[REL] Radio Stations and Music Mod

[groomsie]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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?

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!
You guys really add to the game!

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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.