[WIP] Changing radio washington to many small stations

[Florida Sailor]

Originally Posted by chopped50ford

Wow, there is so much info here, what do I need to download and copy and paste since 1.3 has been released?

thanks

1.3 has no effect on the radio or the gramaphone. All the info here still applies to the game regardless of which patch or MOD you are using.
You may use this MOD, but there are others too. If you have a high speed connection and 10 or so gig of free space on your hard drive you might consider using what I use.

1. Captain Midnight's CBS radio http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ptain+midnight
2. fred8615's radio stations. Pick up the thread at http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...5/m/7191010975 He has NBC, CBS, KGMB Honolulu and Armed Forces Radio Service plus a lot of 40's music at his download site http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/
3. dgrayson's add fred8615's radio stations MOD (that's me at the UBI Forum)at http://hosted.filefront.com/dgrayson/ . This MOD creates a radio.ini that adds all the frequencies for Capt. Midnight and all of fred8615's stations. It also gets rid of that awful stock radio track in the stock game and replaces it with the Stars and Stripes forever and adds some additional patriotic music to that folder. There is also some music there. If you use this you don't have to alter your radio.ini

The sound quality on all the above is very good as most of the music is in wave format and consequently the files are huge. I am presently working on a new MOD that will also add Ted Healy's stations in addition to those above. It will be ready in a few days. Watch the UBI Forum, but I will also post a link here when it is ready.

Adding the radio stations, with all the news and music along with some 40's music on the gramaphone greatly increase this game's immersion factor.

Have fun!

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by Florida Sailor

2. fred8615's radio stations. Pick up the thread at http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...5/m/7191010975 He has NBC, CBS, KGMB Honolulu and Armed Forces Radio Service plus a lot of 40's music at his download site http://hosted.filefront.com/fred8615/

Or you can read about my mods here at:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=119668

[Captain_AJ]

Ok iam really Interested in this . I have only 2 stations . Are there any Mp3 files that go alng with this ? and were do you get them . or does this radomly play without any mp3/wav files ?? I enjoyed Sh3 With the radio and gramerphone playing I have even metallica in the gramerphone in sh3 --- Help !

[Captain_AJ]

Never mind I found them U Gotta read the post !!

[Von Manteuffel]

I prefer not to use scripted stations any longer. For me, using the random tracks idea in different radio station files (forgetting the events.ini ) gives me everything I need from the radio. And since I don't have a great deal of time to play the game and so use TC a great deal to get to the action, I've found 30-minute radio programmes (especially dramas etc ) too long.

[Charlie901]

Excellent Mod!!!

QUESTION:

Reference the Radio.Ini entry stations...

What does the "\\\\" in front of the folder name: "\\\\Washington" mean?

Does this separete the "Washington" Folder by Years, for music files 1940-45, etc...

If so, do I need a corresponding, seperate, "\\\\\Washington" Folder? If so, I can't put the "\\\\\" in front of any folder name per Windows XP folder naming rules.

And if I just have a single "Washington" Folder will the "\\\\\" extensions be able to access the same folder. Basically how does this work?

THANKS!!!

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by Charlie901

Excellent Mod!!!

QUESTION:

Reference the Radio.Ini entry stations...

What does the "\\\\" in front of the folder name: "\\\\Washington" mean?

Does this separete the "Washington" Folder by Years, for music files 1940-45, etc...

If so, do I need a corresponding, seperate, "\\\\\Washington" Folder? If so, I can't put the "\\\\\" in front of any folder name per Windows XP folder naming rules.

And if I just have a single "Washington" Folder will the "\\\\\" extensions be able to access the same folder. Basically how does this work?

THANKS!!!

The \\\\ is what allows you to use different stations to access the same folder in the radio.ini. Each time a station calls on that folder after the first one needs a corresponding number of \ in front of it. For example, the first station that uses the Washington folder just uses "Washington." The second station would use "\Washington," the third station would use "\\Washington" and so on. But this is only done in the radio.ini. The folder itself would just be named "Washington."

The only way to divide by year is either separate folders, or sub-folders inside the station folder. This latter method is what I've done with my AFRS, CBS, MBS, and NBC stations.

[tedhealy]

I stumbled on to the \ by accident. What it does is allow multiple stations to draw content off the same folder. For every additional station that draws off a single folder, you have to add a slash to the folder name.

Station A -> Washington folder = 'Washington'
Station B -> Washington folder = '\Washington'
Station C -> Washington folder = '\\Washington'
Station D -> Washington folder = '\\\Washington'

and so on adding a slash for every new station that draws off the same folder.

Why does this work? And why does this work the way it does? You got me, no idea, but that's how it worked for me.

[Charlie901]

Originally Posted by tedhealy

I stumbled on to the \ by accident. What it does is allow multiple stations to draw content off the same folder. For every additional station that draws off a single folder, you have to add a slash to the folder name.

Station A -> Washington folder = 'Washington'
Station B -> Washington folder = '\Washington'
Station C -> Washington folder = '\\Washington'
Station D -> Washington folder = '\\\Washington'

and so on adding a slash for every new station that draws off the same folder.

Why does this work? And why does this work the way it does? You got me, no idea, but that's how it worked for me.

Super, Thanks!!!

One more question: I see that some stations have Freq #'s only one digit apart and access the Tokyo/Washington folder depending on station #; are they meant to overlap by design?


Your radio mod is an outstanding addition to this sim.

B.T.W. Have you found whether having a few gigs of files, in the radio folder, slows the game down at all or does it have no effect?

[tedhealy]

Look at the dates on the overlapping stations. They are meant to change hands as the war goes on during actual campaigns where the area changed hands. So you'll have a station in Japanese hands start as 23.5 playing Japanese music, then it goes to USA hands at some point and becomes 24.5 or something like that playing USA news/music. I did this because you can't have a station with the same frequency change folders.

I've gotten a new computer since doing this mod and none of my news/music/old time radio mods made the transfer to the new computer. From what I remember, having gigs of radio files didn't slow the game down.

[fred8615]

And as someone with over 20 gigs in his Radio folder, I can quite confidently tell you it doesn't slow the game at all!

[Charlie901]

Originally Posted by fred8615

And as someone with over 20 gigs in his Radio folder, I can quite confidently tell you it doesn't slow the game at all!

LoL

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

NM< I have reviewed all the mods and have decided to go with the edited ini and the radio stations that have been made with so much great devotion and hosted by fred..thanks.