V Released [V] Airwaves

[boomboom5950]

On 7/28/2023 at 8:57 PM, girlsonfilm said:

- Generating the AI DJ lines and also writing a couple of them

daaamn they are ai generated?? thats really cool i thought they were just leftovers from the files

[girlsonfilm]

2 hours ago, UserInvalid said:

I'm not sure about this, because not all the songs are good, and it's also very strange to listen to such songs in Los Santos as:

7 Seconds - 99 Red Balloons

Frenzal Rhomb - You Are Not My Friend

Screamers - Vertigo [The song has a very low sound quality]

The Meters - Cissy Strut

Little Anthony - Tears on My Pillow

The Shirelles - Dedicated to the One I Love

Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

Ice Cube - Wicked

And also half of the restored songs on Radio Los Santos just doesn't fit with the existing songs from the main game, I have a feeling the radio stations in the beta might have had a completely different tracklist, and the songs found on the PS3 Devkit may be they are, I'm certainly not sure about Rebel Radio and The Blue Ark and West Coast Classics but all the other stations probably had a completely different tracklist. And the songs found in TrackID may have been meant to be included in the game, but they may have been removed at the last minute.

 

So it all depends on your taste, i know it's possible it just seems to me.

I honestly don't get your point. All of the cut Radio LS tracks fit in very nicely with the retail tracks (and most are trap influenced like the final RLS tracks). Miguel's Adorn is the only track that doesn't work (it honestly doesn't fit on any radio station lol). How does Ice Cube's Wicked in any way sound out of place?

 

All of this is completely subjective. Whilst some songs might indicate different directions for certain stations (like how The Lowdown originally had clear doo-wop/early 60s pop soul undertones), I don't find their placements to be so awry that they start being distracting. 

 

Also Vertigo is LQ as it is a relatively unknown Cali punk demo that Keith liked. A studio version of that song has never been recorded. And that's where a lot of that song's charm comes from. It's raw and unfiltered, a mantra which Cali punk adheres to.

2 hours ago, Vaporsharky said:

Finally a mod that will actually get me to turn the radio back on in GTA V!

 

If you ever plan on going back in and adding or changing DJ audio, I'd have them name drop the station going into songs. I'm a radio DJ in real life and we're required to always push the name to keep it in peoples heads.

 

Aside from that, you totally nailed the announcers' personalities with how they intro music! This is a great mod and I'm seriously impressed with how much work you've put in.

Appreciate the kind words. Most of the intros that don't mention songs were not done with AI, but simply were regurgitated splices from already-existing lines for other tracks. That meant I was mostly limited to only keeping it to artist names. However, a large number of GTA Vs retail DJ intros do this too, mentioning the artist without explicitly naming the song being played. That's why I didn't consider it to be too important

 

Edited August 4, 2023 by girlsonfilm

[girlsonfilm]

2 hours ago, Waddalup said:

does this include GTA Online songs into single player as well? Or only the cut tracks?

(sidenote: this may or may not be your mod, but it only happened to me after downloading... Whenever I try to do a mission, it says it's been disrupted. Just wondering if you've seen anyone else with this issue, or experienced it yourself?)

Nope. I have no interest in messing with anything GTAO related, and it's not the point of this mod. However, using a trainer will allow you to listen to GTAO stations in SP if you really want to.

 

Also, that sounds odd. That should have nothing to do with Airwaves. I finished the game 100 percent with the mod and never once experienced such an issue

 

(Oops I thought GTAF would automatically merge this post with my previous one. Sorry for the double post lol)

Edited August 4, 2023 by girlsonfilm

[UserInvalid]

27 minutes ago, girlsonfilm said:

I honestly don't get your point. All of the cut Radio LS tracks fit in very nicely with the retail tracks (and most are trap influenced like the final RLS tracks). Miguel's Adorn is the only track that doesn't work (it honestly doesn't fit on any radio station lol). How does Ice Cube's Wicked in any way sound out of place?

 

All of this is completely subjective. Whilst some songs might indicate different directions for certain stations (like how The Lowdown originally had clear doo-wop/early 60s pop soul undertones), I don't find their placements to be so awry that they start being distracting. 

 

Also Vertigo is LQ as it is a relatively unknown Cali punk demo that Keith liked. A studio version of that song has never been recorded. And that's where a lot of that song's charm comes from. It's raw and unfiltered, a mantra which Cali punk adheres to.

 

Maybe I'm wrong [I don't think the mod is bad] I just listed the songs that I really dislike, although I used to like Frenzal Rhomb but then for unknown reasons I started to hate him, and I'm also not sure about Radio Los Santos.

 

And about the Vertigo song, it seems to me that anyone will switch the radio when they hear it in the game, this song needs something like a remaster.

 

And also on Channel X you added the Darkness version of the Bloodstains song, but in my opinion the original is better suited to this radio.

Edited August 4, 2023 by UserInvalid

[girlsonfilm]

20 minutes ago, UserInvalid said:

Maybe I'm wrong [I don't think the mod is bad] I just listed the songs that I really dislike, although I used to like Frenzal Rhomb but then for unknown reasons I started to hate him, and I'm also not sure about Radio Los Santos.

 

And about the Vertigo song, it seems to me that anyone will switch the radio when they hear it in the game, this song needs something like a remaster.

 

And also on Channel X you added the Darkness version of the Bloodstains song, but in my opinion the original is better suited to this radio.

Nah. If you know Keith (and know Channel X's music in general tbh), you'd know he would've picked the Darkness version. But in case you don't believe me...

Track 20.

 

Anyway, at this point I am not going to delete/change any existing tracks. So, no offense, but these kinds of posts are unnecessary and only serve to clog up the thread further. 

Edited August 4, 2023 by girlsonfilm

[Waddalup]

6 hours ago, girlsonfilm said:

Nope. I have no interest in messing with anything GTAO related, and it's not the point of this mod. However, using a trainer will allow you to listen to GTAO stations in SP if you really want to.

 

Also, that sounds odd. That should have nothing to do with Airwaves. I finished the game 100 percent with the mod and never once experienced such an issue

 

(Oops I thought GTAF would automatically merge this post with my previous one. Sorry for the double post lol)

no problem abt the double post lol! Seems like the mission issue was faulty, and your mod works just fine. Really enjoying it! I'm using trainers for the GTAO Radios btw, but I was asking abt the songs in online themselves. Amazing mod nonetheless.

[Imflyin2023]

Will there be work on FlyLo FM later? It's just that not a single song was restored on FlyLo FM, but 36 songs were deleted from the radio and Flying Lotus himself said it[I found this on wiki https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/FlyLo_FM] but unfortunately, 2Pac - Hail Mary and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Foe Tha Love Of $ are the only songs that we know the name of, everyone else we only know the artists of the songs, but we don't know the names of the songs.

 

I think it will be very difficult to make a new mix interesting, either you can restore only these two songs to begin with, or the restored songs will go after the original ones, that is, after the flylo_part2 file, the game will play flylo_part3, and also you can choose for yourself which songs from these artists are best suited to the game, and you can do this job together with MG.

Edited August 4, 2023 by Imflyin2023

[girlsonfilm]

No. MG is doing his own mix based off the Pitchfork interview for his personal radio expansion mod, I believe. That would delve too far into fanon-territory for Airwaves anyway.

 

I've said it before, unless new and substantiated information concerning cut music comes out, I'm not adding more songs. And regarding those two tracks, I really don't have the time (or real desire) to create a new mix, the Soulwax one already took me a lot of time to get right. There also is no proof a mix featuring those 36 tracks ever even existed in the first place. I may do it in the future, who knows, but I won't look into it for the time being.

Edited August 4, 2023 by girlsonfilm

[UserInvalid]

11 hours ago, Imflyin2023 said:

Will there be work on FlyLo FM later? It's just that not a single song was restored on FlyLo FM, but 36 songs were deleted from the radio and Flying Lotus himself said it[I found this on wiki https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/FlyLo_FM] but unfortunately, 2Pac - Hail Mary and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Foe Tha Love Of $ are the only songs that we know the name of, everyone else we only know the artists of the songs, but we don't know the names of the songs.

 

I think it will be very difficult to make a new mix interesting, either you can restore only these two songs to begin with, or the restored songs will go after the original ones, that is, after the flylo_part2 file, the game will play flylo_part3, and also you can choose for yourself which songs from these artists are best suited to the game, and you can do this job together with MG.

Lol, to see a new interesting mix of FlyLo FM with new 36 songs, and with the comments of Flying Lotus made with the AI, in my opinion it's just crazy, so it's unlikely it will ever happen.

Edited August 5, 2023 by UserInvalid

[Dom.]

And just like that, I think I'm going to give GTA 5 a replay.

[Imflyin2023]

I'm sure that the Matias Aguayo - Niños song is a fake, because it's not mentioned anywhere on Reddit that this song is there,

https://www.reddit.com/r/soulwax/comments/7piooh/early_version_of_gta_vs_soulwax_fm

 

and I'm also 100% sure that I found the Soulwax FM beta mix on YouTube:

[Guynamednelson]

At 1:27, there's an audio glitch in Agent Orange's Everything Turns Grey. It only seems to affect one of the channels.

[girlsonfilm]

10 hours ago, Imflyin2023 said:

I'm sure that the Matias Aguayo - Niños song is a fake, because it's not mentioned anywhere on Reddit that this song is there,

 

It's not a fake. Look through the GTA V beta hunt thread. Also, it's very easy to tell that that isn't the full mix, since it just ends abruptly lol

 

7 hours ago, Guynamednelson said:

At 1:27, there's an audio glitch in Agent Orange's Everything Turns Grey. It only seems to affect one of the channels.

Yeh, it's caused by a frustrating bug within Adobe's Batch Processor. It had caused me a sh*t-ton of headaches when doing P.M.R, and its causing me a sh*t-ton of headaches now. I've sat down and listened to all of the tracks one by one, and there's a couple more of them affected by this bug. All of it will be fixed in the next update

Edited August 6, 2023 by girlsonfilm

[Imflyin2023]

33 minutes ago, girlsonfilm said:

Yeh, it's caused by a frustrating bug within Adobe's Batch Processor. It had caused me a sh*t-ton of headaches when doing P.M.R, and its causing me a sh*t-ton of headaches now. I've sat down and listened to all of the tracks one by one, and there's a couple more of them affected by this bug. All of it will be fixed in the next update

And as I understand it, because of this, you can hear noise at the beginning of many songs, but there is probably not in the game, so I exported one song from your mod https://mega.nz/file/o2ckGTAK#BkbnhzwP7q_hse7kdCSswNhtGIZmuPiCbhe-LwvL8d4

and you can hear noise there at the very beginning.

Strangely, is noise is missing on Mega, but it can be noticed if you open a Wav file using the program.

Edited August 6, 2023 by Imflyin2023

[girlsonfilm]

16 minutes ago, Imflyin2023 said:

And as I understand it, because of this, you can hear noise at the beginning of many songs, but there is probably not in the game, so I exported one song from your mod https://mega.nz/file/o2ckGTAK#BkbnhzwP7q_hse7kdCSswNhtGIZmuPiCbhe-LwvL8d4

and you can hear noise there at the very beginning.

Strangely, is noise is missing on Mega, but it can be noticed if you open a Wav file using the program.

That click at the beginning has nothing to do with what I was referring to, and seems to be a bug caused by OpenIVs openFormats system as the original files don't have this (even though I've never heard that click in-game so I don't see why it even matters)

Edited August 6, 2023 by girlsonfilm

[red84140]

For a future update, will you move Circle in the Sand from LSRR to NSP to restore the unused DJ lines?

[justrandomuser]

6 hours ago, red84140 said:

For a future update, will you move Circle in the Sand from LSRR to NSP to restore the unused DJ lines?

I have already asked him this, and he said that Non-Stop-Pop FM no longer needs 80's rock ballads and that there is no need for this.

[red84140]

Can you make a similar mod that restores cut songs for GTA IV + the Episodes?

[UserInvalid]

2 hours ago, red84140 said:

Can you make a similar mod that restores cut songs for GTA IV + the Episodes?

It doesn't make any sense, most of the cut songs in GTA IV and EFLC is sucks.

[Ash_735]

7 hours ago, red84140 said:

Can you make a similar mod that restores cut songs for GTA IV + the Episodes?

The next update for Radio Downgrader will contain an option to restore two cut songs, one from VCFM and one from Self-Actualization FM (it also fixes the broken song on K109 but that will be included in the default option), the reason these two were chosen was because they still had DJ lines left behind in the game so it was just a case of supplying the song and timings.

[UserInvalid]

33 minutes ago, Ash_735 said:

The next update for Radio Downgrader will contain an option to restore two cut songs, one from VCFM and one from Self-Actualization FM (it also fixes the broken song on K109 but that will be included in the default option), the reason these two were chosen was because they still had DJ lines left behind in the game so it was just a case of supplying the song and timings.

What for??? Just fix this broken song Can't Live Without Your Love on K109 and that's it.

I would understand if it restored all the cut songs, but to restore only these two, it's just ridiculous, who knows, maybe I can restore all the cut songs, but I don't see much sense in it.

By the way, it seems that the author of Radio Downgrader forgot to restore the original files EP2_SPEECH.rpf, radio_meditation.rpf and radio_ramjamfm.rpf because these files are different in CE and in the original EFLC.

 

 

 

Edited August 11, 2023 by UserInvalid

[Ash_735]

2 hours ago, UserInvalid said:

What for??? Just fix this broken song Can't Live Without Your Love on K109 and that's it.

If you just want that then there's the option for it, that's why it's OPTIONAL. And as stated, these two were chosen because the game already had the info for these tracks and the DJ lines ready to go, no AI needed, if there were more tracks like it, we would've restored those as well. I believe there will be a separate mod that adds on top of that but with AI DJ's restoring more cut songs.

[UserInvalid]

8 hours ago, Ash_735 said:

If you just want that then there's the option for it, that's why it's OPTIONAL. And as stated, these two were chosen because the game already had the info for these tracks and the DJ lines ready to go, no AI needed, if there were more tracks like it, we would've restored those as well. I believe there will be a separate mod that adds on top of that but with AI DJ's restoring more cut songs.

I still don't see the sense in this, and also why are two songs restored and not three? On Self-Actualization FM, intros were created for three cut songs, two for System 7 - Masato Eternity, two for Future Sound of London - Lifeforms

and two for an unknown song

 

And also about the new DJ lines made with AI, this is currently impossible, because it requires a Speech.dat editor, and it currently does not exist, and no, RAGE Audio Toolkit + Audio Editor does not allow to add these new DJ lines to this file.

The Parik tool also does not allow editing this file, so all new DJ lines in the game will not be used. And all the new radio stations on which all the songs are played in random order the host will never comment on the songs.

Edited August 12, 2023 by UserInvalid

[girlsonfilm]

25 minutes ago, UserInvalid said:

I still don't see the sense in this, and also why are two songs restored and not three? On Self-Actualization FM, intros were created for three cut songs, two for System 7 - Masato Eternity, two for Future Sound of London - Lifeforms

and two for an unknown song

 

And also about the new DJ lines made with AI, this is currently impossible, because it requires a Speech.dat editor, and it currently does not exist, and no, RAGE Audio Toolkit + Audio Editor does not allow to add these new DJ lines to this file.

The Parik tool also does not allow editing this file, so all new DJ lines in the game will not be used. And all the new radio stations on which all the songs are played in random order the host will never comment on the songs.

Why attack Ash for something really cool? It's awesome these songs are being restored (with their intros). Honestly, the radio downgraders follow the same philosophy as something like Airwaves anyway. Restore music that Rockstar lost licenses to. So this stuff is awesome. Props to @Ash_735 and whoever's working on the downgrader right now.

 

16 hours ago, UserInvalid said:

It doesn't make any sense, most of the cut songs in GTA IV and EFLC is sucks.

Terrible argument for why an abundance of cut content shouldn't restored "cus i don't like it". Either way, I was working on such a mod with Parik a long time ago (and had gotten quite far with it), but I've given all that I've worked on to MG in the hopes he'll finish it someday.

 

New update is still coming, it's going to be huge, hence it's taking some time. I also have been allowing myself to take more breaks from this stuff recently, as working on this mod is inanely time-consuming.

Edited August 12, 2023 by girlsonfilm

[UserInvalid]

24 minutes ago, girlsonfilm said:

Why attack Ash for something really cool? It's awesome these songs are being restored (with their intros). Honestly, the radio downgraders follow the same philosophy as something like Airwaves anyway. Restore music that Rockstar lost licenses to. So this stuff is awesome. Props to @Ash_735 and whoever's working on the downgrader right now.

 

Terrible argument for why an abundance of cut content shouldn't restored "cus i don't like it". Either way, I was working on such a mod with Parik a long time ago (and had gotten quite far with it), but I've given all that I've worked on to MG in the hopes he'll finish it someday.

 

New update is still coming, it's going to be huge, hence it's taking some time. I also have been allowing myself to take more breaks from this stuff recently, as working on this mod is inanely time-consuming.

First of all I have Radio Downgrader installed, and I like only 2 cut songs in GTA 4, and 5-7 in EFLC, everything else sucks and I don't see the point in restoring them, regarding the cut songs in GTA V, I have a different opinion, and they are much better, and as I said above, you can't make new intros for songs using AI in GTA IV & EFLC.

 

Spoiler

And I'll also just tell you that in The Complete Edition, host Self-Actualization FM and Vice City FM will also never comment on songs, but takemeoff found a way to fix it, and he just used the Speech.dat file from EFLC, and deleted everything from it except the DJ lines of these two radio stations, and after that, added his radio_speech.dat file to the update/tlad/pc/audio/config folder, and then edited e1_radio.xml by adding a new line there

<speech content="ascii">e1:/pc/audio/config/radio_speech.dat</speech>

 

And after 25 days it was added to Radio Downgrader.

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by UserInvalid

[Ash_735]

4 hours ago, UserInvalid said:

two for System 7 - Masato Eternity

I missed that one, thought it was already on the station, congrats you've just accidentally improved something you hate.

[WildBrick142]

7 hours ago, UserInvalid said:

RAGE Audio Toolkit + Audio Editor does not allow to add these new DJ lines to this file.

are you sure you're not using an outdated version? the one found here can edit the speech files perfectly fine. saving is kinda janky, yeah, but it works perfectly otherwise. i even researched and documented the file structure for myself and everything appears to be correctly saved.

 

6 hours ago, UserInvalid said:

and I like only 2 cut songs in GTA 4, and 5-7 in EFLC, everything else sucks and I don't see the point in restoring them

that's a you problem. edit the mod if you don't like it.

Edited August 12, 2023 by WildBrick142

[UserInvalid]

2 hours ago, WildBrick142 said:

are you sure you're not using an outdated version? the one found here can edit the speech files perfectly fine. saving is kinda janky, yeah, but it works perfectly otherwise. i even researched and documented the file structure for myself and everything appears to be correctly saved.

Yes, I'm using the latest version. When I add a new line, for example, the intro for the song Cassie - Me and You, as in the screenshot, after that I click save file, then I open this file again using RAGEAT, and this new line is no more.

Have you checked it yourself?

And so, here I added a new line for it

And after that I click save, and after that I opened this file again, and this new line is no more

 

It seems to me that the only thing that RAGEAT can do in Speech.dat, is to change the length of the lines.

Edited August 12, 2023 by UserInvalid

[WildBrick142]

7 minutes ago, UserInvalid said:

Yes, I'm using the latest version. When I add a new line, for example, the intro for the song Mtume - Me and You, as in the screenshot, after that I click save file, then I open this file again using RAGEAT, and this new line is no more.

Have you checked it yourself?

And so, here I added a new line for it

And after that I click save, and after that I opened this file again, and this new line is no more

 

It seems to me that the only thing that RAGEAT can do in Speech.dat, is to change the length of the lines.

which "save" are you clicking on? in the image, 1 or 2? because "save" 1 does not actually save the file, it's the "save" 2 (in the dropdown) that saves the file

[UserInvalid]

1 hour ago, WildBrick142 said:

which "save" are you clicking on? in the image, 1 or 2? because "save" 1 does not actually save the file, it's the "save" 2 (in the dropdown) that saves the file

"save 2" 

But for me it does not save a new line.

 

And also the method in your screenshot, will most likely not work, new intros should be added to DJ_K109_THE_STUDIO_INTRO, so you can delete your modified EP2_RADIIO_SPEECH.dat file right now.

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by UserInvalid