Creating radio stations

[Harmsway!]

Yes and yes. The music files are fine and play in any other folder except Saigon folder. I even checked to see if the folder is spelled correctly but I'll check again anyway.

I'm going to let this one go. I moved the French music into the gramophone where it plays fine. The Japaneses music works in the NHK radio station too. So the Saigon station is a mystery but no big deal. Thanks to those that help me out.

Gene

[cptroyce]

Along these lines...I have my radio file paths set correctly. However, when I hit the radio button and start the radio playing, it begins on 22.00 Washington, but when I hit next station, the dial starts spinning and doesn't stop on any other station; and I can't seem to manually stop it exactly on another station i.e. 122.00 Radio Saigon.

Any help would be appreciated..those long patrols in the Pacific need some music and news!

Regards,
Royce

[BillBam]

Originally Posted by cptroyce

Along these lines...I have my radio file paths set correctly. However, when I hit the radio button and start the radio playing, it begins on 22.00 Washington, but when I hit next station, the dial starts spinning and doesn't stop on any other station; and I can't seem to manually stop it exactly on another station i.e. 122.00 Radio Saigon.

Any help would be appreciated..those long patrols in the Pacific need some music and news!

Regards,
Royce

Is the station programmed in your radio.ini file?

[cptroyce]

BB- I believe it is..copied it from the readme file.

[Harmsway!]

If you copied it from the readme your radio.ini should like this.

[GENERAL]
RadioRealism=Yes
StartCh=1

[CHANNEL]
Name=Washington
Folder=Washington
Freq=18
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=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000

For me it does stop at the station 122 but continues to play static. It takes quite some time for the dial to spin from frequency 18 all the way up to 122. It should stop there though and start playing. Not that I have had any luck with it.

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by Harmsway!

If you copied it from the readme your radio.ini should like this.

[GENERAL]
RadioRealism=Yes
StartCh=1

[CHANNEL]
Name=Washington
Folder=Washington
Freq=18
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=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000

For me it does stop at the station 122 but continues to play static. It takes quite some time for the dial to spin from frequency 18 all the way up to 122. It should stop there though and start playing. Not that I have had any luck with it.

This is what's in mine:

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.75,106.67:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

The only difference is the -106.75 in yours, but with the 100000 following it that shouldn't make any difference in playing.

Is this your complete radio.ini, or do you have other stations installed? There's no reason why this shouldn't be working, or why we can't get it fixed.

[Harmsway!]

Yes that did the trick. You should update the readme file on your download to reflect the change.

Thanks
Gene

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by Harmsway!

Yes that did the trick. You should update the readme file on your download to reflect the change.

What trick?

[Harmsway!]

I replaced the code you gave in the readme file.

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000

With the code you listed in this thread;

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.75,106.67:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

The line with MusicVolumeOnNews is probably the key.

[cptroyce]

Thanks Harmsway -

>> The line with MusicVolumeOnNews is probably the key. <<

That fixed it up for me as well,

Royce

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by Harmsway!

I replaced the code you gave in the readme file.

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.30,-106.75:100000

With the code you listed in this thread;

[CHANNEL]
Name=Saigon
Folder=Saigon
Freq=122
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:10.75,106.67:100000
MusicVolumeOnNews=0.01

The line with MusicVolumeOnNews is probably the key.

Well that's weird because that line only comes into play if you have scripted events to play. It lowers the volume of the music until the event finishes. But Saigon doesn't have any events.

As for fixing the readme, Saigon is not created by me. Ziem created it. I just mirror it because his original download links don't work anymore. It's not my file to edit.

Anyway, glad you finally got it working.