Fallout 4 Music Replacer
Behold! The Fallout 4 Music Replacer!
With this application you will be able to completely replace the existing music on any of the three major Radio Stations within the game.
Stations are:
Classical Radio (The Institute) – 29 Songs
Diamond City Radio – 38 Songs
Radio Freedom (The Minutemen) – 11 Songs
You can convert from various popular music and video files.
What ones you ask?
Music Files: mp3, m4a, ogg, wav, flac, wma
Video Files: mp4, flv, avi
Overall it is quite simple…
First you have to unzip the application to someplace on your computer.
This will give you the application and folders named bin, temp, and output.
The bin folder holds the ffmpeg and xWMAEncode files used to convert the files.
These are not made by me and are free tools from Microsoft and ffmpeg.
Now how to create!
Step 1)
Choose a station to replace all the music for that station.
Step 2)
Next to “Add Custom Songs” button you will see “0 of 11 Songs Chosen” if you chose Radio Freedom. This tells you how many more songs you can add to the station before you run out of space.
Step 3)
Click “Add Custom Songs” and choose the songs that you want. If you go over the max amount for the station it will tell you. If you were bulk adding by selecting several at a time then it will omit the last few that went over the max number.
You can manually remove songs by selecting the song or songs you changed your mind about and click “Remove Selected Songs”. This button only appears when you have songs in your custom list.
Step 4)
Once you max out the allowed number of songs the “MOD Name” box and “Create NMM Compatible Mod” button appears.
Enter a name for your radio station mod and then click the button to create the mod.
You will see a FFMPEG window pop up as it converts the song to a wav file and then a blank xWMAEncode window as it converts the wav to a xwm file. It will also rename the song to the proper name used by the station (such as mus_radio_minutemen_11.xwm).
Yes I know I could suppress those windows from appearing, but it is comforting to me to see something is happening and if something suddenly froze or stopped working. This was a design choice. I tried both ways and liked seeing the work happen more.
After the windows stop appearing the program will pause for a few seconds or longer as it creates the zip file.You can now find your NMM mod in the output folder. The program should clean up after itself so the temp folder should be empty again.
Step 5)
You can now choose “Add Mod from File” in Nexus Mod Manager and select your newly created mod. After which you can install the mod via NMM same as any mod you might download. I suggest making sure it is under “Radio” category so you can easily find it to disable and enable at will as you swap out your fav music selections at will.
Troubleshooting
Station has dead air or only announcers talking and no music
If after enabling the mod you are like me and the newer NMM versions (currently 0.61.4) doesn’t like you, then you may encounter just dead air or only the announcer talking instead of your music. In this case you will have to install manually.
Simply extract the Data folder in the zip to the fallout 4 folder:
..\steamapps\common\Fallout 4\
I don’t know why this is happening, but I’m sure it will be fixed in time for those of us experiencing it.
Requirements
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 or higher.
***** NOTE *****
This software is provided as is.. I guarantee nothing! It has worked fine for me in various dirs all over my system, but I am it’s creator and it knows not to offend me!!! If it did it would be forced to NARFTLE THE GARTHOK! (Coneheads… watch it… laugh…)
If it somehow deletes your system, blows up your computer, sets fire to your home, steals your girlfriend/boyfriend, becomes Skynet or causes you to be probed by E.T. I cannot be held responsible…
That said I doubt any of that will happen, but best to put it out there just in case. In the past I’ve been a consultant and have seen many systems on their last legs and then be blamed for said system dying after barely getting a chance to even look at it as the customer turned it on.
“WHAT DID YOU DO!!!???”
“Nothing… I just got here and you turned it on… I haven’t even touched it yet.”
“I SUE YOU!!!”
“I literally just got here and haven’t even looked at it yet.”
“IT WAS FINE BEFORE YOU ARRIVED!!!”
So yeah… Use at your own risk and don’t blame me if lightning strikes and your car runs out of gas. lol
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