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    Mine is 15.4GB. Using Archive.org, Usenet binary groups, and a few files from other SH4 radio mods, I have created what I *think* might be the ultimate radio mod. Unfortunately, it's too big to share. Even without the music, which is duplicated in several folders, it's still over 11GB. Part of the reason is the sheer number of files, but mostly because I'm using higher bitrate files. I don't really want to lower them because it's already hard enough trying to hear them now. Lowering the quality would just make it worse.

    While creating my stations, I found out something that ya'll may not be aware of. You can use decimal points in the radio frequencies. For most of my stations I created year subfolders. 1941, 1942, etc. I did this for the music. Hearing a song about Iwo Jima in 1942 just ain't right! Of course each year subfolder has its own Events subfolder too.

    Originally I had a station for each year, pointing to its subfolder, and the frequencies one number apart. 1941 would be frequency 38, 1942 would be 39, and so on. But I had the idea to try using 38.41, 38.42, etc., and it worked! This makes thing even easier to keep track of, and helps with the overlap I'm trying to use with this system. The 1945 channel now isn't a bit lower when I'm on the 1941 station, because it isn't four whole frequencies away.

    If anyone would like to know what channels and programs I have, just ask. I'm not going to put it here because no one may be interested, and besides this post is long enough already.
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    Mine is 15.4GB. Using Archive.org, Usenet binary groups, and a few files from other SH4 radio mods, I have created what I *think* might be the ultimate radio mod. Unfortunately, it's too big to share. Even without the music, which is duplicated in several folders, it's still over 11GB. Part of the reason is the sheer number of files, but mostly because I'm using higher bitrate files. I don't really want to lower them because it's already hard enough trying to hear them now. Lowering the quality would just make it worse.

    While creating my stations, I found out something that ya'll may not be aware of. You can use decimal points in the radio frequencies. For most of my stations I created year subfolders. 1941, 1942, etc. I did this for the music. Hearing a song about Iwo Jima in 1942 just ain't right! Of course each year subfolder has its own Events subfolder too.

    Originally I had a station for each year, pointing to its subfolder, and the frequencies one number apart. 1941 would be frequency 38, 1942 would be 39, and so on. But I had the idea to try using 38.41, 38.42, etc., and it worked! This makes thing even easier to keep track of, and helps with the overlap I'm trying to use with this system. The 1945 channel now isn't a bit lower when I'm on the 1941 station, because it isn't four whole frequencies away.

    If anyone would like to know what channels and programs I have, just ask. I'm not going to put it here because no one may be interested, and besides this post is long enough already.
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    Mine is 3.24 GB. I'd be interested in hearing anything you care to tell us about your radio stuff...tnx for sharing info.

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    Okay then, this is what I have:

    KGMB Honolulu - global CBS station. This station is famous as the one that the Japanese and the B-17s used to home in to Honolulu on December 7th. I have it set up to play Hawaiian and Hawaiian/island themed music and CBS news programs.

    Tokyo - approx. 6800 nautical mile range propaganda station. This plays the Tokyo Rose programs, and 1940 and 1941 American music. I figured the Japanese wouldn't have access to American music after 1941.

    KPO San Francisco - global NBC station. This too was a real station during the war. It has the year subfolders, plays NBC news, and the following programs: Abbott and Costello (my personal fav); Amos and Andy; Bergen and McCarthy; Bob Hope; Fibber McGee and Molly; The Great Gildersleeve; Jack Benny; Red Skelton; and Spike Jones.

    KNX Los Angeles - global CBS station. Another real station, and has year subfolders. Plays CBS news and Burns and Allen and Fred Allen shows. As you can see, CBS is skimpy on entertainment (as it pretty much was in real life), but it does have a lot more news.

    Armed Forces Radio * - set of approx. 4500 nm range stations of the Armed Forces Radio Services. The stations all point to the same folder, which has year subfolders. For the eastern side of the dateline, I have a Honolulu station; for the western side, a Midway station that's actually located on the west side of the dateline (I really hope they fix that bug in 1.3!); a Guam station, which doesn't begin until September, 1944; and for the southwest Pacific, Wollongong, on the north coast of Australia. Why Wollongong, you ask? I was going to put it at Darwin, but when I went to get the longitude and latitude for Darwin, my Internet was down. So I went to my Sky6 astronomical program. It didn't have Darwin, but did have Wollongong. So, Wollongong.
    Anyway, since AFRS didn't start creating programs until 1942, these stations don't start until then. They play music, and the following AFRS programs: Command Performance; G.I. Jive (starting in spring, 1943, hosted by G.I. Jill, America's answer to Tokyo Rose); G.I. Journal; and Mail Call.

    All stations except Tokyo also have the SH4 news files, as well as speeches all the networks would've covered. Being a stickler for detail, the network stations have all programming adjusted for west coast or Hawaii time. AFRS played their programs at different times in different areas, but most entertainment was played in the evening, so that's where I have it.

    Well, there you have it. Now you all know just how nuts I am.
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    Fred,

    I am intrigued. If you are inclined to share your incredible work, there may be a way. If you split the stations into separate files, they may be small enough to compress and post on a file share site. Have a series of files with the last showing the structure. I would imagine we could then pack them into our own MOD and install the whole works.

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    I thought about that after I made the first post (yes, I am stupid sometimes ) but some of the individual folders are still pretty big. For instance the AFR folder is over 5GB alone; The NBC is over 4GB. Breaking them down by year might make them more managable, but they'll still be about a gig each. And as I said, I really don't want to reduce the bitrate, cause it reduces the quality.

    Another option is to just include the files that you can't get from Archive.org, and then list them so you could down load them yourself. But if you miss one file, or don't edit it out of the event.ini, it will cause the game to crash when it tries to play it and it isn't there.

    I would love to make this available to every one. Figuring out the best way is the problem. Right now, burning to DVD seems the most viable.

    EDIT: Like I said, I'm stupid sometimes. I should've also pointed out multi-part rar files, as I do have Winrar. Breaking the AFR folder into say 512MB pieces would require at least 10 parts. Making smaller pieces, means more parts. The question with this method is, would people be willing to download so many parts?
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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by fred8615:

    Another option is to just include the files that you can't get from Archive.org, and then list them so you could down load them yourself. But if you miss one file, or don't edit it out of the event.ini, it will cause the game to crash when it tries to play it and it isn't there.
    <span class="ev_code_YELLOW">I can handle that no problem.</span>

    I would love to make this available to every one. Figuring out the best way is the problem. Right now, burning to DVD seems the most viable. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

    <span class="ev_code_YELLOW">How many DVDs would you need?</span>

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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by dgrayson:
    <span class="ev_code_YELLOW">How many DVDs would you need?</span> </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
    If the music was included, at least 3, probably 4 single layer ones. I can burn dual layer, but those are still kind of expensive, plus I actually have plenty of single layer discs already, if you want to go that way. I don't know for sure because I haven't compressed the folders yet, so I don't know how big everything will be after doing that.
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    Another option would be to upload the whole thing to file planet or one of the similar sites. I dont know if they have size limits and if they do what the limit is.
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    Cool Fred! What he said... upload to filefront.com. I am interested.

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