Live Radio Feed

[Butters!]

I've been listening to radio over the internet for a while, and have been playing GTA SA in windowed mode, to replace the radio stations already in the game, but I have started playing GTA SA:MP again. I don't want to risk using the evil DLL file which will get me banned if the server finds me using it, and I have tried ALT + ENTER ingame to force windowed mode, but it just crashes the game, so is there a way to add in a LIVE Radio Feed to listen to, or do I have to use SAAT to make my own station that repeats itself?

[JAB HacksouL]

I've been listening to radio over the internet for a while, and have been playing GTA SA in windowed mode, to replace the radio stations already in the game, but I have started playing GTA SA:MP again. I don't want to risk using the evil DLL file which will get me banned if the server finds me using it, and I have tried ALT + ENTER ingame to force windowed mode, but it just crashes the game, so is there a way to add in a LIVE Radio Feed to listen to, or do I have to use SAAT to make my own station that repeats itself?

I don't know, but in the user tracks I use shortcuts instead of installing the entire mp3. The shortcut link points to the MP3's in my music directory so I can listen to my favorite tunes in GTA 3, VC, and SA with only one copy. You might be able to make some kind of link to the radio stations -but then again, as I recall- of the three SA is very touchy about the way you set it up. I ended up having to make the mp3's into oggs which made no sense. My Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files\User Tracks is the location for custom music tracks.

BTW if you need to convert MP3 to OGG use Audacity it is a great open source project.

JAB

[Deji]

If place a shortcut to the MP3 stream and place it in your User Tracks folder... It might play... But then again, I don't know if SA will follow links like it follows shortcuts to things in your computer. Try it out and tell me the results

[Huckleberry Pie]

Now if there was a CLEO mod that would do that... I like the idea of real-time radio streaming on SA, rather than a fixed, pre-recorded one that's playing over and over...

[Deji]

You can play MP3's with CLEO so you should be able to play shortcuts to them.

[Deji]

Sorry for double post...

I've just checked it out and there is no way to get this to work with CLEO. You'd have to find a stream that runs as an .mp3 file which is inexistant. They all usually are .m3u files or something.

Trying to play any other files or pretending they are mp3 files to fool CLEO won't work either. It just makes the game crash.

So unless there is a way you can do this by using the user track folder... This is impossible. Maybe when CLEO has the abillity to play other files... Then I'll be able to do something.

[Butters!]

The only way I found to do it is to listen to a radio in your room. Well thats what I was already doing

[steven jeter]

Well, i was wondering if it was possible to make a program that can act as an mp3 or somthing like that and redirect you towards a internet radio IP or URL LINK. Ive seen it done before in GTA VC but i cant find that specific mod anymore and if i did find it the mod might not work for GTA SA.

[Guest]

That would be a great mod. The only way to do that without actually creating a mod would be to have the radio recording as an MP3 file in your user tracks file and have it play in GTA SA while its recording (if you get what I mean). But I'm not sure if it will work as the file will be recording and playing at the same time, the game could crash or just be unable to play it as it's opened in a different program.