, Bergen & McCarthy, Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Calling All Cars, Eddie Cantor, Fibber McGee & Molly, Flash Gordon, Fred Allen, Great Gildersleeve, Green Hornet, Jack Benny, Jungle Jim, Leatherstocking Tales, Log Cabin Jamboree, Lone Ranger, Lum & Abner, Red Skelton, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Superman, Tarzan, and The Shadow. It does not include any news.


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Radio Vladivostok* - 1 file, 193 MB.

This will add a fictional radio station based in the Russian Pacific port city of Vladivostok to your SH4 radio. This station plays news and a few speeches, in Russian of course. For between program music you can use my Russian Music files.


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KLVW San Francisco - 1 file, 677.54 MB.

This will add the fictional radio station KLVW in San Francisco to your SH4 radio. I created it for playing syndicated programs from the war years. The programs included are: Jungle Jim, March of Time (Pearl Harbor episode only), Office Of War Information Mileage Rationing Program (single program), Soldiers Of The Press. It does not include any news.

[Payoff]

Wow. I think I need a bigger hard drive. I think I will just try bits & pieces. Cant get enough of these radio mods.

Thanks :up:


Edit: Does the Honolulu station contain any Hawaiian music? Having a hard time filling up my Honolulu station.

[fred8615]

Edit: Does the Honolulu station contain any Hawaiian music? Having a hard time filling up my Honolulu station.
No, it doesn't. I use bunkeratt's island music.rar (http://hosted.filefront.com/bunkerratt (http://hosted.filefront.com/bunkerratt)) file and a few Hawaiian themed songs from my music files. I've been looking, but haven't found anything more.

[kylesplanet]

I have an external drive just waiting for this. I just love these radio mods. Downloading now. Thanks! :p

[Misfit138]

Thank you for sharing this awesome mod. I salute you http://www.foreverbanana.com/smiley/worship.gif

Although, haven't had the time to test this properly mainly because I've been downloading this package for more than few days already so I would also like to thank you for convincing me to upgrade my slow and crappy 512/512 into 8M/1M :rock:

[fred8615]

That was the thing that most concerned me. Some of them being so large, even people with broadband wouldn't want to download them. Happily, that doesn't appear to be a problem.:D

Thanks for the comments.

[Misfit138]

Well, the size doesn't really matter if you're a radio junkie like me ;)

But generally to anybody who decides to release these radio add-ons, how about making different versions from them? Like light, medium, heavy etc.

I'm sure there's people who like these radio mods but probable not with same extent as I do so some kind of cut down light version for them might be pretty cool

[fred8615]

Actually, for a brief moment while making these, I did think about doing that. But then the question became, what do I cut out? And I couldn't decide. :-?

In a way though, I did do that. For those who want just news with their music, there's the KGMB station. For news and a little entertainment, the CBS station. For a little less news and a lot of entertainment, the NBC station. And finally, for just entertainment, and no news, the AFRS stations.

I love it when a plan comes together! :rotfl:

[Misfit138]

Actually, for a brief moment while making these, I did think about doing that. But then the question became, what do I cut out? And I couldn't decide. :-?

Yeah, I know. That's THE problem but another option might be just to make existing audio files shorter but it's hell of a job...

Anyways, great mod. It's 4:11 am here at the moment and been sailing and listening the news for about 5 hours now

Hmm, better start making coffee :p

[Justink]

Thank you for this mod! My crew and I love listening to The Great Gildersleeve.:D

[fred8615]

Yeah, I know. That's THE problem but another option might be just to make existing audio files shorter but it's hell of a job...
Did you really mean "shorter?" Cause you can't really make them shorter without cutting out some of the program itself.

Now if you meant "smaller" by reducing the bitrate, I consciously chose not to do that. It lowers the quality.

[Misfit138]

Did you really mean "shorter?" Cause you can't really make them shorter without cutting out some of the program itself..

Well, cutting out some parts of the programs wouldn't be so bad but then there's that another problem, which parts? :p

Some sort of light version of course requires leaving out all of the non-essential parts of the radio broadcast. The idea which I do not like but I'm a radio junkie

But lowering the bitrate is out of the question. There's no point in releasing a radio addon where the bitrate of the files has been lowered and thus the quality is so crappy that you can barely hear the news!

[Reinhard Hardegen]

I will have to get a new external drive, just to keep SH3 and SH4 on, but thanks for the links, I will download them just as soon as I get my new drive.:up:

[alexoscar]

Thank you very much! I love the forty's music.

Regards.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Thanks for your work on this :up:


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[VonHammer]

im glad that when i got my new laptop that i got a free upgrade to 2gb of ram and a 160gb harddrive. i might be thinking about getting an external one. anyone have any idea on how much they run?

[Sailor Steve]

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[VonHammer]

thanks for those links. i think i mite be fine with the one i got now.

[VonHammer]

wheres the part 08 of the AFRS satation? when i was extracinting it it said it needed part 08 to contiue. help?

[fred8615]

wheres the part 08 of the AFRS satation? when i was extracinting it it said it needed part 08 to contiue. help?
I'm currently in the middle of uploading the latest version of AFRS. In fact, I'm uploading part 8 as I type this. It'll probably be sometime tomorrow before all 19 parts are available. I will post a notice here when they are.

[VonHammer]

ok thanks now that im going home, it will be sometime before i can get the rest of them downloaded. my om doesnt have wireless internet. also i am having some issues. i cant hear any of the news broadcastas. do i have to move them into the events folder?

[fred8615]

ok thanks now that im going home, it will be sometime before i can get the rest of them downloaded. my om doesnt have wireless internet. also i am having some issues. i cant hear any of the news broadcastas. do i have to move them into the events folder?
Did you copy the channel info in the readme file and paste it into the appropriate section of your radio.ini file? If you used JSGME to install, that's the only thing you have to do by hand (besides adding any music that is). Which station are you having trouble with?

[Navelintel]

I have created several radio mods for Silent Hunter 4, as well as seperate music files, divided by year. All except the music files are JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler compatible. The files in the mods are of a higher bitrate than some other mods, so they are quite large as a consequence. In fact, you may not wish to use JSGME with a couple of them because of this.

Radio stations do not include music, only the appropriate news and entertainment programs. Except for the KGMB station, all are subdivided by year for the music files. While you can control programs in the "Events" folder with events.ini, you can't control the music. And hearing a song about Iwo Jima in 1942 is just ...wrong. :-) I have only included comedy and variety programs with the stations. Adding dramas would not only make them even bigger, but programs like that would likely get tedious to listen to after awhile. The radio station parts can be found in individual folders on the site.

All except the music files include readmes. These contain installation instructions, more information, and the channel info you'll need to copy and paste into the "radio.ini" in order to hear the radio stations.

Here is what I have available:

1940 (184 songs), 1941 (219 songs), 1942 (145 songs), 1943 (75 songs), 1944 (129 songs), and 1945 (123 songs) music files. Can be used with any radio station, or the Gramophone.

NBC radio station. You must download all 16 files in order to extract properly. A little under 4.5GBs total.

This will add the real life NBC radio station KPO in San Francisco. It includes NBC news broadcasts, some speeches, the Abbott and Costello, Amos and Andy, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and Spike Jones entertainment programs.

Armed Forces Radio Service stations. You must download all 19 files in order to extract properly. A little under 5GBs total.

This is a set of 4 radio stations. These stations (Honolulu, Midway, Guam [from September 1944], and Wollongong, Australia) play programs produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service. Programs included are Command Performance, G.I. Jive, G.I. Journal, and Mail Call. It does not include any news.

KGMB Honolulu radio station. You must download all 3 files in order to extract properly. A little under 800MBs total.

This is the real life CBS radio station KGMB in Honolulu. This station plays news produced by the CBS network, as well as some speeches. This station is famous as the one both the Japanese and the American B-17 bombers used to home in on Honolulu on the morning of December 7th, 1941. It does not include any entertainment programs.

CBS radio station. You must download all 6 files in order to extract properly. Around 1.5GBs total.

This will add the real life CBS radio station KNX in Los Angeles. It includes CBS news broadcasts, some speeches, and the Burns and Allen and Fred Allen entertainment programs.

The files can be downloaded from here:

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

Enjoy!

Hi,

I'd llike to download your radio mods but I have no idea how to do so. I tried to download and open (extract) AFRS and enable with JSGME but no luck. I'm not sure if I opened the zip file correctly since I could not find the 19 files that you mentioned either. As a newbie to this site and SH4 , if you could you walk me through the process I'd appreciate it. Please help!

:-?

[fred8615]

Read about 6 posts above this one (#25). I'm now on part 13.

[SteveHump]

I am having success in downloading multiple big AFRS files at the same time using Verizon FIOS 5MB/SEC connection to my NETGEAR LAN controller (7 home computers). DL rates are about 200KB/SEC for each of 3 downloads at a time.

Hope to have all the files downloaded by the weekend.

Thanks to all the guys creating these radio mods. Wonderful nostalgia for an old fart like me.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Welcome to SUBSIM :up: SteveHump


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[C DuDe]

Sounds very interesting.

Is it possible to get this in 1 big zip file?
No offense but I dislike downloading 19 different files.
Call me lazy.

[fred8615]

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: Filefront has a 1GB file size limit on uploads, as well as a 10 hour time limit. Also, uploading one huge file would take me waaaaay too long as well. It takes three days uploading the smaller files.

I made them 256MB so people could download a bit here, a bit there, if they needed to. I'm sorry if you don't want to download that many files, but short of sending you a DVD, I don't know how else to accomodate you.

[Digital_Trucker]

Call me lazy.

Lazy! (sorry I couldn't resist and besides, you asked for it :rotfl: )

Seriously, downloading in many small pieces is better (unless, of course you're talking about a restart capable ftp download). Have you ever been 30 seconds away from the end of a multi gigabyte download and had an internet hiccup or a power glitch? :damn: It ain't pretty! Or gotten the entire file only to find out that it is corrupted? Not a pretty sight either.

The only way I would want to attempt a download of this size is if it were on a torrent network or as it is (broken up in parts).

[C DuDe]

Call me lazy.

Lazy! (sorry I couldn't resist and besides, you asked for it :rotfl: )

Seriously, downloading in many small pieces is better (unless, of course you're talking about a restart capable ftp download). Have you ever been 30 seconds away from the end of a multi gigabyte download and had an internet hiccup or a power glitch? :damn: It ain't pretty! Or gotten the entire file only to find out that it is corrupted? Not a pretty sight either.

The only way I would want to attempt a download of this size is if it were on a torrent network or as it is (broken up in parts).

Thx... needed that :p

Have to say that My ISP is a pain helpdesk wise but never had a hiccup even with super size DL's.

Now thats an idea... I use Bitlord :rolleyes:

But Ok, I'll start DL-ing them.

[VonHammer]

ok thanks now that im going home, it will be sometime before i can get the rest of them downloaded. my om doesnt have wireless internet. also i am having some issues. i cant hear any of the news broadcastas. do i have to move them into the events folder? Did you copy the channel info in the readme file and paste it into the appropriate section of your radio.ini file? If you used JSGME to install, that's the only thing you have to do by hand (besides adding any music that is). Which station are you having trouble with?

i did do that for the KGMB Honolulu sation, but i still got nothin. i decidedn to change the folder from just KGMB to KGMB\Events

[fred8615]

i did do that for the KGMB Honolulu sation, but i still got nothin. i decidedn to change the folder from just KGMB to KGMB\Events
It sounds like you didn't put any music in the KGMB folder. The stations don't come with any music, just the programs in the Events folder, which are scripted to play at certain dates and times with the events.ini file there. Music, or any other file you want played randomly, go in the station folder itself. Not in the Events folder.

[kurohone]

WinRAR reported an error on part 9 of the NBC archive. I DL'd it twice, error on both files. Any suggestions?

[fred8615]

WinRAR reported an error on part 9 of the NBC archive. I DL'd it twice, error on both files. Any suggestions?
Although no one else has reported a problem, just to be safe I'm uploading another copy of it. Try downloading it again a couple of hours from this post time.

[kurohone]

Cheers! I'm grabbing AFRS at the moment. Thanks for the response.

[VonHammer]

well i got all the stuff downloaded except for the NBC stuf. except im hsving trouble with part 6. when i click the download now link i get internet exploer cannot display the webpage. all the other ones work fine

[fred8615]

well i got all the stuff downloaded except for the NBC stuf. except im hsving trouble with part 6. when i click the download now link i get internet exploer cannot display the webpage. all the other ones work fine
I just checked it myself and it works fine. Must be either Filefront acting screwy (which it's been doing here lately) or your browser acting up.

[sqk7744]

Many thanks fred8615 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=213277) for posting those. :up::up::up::up:

Here's a slideshow I posted way back when, the music really sets the mood:

http://www.compuglobalhypermeganet.tv/flash/SS200/

* Has Sound

[ReallyDedPoet]

I've updated my NBC Radio Station to Version 4. This one includes three Great Gildersleeve and one Fibber McGee and Molly programs which were missing from the previous version. I also removed one news program that I decided was too messed up to leave in. Adding in the four new programs has brought the number of parts back up to 17.

Also, I removed the NBC Add-on file because the two files in it are now included in the NBC Station files.

Nice work :up:


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[swdw]

The NBC and AF radio stations are gone again. May be because of copyright worries or file count?

What about making a torrent file out of them?

[fred8615]

The NBC and AF radio stations are gone again. May be because of copyright worries or file count?

What about making a torrent file out of them?
I just checked and they're back up. Filefront acts wonky on occasion and "removes" files, then brings them back. So if you go to my page and something's missing, try again later, or the next day.

FTR, I check my page every weekday, so I'll know when something is truly deleted, and I will post a notice.

[swdw]

I just checked and they're back up. Filefront acts wonky on occasion and "removes" files, then brings them back. So if you go to my page and something's missing, try again later, or the next day.

FTR, I check my page every weekday, so I'll know when something is truly deleted, and I will post a notice.

Thanks, will do.

[Florida Sailor]

Thank you Fred! :D
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[swdw]

Things have been quiet here for a while, but I would like to give you an immense thanks for these files. :rock:

The immersion it adds to the game is incredible. People love ROW for the eye candy, well your mods are "ear candy" to me. :cool:

Heck, I've sat down with my work laptop fired up SH4on my desktop, set it to real time while sailing from Pearl, kicked on a radio station and started working. Something about the 1940's music, the rendered ocean waves, the sunrises ansd sunsets jusats makes me relax. :|\\

Multiple kudo's to you! :up: :up: :up:

Anyone that likes immersions that hasn't downloaded your mods has no idea what they're missing.

Feel free to do more in the future ;) :D

[fred8615]

Thank you for the very kind words. It's kind of funny, being an "immersion" type as well, I originally created these mostly for myself. I didn't think people would want the really big ones. But with the encouragement of some users on the UBI SH4 forum, I uploaded all of them. And while the download rate isn't spectacular, it has been fairly steady.

As for future projects, about the only actual WWII network not modded by anyone I've seen is the old Mutual Broadcasting System. However, MBS was a "loose" network which only provided news to its affiliates. Entertainment was through syndicated programming on the individual stations. One such program was the Superman radio serial, which a lot of MBS stations played, and which interested me enough at one time to actually consider creating an MBS station. While I ended up not doing it, I'm still open to the idea if there's any interest. Maybe if I can find more programming to go with Superman and the news?

And speaking of the future; I found a bit more programming for all my stations except Radio Tokyo. Look for updates soon.

[StevenLohr]

Fred, I downloaded your NBC file back (I believe) in August. However, it looks like you have modified it. Is there a single download file that merely updates the previous files, or do I have to download all of the files to get the new shows?
Thanks,
Steve

[Mikkow]

For a person also deeply interested in real history as well as convincing/thick/real atmosphere, how can any user addition to the sim be any better than this? That's a lot of hours of culture/history jammed in there. Pity about the enormous filesizes though. Good thing I'm getting a new HD :) Thanks a million!

Edit: May I suggest you split any updates into additions/patches and leave the originals? Just so we don't have to discard the enormous downloads we had downloaded already.

Edit 2: It's funny, I actually pre-ordered SH4 and just tried it a tiny bit, then shelved it waiting for a patch like 1.4 to come out and, wow, mods like this. Amazing must-have. Imagine how different the game is from 1.0 compared to 1.4 + TM1.7 and this radio mod. Immeeeeersion! I'm sure I'll be killing tons of time cruising around just soaking up the views and paying attention to the war developments (luckily I know little about what happened in the pacific war, dates and locations etc, so it'll be a real thrill to see how the war/battles progress).

[fred8615]

To StevenLohr:

Yes you will need to download the complete set again. There have been quite a few programs added in since August.

To Mikkow:

Thank you for the comments. I have in the past used an "Add-on" to update, and may do so in the future. It depends on the size and nature of the update.

[swdw]

After several tries I keep getting a problem with the Bob Hope and Betty Hutton show while unpacking the archive. It's in both part 1 and part 2 of AFR. Downloaded 3 different times w/ and w/o a download manager. Tried 2 seperate programs to unpack them.

For now I went and deleted the event for that show, but wanted to let you know

[fred8615]

Can you give me the exact show name? Also is it just part1.rar and part2.rar that are giving the error?

[Dantenoc]

I downloaded all 17 parts of the NBC radio station, but I dont understand how to extract them... they seem to want to overwrite each other when I try to extract them, since they seem to have lots of files that are called the same. Do I let them overwrite each other? If so, then why bother including them in the first place?

please help

Edit: OK, I think I understand now... I don't need to manualy extract each part, just the first one and then it automatically extracts everything, right?

[DrBeast]

Edit: OK, I think I understand now... I don't need to manualy extract each part, just the first one and then it automatically extracts everything, right?
That would be correct, yes. BTW fred, my poor hard drive is cursing you...damn fine mods, but not for the faint of storage capacity! :up: Oh, and don't worry about the curses...I just cursed it back and it shut up (and we greeks have a pretty extensive cursing vocabulary)! :D

[fred8615]

That would be correct, yes. BTW fred, my poor hard drive is cursing you...damn fine mods, but not for the faint of storage capacity! :up: Oh, and don't worry about the curses...I just cursed it back and it shut up (and we greeks have a pretty extensive cursing vocabulary)! :D
Well, I've always felt that if something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[ReallyDedPoet]

I've added an Armed Forces Radio Service Add-on file, and have begun mirroring the Radio Saigon mod. See the first post in this thread for details.

Nice :up:, getting it now.


RDP

[rrmelend]

I can't wait to try all these out when I have time to DL them at home. Thanks for all the work you've done.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice work on the NBC add-on :up:


RDP

[Rockin Robbins]

Downloading now!:rock: I knew there was some reason I have two 320 gb drives...:dead: Can't wait to listen to Reville with Beverly!:p

[Quasimodo]

I'm a new member and although I've been a fan of subsim and its mods and pop in to see the latest in naval sims I've finally gotten off my keel and joined. So for starters thanks for allowing me here and for all the great work you do.

Now...a technical idiot question. I SH3 the grammaphone files are in mp3 format. Yet the additional files for the radios for SH3 and 4 are .rar files. Can anyone explain to me what I have to have to download and use these as .rar won't work.

Thanks in advnace!

[Florida Sailor]

rar are zipped (compressed) files and must be extracted using a compression/decompression program. I use 7 zip for this. It's good and it's free. Get it here. http://www.7-zip.org/
After you install it, right click on the .rar file and choose extract. Then you can use the files.

For step by step MOD installation, go here: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6421019045/m/5181035206?r=9611075206

[Quasimodo]

Thanks Florida Sailor! Works like a charm!

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice work on continuing to update this fred :up: Radio mods are great for immersion.


RDP

[retroflow]

While hunting around for more vintage audio, I came across a link to vintage video which lead to more vintage audio. I found these and thought some of you may be able to use them. There's also contact information to groups which may possibly lead to more files.


I have found a set of Orson Wells' radio shows dating from 1941 through 1945. They're available as mp3s and .ogg vorbis. The files numbered by the date - eg 411207, as well as a description of what they pertain to.

http://www.archive.org/details/OrsonWellesWartimeBroadcasts

There's also a series of files for The Pacific Story which was on NBC radio, at 11:30pm (EST?) from July '1943 until 1947.

http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Pacific_Story
http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles

The quality of he files that I have heard are very good. Adapting them to the game, I leave up to you as well as whether or not to use them at all.

I will report on more materials as I find them.

Cheers..

[Front Runner]

While hunting around for more vintage audio, I came across a link to vintage video which lead to more vintage audio. I found these and thought some of you may be able to use them. There's also contact information to groups which may possibly lead to more files.


I have found a set of Orson Wells' radio shows dating from 1941 through 1945. They're available as mp3s and .ogg vorbis. The files numbered by the date - eg 411207, as well as a description of what they pertain to.

http://www.archive.org/details/OrsonWellesWartimeBroadcasts

There's also a series of files for The Pacific Story which was on NBC radio, at 11:30pm (EST?) from July '1943 until 1947.

http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Pacific_Story
http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles

The quality of he files that I have heard are very good. Adapting them to the game, I leave up to you as well as whether or not to use them at all.

I will report on more materials as I find them.

Cheers..

Thanks for the research and the links retro. It appears that there is more than enough program material to work with.

The already great radio mods that are out are a fine example of the work that has gone into the SH4 radio to enhance our listening environment on those long hours between contacts.

[fred8615]

Thanks for the info. I have already found the Orson Welles Radio Almanac on Archive.org, and plan to create an add-on for it for my CBS station.

[retroflow]

Well, I figured some folks may want even more material as there have been requests for more music/shows made from time to time. There's also several episodes of the "Music Depreciation" show with the Frank De Vol Orchestra and the Les Paul Trio. Pretty good stuff.

For all practical purposes, you can find anything you may want at:

http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=audio&collection=radioprograms

This way, if you want something not already available through here, you'll probably find it there. The archives are enormous. Since there are a lot of pre-War radio shows and related broadcast (even films) anyone simply interested in the Era as a whole may find the site enjoyable.

[fred8615]

For all practical purposes, you can find anything you may want at:

http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=audio&collection=radioprograms
That's actually where I've gotten nearly all my programming. Having downloaded all the "good" stuff, I'm mostly just checking it once a week for new stuff, or taking second looks at stuff I passed over before. It is a fantastic resource.

[Genferret]

I definitely need to drop a word of thanks for this mod/these mods.

I had a ton of German music and other music that would be appropriate in the Atlantic for SHIII/GWX, but didn't think those would be proper in SHIV all things considered.

Trigger Maru added a few of my favorite "American" gramaphone tracks, but radio Washington had left me wonder wtf was the point of that feature in SHIV. These mods have answered that question for me.

Downloaded all of them and am installing all of them.

A couple quick or maybe not so quick since I sometimes am wordy, and I apologize in advance if they've been answered elsewhere and I've missed them, anyhow here goes:

With the addition of these, do I really need the Washington station, or should I just renumber it's frequency to get it out of the way since it seems useless to me now? I have to renumber it anyhow, since the recommendation in the readme is to space channels out by 10 and it's between two of your added stations.

Some of the events seem to trigger off on stations on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of December. The two careers I've started out of Pearl have sent me forth on the 9th. That would mean I'd really never get to hear those events on the radio since those dates/times have already passed, correct?

Edit: Also, some of the stations seem to have just events and no music, I'm assuming for all of those if I want music played on them when events aren't happening I just need to add the music myself, and the station will interupt whatever is playing with the event and then go back to music afterwards?

[fred8615]

I definitely need to drop a word of thanks for this mod/these mods.
Thank you.

With the addition of these, do I really need the Washington station, or should I just renumber it's frequency to get it out of the way since it seems useless to me now? I have to renumber it anyhow, since the recommendation in the readme is to space channels out by 10 and it's between two of your added stations.
You can delete it. There are some text messages that are tied to the events in Washington, and these show up on the clipboard even if you're not listening to that station. So if you delete it, you lose those. I've kept mine for just this reason, though I don't play the station anymore. Of course you can also just delete the one music track in it, then add your own music files.

As for the channel number, that's my bad. Before I created my stations, I was using another radio mod which changed Washington's channel number, and forgot stock SH4 uses 22.

Some of the events seem to trigger off on stations on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of December. The two careers I've started out of Pearl have sent me forth on the 9th. That would mean I'd really never get to hear those events on the radio since those dates/times have already passed, correct?
I've been waiting for someone to ask this! :D

1: One of the single war patrol missions lets you start before December 7th.

2: Some mods change the career start date to before the 7th too.

3: You can very easily change the career start date yourself. Open Ubisoft\Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific\Data\UPCData\UPCCampaignData; then open CareerStart.upc with Notepad. Change this line:

StartTimeInterval=1941-12-08, 1942-02-01

To this:

StartTimeInterval=1941-12-01, 1942-02-01

Save, and then when you select December, 1941 in a career you'll begin a few days before the Pearl Harbor attack.

Edit: Also, some of the stations seem to have just events and no music, I'm assuming for all of those if I want music played on them when events aren't happening I just need to add the music myself, and the station will interupt whatever is playing with the event and then go back to music afterwards?
Yes. Music needs to go in the station folder, or for those of mine subdivided by year, in the year sub-folders. Don't put music in the Events folder as it will not play from there.

If you have anymore questions, let me know.

[retroflow]

For all practical purposes, you can find anything you may want at:

http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=audio&collection=radioprograms
That's actually where I've gotten nearly all my programming. Having downloaded all the "good" stuff, I'm mostly just checking it once a week for new stuff, or taking second looks at stuff I passed over before. It is a fantastic resource.

The place is amazing. Like I said, not only in the audio content but the video as well. Definitely a place to hang out over a weekend or so. Months.

[ReallyDedPoet]

For all practical purposes, you can find anything you may want at:

http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=audio&collection=radioprograms That's actually where I've gotten nearly all my programming. Having downloaded all the "good" stuff, I'm mostly just checking it once a week for new stuff, or taking second looks at stuff I passed over before. It is a fantastic resource.
The place is amazing. Like I said, not only in the audio content but the video as well. Definitely a place to hang out over a weekend or so. Months.

Yes, excellent stuff for sure :roll::up:


RDP

[Jan7]

I have created several radio mods for Silent Hunter 4, as well as seperate music files, divided by year. All except the music files are JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler compatible. The files in the mods are of a higher bitrate than some other mods, so they are quite large as a consequence. In fact, you may not wish to use JSGME with a couple of them because of this............

Dear friend Fred8615:

I admired your hard job.....:up:
I am a fan of music, not at simulators -I'm very bad player....:damn: -

With all this music are various days of good and good playing......

Many thanks for share with all us your treasure again.....

In my country, Spain, are one expression: You are one :sunny: .



Jan.

[fred8615]

Dear friend Fred8615:

I admired your hard job.....:up:
I am a fan of music, not at simulators -I'm very bad player....:damn: -

With all this music are various days of good and good playing......

Many thanks for share with all us your treasure again.....

In my country, Spain, are one expression: You are one :sunny: .



Jan.

Gracias.

(And that's about the extent of my Spanish. :D )

[Genferret]

You can delete it. There are some text messages that are tied to the events in Washington, and these show up on the clipboard even if you're not listening to that station. So if you delete it, you lose those. I've kept mine for just this reason, though I don't play the station anymore. Of course you can also just delete the one music track in it, then add your own music files.

As for the channel number, that's my bad. Before I created my stations, I was using another radio mod which changed Washington's channel number, and forgot stock SH4 uses 22.
I ended up just renumbering it to be the last station and made some modifications to what it plays, then again I renumbered some of yours too based off what I listened to most in the couple of patrols I've done since getting this mod. Love KPO, so that's now the first station I receive. :up: Next career I'll probably move another station to the front so that I can hear what they have to offer.

Those old shows are great, and the comedy in them is just classic. I've actually found myself playing at 1x TC more so that I can listen to those shows without having to worry about possibly needing to dive so often and having them cut out or muffle.


I've been waiting for someone to ask this! :D

1: One of the single war patrol missions lets you start before December 7th.

2: Some mods change the career start date to before the 7th too.

3: You can very easily change the career start date yourself. Open Ubisoft\Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific\Data\UPCData\UPCCampaignData; then open CareerStart.upc with Notepad. Change this line:

StartTimeInterval=1941-12-08, 1942-02-01

To this:

StartTimeInterval=1941-12-01, 1942-02-01

Save, and then when you select December, 1941 in a career you'll begin a few days before the Pearl Harbor attack.

I pretty much just play the career mode for SHIII/SHIV. So I'll probably edit the start time before I start my next career. What I did for now was created a new global station out of Minneapolis, MN (where I'm from originally) that plays repeats. The Radio Station Manager mod made that a pretty simple task for me to do.

For now it just plays shows from before the normal career start date and even some from the start date because the actual time your career starts can vary (morning/afternoon/evening). It comes on the air and starts those events on Dec 11th. Eventually I'm going to expand it to play other shows one month after their normal air time so that I can hear stuff I might have missed due to being in port for a month or whatever.

[fred8615]

Those old shows are great, and the comedy in them is just classic. I've actually found myself playing at 1x TC more so that I can listen to those shows without having to worry about possibly needing to dive so often and having them cut out or muffle.
The way I listen is to use TC until a scripted events starts, then drop down to 1x and use the external camera to watch my boat sail while it plays. If the audio is loud enough, I'll sometimes listen on the Bridge.

[gclarkso]

Thanks for the great content although I'm fuzzy on how to get the music to play.

I have installed (via JSGME) the NBC and CBS audio mods, as well as downloaded the 1940-45 music files. I have moved the music files to the Radio folder...the station specific year folder of the station and individually.

I understand news and other programming are event-based, but am thinking when on patrol, or on a mission, I simply bring up the radio, tune into a station I have installed and hear music.

I'm sure the music content isn't where is supposed to be...I'm just looking for confirmation where they should be.

[fred8615]

Thanks for the great content although I'm fuzzy on how to get the music to play.

I have installed (via JSGME) the NBC and CBS audio mods, as well as downloaded the 1940-45 music files. I have moved the music files to the Radio folder...the station specific year folder of the station and individually.

I understand news and other programming are event-based, but am thinking when on patrol, or on a mission, I simply bring up the radio, tune into a station I have installed and hear music.

I'm sure the music content isn't where is supposed to be...I'm just looking for confirmation where they should be.
Answered via e-mail.

[gclarkso]

Answered via e-mail.
I appreciate the help Frederick! :up:

[fred8615]

I've added a new station! Please see the first post for info and download link.

I do need to point out a couple of items. While there are some holes in the available Superman episodes, when it is on, it's an every weekday show. But it's also only 15 minutes long.

The Lone Ranger on the other hand, is 30 minutes long and comes on three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Again, I couldn't find all the episodes, but I do have most of them.

So if that kind of radio listening isn't your cup of tea, don't say I didn't warn you! :D

[peewee]

This might not be the most important mod on subsim, but its easily the most enjoyable. My wife and I have just sat and listened to over 4 hours of great music. I can't imagine how much work went into collating all this stuff but I just want to say a big 'THANK YOU' from both of us......

[SgtWalt65]

I have created several radio mods for Silent Hunter 4, as well as seperate music files, divided by year. All except the music files are JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler compatible. The files in the mods are of a higher bitrate than some other mods, so they are quite large as a consequence. In fact, you may not wish to use JSGME with a couple of them because of this.

Radio stations do not include music, only the appropriate news and/or entertainment programs. Except for the KGMB station, all are subdivided by year for the music files. While you can control programs in the "Events" folder with events.ini, you can't control the music. And hearing a song about Iwo Jima in 1942 is just ...wrong. :-) Only episodes from the WWII era (December 1941 through August 14th, 1945) are used. Not all episodes of a program may be available.

All except the music files include readmes. These contain installation instructions, more information, and the channel info you'll need to copy and paste into the "radio.ini" in order to hear the radio stations.

Everything is organized in folders on the site.

Here is what I have available:

Music Files

1940 (356 songs) - approx. 750MB
1941 (359 songs) - approx. 738MB
1942 (266 songs) - approx. 574MB
1943 (183 songs) - approx. 376MB
1944 (258 songs) - approx. 510MB
1945 (235 songs) - approx. 493MB

Can be used with any radio station, or the Gramophone.

http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2111686 (http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2111686)


Radio Stations

NBC radio station
You must download all 17 files in order to extract properly. A little under 4.5GBs total.

This will add the real life NBC radio station KPO in San Francisco. It includes NBC news broadcasts, some speeches, the Abbott and Costello, Amos and Andy, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and Spike Jones entertainment programs.


NBC Add-on
1 file, around 9MBs.

This will add the 1941 Jack Benny Christmas show; the 1942 Amos and Andy Christmas show; and change the incorrect start time of a 1944 news report. Install AFTER installing NBC.

http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2029823 (http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2029823)


Armed Forces Radio Service stations
You must download all 19 files in order to extract properly. A little under 5GBs total.

This is a set of 4 radio stations. These stations (Honolulu, Midway, Guam [from September 1944], and Wollongong, Australia) play programs produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service. Programs included are Command Performance, G.I. Jive, G.I. Journal, and Mail Call. It does not include any news.


AFRS Add-on
1 file, around 227MBs.

Adds 22 episodes of the Armed Forces Radio Service program Melody Roundup. This was a 15 minute country & western version of G.I. Jive, with celebrity hosts. It also includes an extra episode of G.I. Journal, and a longer version of the 1944 Command Performance Christmas show. The readme file includes alternate channel info to create one global range station, or two 4000 nautical mile range stations. Install AFTER installing AFRS.


AFRS Add-on 2 *NEW*
1 file, around 193MBs.

This will add two 1942 episodes of the Armed Forces Radio Service program Command Performance; one G.I. Christmas Present, two G.I. Journal, eight G.I. Jive, all for 1943; three G.I. Jive and nine G.I. Journal for 1944; and five 1945 G.I. Journal shows. Readme includes corrected station info. Install AFTER installing the AFRS mod and the first Add-on.

http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2034045 (http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2034045)


KGMB Honolulu radio station
You must download all 3 files in order to extract properly. A little under 800MBs total.

This is the real life CBS radio station KGMB in Honolulu. This station plays news produced by the CBS network, as well as some speeches. This station is famous as the one both the Japanese and the American B-17 bombers used to home in on Honolulu on the morning of December 7th, 1941. It does not include any entertainment programs.


KGMB Add-on
1 file, around 4.5MBs.

This will add two 1942 Edward R. Murrow news broadcasts, one 1944 ERM broadcast and replaces another with a longer version, adds one 1945 ERM broadcast, and removes the call for a redundant 1944 FDR speech. Install AFTER installing KGMB.

The folder also contains my Hawaiian Music file.

http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2031783 (http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2031783)


CBS radio station
You must download all 6 files in order to extract properly. Around 1.5GBs total.

This will add the real life CBS radio station KNX in Los Angeles. It includes CBS news broadcasts, some speeches, and the Burns and Allen and Fred Allen entertainment programs.


CBS Add-on
1 file, around 18MBs.

This will add two 1941 Burns and Allen programs, two 1942 Edward R. Murrow news broadcasts, one 1944 ERM broadcast and replaces another with a longer version, adds one 1945 ERM broadcast, and removes the call for a redundant 1944 FDR speech. Install AFTER installing KNX.

http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2029156 (http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2029156)


Radio Tokyo
1 file, around 68MBs.

This will add the real life Japanese radio station NHK in Tokyo. It includes a couple of speeches (in japanese of course) and the few "Zero Hour" propaganda programs that can be found. The music segments of ZH are what became known as the "Tokyo Rose" broadcasts. Unfortunately, no programs are available before August, 1944. And those that are available are not very good quality. But they are authentic.

The folder also contains my Japanese Koto Music, and castorp345's Japanese Traditional and Japanese Wartime Radio Packs.

http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2111678 (http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2111678)


Radio Saigon
1 file, around 77MBs.

I'm now mirroring Ziem's Radio Saigon mod, as the original links no longer work.

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


MBS Radio Station
You must download all 16 files in order to extract properly. Around 4.1GBs.

This will add the real life Mutual Broadcasting System station KHJ in Los Angeles. It includes MBS news broadcasts, some speeches, the Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, and The Shadow entertainment programs.

http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2178189 (http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/2178189)

Enjoy!

:rotfl: How much for a new hard drive....hehe. I will need one with this.

[fred8615]

:rotfl: How much for a new hard drive....hehe. I will need one with this.
I got a 500GB for Christmas. It was $100. Just last week I saw a 1 terabyte for $250. :D

[Schroeder]

Hi Fred,
i've got the same problem as gclarkso mentioned:

Thanks for the great content although I'm fuzzy on how to get the music to play.

I have installed (via JSGME) the NBC and CBS audio mods, as well as downloaded the 1940-45 music files. I have moved the music files to the Radio folder...the station specific year folder of the station and individually.

I understand news and other programming are event-based, but am thinking when on patrol, or on a mission, I simply bring up the radio, tune into a station I have installed and hear music.

I'm sure the music content isn't where is supposed to be...I'm just looking for confirmation where they should be.
I installed the AFRS Soundmod but don't hear a thing when I tune to the stations.
I've added the required lines to my radio.ini and filled the year's folder with music. Yet nothing playes.:damn:
I also have installed the Captain Midnight's CBS mod which just works fine. So I wonder what I've made wrong:hmm:.

Can anyone help me please?:cry:

[kylesplanet]

Hi Fred,
i've got the same problem as gclarkso mentioned:

Thanks for the great content although I'm fuzzy on how to get the music to play.

I have installed (via JSGME) the NBC and CBS audio mods, as well as downloaded the 1940-45 music files. I have moved the music files to the Radio folder...the station specific year folder of the station and individually.

I understand news and other programming are event-based, but am thinking when on patrol, or on a mission, I simply bring up the radio, tune into a station I have installed and hear music.

I'm sure the music content isn't where is supposed to be...I'm just looking for confirmation where they should be.
I installed the AFRS Soundmod but don't hear a thing when I tune to the stations.
I've added the required lines to my radio.ini and filled the year's folder with music. Yet nothing playes.:damn:
I also have installed the Captain Midnight's CBS mod which just works fine. So I wonder what I've made wrong:hmm:.

Can anyone help me please?:cry:

Does your radio stop at the assigned frequency or just go on by?

[Schroeder]

It stops at the right frequencies and displays the stations name. But still it plays the "noise.ogg" file only.:huh:

*EDIT*

Don't ask me why but all off a sudden it seems to work. I haven't touched a thing since I tried it last time but now it's working. Realy odd....
Well, I startet a new career maybe thats why.

[fred8615]

What was the date you tried to play it first? AFRS didn't begin programing until 1942, so I set the station to not play until then. So if you were still in 1941 you won't hear anything.

[stlkrash]

can some one make 1 or 2 complete file sets or a suggestion i made in past was to host real time music side no news , on like live 365.

[fred8615]

What do you mean by "complete file sets?" As for "real time" music, there's just no way to stream music in the game itself. The only way to do it is run the streaming program in the background, and the game in the foreground.

Now if you want a station of just music, absolutely no news playing or showing up on the clipboard, the easiest solution is to delete or move the Events folder inside the Washington folder. Moving it would let you restore it later if you want. Then put your music files in Washington, and they'll play randomly, unlike the other option, the gramophone.

If you want a separate station of just music, let me know and I'll help you out that way.

[virtualpender]

While I enjoy many of the mods that I've found here on subsim, I have to single out Fred for special recognition. All of your radio mods add so much to the atmosphere of the game, I can't imagine playing without them. Thanks tons for all of your work on these.

Ryan

[fred8615]

Thank you. FYI, I still have some more add-ons to do. I hope to start work on them in a couple of weeks.

[Rockin Robbins]

Fred, you have wasted more of my hard drive space than any modder or game itself! I'm so addicted I have an RSS feed of your FileFront files running at all times. I am a sick puppy and my hard drive is suffering.:nope:

[fred8615]

Fred, you have wasted more of my hard drive space than any modder or game itself! I'm so addicted I have an RSS feed of your FileFront files running at all times. I am a sick puppy and my hard drive is suffering.:nope:
WHATTA YA MEAN WASTED!! :hulk:

On a more serious note, it looks like I'll be getting to those add-ons sooner than I thought. I just got sunk in my current career, so I may as well get them done before starting a new one.
:gulp:

So your hard drive will suffering even more soon!:eek:

I'm evil I tells ya!! EVIL!!!:yep: :yep:

[virtualpender]

Fred, by any chance do you have Volume 2 of the Radio Saigon mod? I haven't had any luck at an any of the existing links.

Thank you in advance.

[fred8615]

Fred, by any chance do you have Volume 2 of the Radio Saigon mod? I haven't had any luck at an any of the existing links.

Thank you in advance.
Sorry, no. I've never been able to find it myself.

[mainexpress]

hi i just downloaded,all 17 nbc radio files to try this out which took me like 3 to 4 days to finish,leaving my computer on all day and night-Geee-Whizzz! lol,when i was done i went to unzip the files,i got an error message or something,and then i checked my hard drive and it was jam packed full up{i have a 120 Gb hard drive}.I really want these radio stations fred posted, any ideas what to do now?

[Digital_Trucker]

Normally I'd be a smart a55 and tell you to get a bigger hard drive, but this time I'll suggest something else.:rotfl: (but you really should get a bigger drive, or, better yet, another large hard drive)

If you have a DVD burner, you could burn the zipped files you downloaded to DVDs (make sure and use a burning program that will verify the accuracy of the data on the DVD after burning, such as Nero) and then delete the zipped files from your hard drive, then unzip them onto your hard drive from the DVDs. You could accomplish the same thing if you have another computer on your network with some free hard drive space. Basically, anything you can do to get the zipped files off of your crammed hard drive and then unzip them back to your system will help. You may find that you still don't have enough room, though.

You might, also, want to take the opportunity to clean up your hard drive and defrag it (after you get the zipped files off of it).

[fred8615]

If all you have is the 120GB, then I echo DT's suggestion of getting a second drive if at all possible. Modern software, and games especially, will eat that up in nothing flat! I have a 160GB that came with my computer, and got a 500GB for Christmas that I use just for games. At the moment both are about half full.

If you can't get a second or bigger drive, but manage to make enough space for the NBC mod, DO NOT use JSGME to install it!! JSGME copies the files from it's Mods folder to the destination, thus requiring at least double the drive space. You can either extract the KPO folder directly in the Radio folder if your program does that, or extract everything to a temp folder and just "move" the KPO folder.

I am sorry for your problems. The NBC station is so large because they had the overwhemlingly vast majority of the most popular programs from that era. And as I mention earlier in this thread, I couldn't decide what to leave out.

And now for what could be either good news, or bad news, depending upon your POV: I'm planning at least one, maybe two more add-ons for the NBC station. Thus asking for even more hard drive space, should you choose to use it. :o Right now I'm working on a CBS add-on, then I have to do a KGMB version. So it'll be a couple of weeks before I start the NBC one. So consider yourselves warned!!:stare: :stare:

[mainexpress]

If all you have is the 120GB, then I echo DT's suggestion of getting a second drive if at all possible. Modern software, and games especially, will eat that up in nothing flat! I have a 160GB that came with my computer, and got a 500GB for Christmas that I use just for games. At the moment both are about half full.

If you can't get a second or bigger drive, but manage to make enough space for the NBC mod, DO NOT use JSGME to install it!! JSGME copies the files from it's Mods folder to the destination, thus requiring at least double the drive space. You can either extract the KPO folder directly in the Radio folder if your program does that, or extract everything to a temp folder and just "move" the KPO folder.

I am sorry for your problems. The NBC station is so large because they had the overwhemlingly vast majority of the most popular programs from that era. And as I mention earlier in this thread, I couldn't decide what to leave out.

And now for what could be either good news, or bad news, depending upon your POV: I'm planning at least one, maybe two more add-ons for the NBC station. Thus asking for even more hard drive space, should you choose to use it. :o Right now I'm working on a CBS add-on, then I have to do a KGMB version. So it'll be a couple of weeks before I start the NBC one. So consider yourselves warned!!:stare: :stare:Thanks for the help,as soon as i can get some money together,im gonna buy another hard drive,or better yet i need to build another machine,with all the bells and whistles,dual core SLI etc....I was able to take call of duty 2 off my hard drive to make some space,and did some defragging to make room for the time being.Once i unzip the first nbc file, I dont have to unzip the rest{Right} because when i try too it wants me to overwrite.

[fred8615]

Once i unzip the first nbc file, I dont have to unzip the rest{Right} because when i try too it wants me to overwrite.
Correct. Just pick one part. And it can be any of them.

[Jan7]

I've uploaded two more Add-ons. One for the KNX (CBS) station, and one for the KGMB station. See the first post for details.

Dear Fred:

Again, thanks for share this wonderful and nice music with us:up: !





Jan.

[LiveGoat]

Hey, Fred!

Thanks so much for the great station mods! I do have a two questions though:

1. Do I have to download these in order or just extract them in order? I think I may have downloaded some in reverse order (given that I was up so late trying to get them all!) I've already installed them and I reread your first post again and I'm starting to think I may have screwed up cause I'm hearing Roosevelt's speech on the affiliate stations as well as the first one (is that normal?).

2. I copied the station and music files to DVD to free up HD space so if I recopy them to my HD in order will that be the same as downloading them in order? Or should I just start all over and go back to filefront?

I'm currently in a new career in 1941 so maybe it's just not enough time has passed but I'm not sure. Sorry for the long post. Thanks again.


--LG

P.S. I'm using JSGE for enabling only BTW.

[fred8615]

The download and extraction order shouldn't matter at all. You do need to install any Add-ons in the proper order. But that's all you have to worry about. What FDR speech are you hearing, when did you hear it, and on which station? I need a little more detail to figure out what you're talking about.

Copying from a disk to the HD shouldn't be a problem either. The only thing is, burning to a disk makes the files "read only," and they remain so if you copy them from the disk. But that shouldn't affect the game as it only "reads" the files anyway. It's not supposed to be editting or changing them.

[LiveGoat]

Example: Let's say I'm listening to KPO.41 and I hear a news report, when I switch to KPO.42 I hear the same news report. Is that normal? I'm guessing it might be because I'm still in 1941 and KPO.42 is for 1942?


The download and extraction order shouldn't matter at all. You do need to install any Add-ons in the proper order. But that's all you have to worry about. What FDR speech are you hearing, when did you hear it, and on which station? I need a little more detail to figure out what you're talking about.

Copying from a disk to the HD shouldn't be a problem either. The only thing is, burning to a disk makes the files "read only," and they remain so if you copy them from the disk. But that shouldn't affect the game as it only "reads" the files anyway. It's not supposed to be editting or changing them.

[fred8615]

Example: Let's say I'm listening to KPO.41 and I hear a news report, when I switch to KPO.42 I hear the same news report. Is that normal? I'm guessing it might be because I'm still in 1941 and KPO.42 is for 1942?
Okay I got ya now. Yes, that's exactly what it's supposed to do. In order to limit the songs to their given year, most stations are subdivided by year. The KPO .41 only plays from December 1st, 1941, until midnight the night of December 31st, 1941. When it becomes January 1st, 1942, the .41 ends and the .42 station starts. It plays until midnight, December 31st, 1942, then the .43 station starts, etc. The reason you can hear .41 stuff on .42 is that I'm taking advantage of the SH4 radio's overlapping ability, so when you're listening on December 31st and the changeover occurs you don't have to switch channels.

BTW, this is all explained in the readme.

[Lynx2069]

First Off I'd like to say thanks for the awesome mod, I try and make my Silent Hunter experience as real as possible in omage to my late grandfather (Uss Bluegill SS-242) and even though he died a few years ago, I clearly remember him talking of how isolated and lonely a man can feel at sea, and the radio being the only source of information or communication to the outside world and having these mods just give it that extra touch of realism. :yep:

Secondly, the read me for Honolulu (KGMB I think...) says there is a glitch involving crossing the date line. Do you know if this has been fixed with the uboat add-on and if so....What would the range setting be???

Thanks in advance.

[fred8615]

Secondly, the read me for Honolulu (KGMB I think...) says there is a glitch involving crossing the date line. Do you know if this has been fixed with the uboat add-on and if so....What would the range setting be???
Thank you for the kind comments. Unfortunately the bug is still there. :cry:

[Lynx2069]

[/quote] Thank you for the kind comments. Unfortunately the bug is still there. :cry:[/quote]

I figured as much, thanks.

[NeonsStyle]

Hi,

I love this mod. Great idea. I downloaded the 1944 music files, and there's no readme or info in there on how to setup the radio.ini. As a new user to SH4 I have no idea how to do this, and I'm assuming you've made one. I assume also all the files needed to be entered somewhere in there one by one. Could you post the info or readme that's supposed to be with them, or let me know how its supposed to be done?

Thanks

V

[kylesplanet]

Hi,

I love this mod. Great idea. I downloaded the 1944 music files, and there's no readme or info in there on how to setup the radio.ini. As a new user to SH4 I have no idea how to do this, and I'm assuming you've made one. I assume also all the files needed to be entered somewhere in there one by one. Could you post the info or readme that's supposed to be with them, or let me know how its supposed to be done?

Thanks

V

Music doesn't have to be scripted into the ini file, it just goes into the folder.

For example, if your using the stock Washington station, it would be:
Data/Sound/Radio/Washington You will then see Events, noise.ogg. Just copy your files there. (Not in the events folder, just right there next to it.)

[NeonsStyle]

[quote=Venus]Hi,
Music doesn't have to be scripted into the ini file, it just goes into the folder.

For example, if your using the stock Washington station, it would be:
Data/Sound/Radio/Washington You will then see Events, noise.ogg. Just copy your files there. (Not in the events folder, just right there next to it.)

Ahh I see... is that the same for the Gramophone? Just drop them all into the gramophone folder? I guess I'll find out, I put them there... if it doesn't work, I'll dump them into the washington folder in radio :)

Thanks heaps

Venus

[fred8615]

Yes, just put them in Gramophone folder if that's where you want to play them from. Note that the Gramophone doesn't randomize the music like the radio does. See the first post in this thread for a program that will randomize the Gramophone before playing SH4.

Also, a reminder that if you're using one of my stations subdivided by year the music has to go in the year folder, not the station folder.

[virtualpender]

Fred, what happens if you put a radio station on the International Date Line (set the longitude at 180 degrees)? Would it get around the issue with broadcast range or would it not be heard anywhere?

I would try this myself but I'm away from my gaming computer...

Just curious, thanks again.

[fred8615]

Fred, what happens if you put a radio station on the International Date Line (set the longitude at 180 degrees)? Would it get around the issue with broadcast range or would it not be heard anywhere?

I would try this myself but I'm away from my gaming computer...

Just curious, thanks again.
Good question! I've never tried it myself, but my guess is it would still only be heard on one side or the other depending on whether you used a minus sign with the longitude. If you do, it would only be heard on the east side of the line. If you don't, only on the west side.

[Tegerian]

Stupid Question, but how do I get the radio/gramophone to come up in SH4?

[Effigy]

Just wanted to express my gratitude to you for taking the time to assemble all this and make it available to everyone. I've only downloaded the music collection from 40-45 so far, but looking forward to getting the rest.

Not only is this a nice touch of atmosphere while sailing in the game, but it's also an excellent collection of period music in general. My music library I salute you. :) Danke.

[Effigy]

Stupid Question, but how do I get the radio/gramophone to come up in SH4?
Gram and radio are both located under the menu button for freecamera (Second to last on right? Or last, depending if you use 1.5 and have that hero's menu button).

Why put em there... I have no idea. lol. But that's where they currently are.

[Tegerian]

Thanks, haven't played SH4 for a a few and couldn't remember it for the life of me and that was the one button I didn't check.

[stufer]

Hello Fred

I too would like to express my gratitude to you for this amazing collection of music and programmes. It really adds a lot to the game.

I do have a question though, regarding the music files.

Now, I have the NBC radio mod installed and it is split up into different folders for the years 41 - 45.

If I put the music files into those folders - 41 music in the 41 folder, 42 music in the 42 folder etc..., does that preclude the 42 music from being played in 41? And, conversely, the 41 music from being played in 42?

If so, (and assuming I want a cumulative amount of music throughout the campaign) would I have to install say the 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1941 music into the 41 folder. Then all of those plus 42 music in the 42 file. Then all of those plus the 43 music in the 43 file etc...?

Does that even make sense?

I am a little confused about it!

Many thanks
Stu.

[fred8615]

The answer to all your questions is yes.

I did consider that dividing the station up by year would make setup a little hard, and mean using extra HD space if anyone wanted to do as you asked. But it was the only way to prevent a song from being heard before it was actually available. And that was, and still is, very important to me. These stations were originally created for my personal use, and so were designed the way I wanted them to be. And unfortunately, that can create other problems. However, you still have to put the music in each individual station folder anyway in order to hear it on that station. So while my setup makes the problem a bit worse, but it would still be there.

Personally, I don't use the music in the way you asked about. The 1940 files I put in the gramophone, the other years in only their respective year folders, and the "oldies" in the Washington station, for now (more about that at a later date).

So, I am sorry if my system is a bit of a pain to setup and eats HD space, but as Jimmy Durante once said, "Dose are da conditions dat prevail!"

[sckallst]

My first post on this forum just had to be in this thread. I've got your NBC station and the yearly music loaded up and, as someone who values immersion about as much as anything in games of this kind, I have to say that you've singlehandedly at least doubled the value of my recent SH4 purchase. Very many thanks.

[Rip]

Will it let you use shortcuts, I wonder? Then at least you could get by with only one copy of the music itself and all later instances where you need it you could create a shortcut to it.

[stufer]

Fred,

Thank you very much for your answer - that is the way that seemed to make most sense to me. I was only curious as to how it all functioned, and to be honest I like it that way too!

I am getting a new HD soon so I may try it out with that cumulative idea.

But for the time being, I think I will adopt your approach to it - the oldies in the Washington folder etc...

I was playing last night and thoroughly enjoying the comedy shows on NBC - they are dated now (obviously) but it gives a great insight into the mindset of the times and I found some of them really funny!

I have always been a big fan of 1940's music, so to have access to such a lot is fantastic. It is really very generous of you to provide so much great listening for free - and it must have taken ages to compile and set up the radio shows the way you have. You are to be highly commended sir! :up:

All the best,

Stu.

[fred8615]

My first post on this forum just had to be in this thread. I've got your NBC station and the yearly music loaded up and, as someone who values immersion about as much as anything in games of this kind, I have to say that you've singlehandedly at least doubled the value of my recent SH4 purchase. Very many thanks.

Thank you for the kind words. FYI, I'm currently working on a second add-on for the NBC station, which will add additional episodes of the shows already in the station as well as a few new series.

To Rip:

It would make things so much easier if UBI had set up the radio to work that way. While you can have multiple stations use the same folder (it's how my four different AFRS stations work) everything still has to be inside that folder.

[stufer]

Hi Fred

Me again!

I have all of the stations downloaded now and absolutely loving it. I am having a slight problem though but I don't know if it is related to the stations, RSM or me (probably that one!).

I prepare the stations for patrol restart in RSM before each patrol, but the NBC one still plays the old events every time. I think it happened on one of the Los Angeles stations too, but can't remember which.

The one that sticks in my head the most is the one on Dec 8th 1941 that starts by calling London and relates the speech by Churchill. That one plays over every time I restart the patrol, then all of them from that point.

In comparison, the KGMB Honolulu station does not replay the earlier broadcasts (that is the one that I have been comparing to check if RSM is working right).

I have clicked the Apply Changes in the events section of RSM and it doesn't throw up any problems. Similarly, when I Prepare Stations for Patrol Restart, that doesn't say there are any problems either.

Would you (or anyone else for that matter) have any clue why the NBC station doesn't seem to take note of the RSM stuff?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Cheers
Stu.

[Digital_Trucker]

Sounds like an RSM problem to me. If you look at the events.ini for the stations that are repeating, are any of the events commented out?

[stufer]

Hi DT

Thanks for the response. I checked the events.ini files last night and gave it some testing. It was strange - sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. I had most success when my savegames were all in capitals, but it was still not assured - sometimes it worked and sometimes not.

Sometimes it commented out all the events up to the start of my patrol, but not the ones that played after the patrol began and sometimes it didn't comment out any at all and sometimes it did it right - it was very odd! This was happening with all stations, not just the ones I had originally thought.

I think I must have buggered up my install somehow, so tonight I will attempt to remove the mods I have and try it on a clean version. I am using 1.5 and TMO by the way, if that makes a difference.

Can I check - is RSM supposed to comment out all events whose start time is prior to the time of my savegame. For example, if an event is scheduled to play at 08:00 and my savegame is at 08:01, should that event be commented out? Or is there a minimum time - say a day later?

Cheers
Stu.

[Digital_Trucker]

Nope, it should comment out anything at your save game date/time or earlier. I don't think mods would have anything to do with it (unless they also change the log file). I do remember RSM acting up like that when it was in development and I'm positive I solved whatever problem that was, but I don't remember if the fix was before or after the first release. While (or before) you do a complete reinstall, try downloading the latest RSM (link in my sig) and see if that takes care of the problem.

[stufer]

Hi DT

Yep, reinstall seems to have fixed it! At first I tried it with version 1.0 of the game and it wasn't working so thought I had a major problem, but I'm guessing that RSM 1.2 is perhaps not compatible with that version of the game as it works like a charm on version 1.5. So far I have only tested it with the Washington station so will give it a go with one of the other stations now. Fingers crossed!

All seems to be going fine - thanks very much for your help and this wonderful application.:up:

All the best
Stu.

[Digital_Trucker]

Glad it's working for ya now, Stufer. :up:I'm not sure about whether there were any problems between RSM and 1.0 or not. I wrote it after a couple patches had come out, so I never really tested it on the older versions.

[kylesplanet]

Just for reference, I have RSM 1.0 installed with 1.5 and it works fine. I accidentally installed it instead of 1.2 :oops: but it works just fine so I didn't change it.

[Digital_Trucker]

Just for reference, I have RSM 1.0 installed with 1.5 and it works fine. I accidentally installed it instead of 1.2 :oops: but it works just fine so I didn't change it.
Thanks for the info, kp. Just for safety's sake, I'd say go ahead and replace 1.0 with the newest version. It may not be correcting the "repeat events" problem correctly. It may be something that you wouldn't notice unless it was around the time of Pearl Harbor when there are so many events that are obvious repeats.

[kylesplanet]

Will do DT! :up: :up: :up:

[Digital_Trucker]

And now, I can go back to playing the game again! Right after I have a nice, quiet, nervous breakdown, that is. :doh:
You deserve it, dude, but if you're gonna have an NB, have a rowdy, raucous one. It tends to stretch out the time between them more than the nice, quiet ones. Thanks for the hard work on the add-on.:up:

[csengoi]

Digital_Trucker (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=233398),
Are you planning to make stations for OM? It would be great to have stations from 1939, not only from december 1941.

I love radio stations!!!

[Digital_Trucker]

Digital_Trucker (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=233398),
Are you planning to make stations for OM? It would be great to have stations from 1939, not only from december 1941.

I love radio stations!!!

Who me? Must be a case of mistaken identity:p, Fred's the radio station maker.:yep:

[fred8615]

Digital_Trucker (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=233398),
Are you planning to make stations for OM? It would be great to have stations from 1939, not only from december 1941.

I love radio stations!!!
Not knowing there would eventually be a U-boat version, I set the stations up to be active during the U.S. involvement in WWII. Since I don't play as a U-boat, and never will, I didn't see the need for before that period.

That said, if there is interest in expanding these stations to cover September, 1939 to December, 1941, I just might create add-ons to do so. And if someone else wants to, you of course have my permission.

In the meantime, there is a way to fix the existing stations so they will at least play music (but nothing else) before December, 1941. After pasting the channel info into radio.ini for whatever stations you want, use Replace to change this:

Antenna=01.01.1941

to this:

Antenna=01.01.1939

As I said, there won't be any programming, and you'll have to put the pre-1941 music in the 1941 folder for stations that have one, but it'll give you U-boat sailors something for now.

[csengoi]

Gee, thanks Fred,

It would be great if you could make this extension. I think many fans would use it.
Actually, is it possible to make custom stations for the Atlantic area from 1939 til the end of the war? I thought it is...

And could you post some links for old time german radio broadcast archives?
I couldn't find any usable material...

[fred8615]

Actually, is it possible to make custom stations for the Atlantic area from 1939 til the end of the war? I thought it is...
Sure it is. But since I'm not interested in the Atlantic campaign, someone else would have to do it. I would be willing to do add-ons to expand the stations I've already created so they could be used in a full war Atlantic campaign, but not create any new ones. I do want to say it's likely I will do the add-ons eventually, because they would fit in with another radio station project I want to do. But that is down the road.

And could you post some links for old time german radio broadcast archives?
I couldn't find any usable material...
Have you tried Archive.org? Beyond that, I can't help you.

[Florida Sailor]

[quote=csengoi]Gee, thanks Fred,

Actually, is it possible to make custom stations for the Atlantic area from 1939 til the end of the war? I thought it is...

And could you post some links for old time german radio broadcast archives?
quote]


Can't help you with the German languge broadcasts, but at least you can listen to the BBC. I just posted a BBC Radio Mod that covers 1939 to 1945. Read about it here:
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=400102&f=6421019045&m=9841098976&r=9841098976#9841098976
or here
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=140745

Dave

[spike12]

Your links are broken,I can't find any of your downloads!

[Aniuk]

Your links are broken,I can't find any of your downloads!

Downloaded all files for AFN, one showed to be corrupted, but indeed can't download anymore. LINKS ARE REALLY BROKEN. plse restore the links.

edit: tried to PM fred8615, but no reply yet. That is a pitty, because is Radio Mods are really great. I enjoy them particularly during transfer. To my surprise I found out that not that many people use his mods. Possibly due to the huge downloads. Hope one day the files are available for download again. In the meantime, happy hunting with our without (extra) radio-stations. :D

[Carotio]

Fred, you should join Silent Hunter Mods Forum and ask for an FTP account, so you can store your radio mods there.
SHMF will not frequently delete this or that mod because of size or infrequently downloads.

Just click my sig to go there...

[kptn_kaiserhof]

id love to use it but i have a crap sound system

[swdw]

I've got the 1940, 1941, and 1942 music uploaded. The rest will be uploaded next Monday.

FYI, these versions do each have a few more songs than the previous versions did.
Between how much room these mods use and how popular they are, you should invest in stock for hard drive manufacturing companies . :rotfl:

I really enjoy these mods:up:- glad they're back up!

[Jan7]

The KHJ (MBS) radio station is now available!! Except for removing the JSGME compatibility this version is the same as the first version.

Hello, Fred!

In these past months, I followed the advances of this post. I'm happy seen the problems that occurs in the past, step by step, are dissapears today.

I make with your music, previously processed various discs of superb MUSIC. Thanks again for share with all us your treasure.....:up:



From Spain, of a fan of your thread.



Jan.

[claybirdd]

dude KNX is an awsome station. tok me a long time to download but well worth the wait. immersion factor went way up.:up:

[Fattysbox]

Quick question:

How do you install / what directory do you extract to? :)

Thanks!

[NeonsStyle]

Hi,

Awhile ago I downloaded KPO radio stations. There's now folder KPO and Washington in sound folder. There's an radio.ini file in sound folder with following info in it: (continued after info)

[GENERAL]
RadioRealism=Yes
StartCh=1

[CHANNEL]
Name=Washington
Folder=Washington
Freq=22
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:44.16,-35.10:100000
;MusicVolumeOnNews takes values from 0.01 to 1
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.4


[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 680.41
Folder=KPO\1941
Freq=680.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 680.42
Folder=KPO\1942
Freq=680.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 680.43
Folder=KPO\1943
Freq=680.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 680.44
Folder=KPO\1944
Freq=680.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 680.45
Folder=KPO\1945
Freq=680.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

The radio files are all in the sh4/data/sound/KPO and ../sound/Washington folders.
No matter how far I run the freq on the radio in game I all I ever here is static.

Could someone please tell me how to fix this. These are big downloads and I'd hate to just delete them cause they don't work. I must have something wrong. Thanks

Ven

[fred8615]

Quick question:

How do you install / what directory do you extract to? :)

Thanks!
If you're using the latest versions, downloaded from BtS Mods, you extract directly into the Data/Sound/Radio folder of your SH4 install. This is all covered in the readme btw, which you have to read to get the info to paste into the radio.ini file in order to hear the station.

The radio files are all in the sh4/data/sound/KPO and ../sound/Washington folders.
No matter how far I run the freq on the radio in game I all I ever here is static.

Could someone please tell me how to fix this. These are big downloads and I'd hate to just delete them cause they don't work. I must have something wrong. Thanks
First of all, they should be in the Radio folder, not Sound. But I'm going to assume that's a misprint. :D On the other hand there is a default music file in Washington you should be hearing if you didn't delete it. :hmm:

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your radio.ini, so my second guess is you didn't put any music in the folders. If there's no music, you won't hear anything but static until a scripted program is set to play. Note that for the KPO station, the music has to go in the year folders inside KPO, not in the KPO folder itself. For Washington, they just go in that folder.

[Front Runner]

Fred,
I am working on creating a "personal" radio station with timed events using my entire archive collection. I'm not trying to re-create a particular radio station.
Have you discovered any limitations to how many events can be in the event.ini file?
By the time I get done, there may be thousands. Just wondering.

BTW, thank you for your dedication to reproducing the WW2 era in radio programs. I enjoy your work immensely and I am inspired by it to produce my own work.

[fred8615]

Answered via e-mail.

[clayp]

Could someone post the part from the readme that has to be added to the radio.ini pls....:D

[fred8615]

Could someone post the part from the readme that has to be added to the radio.ini pls....:D
For which station(s)?

[Front Runner]

Answered via e-mail.

Fred,
I never got your email reply. Could you please resend? Thanks.
Front Runner

[clayp]

Could someone post the part from the readme that has to be added to the radio.ini pls....:D
For which station(s)?

HMMM I didnt know it was for a certain station..I have added radio stations and news shows and manager files etc and I still only get one(1) station.....:-?

[fred8615]

Could someone post the part from the readme that has to be added to the radio.ini pls....:D
For which station(s)?

HMMM I didnt know it was for a certain station..I have added radio stations and news shows and manager files etc and I still only get one(1) station.....:-?
Let's try it from a different angle. Which stations are you trying to hear? Or, which ones did you add that you aren't hearing? I assume the one you are hearing is the stock Washington station?

[clayp]

Could someone post the part from the readme that has to be added to the radio.ini pls....:D For which station(s)?
HMMM I didnt know it was for a certain station..I have added radio stations and news shows and manager files etc and I still only get one(1) station.....:-? Let's try it from a different angle. Which stations are you trying to hear? Or, which ones did you add that you aren't hearing? I assume the one you are hearing is the stock Washington station?

Fred here is some info,thanks for the help....:sunny:

[GENERAL]
RadioRealism=Yes
StartCh=1

[CHANNEL]
Name=KGMB Honolulu
Folder=KGMB
Freq=16
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946:21.32,-157.87:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=Washington
Folder=Washington
Freq=27
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:44.16,-35.10:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.1

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.41
Folder=KPO\1941
Freq=38.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.42
Folder=KPO\1942
Freq=38.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.43
Folder=KPO\1943
Freq=38.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.44
Folder=KPO\1944
Freq=38.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.45
Folder=KPO\1945
Freq=38.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.41
Folder=KNX\1941
Freq=50.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.42
Folder=KNX\1942
Freq=50.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.43
Folder=KNX\1943
Freq=50.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.44
Folder=KNX\1944
Freq=50.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.45
Folder=KNX\1945
Freq=50.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.42
Folder=AFRS\1942
Freq=61.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.43
Folder=AFRS\1943
Freq=61.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.44
Folder=AFRS\1944
Freq=61.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.45
Folder=AFRS\1945
Freq=61.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.42
Folder=\AFRS\1942
Freq=72.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.43
Folder=\AFRS\1943
Freq=72.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.44
Folder=\AFRS\1944
Freq=72.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.45
Folder=\AFRS\1945
Freq=72.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.42
Folder=\\AFRS\1942
Freq=83.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.43
Folder=\\AFRS\1943
Freq=83.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.44
Folder=\\AFRS\1944
Freq=83.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.45
Folder=\\AFRS\1945
Freq=83.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Guam 94.44
Folder=\\\AFRS\1944
Freq=94.44
Antenna=01.09.1944-01.01.1945:13.42,144.78:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Guam 94.45
Folder=\\\AFRS\1945
Freq=94.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:13.42,144.78:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=CBS NEWS
Folder=CBS NEWS
Freq=130
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:34.05,-118.22:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.41
Folder=KHJ\1941
Freq=102.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.42
Folder=KHJ\1942
Freq=102.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.43
Folder=KHJ\1943
Freq=102.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.44
Folder=KHJ\1944
Freq=102.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.45
Folder=KHJ\1945
Freq=102.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=Radio Tokyo
Folder=NHK
Freq=128
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946:35.70,139.77:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=BBC
Folder=BBC
Freq=140
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946: 51.45,-0.12:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01
;MusicVolumeOnNews takes values from 0.01 to 1

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=155
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

This is a wonderful mod i am amazed and have been downloading for three days :) thank you very much

i wondered if there is a BBC possiblity for atlantic missions? i thought i saw one somewhere in the files i have collected but have been swamped wtih the huge volume of incredible work.

thanks again for these remarkable files it brings the time to us so wonderfully.and will be a amazing adjunct to the game.

[fred8615]

Fred here is some info,thanks for the help....:sunny:

[GENERAL]
RadioRealism=Yes
StartCh=1

[CHANNEL]
Name=KGMB Honolulu
Folder=KGMB
Freq=16
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946:21.32,-157.87:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=Washington
Folder=Washington
Freq=27
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:44.16,-35.10:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.1

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.41
Folder=KPO\1941
Freq=38.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.42
Folder=KPO\1942
Freq=38.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.43
Folder=KPO\1943
Freq=38.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.44
Folder=KPO\1944
Freq=38.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.45
Folder=KPO\1945
Freq=38.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.41
Folder=KNX\1941
Freq=50.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.42
Folder=KNX\1942
Freq=50.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.43
Folder=KNX\1943
Freq=50.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.44
Folder=KNX\1944
Freq=50.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.45
Folder=KNX\1945
Freq=50.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.42
Folder=AFRS\1942
Freq=61.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.43
Folder=AFRS\1943
Freq=61.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.44
Folder=AFRS\1944
Freq=61.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.45
Folder=AFRS\1945
Freq=61.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.42
Folder=\AFRS\1942
Freq=72.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.43
Folder=\AFRS\1943
Freq=72.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.44
Folder=\AFRS\1944
Freq=72.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.45
Folder=\AFRS\1945
Freq=72.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.42
Folder=\\AFRS\1942
Freq=83.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.43
Folder=\\AFRS\1943
Freq=83.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.44
Folder=\\AFRS\1944
Freq=83.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.45
Folder=\\AFRS\1945
Freq=83.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Guam 94.44
Folder=\\\AFRS\1944
Freq=94.44
Antenna=01.09.1944-01.01.1945:13.42,144.78:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Guam 94.45
Folder=\\\AFRS\1945
Freq=94.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:13.42,144.78:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=CBS NEWS
Folder=CBS NEWS
Freq=130
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:34.05,-118.22:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.41
Folder=KHJ\1941
Freq=102.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.42
Folder=KHJ\1942
Freq=102.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.43
Folder=KHJ\1943
Freq=102.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.44
Folder=KHJ\1944
Freq=102.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.45
Folder=KHJ\1945
Freq=102.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=Radio Tokyo
Folder=NHK
Freq=128
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946:35.70,139.77:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=BBC
Folder=BBC
Freq=140
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946: 51.45,-0.12:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01
;MusicVolumeOnNews takes values from 0.01 to 1

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=155
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000
First off, you have KHJ and Radio Tokyo in the wrong spots. Stations have to be in order by frequency, lowest to highest. So they should go before CBS NEWS, not after. And you'll need to change Radio Tokyo from 128 as that's too close to CBS NEWS' 130. Frequencies should be 10 numbers apart to avoid overlapping.

Was the radio only stopping on one station? If so, that should fix the problem. If it was stopping, but not playing on the others, the only thing I can think of then is no music installed.

To Admiral Von Gerlach:

Thank you for the kind words. I think the BBC station you're looking for is here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=140770

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

Fred, Sir. thank you very much for the speedy reply back, much much appreciated. I am studying how to set up the radio stations, and this is a remarkable indeed incredible enhancement and one that offers so much in terms of feeling the time and the actual sense of what they felt like back then.....which is one of the reasons i am so looking forward to playing this remarkable sim. this work on the music and the stations, it is simply outstanding. thanks so much.

i have talked with sub men from both sides including IJN and they all said what a lifeline it was to have the radio, even the radio of enemy to listen to, it livened thelong lonely hours at sea, and made a huge difference when it was allowed by the individual captains. that and the movies...for some :)

thanks agian.

[I'm goin' down]

I can only download one radio file at a time, sometimes 2. One radio download consist of over thirty files to download. The downloads are slow. I am saving them to the radio file. Is there a program that will accelerate this project? Am I doing something wrong?

[clayp]

Fred here is some info,thanks for the help....:sunny:

[GENERAL]
RadioRealism=Yes
StartCh=1

[CHANNEL]
Name=KGMB Honolulu
Folder=KGMB
Freq=16
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946:21.32,-157.87:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=Washington
Folder=Washington
Freq=27
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:44.16,-35.10:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.1

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.41
Folder=KPO\1941
Freq=38.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.42
Folder=KPO\1942
Freq=38.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.43
Folder=KPO\1943
Freq=38.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.44
Folder=KPO\1944
Freq=38.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.45
Folder=KPO\1945
Freq=38.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.41
Folder=KNX\1941
Freq=50.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.42
Folder=KNX\1942
Freq=50.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.43
Folder=KNX\1943
Freq=50.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.44
Folder=KNX\1944
Freq=50.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.45
Folder=KNX\1945
Freq=50.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.42
Folder=AFRS\1942
Freq=61.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.43
Folder=AFRS\1943
Freq=61.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.44
Folder=AFRS\1944
Freq=61.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.45
Folder=AFRS\1945
Freq=61.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.42
Folder=\AFRS\1942
Freq=72.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.43
Folder=\AFRS\1943
Freq=72.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.44
Folder=\AFRS\1944
Freq=72.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.45
Folder=\AFRS\1945
Freq=72.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.42
Folder=\\AFRS\1942
Freq=83.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.43
Folder=\\AFRS\1943
Freq=83.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.44
Folder=\\AFRS\1944
Freq=83.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.45
Folder=\\AFRS\1945
Freq=83.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Guam 94.44
Folder=\\\AFRS\1944
Freq=94.44
Antenna=01.09.1944-01.01.1945:13.42,144.78:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Guam 94.45
Folder=\\\AFRS\1945
Freq=94.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:13.42,144.78:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=CBS NEWS
Folder=CBS NEWS
Freq=130
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:34.05,-118.22:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.41
Folder=KHJ\1941
Freq=102.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.42
Folder=KHJ\1942
Freq=102.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.43
Folder=KHJ\1943
Freq=102.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.44
Folder=KHJ\1944
Freq=102.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.45
Folder=KHJ\1945
Freq=102.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=Radio Tokyo
Folder=NHK
Freq=128
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946:35.70,139.77:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=BBC
Folder=BBC
Freq=140
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946: 51.45,-0.12:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01
;MusicVolumeOnNews takes values from 0.01 to 1

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=155
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000
First off, you have KHJ and Radio Tokyo in the wrong spots. Stations have to be in order by frequency, lowest to highest. So they should go before CBS NEWS, not after. And you'll need to change Radio Tokyo from 128 as that's too close to CBS NEWS' 130. Frequencies should be 10 numbers apart to avoid overlapping.

Was the radio only stopping on one station? If so, that should fix the problem. If it was stopping, but not playing on the others, the only thing I can think of then is no music installed.

To Admiral Von Gerlach:

Thank you for the kind words. I think the BBC station you're looking for is here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=140770


Thanks very much Fred,but I dont understand I'll listen to the gramerphone...:lol: I'll be gone for a few days anyway....:) It only stops on the Washington station...But dont worry about it sir.....

[I'm goin' down]

I downloaded a zip file and downloaded 34 files in a few hours. Problem solved.

[Fish40]

This is a wonderful mod i am amazed and have been downloading for three days :) thank you very much

i wondered if there is a BBC possiblity for atlantic missions? i thought i saw one somewhere in the files i have collected but have been swamped wtih the huge volume of incredible work.

thanks again for these remarkable files it brings the time to us so wonderfully.and will be a amazing adjunct to the game.




From the ATO Forums: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=140770 Also, everyone haveing troubles installing RS's are you useing the Radio Stations Manager (RSM)? This great utility produced by our own "Digital Trucker" will save you lots of headaches:yep: With this utility you could import new stations via the user friendly utility interface, as well as press the "prepare stations for game restart" button which will not allow the replaying of all previous news reports. A must have:up:

[fred8615]

Thanks very much Fred,but I dont understand I'll listen to the gramerphone...:lol: I'll be gone for a few days anyway....:) It only stops on the Washington station...But dont worry about it sir.....
I'll make it easy for you. Just copy the below into your radio.ini. Make sure you overwrite or remove the old info in there.

[GENERAL]
RadioRealism=Yes
StartCh=1

[CHANNEL]
Name=KGMB Honolulu
Folder=KGMB
Freq=16
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946:21.32,-157.87:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=Washington
Folder=Washington
Freq=27
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:44.16,-35.10:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.1

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.41
Folder=KPO\1941
Freq=38.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.42
Folder=KPO\1942
Freq=38.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.43
Folder=KPO\1943
Freq=38.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.44
Folder=KPO\1944
Freq=38.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KPO San Francisco 38.45
Folder=KPO\1945
Freq=38.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:37.78,-122.42:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.41
Folder=KNX\1941
Freq=50.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.42
Folder=KNX\1942
Freq=50.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.43
Folder=KNX\1943
Freq=50.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.44
Folder=KNX\1944
Freq=50.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KNX Los Angeles 50.45
Folder=KNX\1945
Freq=50.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.42
Folder=AFRS\1942
Freq=61.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.43
Folder=AFRS\1943
Freq=61.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.44
Folder=AFRS\1944
Freq=61.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Honolulu 61.45
Folder=AFRS\1945
Freq=61.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:21.32,-157.87:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.42
Folder=\AFRS\1942
Freq=72.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.43
Folder=\AFRS\1943
Freq=72.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.44
Folder=\AFRS\1944
Freq=72.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Midway 72.45
Folder=\AFRS\1945
Freq=72.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:28.20,179.50:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.42
Folder=\\AFRS\1942
Freq=83.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.43
Folder=\\AFRS\1943
Freq=83.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.44
Folder=\\AFRS\1944
Freq=83.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Wollongong 83.45
Folder=\\AFRS\1945
Freq=83.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:-17.22,137.95:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Guam 94.44
Folder=\\\AFRS\1944
Freq=94.44
Antenna=01.09.1944-01.01.1945:13.42,144.78:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=AFRS Guam 94.45
Folder=\\\AFRS\1945
Freq=94.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:13.42,144.78:5000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.41
Folder=KHJ\1941
Freq=102.41
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1942:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.42
Folder=KHJ\1942
Freq=102.42
Antenna=01.01.1942-01.01.1943:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.43
Folder=KHJ\1943
Freq=102.43
Antenna=01.01.1943-01.01.1944:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.44
Folder=KHJ\1944
Freq=102.44
Antenna=01.01.1944-01.01.1945:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=KHJ Los Angeles 102.45
Folder=KHJ\1945
Freq=102.45
Antenna=01.01.1945-01.01.1946:34.05,-118.23:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=Radio Tokyo
Folder=NHK
Freq=120
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946:35.70,139.77:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=CBS NEWS
Folder=CBS NEWS
Freq=130
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:34.05,-118.22:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

[CHANNEL]
Name=BBC
Folder=BBC
Freq=140
Antenna=01.01.1941-01.01.1946: 51.45,-0.12:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01
;MusicVolumeOnNews takes values from 0.01 to 1

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=155
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000

[I'm goin' down]

Please see my post dated 11/15 in theSH4 Fleet Boat Mods Workshop forum (rather than here). It is entitled
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/smartdark/subscribed.gif I have some radio mod questions set up questions and require assistance. (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=144451) Thanks.

[clayp]

Thats great Fred!!!..Thank you so very much...:up: :sunny: I have been gone I will try yhis later today....:up: :up:

[clayp]

FRED!!! I put that in..YOU DA MAN!!!!!...You will go far...:up: :up: :sunny: :sunny: Go in peace my son...:D :sunny:

[Tar1973]

Hey

First i will like to thank all of you that have made this game in to a better and more valuable experince by producing mods, fixes etc :up:

To the issue:
When i try to use any of the download linkes to radio stations or music files i get this message. I wonder if this can be fixed or that i can download this files somewhere else. Thanks for any help.

http://host57.hostmonster.com/highload.html?topic=833.0

This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota

Please contact this site's webmaster.

Wait a few minutes and use your browser's "Back" button or click here (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:history.go%28-1%29) to try again.


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Adding appropriate indeces to your SQL tables can often help reduce CPU.
Using static .html documents instead of painful .php scripts will practically eliminate CPU usage.

[fred8615]

Hey

First i will like to thank all of you that have made this game in to a better and more valuable experince by producing mods, fixes etc :up:

To the issue:
When i try to use any of the download linkes to radio stations or music files i get this message. I wonder if this can be fixed or that i can download this files somewhere else. Thanks for any help.

http://host57.hostmonster.com/highload.html?topic=833.0

This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota

Please contact this site's webmaster.

Wait a few minutes and use your browser's "Back" button or click here (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:history.go%28-1%29) to try again.


If you are the webmaster, your account may have gotten this error for one or more of the following reasons:

Your account has used more than its share of the cpu in the past 60 second sliding window.
Your account has too many concurrent processes running simultanously.
Your account has consumed too much memory.
Your site was recently very busy trying to run inefficient scripts.The solution would be to optimize your applications to use less CPU.
Adding appropriate indeces to your SQL tables can often help reduce CPU.
Using static .html documents instead of painful .php scripts will practically eliminate CPU usage.
Unfortunately there's no other site to download the files. You'll just have to wait it out.

They're making some changes to the interface at BtS Mods, and apparently the server doesn't like some of them. It just started acting up today. Hopefully they can get it fixed soon.

[I'm goin' down]

Hi. I have not downloaded any mucic yet, but I am about to begin that endeavor. I saw a post some time ago regarding playing music on the radio, but quit searching for it because it was taking a long time to read through all of the posts, and I never did find the post I was searching for. Rather than having the music files in the gramaphone, I prefer to listen to them on the radio. Several radio stations folders contain subfolders labeled "1941", "1942", etc.

If I move downlaoded songs for 1941, for example, into the 1941 folder for a particular station , will the station play music? (As you noted in the original post, some captains do not want 1945 music, for example, playing during 1941, so downloaded songs for 1945 would be naturally be moved to the 1945 folder.)

If ithe station will play music, will the songs play when there is no news being broadcast by that station?

If the radio stations will play music without screwing up the news, then conceptually one could install 1941 songs into each radio station that contains a 1941 folder, although it would use up a lot of space on a hard drive, and might require selecting one station for the intallation of the music files to save hard drive space, or alternatively, using an external hard drive to provide enough disk space to load the files into several station folders. Am I on the right track (no pun intended)?

[fred8615]

If I move downlaoded songs for 1941, for example, into the 1941 folder for a particular station , will the station play music? (As you noted in the original post, some captains do not want 1945 music, for example, playing during 1941, so downloaded songs for 1945 would be naturally be moved to the 1945 folder.)
Yes, but only during 1941. The stations only play for their assigned year. Once the game switches to the year 1942, the 1941 station stops, and the 1942 station starts. In case you're wondering, you won't have to change channels when the year changes as I'm using the radio's overlap feature by putting the frequencies right next to each other (only a .01 difference in channel numbers).

If ithe station will play music, will the songs play when there is no news being broadcast by that station?
Yes. In fact, that's why you need music in the radio stations. Otherwise you have dead air inbetween scripted events.

If the radio stations will play music without screwing up the news, then conceptually one could install 1941 songs into each radio station that contains a 1941 folder, although it would use up a lot of space on a hard drive, and might require selecting one station for the intallation of the music files to save hard drive space, or alternatively, using an external hard drive to provide enough disk space to load the files into several station folders. Am I on the right track (no pun intended)?
Unfortunately the game is set up to where you have to put music in each and every radio station folder. It would've been nice if they would allow use of a separate music folder(s), but they didn't, so the hard drive space usage is unavoidable.

FYI you can have multiple stations using the same folder. It's how my AFRS station is set up if you want to use up to 4 shorter range stations. However, you would only hear the scripted programming for that one folder in each station that linked to it. So it's no good for programming different networks.

If you have anymore questions, just send'em!

[I'm goin' down]

Okay. I am with you so far. Are you saying that if I transfer the downloanded the music for 1941 - 1945 in the 1941 folder for say, CBS, that when the year 1942 begins the CBS station will play music from 1942? That is what it seems like you are saying. If so, it means I can download all of the music for the CBS station into its 1941 folder, and I will be done with installing music for that station .

Of course, I will have to repeat that process for each station, but that is not a big deal.

I you agree with the above, I am set to rock and roll (or swing or jive, as they might say at the time).

You should rename this mod, "The really hard mod." It has been a ball buster.

[fred8615]

Okay. I am with you so far. Are you saying that if I transfer the downloanded the music for 1941 - 1945 in the 1941 folder for say, CBS, that when the year 1942 begins the CBS station will play music from 1942? That is what it seems like you are saying. If so, it means I can download all of the music for the CBS station into its 1941 folder, and I will be done with installing music for that station .

Of course, I will have to repeat that process for each station, but that is not a big deal.
You don't want to put music beyond the given year in a folder, unless you want to hear all the music in that year station. If you want to be historically accurate, you shouldn't put 1942 music and beyond in the 1941 folder, 1943 in 1942, etc. Now you can if you want put the previous year's music in a later year folder, 1942 and even 1941 in 1943 for example. But I personally don't reccommend or do this myself. Both to save drive space and because there's more than enough music in each year set to listen to.

Now of course all this is assuming you're using the period music. If not, then of course everything you want to hear has to go in each year folder. There is a way to fix the station however so you won't need the year folders, and can save some space. If anyone's interested I can post the instructions. It does take some work, but it will save you duplicating your music.

I you agree with the above, I am set to rock and roll (or swing or jive, as they might say at the time).

You should rename this mod, "The really hard mod." It has been a ball buster.
It's not that if you follow the instructions in the readme.:D

[Wilcke]

fred,

Great work, I really enjoy listening to the old radio stations and programs. I now have set them up to run through Windows Media Player and listen when I am working on other projects!

Thanks man!

[Shigawire]

The sheer amount of music is seriously disturbing. And the radio broadcasts!
I'm amazed by the sheer size of the collection...

Congratulations :up:

[fred8615]

The sheer amount of music is seriously disturbing. And the radio broadcasts!
I'm amazed by the sheer size of the collection...

Congratulations :up:
Well, as I've said before, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. :har:

And right now, I'm working on a new station.

[Shigawire]

The sheer amount of music is seriously disturbing. And the radio broadcasts!
I'm amazed by the sheer size of the collection...

Congratulations :up:
Well, as I've said before, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. :har:

And right now, I'm working on a new station.

Cool! Btw. how many hours of audio is in.. say.. the KPO radio station? (8.5gb)
And where on earth did you acquire this audio? :hmmm:

[cgjimeneza]

pardon the intrussion

Im working on a japanese radio station.... anyone that has jap audio recordings not done by fred or mirrored by him please donate

PS Fred, hope you dont mind my begging here, but do let me know...

[fred8615]

Cool! Btw. how many hours of audio is in.. say.. the KPO radio station? (8.5gb)
And where on earth did you acquire this audio? :hmmm:
I have no idea, and no way to find out that I know of. If I had episodes for every program in the station, it should be about 6 hours per week. The game covers approximately 192 weeks total, so that would be about 1152 hours that it [i]should[/] have. The actual figure is certainly lower.

As for where I found all this stuff; most comes from Archive.org, the rest from a pay site. Sources are noted in the readmes.

[groomsie]

OK, last night I took the plunge and tried the files I've been downloading. Added the AFRS stations + Radio Saigon (decided to stop there and make sure it is working). What I get is the tuner stops at the station frequency as designated, appears to read out correctly, but all I get is static.

I copied my radio.ini file to compare with what is recommended, and it is identical to what Fred posted on last page regarding changes (OK, identical for the shared stations in question). Why would I be getting just static? I know one answer would be no music in the file (wrong file heirarchy), but what I have for example is a folder called "Saigon" below the stock "Washington" folder, and inside that Saigon file is the music files (mp3 format if I recall correctly), so I don't think that is it.

Any advice? Unfortunately I'm typing this from work so if need detail of files and contents I can't do that right away.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

[fred8615]

There is no music in the AFRS stations. Saigon is seperate, and in fact is not even mine. I'm just mirroring it. You have to put music in the year folders inside the AFRS folder. Note that you should not put the music in the Events or just the AFRS folder itself. It won't play from either.

Also, when in game time were you trying to listen? The AFRS station doesn't start untl January, 1942. This is because historically they didn't produce any programming until that year.

[groomsie]

There is no music in the AFRS stations. Saigon is seperate, and in fact is not even mine. I'm just mirroring it. You have to put music in the year folders inside the AFRS folder. Note that you should not put the music in the Events or just the AFRS folder itself. It won't play from either.

Time is June 3, 1942. Location is just off Brisbane.

Understood that AFRS has no music, but Saigon does. I'm getting nothing from either of them except static, but the "tuner" shows the correct frequency and station name.

I did re-read your AFRS read me just a while ago and saw the broadcasts are "night" ("Whenever possible, AFRS played their entertainment programs in the evening, so that's when I have them.")...my test was in the wee hours of the am (0200) so is it possible the station was done for the day? BTW, if it is broadcasting only in evening (if I read this right) how are you accomplishing this?

I also note my .ini entries for the new stations have MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01
whereas my default Washington station is at 0.4...could it be the volume is so low it doesn't play over the static??? I'm reaching I know... BTW thanks Fred8615.

[groomsie]

OK, I adjusted volume up and now have Saigon coming in. AFRS seems to be just nothing (no static, just "blank")...I'll need to fiddle some more.

Thanks for the assistance Fred8615; a quick question--is the AFRS broadcast continuous, or are there dead air times even when the station is available to broacast? It looks to me like a show is broadcast only on certain days and may only last a set period of time. Is this correct?

[fred8615]

OK, I adjusted volume up and now have Saigon coming in. AFRS seems to be just nothing (no static, just "blank")...I'll need to fiddle some more.

Thanks for the assistance Fred8615; a quick question--is the AFRS broadcast continuous, or are there dead air times even when the station is available to broacast? It looks to me like a show is broadcast only on certain days and may only last a set period of time. Is this correct?
Programs in the Events folder are controlled by the events.ini file. By using it, you can have specific shows play at set dates and times. If there's no music in the year folders, then you won't hear anything until a show is scheduled to play. This is the case with all my stations. None of them have continious programing like what the real stations of that era had. Not only for reasons of size and availability of shows, but who wants to listen to soap operas all day long? :06:

The MusicVolumeOnNews= setting is to turn down the music on the radio when an event plays. Otherwise you would hear both at the same time. It has no effect when an event is not playing. I use the .01 setting to get the best hearing for the scripted events.

[groomsie]

Thanks for the clarification on the volume. I think between just digging in and fiddling + reading threads like this I'm gaining a handle on this aspect of the game. Last night I ordered a bunch of period recordings (music & famous speeches) from the library that I'm going to try and modify or create a new (imaginary) radio station.

Thanks again Fred8615 and all other modders / tipsters out there! :salute:
You guys really add to the game!

[fred8615]

Thanks for the clarification on the volume. I think between just digging in and fiddling + reading threads like this I'm gaining a handle on this aspect of the game. Last night I ordered a bunch of period recordings (music & famous speeches) from the library that I'm going to try and modify or create a new (imaginary) radio station.
Well if you need any help, let me know.

[Shigawire]

Ehm.. the readme was a bit ambiguous about this:

For KPO radio station:

You can use either the "Generic" info, or info based on the real AM frequencies used by KPO or KFI. You should install only one station, not both!

What does this mean? That I can only have one radio station, either KPO or KFI. Not both? Or do you mean that you can't have the "Real" and "Generic" simultaneously?

Because I see that KFI is for L.A. and KPO is for S.F.
Shouldn't both be in the radio.ini?

[fred8615]

Ehm.. the readme was a bit ambiguous about this:

For KPO radio station:

You can use either the "Generic" info, or info based on the real AM frequencies used by KPO or KFI. You should install only one station, not both!

What does this mean? That I can only have one radio station, either KPO or KFI. Not both? Or do you mean that you can't have the "Real" and "Generic" simultaneously?

Because I see that KFI is for L.A. and KPO is for S.F.
Shouldn't both be in the radio.ini?
Because of the way SH4 uses the radio station folders, you have to do something different to have more than one station use the same folder. I have done this with the multiple AFRS stations, but not with KPO/KFI. In short, only one version can be used, whether it's KPO and KFI, or the generic and real frequencies.

If you do want, for whatever reason, to have both KPO and KFI, I can tell you how to fix it so that you can. But since both are global range stations, I personally don't see the point.

[Seeadler24235]

Hi, everybody!

I need some help. Downloading from the BtS-site stops after some 60 KB. Any ideas?

[fred8615]

They have been doing some work, so maybe that's affecting downloads. If it keeps doing it, let me know and I'll ask over there. Are you registered there? It's not supposed to make a difference, but I might still need to know.

[cgjimeneza]

I dont know if its has been done.

is it possible to have the radio files in a single directory? and redirect the particular (multi sh4) installs to make use of it?

I have 4 diff installs and in each I have a BIG radio directory, but I figure: if I put the audio files in one place, I can then have all the radio stations there and not have to choose which ones to install....

yes, theres a limit on HDs...

comments? :hmmm:

[fred8615]

I dont know if its has been done.

is it possible to have the radio files in a single directory? and redirect the particular (multi sh4) installs to make use of it?

I have 4 diff installs and in each I have a BIG radio directory, but I figure: if I put the audio files in one place, I can then have all the radio stations there and not have to choose which ones to install....

yes, theres a limit on HDs...

comments? :hmmm:
You can try playing around with the "Folder=" line of a station's info in the radio.ini, but I suspect the game is hard-coded to always look in the Data\Sound\Radio folder structure of the one you're playing. I don't have multiple installs, so I've never fooled with changing it for something like that.

[Budds]

Love the work Fred..... Thanks !

One issue for me tho........
KHJ, when I extract to a folder I get 3-4 "Corrupt" files outta the bunch.
Is it just me and I need to re-D-Load it.... or something in the package.

Any Thoughts..........


.......................
:cool:

[fred8615]

If it's telling you the specific part number that's messing up, try re-downloading it. If it keeps doing it after several tries, let me know and I'll re-upload that part. It may have gotten corrupted on the server.

[I'm goin' down]

I have a ton of RAR music files that I have downloaded. What it the fastest program to extract the files. It is taking a long time to extract the RAR files. I am using RSM 1.2. At this rate, the war will be over before I can play the radio with all of the downloaded music.

[Front Runner]

but... just in case you don't know. When you download one of Fred's Radio Stations which consist of say 19 different files, you only have to run the extraction program on the file #1, the rest of the files are automatically included in the extraction as long as they have been downloaded to the same subdirectory as file #1.
Repeat, there is no need to extract files #2 through #X.
I hope this helps...
FWIW, I made the same mistake and "unzipped" all of them and was wondering why my file count in the directory was staying the same.
Fred mentions this in the read.me installation instructions.
BTW, Fred, thanks for all of your hard work making SH4 sound like the 40's!

[I'm goin' down]

I am using RSM 1.2 by Digital Trucker. Does that make a difference?

[Front Runner]

I don't know if RSM actually extracts the RAR files from the downloads. I think that it is a Radio Station Management program and that the Radio Stations have to be installed first using a RAR extractor such as WINRAR or other RAR extraction program.
Perhaps you can ask Digital Trucker if his program extracts the RAR.

Anyone?

[fred8615]

RSM doesn't extract. It only edits or fixes the radio save game problem. BTW, you may have a problem using RSM if you have my new KOTR station. RSM has a 1500 events limit in it, and KOTR has over 2600! I don't know what it'll do, just be aware there may be a problem.

If you don't have an archiver program, there are several free ones out there. Just make sure it can do RAR. I use Winrar. While it does cost, once you pay you get all updates free for life.

[Justaguyinnc]

Just simply amazing Fred!
The amount of work collecting and putting together..
Possibly my Favorite WWII mod in any game!

I like it so much I had to make a standalone player to allow the WWII songs to play while in any game..lol.. wish I was good enough to make it look better...anyways..

Thanks again for the hard work you provide!

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/83/l_757747fd77c647479422063a9f9e39ee.jpg

[Hunter]

Hi Fred!

Your mods are great finding and value addition for my collection of vintage music. Could you help me with identefing of this sample http://files.filefront.com/Bing+Crosby+Remember+Haimp3/;13589479;/fileinfo.html
I believe it is sang by Bing Crosby, but I can't find out which song it is, neither find the full length version.

[fred8615]

Hi Fred!

Your mods are great finding and value addition for my collection of vintage music. Could you help me with identefing of this samle http://files.filefront.com/Bing+Crosby+Remember+Haimp3/;13589479;/fileinfo.html
I believe it is sung by Bing Crosby, but I can't find out which song it is, neither find the full length version.
I did a Google search and found it available on CDs. Didn't look enough to see a download version.

The search also turned up info saying the song was recorded between 1941 and 1942.

It's one I don't have, but will keep an eye out for.

[Hunter]

Ok, thanks. So do I since it is one of my best favorite tunes.

[Forza4Life]

I want to thank all the contributors to this post for their help as i have been reading through these posts, it has been a tremendous help. I have downloaded a lot of the music for the gramaphone and im in the process of downloading a couple of the radio stations now and i have installed the RSM mod to get these working as well. I do have a couple questions that have probably simple answers that i just havent caught in reading the forums. First off, i thought i read somewhere that there was a way to "randomise" the music in your gramaphone foler? That would be a huge win for furthur enjoyment of all the great music that i have downloaded.

I forgot my second question....lol im sure it will pop up again soon..

Many thanks to all the people involved with this mod. For me this makes it a "complete" game much more so than any other mod.

[fred8615]

Read the paragraph after the 1930s Music in the Other Music section of the very first post in this thread.

Or you can just click the below:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=111597

:D :D :D :D :D

[Forza4Life]

i have installed KOTR radio station (what a monster!!! 62 rar files!!) and have installed it and dumped all my music that was destined for the gramaphone folder into the KOTR folder. Everything seems to be working fine, but i noticed the music seems to be randomised, am i just "hearing" things or does the radio station randomly pick a song to play between programs? I hope this is the case.

[fred8615]

i have installed KOTR radio station (what a monster!!! 62 rar files!!) and have installed it and dumped all my music that was destined for the gramaphone folder into the KOTR folder. Everything seems to be working fine, but i noticed the music seems to be randomised, am i just "hearing" things or does the radio station randomly pick a song to play between programs? I hope this is the case.
Yes, the radio plays music randomly. For some reason the gramophone doesn't.

[General Tso]

Thanks for all of the awesome music, news and shows. It makes those long cruises across the pacific much more enjoyable.

[igor7111]

I've downloaded these radio stations. I have music downloaded into the station name itself (not the events folder) but I'm hearing nothing.
The radio doesn't stop-even at the Washington station, which worked previously. I suspect the culprit is the radio.ini file. Would anybody be willing to post their radio.ini so I can see what I'm doing wrong?

[Florida Sailor]

I've downloaded these radio stations. I have music downloaded into the station name itself (not the events folder) but I'm hearing nothing.
The radio doesn't stop-even at the Washington station, which worked previously. I suspect the culprit is the radio.ini file. Would anybody be willing to post their radio.ini so I can see what I'm doing wrong?

Here is a MOD that adds all the available radio stations and can be enabled with JSGME. It is just the radio.ini.
http://files.filefront.com/Add+Radio+05+20097z/;13804718;/fileinfo.html

Dave

[igor7111]

Thank you Florida Sailor, I'm downloading it now....much appreciated.

[fred8615]

I've downloaded these radio stations. I have music downloaded into the station name itself (not the events folder) but I'm hearing nothing.
The radio doesn't stop-even at the Washington station, which worked previously. I suspect the culprit is the radio.ini file. Would anybody be willing to post their radio.ini so I can see what I'm doing wrong?
Did you paste the channel info before or after the Washington station? It sounds like you pasted it above, which will mess up all the stations. Stations must be in numerical order by their station frequency.

[fred8615]

Just wanted to let everyone know that BtS Mods is having server issues at this time. While you can still download, it's a bit slow. Because of the size of my radio and music files, I've been asked not to post them here, so they're only available there. I will post when the issue is resolved.

[Sandman_28054]

I have created several radio mods for Silent Hunter 4, as well as seperate music files, divided by year for the WWII era, or by decade for the "oldies." Most music file songs are in mp3 format, some in wav. They can be used with any radio station or the Gramophone.

Most files are in 256MB multi-part RAR format. You MUST download all the parts in order to extract properly!

Radio stations do not include music, only the appropriate news and/or entertainment programs. Except for the KGMB, KOTR, and NHK stations, they are subdivided by year for the music files. While you can control programs in the "Events" folder, you can't control the music. And hearing a song about Iwo Jima in 1942 is just ...wrong. :nope: Except for the KOTR station, only episodes from December 1941 through August 14th, 1945 are used. Not all episodes of a program may be available.

All radio stations include readmes. These contain installation instructions, more information, and the channel info you'll need to copy and paste into the "radio.ini" in order to hear the radio stations.


All files can be downloaded from here:

http://www.bts-mods.com/?page=sh4user=fred8615 (http://www.bts-mods.com/?page=sh4user=fred8615)




Due to a recent virus, I had to reformat my HD.

And of course, I lost all my radio mods.

However, your link is a saver.

But it has a bad point.

Fred, are you aware that the server for BTS-Mods is extremely slow.

Where I work at, I have been able to bring my external HD and plug it in. I was hoping to d/l the files here at work since work has high-speed connection.

However, connecting to bts-mods and trying to d/l part 1 of the AFRS mod, at 11.3 kb/sec, it is going to take 6 hours to d/l just one file.

Are you aware the server is extremely slow?

[Armistead]

Strange, I DL'ed the same station a few days ago from the same place, plus two other stations. Obvious large files, but took about 5 minutes at the most per file...At home on simple slow cable.

[Sandman_28054]

Strange, I DL'ed the same station a few days ago from the same place, plus two other stations. Obvious large files, but took about 5 minutes at the most per file...At home on simple slow cable.

Hoping I was wrong, I just tried again.

The best I could get was 15.2 KB/sec. Or about 4 hours and 50 minutes to d/l AFRS pt.1.

[stricksl]

Hi all, been around a while, but this is my first ever post - glad to be a part of this fantastic community! I finally have high-speed at my house so now I will be a bit more active for sure. Anyway I see today BTS is down, but yesterday I was downloading some of Fred's wonderful radio mods, and I noticed that the link for More Hawaiian Music actually points to the Japanese Music.rar file. Didn't know if anyone was aware of that. Also regarding speed, I noticed speeds of about 25-30kbs, but I could download multiple files say about 5 at a time with Firefox (downloadhelper) and achieve my max download speed - so effectively speed was not an issue. Again thanks for the great downloads!

[Nopileo]

I just dug up SH4 again and found this great mod

Just a few comments to earlier posters here: I also notice that the 'More Hawaiian Music' actually links to More Japanese Music.

The connection speed is very varying, like people say, but I get speeds between about 40-330kb/s (have a 30Mbit in/out connection), so using a download manager like GetRight is very handy for files like these, combined with leaving the PC on to download in peace for the next few nights :yeah:

Anyway, thanks so much for all the time and work probably spent to prepare these great files!

[I'm goin' down]

A recent attempt to download music files got this notice.

BtS-Mods.com is in maintenance mode until further notice.:wah:

[fred8615]

RE: Sandman 28053 - See the post just above yours. :D

As for the other problems reported, the being down completely is brand new. It must've just happened in the last couple of days.

When it does come back, I'll check the Hawaiian music link then. That's one problem with BtS Mods. I don't have any control over the download page. I have to let the mods over there know about the files, and they post them. Apparently wrong in this case.:wah:

[I'm goin' down]

:damn:Another recent attempt to download music files got this notice.

BtS-Mods.com is in maintenance mode until further notice.:wah:

The fleet cannot sail if the crew refuses the order, and they said they ain't doing a lick of work until Ella Fitzgerald and the Andrews Sisters are on the Gramaphone. Someone mentioned Britney Spears. Who in the hell is she?

[I'm goin' down]

Final attempt at 2311 hrs. P.D.T. to download music files got this notice.

BtS-Mods.com is in maintenance mode until further notice.:wah:

[Frederf]

I have a crazy, quick idea of how to workaround the 180deg longitude limitation with SH4. What if you wanted a radio station at 0degN and 175degW? You couldn't hear it as you crossed the international date line despite the station only being 5 degrees away.

What if you made two radio stations?
1, 0*N 175*W
2. 0*N 185*E

The second station is "off the map" so to speak since it's beyond the normal limitations of the latitude/longitude system but the programming might not care about longitudes in excess of 180 degrees.

[I'm goin' down]

As of 1210 hrs. P.D.T.:

Final attempt at 2311 hrs. P.D.T. to download music files got this notice.

BtS-Mods.com is in maintenance mode until further notice.:wah:

[fred8615]

I have a crazy, quick idea of how to workaround the 180deg longitude limitation with SH4. What if you wanted a radio station at 0degN and 175degW? You couldn't hear it as you crossed the international date line despite the station only being 5 degrees away.

What if you made two radio stations?
1, 0*N 175*W
2. 0*N 185*E

The second station is "off the map" so to speak since it's beyond the normal limitations of the latitude/longitude system but the programming might not care about longitudes in excess of 180 degrees.

I don't think that would work. The game probably wouldn't play the station because it couldn't read the 185 setting. And if it did, you would still have have the problem of switching over to that station causing any scripted programs that played on the first station to repeat all over again on the second. I originally had my AFRS stations as 4 separate ones in different locations and having only about a 2500 nm range. But even though all used the same folder for programing, switching from one to another would cause this to happen. So in later updates I gave a 2 or single station option.

As of this morning BtS is still down. I'm sorry to say you'll just to bear with it until they're back. Or, maybe send some polite messages or PMs to Neal asking him to let me upload them here. :D

[Onkel Neal]

Hi Fred, just answered your PM, mate. Thanks

Does anyone know what's going on with BTS?

[Carotio]

Well fred8615, otherwise I have room for you too, if you want?
How much do you have, 30gb+ or more?

[ReallyDedPoet]

Does anyone know what's going on with BTS?

A post on this here. (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1148345&postcount=4)

Looks like some maintenance is being done.

[fred8615]

Well fred8615, otherwise I have room for you too, if you want?
How much do you have, 30gb+ or more?

Much more. About 46 GB. I'll keep you in mind if I can't upload here still.

FYI, BtS Mods is still down as a few minutes ago. This is 5 days the server has been completely offline, and over two weeks with all the slowness problems they were having before. Not good. :nope: :nope: :nope:

[Onkel Neal]

A post on this here. (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1148345&postcount=4)

Looks like some maintenance is being done.


Ah, ok, good. Hope all goes well with them, they must be upgrading. It can be a massive undertaking.

[jazman]

Now I get this: This Account Has Been Suspended

Fred!!!

[I'm goin' down]

I assume you mean that www.bts-mods.com (http://www.bts-mods.com/) is suspended, not Fred's account at that site.

I am not so sure. I searched the internet and found the following (the search lasted 0.9 seconds):

Beyond the Shadows :: Mods, Skins & Downloads (http://www.bts-mods.com/)
BtS-Mods.com is in maintenance mode until further notice.
www.bts-mods.com/ - Cached (http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:1uwe17NAm1EJ:www.bts-mods.com/+www.bts-mods.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) -


:wah::wah::wah::wah::wah::wah::wah::wah::wah::wah: :wah:

It doesn't really matter. Either it will go back on line or Fred will probably find an alternative, which will require him to do a MEGA UPLOAD.

[fred8615]

It's the whole BtS Mods site that is gone. I'm going to try to find something else, but it'll likely be a couple of weeks at least.

[Carotio]

BtS-Mods.com is in maintenance mode until further notice.www.bts-mods.com/ - Cached (http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:1uwe17NAm1EJ:www.bts-mods.com/+www.bts-mods.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) -
It doesn't really matter. Either it will go back on line or Fred will probably find an alternative, which will require him to do a MEGA UPLOAD.

Another google cache (http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:wDGIvWUb-CwJ:www.bts-mods.com/forums/index.php+bts+mods&hl=da&gl=dk&strip=1)

The strangest part is the missing updates aka reports from their owner and their admins to the situation before anybody starts speculating what went wrong...:doh:

I don't know what it is, why the suspension. But if it is what I think it is, then eventual right issues to the content of fred's radio mods could be one reason. That was the reason why FF kicked fred out last summer. But that doesn't explain it all: the slow site, deletion of posts according to the google cache and the general off state. It's really a riddle what's going on... :hmmm:

[I'm goin' down]

Give 'em hell Fred! My crew wants me to fire on the bts-mod if it is spotted.

[fred8615]

Carotio has given me space on his site. I'll be uploading there starting today, but it'll only be for part of the day, and nothing Sunday. I'll resume Monday.

And there's more! Even though they're under new management, FileFront still has my account info. Just as an idea, I tried it yesterday, and it let me upload! It wouldn't let me before. So I've decided I'm going to try to upload the radio stations there again. I WILL NOT upload the music files there as that seems to have been the problem the last time. Barring any other arrangements, the music will only be available for download at Carotio's site.

[Akula4745]

Excellent news, Fred! Your radio mods are worth their weight in gold... in fact it made me nervous with them not being instantly available anymore. ;) Your Hawaiian music is like a drug to me...

And I am guessing most folks did not get to read this...
http://www.jimdeadman.com/images/BtSMods.jpg

[Sandman_28054]

Carotio has given me space on his site. I'll be uploading there starting today, but it'll only be for part of the day, and nothing Sunday. I'll resume Monday.

And there's more! Even though they're under new management, FileFront still has my account info. Just as an idea, I tried it yesterday, and it let me upload! It wouldn't let me before. So I've decided I'm going to try to upload the radio stations there again. I WILL NOT upload the music files there as that seems to have been the problem the last time. Barring any other arrangements, the music will only be available for download at Carotio's site.

AS it has already been noted, you did a fantastic job and the radio mods are great.

You will let us know when and where the mods are ready to be d/l won't you?

[fred8615]

I have uploaded all the music files to the new server. Read the first post in this thread for details.

[I'm goin' down]

You are fast and don't waste any time!:D

[fred8615]

You are fast and don't waste any time!:D

I've got fiber optic service this time. 2 mbps upload speed. :D

[stricksl]

:D Fantastic Fred! I had managed to get the AFRS, but had not gotten around to download the music files before BTS went down, now I can add the music - excellent.

Are there any plans to add KNX and KPO ? I had 5 files from each before the end of BTS. Just curious.

Again many many thanks for these mods, I have found myself floating around the Pacific just listening to the radio...LOL.

[Akula4745]

Many thanks Fred!

[fred8615]

:D Fantastic Fred! I had managed to get the AFRS, but had not gotten around to download the music files before BTS went down, now I can add the music - excellent.

Are there any plans to add KNX and KPO ? I had 5 files from each before the end of BTS. Just curious.

Again many many thanks for these mods, I have found myself floating around the Pacific just listening to the radio...LOL.

Yes, all my stations will be uploaded to Silenthunter.com, and then to FileFront.

[Armistead]

Dl'ed AFRS, file extracted. I got a few errors, I think broken files on a few songs. Seems I've seen these many times in the past but all worked OK.

Loaded the mod folder in the radio file as usual and copied the correct lines in config. Tried all 3 options for range.

Leave Pearl, everytime I get about 300 miles from Pearl, same place get a CTD. I assume that's the line where the radio picks up.

Any Idea....are the broken links the problem. Hate to have to DL 21 files again.

Removed it, things worked fine.

I did notice file nine was a small DL..is that correct. around 893KB

Playing around, tried to open the first song and got an error message....something about codac may not be supported for windows media player. All the other songs play fine...the several I tried.

[Carotio]

If any of you have errors, you could run Digital Truckers small radio program, which checks the radio stations for errors, find them and let you fix them...

[I'm goin' down]

I could never get this radio thing right. I tried your suggestion and Digital Trucker's months ago, spent hours on them and gave up. I finally got it right. All the channels play now except fot KPO which was not receiving unrtil a few minutes ago. I moved it to channel 10 from channel 102, and I am getting reception. Nothing will play until the next day of the game calendar in November 1943, but when it does, I will finally have your radio fully operational. Whew and what a relief.:D:salute:

[fred8615]

Dl'ed AFRS, file extracted. I got a few errors, I think broken files on a few songs. Seems I've seen these many times in the past but all worked OK.

Loaded the mod folder in the radio file as usual and copied the correct lines in config. Tried all 3 options for range.

Leave Pearl, everytime I get about 300 miles from Pearl, same place get a CTD. I assume that's the line where the radio picks up.

Any Idea....are the broken links the problem. Hate to have to DL 21 files again.

Removed it, things worked fine.

I did notice file nine was a small DL..is that correct. around 893KB

Playing around, tried to open the first song and got an error message....something about codac may not be supported for windows media player. All the other songs play fine...the several I tried.

Sounds like you had a download problem because the files all show as the proper size on the server. I hate to say it, but you may need to download again.

And FTR, all the stations are formatted properly, and will not cause any CTDs due to missing files or such. So if it does do that, you had an extraction error.

[Armistead]

I'll just use window media player outside the game....3 hours is a long time. Two others did fine.

[johan_d]

great! downloading as I type.. lol

do you happen also have music from around let say 1948-1952 ? would be perfect when playing Fallout 3.
?

Johan:yeah: