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Broadcaster -- A Custom Stereo Music Utility (UPDATED: 14 September 2021)

by gamefreak130 Posted 17th Feb 2020 at 4:48 PM - Updated 14th Sep 2021 at 8:30 PM by gamefreak130
 
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Field Researcher
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#26 Old 20th Feb 2020 at 9:48 AM
You are literally the hero I've been looking for about 10 years...Can't thank you enough <3
Space Pony
Original Poster
#27 Old 20th Feb 2020 at 3:45 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Spiderses
Maybe my problem was just some sort of fluke? Some of the songs appeared in the options menu, and some didn't.


Have you tried regenerating the packages with Broadcaster? Does the problem persist with new packages?

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Test Subject
#28 Old 20th Feb 2020 at 11:48 PM
Thank you so much. This is amazing, and like others above me said I've been waiting years for this. I do have one question. I have a lot of custom music in my Custom Music folder and they play on Custom Music station. Can I delete the music from there and just use the music from Broadcaster and stations I create?
Scholar
#29 Old 21st Feb 2020 at 1:49 AM
Quote: Originally posted by CiennaSim1
Thank you so much. This is amazing, and like others above me said I've been waiting years for this. I do have one question. I have a lot of custom music in my Custom Music folder and they play on Custom Music station. Can I delete the music from there and just use the music from Broadcaster and stations I create?

Yes, you can, that's what I did I added those songs to Broadcaster and they played perfectly!
Edit: Actually, I don't think you can delete the default 7 EA songs in Custom music though, I've never been able to get rid of those.
Scholar
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#30 Old 21st Feb 2020 at 1:54 AM
I love this mod so much! Thank you! It's so easy to add my mp3 music files to it without having to tweak and edit them! Are there any plans to enable this for the portable mp3 players that sims can carry in their inventories? Just so we don't have to use the Custom Music folder at all? ) No worries if it's not possible, this is a great mod!
Lab Assistant
#31 Old 21st Feb 2020 at 3:52 AM
Quote: Originally posted by gamefreak130
Have you tried regenerating the packages with Broadcaster? Does the problem persist with new packages?


Seems like I was right. I regenerated the separated packages and now all the songs show up. I don't think there was an error the first time I generated them, but I may be misremembering.
Space Pony
Original Poster
#32 Old 21st Feb 2020 at 4:56 AM
Quote: Originally posted by desiree101
I love this mod so much! Thank you! It's so easy to add my mp3 music files to it without having to tweak and edit them! Are there any plans to enable this for the portable mp3 players that sims can carry in their inventories? Just so we don't have to use the Custom Music folder at all? ) No worries if it's not possible, this is a great mod!


As usual, no promises, but it's on my ever-expanding to-do list.

"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." - Eric Schmidt

If you enjoy the mods I put out, consider supporting me on patreon: www.patreon.com/Gamefreak130
Field Researcher
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#33 Old 21st Feb 2020 at 7:08 PM
Thanks for doing this! One aspect of TS3 I have never liked is not being able to create custom music stations (an aspect of TS2 I have missed having in TS3). Now you come along and make it possible to create custom music stations for TS3! Broadcaster should receive a star! :)
Scholar
#34 Old 21st Feb 2020 at 11:24 PM
Quote: Originally posted by gamefreak130
As usual, no promises, but it's on my ever-expanding to-do list.


Thank you!
Test Subject
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#35 Old 22nd Feb 2020 at 6:21 PM
Now I can have my own workout station with Eric Prydz's "Call on Me" xDD. Love this thanks.
Test Subject
#36 Old 22nd Feb 2020 at 9:15 PM
Quote: Originally posted by desiree101
Yes, you can, that's what I did I added those songs to Broadcaster and they played perfectly!
Edit: Actually, I don't think you can delete the default 7 EA songs in Custom music though, I've never been able to get rid of those.


Awesome. Thanks again
Test Subject
#37 Old 23rd Feb 2020 at 4:41 AM
Thanks for this tool! Just want to report a bit of bug (I guess?). When saving (or broadcasting) the song list, if the song consists of accented characters (example : café), the process ended with error. The problem totally fixed when I change the filename, but just in case if you want to handle it more smoothly. And, just wondering if there's a reason to only pick mp3 files and not another song format? Again, thanks a lot!
Space Pony
Original Poster
#38 Old 23rd Feb 2020 at 5:26 AM
Quote: Originally posted by MazETeR
Thanks for this tool! Just want to report a bit of bug (I guess?). When saving (or broadcasting) the song list, if the song consists of accented characters (example : café), the process ended with error. The problem totally fixed when I change the filename, but just in case if you want to handle it more smoothly.


I forgot to clarify that restriction in the description. See the updated "Other Notes" section:

Quote:
The names of custom stations and songs must only contain letters within the ASCII character set (i.e. the English alphabet). Using other characters from other languages will cause the station to not appear properly in-game and/or may cause Broadcaster to return errors.


Quote: Originally posted by MazETeR
And, just wondering if there's a reason to only pick mp3 files and not another song format?


Without getting too technical, the format the game uses for music is essentially a specially-encoded MP3 file. Any other audio formats would have to first be converted to MP3 before being converted a game-readable format -- something that would significantly increase the complexity of the program, and something that can already be done rather painlessly using some other utility.

"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." - Eric Schmidt

If you enjoy the mods I put out, consider supporting me on patreon: www.patreon.com/Gamefreak130
Forum Resident
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#39 Old 24th Feb 2020 at 8:30 AM
Thank you, this is a genuine Godsend!.. [Bows]
Test Subject
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#40 Old 24th Feb 2020 at 4:46 PM
That is such a amazing Tool and sooooo easy to use!!!!!!I can´t put it in word, how happy I am, this was, what I dreamed of. It would be sooooo cool, if you could make something similar for the TV Station, the Musicinstruments or the Singer ;-).

Tipps to use: Now it is possible to make Lots more realistic. You can take records of Background noise from a Trainstation for example and let this Music Play on a own radiostation just for the Trainstation and when you visit a Subway you will hear Trains etc.. The same goes for themed Restaurants, Blacksmith´s in Medieval worlds, Shopping Malls and so on.
Field Researcher
#41 Old 25th Feb 2020 at 4:13 PM
A small FYI : After importing A LOT of songs into some pre-existing stations (pop, latin, indie etc.) I found out that most of my songs won't appear in the list (in the options menu) however they WILL play normally in-game through the radio.
Test Subject
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#42 Old 27th Feb 2020 at 12:55 PM
Amazing piece of work ! Thanks !
Instructor
#43 Old 29th Feb 2020 at 5:01 PM
Like others have said, I've been waiting forever for this! I do have a question about the work out extra file. Your description says it overrides the "work out" function on stereos. Does that mean you can't have a Sim select a stereo and work out to it? I'm a tad confused. I like when my Sims work out to the radio.

goderguy
Space Pony
Original Poster
#44 Old 1st Mar 2020 at 12:17 AM
Quote: Originally posted by goderguy
Like others have said, I've been waiting forever for this! I do have a question about the work out extra file. Your description says it overrides the "work out" function on stereos. Does that mean you can't have a Sim select a stereo and work out to it? I'm a tad confused. I like when my Sims work out to the radio.


In the context of script modding, "overriding" an interaction means injecting a custom interaction as a replacement for a default one; the interaction still exists and can be used, but may have different functionality. In this case, working out will still work exactly the same as it would otherwise, except the station Sims work out to may not always be Electronica.

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If you enjoy the mods I put out, consider supporting me on patreon: www.patreon.com/Gamefreak130
Space Pony
#45 Old 1st Mar 2020 at 4:33 AM Last edited by CRV13 : 1st Mar 2020 at 6:18 AM.
Sweet!

With this tool of yours plus Buurz's 'The Sims 2 Music" Mod...

http://modthesims.info/d/626919/the-sims-2-music.html

...I'm now finally playing a sort of The SIMs 2 remake

All I have to do is convert MP3's of the various music from TS2's radio stations using your tool and just like that TS3 is even more closer to TS2 sounds wise.

Now if only someone can come up with a TS2 Loading Screen mod then the conversion will be finally complete

RFE - Addendum:

I forgot to mention I'm on version 1.67 (The Steam version) and your mod works perfectly

RFE - 2nd Addendum:

I seem to have hit a slight hiccup with my first addendum. The mod does work in game, but for some unknown reason the custom radio station .package files I created for the The SIMs 2 Radio Stations are causing the game to seemingly not stop trying to load or access something as the loading something cursor animation, the clockwise rotating icon animation sequence keeps rotating even after I've been successfully loaded my savegame. Also I seem to can't be automatically logged into my TS3 Account and the game spits out the "Failed to connect to server" error. And will need to manually login again with the .package files I created with your tool installed.

My guess to my issue is in regards to your warning that your mod was built with patch 1.69, the Origin update patch. And I am on patch 1.67 so incompatibility I'm guessing? ??

Fantastic tool by the way though
Instructor
#46 Old 1st Mar 2020 at 9:38 AM
Quote: Originally posted by CRV13
RFE - 2nd Addendum:

I seem to have hit a slight hiccup with my first addendum. The mod does work in game, but for some unknown reason the custom radio station .package files I created for the The SIMs 2 Radio Stations are causing the game to seemingly not stop trying to load or access something as the loading something cursor animation, the clockwise rotating icon animation sequence keeps rotating even after I've been successfully loaded my savegame. Also I seem to can't be automatically logged into my TS3 Account and the game spits out the "Failed to connect to server" error. And will need to manually login again with the .package files I created with your tool installed.

My guess to my issue is in regards to your warning that your mod was built with patch 1.69, the Origin update patch. And I am on patch 1.67 so incompatibility I'm guessing? ??

Fantastic tool by the way though


That hiccup had to do with Steam and Origin I’d venture to guess. I experienced it too. Doesn’t appear to be caused by this. It corrected itself later in the evening.

goderguy
Lab Assistant
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#47 Old 1st Mar 2020 at 1:48 PM
I'm so excited to use this, thank you!
Space Pony
#48 Old 1st Mar 2020 at 9:51 PM
Quote: Originally posted by goderguy
That hiccup had to do with Steam and Origin I’d venture to guess. I experienced it too. Doesn’t appear to be caused by this. It corrected itself later in the evening.


Hey thanks for the confirmation err, debunkation would be more correct perhaps, at least I wasn't the only one who encountered that hiccup.

I placed my created stations again as I can't go back to TS3's own music.

It's just a shame Buurz's SIMs FM Radio station doesn't show up in the in game music options menu like how custom radio stations this tool creates do. Oh well
Test Subject
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#49 Old 8th Mar 2020 at 12:12 AM
Omg, thank you so much for this! It works perfectly so far with patch 1.67 (I play my game offline). All packages can even be merged into one package using S3PE without any problem. And the sound somehow is better than the existing songs in game.
Test Subject
#50 Old 8th Mar 2020 at 7:47 AM
Thank you! By the way, will you add the function to convert my own music collection as custom menu music tracks? Or is it can be done already using this tool?
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