Want to be a hero? Make a mod to kill the radio music

[LadyCat]

Livestreamers and YouTubers'd love you for making a mod that, at the least, removed the copyrighted music played on (I think) the DiamondCity (50s) and Institute (classical) radio stations that plays on the NPC radios, but left the rest of it alone.

 

It'd also be wonderful if it could also kill the Magnolia songs which I think will also be copyrighted (by Lynda Carter) even though they were made for the game. But that I suspect will be far more difficult.

 

Ideally you'd be able to replace them with your own songs (even if named the same as the obliterated ones) that wouldn't cause content-id matches on YouTube and Twitch, but after looking into it some, I see they are using an unfamiliar (to me) format: xwm.

 

File: Fallout 4 - Sounds.ba2

Directories:

sound\fx\mus\radio\diamondcity

sound\fx\mus\radio\institute

sound\fx\mus\magnolia

 

-- LC

 

Edited: Just to be clear, the radio volume slider is for your Pip-boy, not the NPC radios. Fallout 3 had a command to shut off NPC radios entirely, which would be a great stop-gap but I haven't found that yet. I do want to hear the newscasts and such, just not the music that is going to cause issues with LP videos.

Edited November 10, 2015 by LadyCat

[LadyMilla]

You could try the following console command:

SetNPCRadio 0 

Alternative solution: the XWM format is not exactly 'unfamiliar'. We have converters on Skyrim Nexus:

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4494/?

 

You can probably compile your own playlist, convert the songs to .xwm, rename them and then put them in sound\fx\mus\radio\diamondcity, sound\fx\mus\radio\institute etc. so they override the music files in the .ba2 archive.

[LadyCat]

@LadyMilla Ah! I didn't have time this morning to find that, that will help, but the mod would still be cool. :P Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow to make use of your information. I had planned to do that today but ran out of time. One catch I still have to find out how to get around though - simply putting the unarchived files in the data folder doesn't work to override what's in the ba2 file (at least I think, I tried a number of things this morning). I also tried renaming the ba2 file to make it invisible but that just took away all my sounds even though I'd unarchived the entire archive into the data folder.

 

You could try the following console command:

SetNPCRadio 0 

Alternative solution: the XWM format is not exactly 'unfamiliar'. We have converters on Skyrim Nexus:

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4494/?

 

You can probably compile your own playlist, convert the songs to .xwm, rename them and then put them in sound\fx\mus\radio\diamondcity, sound\fx\mus\radio\institute etc. so they override the music files in the .ba2 archive.

[Merovign]

Yeah, fallout music is not my cup of tea, I'd *really* like to have my own playlist in-game.

 

I'll buy you a pie?

 

There was an option to load loose files in Skyrim, it appears to be off by default in FO4.

[LadyMilla]

Apparently, if you want to override sound files in .ba2 archives, you need to add the /sound folder to the following line in your Fallout4.ini:

 

"sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\"

 

It should be

 

"sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, SOUND\"

[LadyCat]

Yeah, fallout music is not my cup of tea, I'd *really* like to have my own playlist in-game.

 

I'll buy you a pie?

 

There was an option to load loose files in Skyrim, it appears to be off by default in FO4.

Ah! I knew I was forgetting something. I'll try adding

[Launcher]

bEnableFileSelection=1

in the Fallout4Prefs.ini.

Thanks for the memory jog!

 

Apparently, if you want to override sound files in .ba2 archives, you need to add the /sound folder to the following line in your Fallout4.ini:

 

"sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\"

 

It should be

 

"sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, SOUND\"

 

Awesome, thank you, LadyMilla! I'll hopefully have time to give this a try later tonight. This is totally new to me (new stuff for ba2 format I mean).

Edited November 11, 2015 by LadyCat

[Merovign]

Let us know if it works and if we can help in the testing!

[LadyCat]

Let us know if it works and if we can help in the testing!

 

Yes, it works!

 

I didn't have time to match song lengths, so I did notice there are occasional silent stretches on the radio (and I assume conversely there'll be songs cut off) as it seems perhaps the length is noted in the code? Not sure, I may be wrong, but over all its working.

 

I did this just for the NPC radio - diamondcity and institute channels. I still suspect that Lynda Carter's songs'll cause a problem but I didn't have time to replace those (I expect the npc might sing them in person - but I don't know for sure).

 

Edited:

I went ahead and replaced all of Magnolia's songs as well. Some were marked for radio but most weren't - I expect those are ones she's going to try sing in person. Well not now! It'll look odd in-game I suspect, but I'd rather that than half my videos around her neck of the woods being torpedoed due to content-ids on her singing. Guess I'll find out if I get there before anyone decides to author a mod that makes proper changes to her bit (ie using royalty-free songs with a female singer) - I suspect there'll be lip sync stuff to be fixed with a mod and well, that's a bit beyond my skills. :tongue:

Edited November 12, 2015 by LadyCat