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How to add custom radio stations

By Starg

How to add custom radio stations to Beat Hazard

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20 Mar, 2014 @ 4:22am

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How to add custom radio stations

Beat Hazard allows you to add your own custom radio stations to the game. Here's how:

(Thanks to Fideous for some of this text)

1. Locate your game directory:

For Windows:
If you are running Win 7 - 64 bit, should be something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Beat Hazard
or
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Beat Hazard

On Linux:
/home/[YOUR NAME]/.local/share/BeatHazard_Linux2/

On Mac:
-Start under your user files (mine is my name...yours might be different)
-Library
-Application Support
-Steam
-SteamApps
-common
-Beat Hazard

NOW, here's the trick. Right-click on the actual Beat Hazard application (Beat Hazard MAC) and select "Show Package Contents". This should open a new Finder window. Select the following:

-Contents
-Resources
-radio2.txt

2. There are two radio files -- to add a radio station, you need to select radio2.txt

3. There is a sample on how to do it located in the file:
; for example - here is a Classical Radio station
http://www.sky.fm/mp3/classical.pls

Notice how the first line contains ; This will simply allow you to add comments to remember what radio station you picked. The second line is the actual station where the music streams from.

4. You can go to www.shoutcast.com for a great listing of thousands of internet stations as suggested by Beat Hazzard.

5. When you visit shoutcast, you simply right click on the blue arrow to the left of the radio station and select 'copy shortcut'. Then you paste the text into your data file 'radio2.txt'. For instance, if you wanted Radio Santa Claus, your address would be:
http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=96970

6: There is a neat little app I have that will let you test radio addresses before you go to the trouble of putting them in the game.
Grab it here [www.coldbeamgames.com]
Just past your URL into the custom box. If it plays in the app, then it'll play in the game

7. When you go back into game, you will see the download address indicated above, but as soon as you click over it and pause for a moment, it will convert the web address into the name of the station automatically and start playing the music.

8. The stations you add will also be sent over to the other player in an online game, (At the moment this only works from client to host)

9. You are done adding your first internet radio station! There are thousands to chose from, depending on your tastes. Enjoy!

19 Comments

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animosity 19 Nov, 2019 @ 5:07am

0/10 for this not just being a link in game.

†нэ$†øиэd$pîdэя 10 Jul, 2019 @ 1:18pm

Yeah uh you need to update this or figure out how its done on windows 7 cuz the radio2.txt was already in the folder and you can't rt click and choose to open anything from an .exe file. And also, I did try to add some stations to that file but the game started crashing on startup and yes i used that app thing to see if it would play and they all did. The game did start after there were only 4 stations but nowhere is it shown in game and neither was there any "download" anything.

Dstar 10 Feb, 2017 @ 4:15pm

Krcums,

I had the same issue, but managed to figure out what I was doing wrong and fix it for shoutcast, anyway, so that it would use any url I got from there. Things have apparently changed a bit, since the original guide was written. Anyway, at shoutcast, you'll see, to the left of the station, a total of three buttons. The middle one, which looks sort of like a microphone, is the one you should LEFT click on. THat will open a submenu, with the word 'winamp' at the top. RIGHT click on the word 'winamp' and selet 'copy link' or 'copy link location', whichever it is. THat link should end in .pls, then another backslassh, and a number. THat sort of URL/file link works fine.

Good luck. :)