Welcome to Radio S-59's radio pack!

The Radio Pack contains content for your local Sim radio. It might contain commercials, radio jingles or even music. The files are zipped, and you will need WinZip (free at www.winzip.com) to extract the files. 

How to add your own content to the Sim music channels

Leave your neighbourhood. Never change the content of any folders while you are in the hood.

Look for the folder named Maxis\Music\Stations

When you open the folder Stations you will see a number of sub folders such as Classica, Latin and Rock There should be one sub folder for each music channel option that appears when you switch channels on your stereo or radio. The number of options depends on the expansions of your neighbourhood.

In addition there are sub channels for stores and restaurants (Ez, EZExp, UnlCheap etc) - do not add the radio pack to those sub folders!

Each of the sub folders contain music files, mostly mp3-files. You can delete the default mp3-files or you can keep them as you add your own music. Note that there isn't really a point to keep a huge number of files in each sub folder. The music system will play a random song/file, and if there are too many different songs/files in the folder, some songs will hardly be played at all. Keeping too many files per sub folder have been reported to crash the system, although that might have been caused by other factors.

If the mp3 files are already on your hard drive, or if you like to add the same files to different music channels, then you should put shortcuts into he Music\Stations channels instead of the full file. It will save a lot of hard drive space.

You might want to back-up the entire music directory before changing anything.

The Radio S-59 radio pack content

The files that come with the Radio S-59 radio pack will be of either mp3 or wav format. You can extract those files to any sub folder you like. Six songs and 4 radio pack files will make a reasonable mix, and cause a radio jingle or commercial to be played after every other song. If you keep more than 10 songs in a music sub folder, you might like to add the radio pack twice to double the play frequency. If so, you must rename those 4 files after the first install.

Commercials and radio jingles are named RadioS59-01 ,-02, -03 and -04.  Any other file(s) will be extras for that pack, such as a song. Extra files will have unique names.

Note that the radio pack files will be similarly named every time. Extracting new radio pack content into your chanel sub folders will replace any old radio pack content. Just confirm if you are asked to replace files.

If you like the jingles to play on every channel then you should create a new folder anywhere on your hard drive, name it "Radio59radiopacks". Extraxct the radio pack zip to that folder, and create a set of shortcuts. Copy the entire set of shortcuts and paste them into the channel folders where you like them to be.  Whenever you want them replaced with a new radiopack you will simply extract the radiopack files to your "Radio59radiopacks" folder, no need to change the shortcuts at all.

You are welcome to produce or recommend jingels and music for the Radio S-59 radio packs. They must be created by you, or you must have been given permission by the copyright owner, or they must have been uploaded on the Internet in a way that indicates that they can be freely distributed by others.

Please check out details at http://www.hinsides.no/simmerville/10s59.html 

Regards,
John Gamming
Radio S-59 general manager