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I decided in the end to re-encode the music files at basically zero volume. I don't need the music to actually be heard. Something in the mods I installed messes up the radio if I replace the music. it's happened even after I uninstalled and re-installed everything (game + mods) twice.

I had installed a mod a while back that was supposed to help with replacing the radio music, but it didn't work and I uninstalled it (all done via Vortex). Maybe it messed something up... I might look into a reinstall of the game + mods.

Hi all, As you know in Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4 there are radios that play licensed music that is clearly not ok for Twitch / Youtube. I have dug around for info and I have found a way to replace the licensed music in these games with stream safe music (I used music from the musician Popsky). Or you can replace the licensed music with blank audio files or music files encoded to have the lowest possible volume. What I did should replace all the music for both the pip-boy radios and the radios that are found in the environment. For Fallout 4 I found 2 mods that I used, one which disables the environmental radios (the pip-boy ones work) and another which is supposed to replace all the music for all the radio stations. It takes a long time to do what I did because you have to manually rename lots of music files, encode files for the proper bitrate and format (fallout 3 has both sterero and mono mp3s of the music and mono wav files of the music. New Vegas has mp3s of the music and ogg files of the music and you have to rename your choice of music files to match the file names of the music that came with the games to 100% match). Here is the info on what I did: https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php? ... vironment/

So with the help of forum user audiocd I managed to replace the music in Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas for the radios (both pip-boy and environmental radios) with stream safe music. I also did the same for Fallout 4 (in addition to using the mod for Fallout 4 that disables environmental radios) More info here: https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/9516493-mod-to-disable-the-radios-that-are-located-in-the-levelsenvironment/

Hi, I went in and converted all the music files to match the original music files that came with the game. I obtained the file characteristics (bitrate, etc) from here: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/2972 MP3 quality to CBR, 192kbps, stereo, 44kHz. mono MP3 files of your renamed tracks. CBR, 96kbps, mono, 44kHz WAV files of your renamed tracks. 356kbps, 16bit, 22kHz, mono I still have the same issue, the radio is heard loudly no matter how far or close I am to it. Here's a video showing the issue https://youtu.be/rnv48AqaGEk I went and re-enconded all the music files to be REALLY quiet in volume and now you can barely hear the music so I am happy with that. For New Vegas, I went in and replaced all the .mp3 files in Data\Sounds and I also created .ogg files named like the ones in the .bsa and now the envinromental radios also play my music, and I did the same thing I did for Fallout 3 I encoded the files to have a low volume. I think now the games should be stream safe from a music point of view. Thank you for your advice and help. AND I used this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/6095?tab=description to replace all the Fallout 4 music with stream safe music. This is on top of the mod that supposedly disables Fallout 4's environmental radios.

Hey thanks, I managed to replace the songs as per your instructions. A weird thing happened though, when a radio placed in the environment has 3 Dog speaking, if I move away from the radio, he gets quieter and quieter, which is normal as I am no longer standing near the radio. But when he's done talking and music starts playing, now it's playing the music I replaced the original music with, HOWEVER, it plays it loudly no matter how near or far I am from the radio. Interesting bug/issue. Would the same instructions apply for New Vegas? Would you be so kind as to give some indication how to do the same thing but for New Vegas? Much appreciated and many thanks!

Unfortunately that's not how it works. The game studios license music and sometimes sounds for use in their games with a license that covers ONLY the player playing the game on his own, NOT sharing it in a public display (which streaming on Twitch or creating YouTube videos is). If you want to use copywritten music/sounds in your streams/videos you need to purchase a license that will allow you to publicly share that content, when you buy a game YOU DO NOT get such a license and the game studio/publisher DOES NOT pay for a such a license when they pay to include copywritten music/sounds in their games. For example Control by Remedy Software and Cyberpunk 2077 by CDProjectRED are 2 games that I know of that have an option in the menu to disable licensed music and replace it with music that is safe for streaming/YouTube. People on Twitch have gotten copyright strikes for in game music (for example Alan Wake contains a lot of licensed music = music that is now owned by the game studio) and for in game sounds (the ambulance sound in GTA V got people strikes). If you get 3 strikes, you channel is banned/closed. People on Twitter have gotten a warning or even their accounts disabled for including copywritten music in videos embedded in their tweets, the detection on Twitter works at the millisecond level. YouTube works differently, you can create a video that contains music/sounds for which you don't own the rights or the license to publicly share them, but then your video will get flagged by the copyright owners and they will get every single cent generated by your video. However, there's a very good chance that you channel won't get banned. The Fallout 3/New Vegas/4 radio music IS NOT LICENSED for public display which means it will get flagged by Twitch/YouTube and on Twitch there is a very good chance that you're channel will get a strike against it. 3 strikes and you channel is gone. This is not Twitch's fault as they have to comply from a legal perspective with the requirements of the music industry. Period. What Twitch could do (and so far only Facebook Gaming and TikTock have done) is to pay out of pocket themselves for a music license that would cover as much of the music industry as possible and the license would have to be applicable worldwide as Twitch streamers and viewers are from all over the world. However, such a license is MASSIVELY EXPENSIVE so I doubt Twitch can afford it as they overall generate considerably, MASSIVELY less profit than Facebook or Google. Oh and by the way, Twitch has already issued a statement in which they advised people to not play copywritten/licensed music and sounds on stream. They even went so far as to recommend people stream music with the music disabled. This is down to the music industry who have very capable detection bots that immediately detect if your stream contains copywritten music/sounds. At the moment the detection works mostly only for VODs (recorded videos), but pretty soon the detection will also work for livestreamed content (so the detection will happen while the video is livestreamed and before a recording of it is saved). Let's not get into the topic that streamers (myself included) or YouTube video creators don't own a license to create public content from the games themselves. Some studios publicly allow content creation based on their games, some studios issue permissions to content creators, but most studios allow content creation because it's good marketing in spite of the fact that by law one would need to PURCHASE a license for publicly sharing the game. Trust me, I've done the homework.

Hi everyone, I wanted to stream my playthrough of Fallout New Vegas on Twitch, but I am concerned about the licensed music playing on stream as it can get my channel completely banned. I know you can disable the pip-boy radio, but there are still radios located in the environment/levels of the game that still play the licensed music. Is there any way these radios can be disabled? Or a way to replace the licensed music? (I haven't yet found a mod that allows me to do this AND works, I found one, but it doesn't work). I also saw this mod for Fallout 4: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/26095?tab=description&BH=0 Basically I am hoping that someone can do this for Fallout New Vegas as well.

Hi everyone, I wanted to stream my playthrough of Fallout 3 on Twitch, but I am concerned about the licensed music playing on stream as it can get my channel completely banned. I know you can disable the pip-boy radio, but there are still radios located in the environment/levels of the game that still play the licensed music. Is there any way these radios can be disabled? Or a way to replace the licensed music? (I haven't yet found a mod that allows me to do this AND works, I found one, but it doesn't work). I also saw this mod for Fallout 4: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/26095?tab=description&BH=0 Basically I am hoping that someone can do this for Fallout 3 as well.