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[Regret Truth]

Details from the various GTA 5 PC thread today....

Confirmed to be in the game. Station is called Self Radio.

PC Gamer is doing a Q/A in their Disqus forums

EDIT:

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/04/08/five-reasons-why-the-pc-version-could-be-the-best-gta-v-edition.aspx

Custom Soundtracks
It may not be the Spotify integration we were hoping for, but Rockstar is letting players make their own radio station using music files on their computer. After putting copies of song selections into a specific folder, you can listen to them on the Self Radio station. An auto scan will identify new songs as you add them upon starting the game.

Players have a few different options for listening to these custom soundtracks. You can play them sequentially, shuffle the collection, or have Rockstar integrate them into a radio experience complete with commercial breaks, station IDs, bumpers, and banter between DJs Cliff Lee and Andee, who you may remember from Lips 106 in Liberty City Stories. In the pause menu you can choose whether you want to have the songs play in the order you have them in the folder or to let the game analyze the collection and build a playlist order.

If you don’t want to build your own station, you can enjoy some new tunes on the in-game stations courtesy of Rockstar. For the PC version, the developer added The Lab FM, hosted by Alchemst and Oh No, to the rotation. Artists featured on this eclectic new station include Earl Sweatshirt of OFWGKTA fame, Little Dragon, Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio, Phantogram, Freddie Gibbs, Gangrene, Future Islands’ Samuel Herring, and more.

 

[Rex Griswold]

I can use FLAC files too right?

 

[-COOLIO-]

Wow, that's really neat! I'll take advantage of this for sure.

Makes me hopeful that they might implement VR down the line, maybe.... Possibly.......................... Please?

 

[Nyteshade517]

I had just made a thread because I didn't know if you were doing it or not..lol

I asked for mine to be closed

 

[Dusktildawn48]

R* being amazing once more

 

[Cramoss]

Can't wait to play some of that sweet synthwave while driving at night with neon lights. damn

 

[The Lone Courier]

Sounds good.

 

[Seanspeed]

 

[wanders]

Can't wait to play some of that sweet synthwave while driving at night with neon lights. damn

I'm having a similar idea!!!

 

[OverturePT]

Finally, the progressive rock/metal station GTA deserves.



Riverside is going to get blasted from all cars in Los Santos.

 

[Stitch]

aww yiss, gonna listen to some j and k-pop

 

[chrominance]

Who was hoping for Spotify integration instead of MP3 (and hopefully FLAC?) support? Crazy people? Give me MP3 support any day, especially when you can mix in radio banter like this. (I think San Andreas had the same feature?)

 

[Nyteshade517]

I can try to make a station based on some of my favorite songs used in recent NFS games...or an early 2000's rock station...or...

too many ideas

 

[Derp]

Players have a few different options for listening to these custom soundtracks. You can play them sequentially, shuffle the collection, or have Rockstar integrate them into a radio experience complete with commercial breaks, station IDs, bumpers, and banter between DJs Cliff Lee and Andee, who you may remember from Lips 106 in Liberty City Stories.

Holy shit. This is just the greatest thing ever. The third option. Yes. Yes please. Fuck yes.

 

[Cramoss]

yes!

 

[ffejeromdiks]

yes!

Wonder how long before someone creates a Ryan Gosling player model lol.

 

[skullmuffins]

Does GTA V let you listen to the radio while on foot or does it only work when you're in a vehicle?

 

[gelf]

Good news. Like with GTA4 I'll probably fill it with the best cheesy movie and tv car chase music. Can't beat driving around like Frank Drebin to the Police Squad theme.

 

[Derp]

Does GTA V let you listen to the radio while on foot or does it only work when you're in a vehicle?

Vehicle only I'm pretty sure.

 

[Daverid]

Time to prepare all that Perturbator, Hotline Miami, Kavinsky, Miami Nights 1984 etc.

So fucking happy we've finally got confirmation on this, SO keen.

 

[Fox318]

Wonder how long before someone creates a Ryan Gosling player model lol.

 

[Dennis]

GTA Drive here we go!

 

[Nyteshade517]

Does GTA V let you listen to the radio while on foot or does it only work when you're in a vehicle?

unless they added something else to the game it's just in-car only and not while walking around like in WD

 

[jet1911]

Wonder how long before someone creates a Ryan Gosling player model lol.

Let's hope that GTAV will be a lot more mod friendly than Max Payne 3 :/

 

[robertlebrone]

Time to get my playlist ready.

 

[lem0n]

Can't wait to add some of the GTA San Andreas soundtrack to the mix

 

[_machine]

I can use FLAC files too right?

Don't know, but I imagine that the support is not a given, since that would require quite a lot of more memory to stream and it is an additional codec to implement that is not as popular as mp3. Hoping for it still, but I'm not holding my breath since GTA IV didn't support them either.

 

[jmizzal]

Does GTA V let you listen to the radio while on foot or does it only work when you're in a vehicle?

Only in a car, unless you are in a garage or house

I did like how Watch Dogs let you play songs from you phone on foot

 

[Nyteshade517]

I can imagine that people will want to tell each other their playlists once this is officially out

 

[Derp]

Good news. Like with GTA4 I'll probably fill it with the best cheesy movie and tv car chase music. Can't beat driving around like Frank Drebin to the Police Squad theme.

They should make it a requirement for everyone to have "Bad Boys" somewhere in their tracklist.

 

[Cramoss]

Only in a car, unless you are in a garage or house

I did like how Watch Dogs let you play songs from you phone on foot

yeah, I really liked that

but it's PC, so expect some mods probably

 

[Regret Truth]

I can use FLAC files too right?

Doubt it. Did GTA IV support FLAC?

Who was hoping for Spotify integration instead of MP3 (and hopefully FLAC?) support? Crazy people? Give me MP3 support any day, especially when you can mix in radio banter like this. (I think San Andreas had the same feature?)

Agreed. FLAC and any streaming service would be very unlikely.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

Hotline Miami 2 OST. Yes? Yes.

 

[Yeul]

Time to put literally every song in these videos into a playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTfQW_nA1s8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa39QC7rDHs

Really cool though that we can choose to have commercial breaks/commentary too.

 

[digitalrelic]

This seriously just keeps getting better and better.

 

[Nyteshade517]

I'll have to try and get Trevor driving along to Queens of The Stone Age "No One Knows" at least once

 

[TheAbsolution]

That's awesome. I loved the DJs in Gta 3. Happy to see them return.

 

[Dries]

I am going to build the best Southern California (country) Rock playlist ever. Think of it:

The Eagles, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Gram Parsons, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, CSN&Y, Ryan Adams.....

 

[Tagyhag]

Players have a few different options for listening to these custom soundtracks. You can play them sequentially, shuffle the collection, or have Rockstar integrate them into a radio experience complete with commercial breaks, station IDs, bumpers, and banter between DJs Cliff Lee and Andee, who you may remember from Lips 106 in Liberty City Stories.

Wow they really are going above and beyond. They could have just stuck with a custom soundtrack and that's it. Heck, people were worried we wouldn't get a custom channel at all!

 

[ComputerBlue]

The integration with radio banter and commercials is such an amazing feature.

 

[An-Det]

Being able to turn your music into a legit radio station is pretty crazy and an awesome addition. I loved using my own music in gta 4 on pc, so I'll use this all the time.

 

[Randy]

Toto - Africa confirmed.

 

[Nyteshade517]

Santana (w/ Everlast) - "Put Your Lights On"
Queens of The Stone Age - "No One Knows"
Nero - "Satisfy" (Forza Horizon 2)
Pendulum - "Watercolour" (NFS Hot Pursuit)
Dead Sara - "Weatherman" (NFS Most Wanted)

no set genre for me...lol

 

[RK9039]

Kpop confirmed.

 

[UrbanRats]

Cool, basically what GTA4 had.

 

[Ainsz]

Good news. Like with GTA4 I'll probably fill it with the best cheesy movie and tv car chase music. Can't beat driving around like Frank Drebin to the Police Squad theme.

So this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=nGvbfKTS7ag

 

[Moonlight]

Can't wait to shoot cops to the soothing sounds of Mass Destruction.

 

[Yarbskoo]

I hope I can still use a shortcut to my music folder, otherwise I probably just won't bother if I have to copy all of my music files over.

 

[SlickVic]

Delay was well worth it if it meant giving them time to put this feature in (along with hopefully performance optimizations for the game itself). Awesome.

 

[NIN90]

Erm, I think this has been a stable ever since GTA3. The commercial breaks and DJs are new though.