Great work - thank you!

This mod is perfect, thank you.

Never? Bug the devs and they may add support?

Any idea when .mp3 files will be supported?

nice thank you

Changed the desc to hopefully be clearer.

I did ask the devs for mp3 support (now that all the patents are expired), so hopefully they add it whenever the next big update comes out...

I misread it too :D I putted a ton of mp3 into the folder and wondered why it doesnt work...
Thanks for the mod! Its great !

One ffmpeg -i daisy.mp3 daisy.opus and I'm in business.

lol. thanks. I misread your comment above. I thought it was just AIFF that didn't work. Have a good one sir!

Well that's easy enough to figure out: daisy. mp3

ChoGGI, first I must thank you for all the SM mods you've created. It's pretty amazing to me how much you've done and the high quality. Do you have any suggestions on how I can troubleshoot (no xp writing mods and running on Linux) why Custom Music is not playing for me?

My Linux AppData directory appears to be ~/.local/share/Surviving Mars

I created a Music (capital M) directory that is readable by all
~/.local/share/Surviving Mars/Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 mx mx 4096 Mar 8 13:50 Music

put a single file in it called daisy.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 4615205 Mar 8 13:50 daisy.mp3

and I hear the static when I change radio channels but daisy.mp3 does not play.

relevant log entries
Loaded mod def Custom Music...[truncated]
Loading Custom Music(id ChoGGi_CustomMusic, version 0.03-003) items from PackedMods/1411106409/
Savegame Mod Custom Music (id ChoGGi_CustomMusic, version 0.03-003)

Saw no error messages

I gratefully use and enjoy many of your other SM mods without issue

No problem :)

Yes that fixed it! Thank you so much for all the help and now I know how to do it in future as well, thanks again I really appreciate the help.

Oh, and change
display_name = T(302535920011404, "Custom Music"),
to
display_name = T(0, "Some new title"),

In metadata.lua change
"id", "ChoGGi_CustomMusic",
to
"id", "ChoGGi_CustomMusic2",

in script.lua first change
if RadioStationPresets.Custom_Music_FTW then
to
if RadioStationPresets.Custom_Music_FTW2 then

then change
id = "Custom_Music_FTW",
to
id = "Custom_Music_FTW2",

lastly change
folder = "AppData/Music",
to
folder = "AppData/Music2",

and lets see if this get mangled by steam

Second Comment due to character limit:

When I change the ID do I need to change it to something specific or does it not matter? The last thing I can say that if you want to, (I'm not trying to take up to much of your time) maybe you could try doing this yourself because it may be easier for you then trying to figure out what I've done wrong with my little to no knowledge on codding. Thanks again for all the help an hopefully we can fix this problem.

Ok, I did that and that made progress, I can now see the second station on the screen, click on it and then listen to the music from a separate file that I just called "Music2" the problem is that when I add the copy mod only one mod will show up. So then I thought maybe if I uninstall the mod from the steam workshop and manually add 2 copies of the mod in, keep one untouched and the other change the ID, display name and folder (to place the music files in) in the script.lua However then it only showed one of the two the paradox mod editor and when I lunched the game I could not see both stations. When I was in the script.lua I noticed there was this:

"if RadioStationPresets.Custom_Music_FTW2 then return"

Yes, you'd also need to change that.
Not sure why items.lua is gone? Unless you saved it in the mod editor. I don't use the editor, so I don't fill out items.lua, which cause issues with the editor. Just copy the original mod, edit it in notepad (or whatever) and stay away from the mod editor.

Hi again, I'm really appreciating the help but when I tried to make a second one custom radio station I did as you said and copied the file and stuck it in my profile folder>Mods, I also renamed the file to "Custom Music 2" then I changed the ID in the lua. when I tried lunching the mod it showed up in the paradox mod manager so I turned it on and opened the in game mod editor. Once in it said this message:

"Failed to load mod items from Custom Music 2 (id e5rwUqm, version 0.00-001). Error: cannot read AppData/Mods/Custom Music 2/items.lua: File Not Found"

Is there anything else I need to change? Also while I was looking in the script.lua I noticed one of the lines was this:

"folder = "AppData/Music","

Do I need to change the word Music to something different in order to keep the 2 separate custom radio stations from playing the same music?

Either from
https://github.com/ChoGGi/SurvivingMars_CheatMods/tree/master/Mods%20ChoGGi
or
https://www.nexusmods.com/survivingmars/mods/77?tab=files

Stick it in your profile folder>Mods (you'll need to create the folder if you haven't used the mod editor).

profile folder: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1777493789

sorry one more thing, I can't find the script.lua anywhere, where am I meant to be looking?

Ok thanks again for the help.

Yeah, just copy the mod folder, change the id (and the title in script.lua) and have at it.

Hi There I have 2 questions, my first is is it possible to change the name of the radio so it doesn't read 'Custom Music' and instead my own name that I put in? My second is is it possible to duplicate this mod so I can have a second custom radio? Thanks in advance for the help.

Ah, thanks for the assistance. I'll make sure to do that.

Yep?

SM Mods don't have permission to change files on your computer, you gotta create the folder and stick files in it.

I for some reason don't have the music folder.

If you could play them in the game then yeah they'll work, if they're packed in an .hpk file (SM started doing that with mods with the DA? update), you'll need to grab a copy of hpk.exe to extract them (hope you're comfortable with cmd line).
If they're just loose opus/wav files then you can put them in %AppData%\Surviving Mars\Music and have at it.

hpk.exe: https://github.com/nickelc/hpk/releases

question on this one choggi, kind of a follow up to my other thread, the files that i have subscribed to here, can i transfer them into your custom file or is this only for personal music?

You keep your music collection in opus format?

I would hate to have to copy actual files and use additional space. i just confirmed that shortcuts to the audio files dont work. oh well.

An absolutely fantastic mod, thank you so much! With most mods no longer working, this breathed new life back into my game play.

v0.3
Da Vinci

As I said in my mod collection, ECM first then everything else.
Probably should have everything updated next weekish.