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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

If you go to your Commander install and look at the folders, there's a Date folder with many subfolders, some of which include a data\Sound\Gramophone folder. There are sound files in those directories that will be written into your game's Gramophone folder according to the date you are at in your current career.

The files are all called Radio.wav and they are recordings of radio broadcasts relevant to certain date ranges, that's why they're in the Date subfolders and inserted into the game accordingly.

If you are using numbered filenames in your Gram folder to create an in-game "playlist," like I did, it may be that the unnumbered file from Commander is interfering with that by "confusing" the game somehow. (IIRC GWX puts 20+ numbered files into the Gram folder when you install it, so if you're using GWX and haven't altered the Gram files that came with it, you would still have those in there at the very least.)

Most of the trouble I had involved certain spots in the "line-up" being completely skipped over (regardless of what file was there) or else the game getting hung up when it seemed to be trying to locate the next track to play and just freezing up and crashing. I will say that the game didn't seem to have any trouble playing the .wav file that Commander added when I cleared everything else out, but when I had other files in there that I added myself I always had trouble.

I was experimenting with converting the Radio.wav files to one of the other formats, renaming them with a numbered filename in order to fit them into my "playlist" when they were added via Commander, and finally with just deleting them from the Commander files completely.

Anyway, Commander does add that file to your Gram folder so if you find you're having issues only when starting via Commander, that would be the first thing I'd look at.

Thank you very much. I was wondering where that radio.wav file came from. This is precisely what I needed to know.