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This mod replaces the default 11 Minutemen Radio Freedom tracks and adds another 111. The music is in various genres of Americana.
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For a while I have been toiling away at creating various radio and ambient music replacers for the Bethesda Fallout and TES games. One thing I wanted was an Enclave radio replacer/adder for Fallout 3, but I though most of the music under consideration would also work as a Minutemen Radio replacer. I created this mod for myself, but believe some mod users would appreciate it, and thus am sharing it. The only good Minutemen Radio replacer mod I know of is "Let Freedom Swing" by Dexter8522: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/32623?tab=description . A few of my song choices overlap with Dexter8522's mod, but mine are probably different recordings of the compositions (I also wanted a Patriotic feel to my radio station replacer).
This mod requireds the JRavens Extra Tracks (Freedom) esp in order to work: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/2741?tab=files
This will add 111 additional track options (without it you would be limited to the 11 vanilla tracks that my mod overwrites). Basically, the Fallout 4 Esm has
1 FormID for each of the Radio tracks, but JRaven adds multiple extra entries to each of the FormIDs. From my limited testing randomization seems to be working.
Some people feel music mods are easy to create, just rip some Youtube tracks to Mp3 and then convert to a game ready format. Some mods have been made this way, but they are cheap and nasty. My workflow was much more involved, with an emphasis on diversity and quality.
1. Acquire a large amount of music, ideally in lossless quality
2. Listen to all the music, identify possible candidates
3. Edit the music
4. Gradually discard tracks until you have the maximum number allowed by the extender esp mod (122 in this case)
5. Rename to match JRaven's naming scheme, and Convert to wmv at 192 kb/s,the maximum bitrate allowed by this unwieldy format (Bethesda's own music, as will as the music in multiple mods, in compressed at a bitrate of 48 kb/s, which is aweful quality wise, equivalent to an 80 kb/s mp3.
The basis for this mod was the Enclave radio playlist from Fallout 3, which is basically regurgitated in Fallout 4 through the Recruitment beacons (in the BSA it is listed as MUS_Patriotic_xyz.wmv). This is patriotic wind band march. I wanted to have more wind band marches (eg Sousa compositions), and well as some versions with vocals. I went on to add music from other Americana genres (music by Americans and/or music about an aspect of America or rarely British music that would have been performed at one time in the USA: Folk music (including Civil War song), Christian Hymns and Spirituals since Christianity used to be an important component of American identity (one nation under God), swing & early jazz, pioneer and early country songs, early film and TV themes (westerns, musicals, crime), classical music composed by Americans, early Broadway songs, and 3 'red scare' era anti-communist songs. This collection of genres isn't something that would ever be aired on a real world commercial radio station, but Enclave and Minutemen radio are, to me, propaganda stations designed to boost faction morale.
Editing varies per file and included removal of tonal noise and random noises such as clicks, faking Stereo for Mono recordings, dynamic range compression & gain envelopes for orchestral music with a high dynamic range, reining in excessive stereo width, harmonic excitation, EQing, and volume normalization. All tracks have been normalized to -18 LU (equivalent to the 89 Db Replay gain standard). The vanilla Fallout 4 Diamond Radio tracks are all at -18LU, but Freedom and the Classical radio stations averaged around -21 LU (3 Decibels or ~30% quieter). To me it makes sense that all 3 radio stations should have the same volume.
I also have created a Diamond City radio replacer/extender mod, using a similar workflow to this mod, but with more mainstream music. It is currently a "Reddit exclusive": https://www.reddit.com/r/FO4mods/comments/hwrios/diamond_city_radio_more_recent_music_pack_mod/
Have fun. This mod is dedicated to everyone who loves freedom and abhors despotism.
This mod requireds the JRavens Extra Tracks (Freedom) esp in order to work: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/2741?tab=files
This will add 111 additional track options (without it you would be limited to the 11 vanilla tracks that my mod overwrites). Basically, the Fallout 4 Esm has
1 FormID for each of the Radio tracks, but JRaven adds multiple extra entries to each of the FormIDs. From my limited testing randomization seems to be working.
Some people feel music mods are easy to create, just rip some Youtube tracks to Mp3 and then convert to a game ready format. Some mods have been made this way, but they are cheap and nasty. My workflow was much more involved, with an emphasis on diversity and quality.
1. Acquire a large amount of music, ideally in lossless quality
2. Listen to all the music, identify possible candidates
3. Edit the music
4. Gradually discard tracks until you have the maximum number allowed by the extender esp mod (122 in this case)
5. Rename to match JRaven's naming scheme, and Convert to wmv at 192 kb/s,the maximum bitrate allowed by this unwieldy format (Bethesda's own music, as will as the music in multiple mods, in compressed at a bitrate of 48 kb/s, which is aweful quality wise, equivalent to an 80 kb/s mp3.
The basis for this mod was the Enclave radio playlist from Fallout 3, which is basically regurgitated in Fallout 4 through the Recruitment beacons (in the BSA it is listed as MUS_Patriotic_xyz.wmv). This is patriotic wind band march. I wanted to have more wind band marches (eg Sousa compositions), and well as some versions with vocals. I went on to add music from other Americana genres (music by Americans and/or music about an aspect of America or rarely British music that would have been performed at one time in the USA: Folk music (including Civil War song), Christian Hymns and Spirituals since Christianity used to be an important component of American identity (one nation under God), swing & early jazz, pioneer and early country songs, early film and TV themes (westerns, musicals, crime), classical music composed by Americans, early Broadway songs, and 3 'red scare' era anti-communist songs. This collection of genres isn't something that would ever be aired on a real world commercial radio station, but Enclave and Minutemen radio are, to me, propaganda stations designed to boost faction morale.
Editing varies per file and included removal of tonal noise and random noises such as clicks, faking Stereo for Mono recordings, dynamic range compression & gain envelopes for orchestral music with a high dynamic range, reining in excessive stereo width, harmonic excitation, EQing, and volume normalization. All tracks have been normalized to -18 LU (equivalent to the 89 Db Replay gain standard). The vanilla Fallout 4 Diamond Radio tracks are all at -18LU, but Freedom and the Classical radio stations averaged around -21 LU (3 Decibels or ~30% quieter). To me it makes sense that all 3 radio stations should have the same volume.
I also have created a Diamond City radio replacer/extender mod, using a similar workflow to this mod, but with more mainstream music. It is currently a "Reddit exclusive": https://www.reddit.com/r/FO4mods/comments/hwrios/diamond_city_radio_more_recent_music_pack_mod/
Have fun. This mod is dedicated to everyone who loves freedom and abhors despotism.