Overview
How to add custom radio stations to Beat Hazard
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)SteamSteamAppscommonBeat Hazard
or
C:Program FilesSteamSteamAppscommonBeat 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
[link]
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:
[link]
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!