Unfortunately you can't have the programs come on when you want them to unless you don't mind them playing randomly. That probably isn't that big a deal for some of the mystery/crime shows that do not carry over story lines from week to week.

If you just want them to play randomly you could do one of two things.

1. Put the audio files in the grammophone folder. Listen to the grammophone instead of the radio.

2. Put the audio files that are in the \data\sound\radio\xxx\events\ folder in the \data\sound\radio\xxx folder. Now when you tune into that station, the audio files will play randomly, but they often times get repeated.

As far as a mystery/crime channel, The Whistler is on the list for me to do. I've got about 70 Whistler shows. For now I'm going to continue releasing stations dedicated to only one show.

Fibber McGee is done and will get uploaded today.

88 comedy shows, about 30 minutes each. 2 different shows every month the entire war. 451MB uncompressed.

tedhealy,
Thanks for the info,it is much appreciated.

Regards

Hector.

Fibber is up, see the first post for the link.

I'll probably do Inner Sanctum and Whistler next.

Lovely! Fibber and The Whistler were my favorites when they came up on Hollywood radio, will be great to have them separately now :yep:

It's odd that I actually consider the huge hollywood radio mod now as the 'lite' version.

There are 40+ hours of content in Fibber McGee alone.

I've updated the readmes for stations for patch 1.2.

All you need to do is re-edit your radio.ini to add

;MusicVolumeOnNews takes values from 0.01 to 1
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

to each of the [CHANNEL] entries.

So for example, the fibber mcgee entry will now look like

;FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY
;=======================

[CHANNEL]
Name=Fibber McGee
Folder=fibber
Freq=XX
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:42.00,-88.00:100000
;MusicVolumeOnNews takes values from 0.01 to 1
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

;=======================

Now you can add music files to \Data\Sound\Radio\xxx folder and this music will be played when a scripted show is not playing(the folders are fibber, shadow, jbenny, superman, BurnsAllen, AbbottCostello). There should no longer be any dead air on these stations. Either a scripted show or the random music you add will be playing.

For some reason, burns and allen won't play for me. I have superman as well and it plays fine, but burns and allen don'y play at all, just some goofy static.

Make sure the radio.ini [CHANNEL] entry for Burns and Allen has the folder name exactly as 'BurnsAllen'

Also make sure the folders are in the right place. \Data\Sound\Radio\BurnsAllen\Events\

The first Burns and Allen show will play on the 11th of december 1941. The rest play on the 1st and 16th. I was just listening to them on my last patrol, so it does work.

I'll recheck it in game though....

edit: I screwed up the readme I think. The events play on the 2nd and 17th in game, not the 1st and 16th.
EDIT: Nevermind, the readme is fine. I changed my own Burns and Allen events.ini to play shows on the 2nd and 17th. The download version still is the 1st and 16th. These play fine for me in game.

Patched the game up, and it works fine now. When I tried setting it up before, sometimes it would lose the ability to pick up any stations at all, then it would play, but cut out once I was about 100 miles west of pearl, then not play at all, but it's back to working now.
By the way, superman and the shadow rock, but how about some more action/mystery shows, like dick tracy?

What about radio stations devoted to two shows . Would that make radio stations devoted to one show obsolete .

It could be done for stations that don't have as much content as the ones I've already done. I was actually planning on combining Mail Call and G.I. Journal into one station. It's not really the content of 2 shows for one station, but about half the content I want for each combined into one.

Combining other stations would mean cutting shows from each of the two parts to control download size and to keep it at 2 shows a month. A 30 minute show, when you take into account some of that time is spent in TC, roughly plays for 2 weeks. Scripting more than two 30 minute shows a month doesn't serve much of a purpose unless you never ever go above 256x TC and you never stop the radio or go below periscope depth. Basically you won't hear the extra scripted shows, specially when you consider most patrols are over in 4 to 6 weeks.

Up next is Whistler, Inner Sanctum, and Adventures by Morse.

I should be able to get at least one of those up today/tonight.


Some action/mystery on the list

Lone Ranger
Boston Blackie
Weird Circle
Suspense
Green Hornet
Dick Tracy.

Have you had anymore thoughts on a harbour radio mod . For example while in port you tune to a certain frequency to get harbour instructions , background harbour noise / communications etc . There could be diffrent instructions for diffrent harbours . Just a thought .

All that would really require is someone recording the audio for that. There wouldn't be any scripting really, just have that sound file repeat over and over. I'm not about to take on recording and editing that audio though. If someone else wants to, I'll provide any assistance they need with the file structure though.

The Whistler is done - 88 shows, approx 30 minutes each. Whistler is a crime drama. I'll upload it a little later. It's 325 MB.