[REL] Changing radio washington to many small stations

tedhealy · 04-20-07, 03:53 PM

CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

See http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=109256 for the WIP thread.
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Adds news content to radio washington. Adds BBC station in south pacific. Adds tokyo station. Adds russian music station. Adds many small music stations that change hands throughout the war (you provide this music, sources provided in readme).

538 MB Download.

MultiStation V2......................back up radio.ini

YOU MUST EDIT YOUR OWN RADIO.INI

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THE SHORT VERSION

Install with JSGME.

Edit radio.ini as described in readme.

Add American music to \data\sound\radio\washington, bbc, and usmusic folders. These songs will be played randomly on Allied stations.

Add Japanese music to \data\sound\radio\tokyo and jmusic folders. These songs will be played randomly on Japanese stations.

Add about 20 to 30 American songs to \data\sound\radio\tokyo for propaganda purposes.

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cdrake66 · 04-20-07, 10:02 PM

Fantastic Ted! Thanks to you my Radio directory has grown to over 5gb lol

Your work has made those long patrols even more enoyable!

Regards,
Chris

tedhealy · 04-22-07, 02:28 PM

Unfortunately this mod is on hold and will need to be reworked.

Vindex brought to my attention that when you load a saved game, all the radio content that played previously back to the date your patrol started will play on the radio.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=112744

With testing, this seems to be due to pulling content for different stations from the same folder. This does not happen when you do not pull content for multiple stations from the same folder.

This whole mod is based on pulling content for stations from the same folder.

You can still use this mod, but when you load a saved game, you are going to hear old audio content all the way back to the date when your patrol started. So for now this mod is on hold.

Some possible fixes I'll be mulling over....Each station will get a separate folder, but this will mean duplicating content and the size of this mod will increase. Cutting down the number of stations. Dropping the whole multiple stations idea and doing a single all around the world Washington, BBC, and Tokyo station.

Right now I'm leaning towards the last option due to my experiences in game. I've found I'd rather sacrifice some realism and just have the radio heard anywhere on the map.

vindex · 04-22-07, 09:54 PM

Suggestion:

* Worldwide "Armed Forces Radio Network" that plays the .ogg news files as well as scheduled Mail Call and GI variety shows. Possibly include some other scheduled civilian variety shows, since it appears these were rebroadcast on AFN. (This is all in addition to random music content). Worldwide is plausible, since presumably AFN would be using high-powered shortwave stations to maximize coverage area.

* Tokyo station could be centered somewhere like the Philippines and given a radius that covers the empire. I don't think it's reasonable to make it worldwide and pick up Japanese tunes at Pearl. Content could include scheduled shows like Tokyo Rose since there is no conflict with other stations. Even in the last days of the war, places like Truk were holding out (skipped over in the "island hopping"), and most of China and Southeast Asia was still under Japanese control, so it makes sense you'd still hear some Japanese radio in the South Pacific and South China Sea.

* BBC should be centered somewhere like Java and given a radius covering most of southeast Asia and Australia. Even after Singapore falls, you have to figure you'd get the India-based stations around that area. Again, I don't like the idea of picking up the BBC at Pearl, or as far north as Japan. For content, I've put all my BBC news reports into this folder as "events," unless they were so important they would have been rebroadcast on AFN.

* I've added a Shanghai station playing Chinese opera and popular tunes. Limited coverage radius to East China Sea and South China Sea.

* Radio Saigon should be fine as is. Let the Frenchies be.

* Could add civilian stations (NBC/CBS/Mutual) in US or Hawaii, with range limited by the date line. No .ogg files, since that would conflict with AFN. But you could have non-conflicting scheduled news and variety shows as "events", as long as your harddrive could accomodate the required space. But just the random music alone will take up substantial space if you need a separate folder for each station.

* Russian radio tunes from Vladivostok?

The intention is to avoid the "folder sharing" problems while still providing some location-specific flavor as you float around the map.

tedhealy · 04-22-07, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vindex

Suggestion:

* Worldwide "Armed Forces Radio Network" that plays the .ogg news files as well as scheduled Mail Call and GI variety shows. Possibly include some other scheduled civilian variety shows, since it appears these were rebroadcast on AFN. (This is all in addition to random music content). Worldwide is plausible, since presumably AFN would be using high-powered shortwave stations to maximize coverage area.

Mail Call/GI journal and variety shows are covered by my other mod(s). I'm sticking to news and only news for this mod.

Quote:

* Tokyo station could be centered somewhere like the Philippines and given a radius that covers the empire. I don't think it's reasonable to make it worldwide and pick up Japanese tunes at Pearl. Content could include scheduled shows like Tokyo Rose since there is no conflict with other stations. Even in the last days of the war, places like Truk were holding out (skipped over in the "island hopping"), and most of China and Southeast Asia was still under Japanese control, so it makes sense you'd still hear some Japanese radio in the South Pacific and South China Sea.

Good suggestions. Definitely radio Tokyo will have about the same coverage or greater as it has now. It will probably become a single station cutting out the smaller stations....although those smaller stations could be used to just play Japanese music without any Tokyo Rose audio.

Quote:

* BBC should be centered somewhere like Java and given a radius covering most of southeast Asia and Australia. Even after Singapore falls, you have to figure you'd get the India-based stations around that area. Again, I don't like the idea of picking up the BBC at Pearl, or as far north as Japan. For content, I've put all my BBC news reports into this folder as "events," unless they were so important they would have been rebroadcast on AFN.

I agree. BBC and Washington will definitely be separate. BBC radio will mostly cover Australia and the South Pacific.

Quote:

* Could add civilian stations (NBC/CBS/Mutual) in US or Hawaii, with range limited by the date line. No .ogg files, since that would conflict with AFN. But you could have non-conflicting scheduled news and variety shows as "events", as long as your harddrive could accomodate the required space. But just the random music alone will take up substantial space if you need a separate folder for each station.

See my other mod - radio stations devoted to one show. I already have quite a few old time radio shows released. They will stay separate from the news.

Quote:

* Russian radio tunes from Vladivostok?

If someone has a source for Russian tunes from pre 1940's, sure.

I've alrady rescripted the washington station up until 1943. Bascially I've combined the washington and new york folder, added some more audio here and there, and added some radio text messages to go along with the audio.

My plan would be for radio washington to be heard everywhere. BBC radio would be about as you described it as would radio Tokyo. What I might do is keep some of the smaller stations just as random music stations. The problems of sharing content from the same folder shouldn't cause any issues for random music stations. That way, the overall idea of having stations come and go as the war advances is kept.

vindex · 04-23-07, 03:28 AM

For Soviet songs, you may want to check out this site:

http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/index.php

Not all are pre-1945, but a good selection seem to be.

bruschi sauro · 05-16-07, 03:11 AM

TKS MATE

well done job.
CHI FA DA SE FA PER TRE.

tedhealy · 05-16-07, 08:13 PM

I uploaded an update to fix the non playing file in march of 1942. I also added one radio tokyo file announcing the surrender of Singapore in feb 1942 (japanese language audio). If anyone has any sources for japanese language audio, please share as radio tokyo is terribly inadequate as it is.

Install with JSGME or just drop the files in the correct folder from \data\sound\radio.

http://hosted.filefront.com/tedhealy/1934556

tdean001 · 05-16-07, 10:24 PM

Thanks, Ted. This mod is absolutely brilliant.

tom

tedhealy · 05-25-07, 10:47 PM

Everyone needs to grab this update. October 1942, radio washington may cause a CTD due to the wrong file being named in the events.ini. Sometimes it crashes, sometimes it doesn't on the 12th, but the file will never play for that date. Grab the update.

This update also includes the previous one. Install with JSGME or manually put the files in correct folders and click yes when it asks to overwrite.

http://files.filefront.com/05_25_UPD.../fileinfo.html

If you already downloaded the previous update and want to fix this error by hand, go to \data\sound\radio\washington\events and open the events.ini in notepad. Go to the October the 12th, 1942 entry and change it to

[EVENT]
StartDate=12.10.1942
StartTime=17.00.00
MediaFile=1942-10-12-spe_1942_1012_roosevelt.mp3

The MediaFile= line was incorrect.

04-20-07, 03:53 PM	#1
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	[REL] Changing radio washington to many small stations CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE See http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=109256 for the WIP thread. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Adds news content to radio washington. Adds BBC station in south pacific. Adds tokyo station. Adds russian music station. Adds many small music stations that change hands throughout the war (you provide this music, sources provided in readme). 538 MB Download. MultiStation V2......................back up radio.ini YOU MUST EDIT YOUR OWN RADIO.INI xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx THE SHORT VERSION Install with JSGME. Edit radio.ini as described in readme. Add American music to \data\sound\radio\washington, bbc, and usmusic folders. These songs will be played randomly on Allied stations. Add Japanese music to \data\sound\radio\tokyo and jmusic folders. These songs will be played randomly on Japanese stations. Add about 20 to 30 American songs to \data\sound\radio\tokyo for propaganda purposes. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Last edited by tedhealy; 06-27-07 at 10:52 AM.

04-22-07, 09:54 PM	#4
vindex Planesman Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 192 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	Suggestion: * Worldwide "Armed Forces Radio Network" that plays the .ogg news files as well as scheduled Mail Call and GI variety shows. Possibly include some other scheduled civilian variety shows, since it appears these were rebroadcast on AFN. (This is all in addition to random music content). Worldwide is plausible, since presumably AFN would be using high-powered shortwave stations to maximize coverage area. * Tokyo station could be centered somewhere like the Philippines and given a radius that covers the empire. I don't think it's reasonable to make it worldwide and pick up Japanese tunes at Pearl. Content could include scheduled shows like Tokyo Rose since there is no conflict with other stations. Even in the last days of the war, places like Truk were holding out (skipped over in the "island hopping"), and most of China and Southeast Asia was still under Japanese control, so it makes sense you'd still hear some Japanese radio in the South Pacific and South China Sea. * BBC should be centered somewhere like Java and given a radius covering most of southeast Asia and Australia. Even after Singapore falls, you have to figure you'd get the India-based stations around that area. Again, I don't like the idea of picking up the BBC at Pearl, or as far north as Japan. For content, I've put all my BBC news reports into this folder as "events," unless they were so important they would have been rebroadcast on AFN. * I've added a Shanghai station playing Chinese opera and popular tunes. Limited coverage radius to East China Sea and South China Sea. * Radio Saigon should be fine as is. Let the Frenchies be. * Could add civilian stations (NBC/CBS/Mutual) in US or Hawaii, with range limited by the date line. No .ogg files, since that would conflict with AFN. But you could have non-conflicting scheduled news and variety shows as "events", as long as your harddrive could accomodate the required space. But just the random music alone will take up substantial space if you need a separate folder for each station. * Russian radio tunes from Vladivostok? The intention is to avoid the "folder sharing" problems while still providing some location-specific flavor as you float around the map. Last edited by vindex; 04-22-07 at 10:24 PM.

04-20-07, 10:02 PM	#2
cdrake66 Seaman Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 39 Downloads: 56 Uploads: 0	Fantastic Ted! Thanks to you my Radio directory has grown to over 5gb lol Your work has made those long patrols even more enoyable! Regards, Chris

04-22-07, 02:28 PM	#3
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Unfortunately this mod is on hold and will need to be reworked. Vindex brought to my attention that when you load a saved game, all the radio content that played previously back to the date your patrol started will play on the radio. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=112744 With testing, this seems to be due to pulling content for different stations from the same folder. This does not happen when you do not pull content for multiple stations from the same folder. This whole mod is based on pulling content for stations from the same folder. You can still use this mod, but when you load a saved game, you are going to hear old audio content all the way back to the date when your patrol started. So for now this mod is on hold. Some possible fixes I'll be mulling over....Each station will get a separate folder, but this will mean duplicating content and the size of this mod will increase. Cutting down the number of stations. Dropping the whole multiple stations idea and doing a single all around the world Washington, BBC, and Tokyo station. Right now I'm leaning towards the last option due to my experiences in game. I've found I'd rather sacrifice some realism and just have the radio heard anywhere on the map.

04-23-07, 03:28 AM	#6
vindex Planesman Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 192 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	For Soviet songs, you may want to check out this site: http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/index.php Not all are pre-1945, but a good selection seem to be.

05-16-07, 03:11 AM	#7
bruschi sauro Frogman Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Florence Italy Posts: 307 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	TKS MATE well done job. CHI FA DA SE FA PER TRE.

05-16-07, 08:13 PM	#8
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	I uploaded an update to fix the non playing file in march of 1942. I also added one radio tokyo file announcing the surrender of Singapore in feb 1942 (japanese language audio). If anyone has any sources for japanese language audio, please share as radio tokyo is terribly inadequate as it is. Install with JSGME or just drop the files in the correct folder from \data\sound\radio. http://hosted.filefront.com/tedhealy/1934556

05-16-07, 10:24 PM	#9
tdean001 Seaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 38 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Thanks, Ted. This mod is absolutely brilliant. tom

05-25-07, 10:47 PM	#10
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Everyone needs to grab this update. October 1942, radio washington may cause a CTD due to the wrong file being named in the events.ini. Sometimes it crashes, sometimes it doesn't on the 12th, but the file will never play for that date. Grab the update. This update also includes the previous one. Install with JSGME or manually put the files in correct folders and click yes when it asks to overwrite. http://files.filefront.com/05_25_UPD.../fileinfo.html If you already downloaded the previous update and want to fix this error by hand, go to \data\sound\radio\washington\events and open the events.ini in notepad. Go to the October the 12th, 1942 entry and change it to [EVENT] StartDate=12.10.1942 StartTime=17.00.00 MediaFile=1942-10-12-spe_1942_1012_roosevelt.mp3 The MediaFile= line was incorrect.