A comprehensive list of removed music and music added in?

[Hellblazer]

Can anyone make a full list of the songs removed by the patch, and the music added in to the game?

[Vell]

I don't understand why they took the songs out of already purchased games. I have Vice City, and San Andreas, and I never had music removed. Seriously, I bought the game, I deserve to have the original music. I can understand removing it from copies recently purchased after the licenses run out, but to take it from pre existing owners is ludicrous. I also find it stupid that they refuse to fix their game, or at least take GFWL out of the equation and port the game to Steamworks (yes I am aware there is a way to remove it on your own, that is besides the point)

[Makhno Anarchist]

Without the song "Schweine" this game is not worth playing anymore. Imagine if movies were striped of their soundtracks after a few years too. This is so wrong!

[Tharon]

Originally posted by Vell:

I don't understand why they took the songs out of already purchased games. I have Vice City, and San Andreas, and I never had music removed.

Vice city no, but San Andras had a number of songs removed.

[Marcin_89]

I don`t care because i`m not listening to the radio in the game.

[CheekyChan]

They can sit there and remove over half the songs in the game but they can't be half assed to actually update this garbage to work properly? I guess C*ockstar strikes again.

[Aaron]

I'm just glad modding communities exist and quickly reverse this kind of stupidity from the devs.

[Ephysona]

Guys. You're not seeing the big picture. ElectroChoc and Massive B were both untouched. Those are, like, the two best radio stations in the game. Chill.

[Ephysona]

Originally posted by nomorevideos:

Why do these licenses expire in the first place? How licenses should work is, you license a song and it should be the publisher's/dev's "property"/unlimited use for that initial release of the game. If they ever re-release it couple of years later, licenses should be re-aquired if needed. It shouldn't be a mess like this.

That's not how it works. Maybe you should look up how licensing works? People want to keep earning money off their works. It's just how it works, my dude. That's the world. Any music that was made for the game itself, i.e. the loading/menu music, any interactive music, etc., that's theirs to keep until the end of time, because it was created under the IP. But when you're using other unrelated IP's, it's not your "property." You don't "own" it. You're borrowing it. And they want something in return. And the longer you borrow it, the more they want in return.

[Xx_Elite420Gamer69_xX]

people need to actually grow up and learn that crying about ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ doesnt do anything

[PCPαnamαCrεw™]

so if they remove the mix of the bahama mamas how you can complete the mission that you have to dance there?

[dimizuno]

Originally posted by Lain Iwakura:

That's not how it works. Maybe you should look up how licensing works? People want to keep earning money off their works. It's just how it works, my dude. That's the world.

They got a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money 10 years ago. If the music industry would not be so greedy and Rockstar/Take-Two would care a little more for their customers, it would be perfectly fine to license those songs forever at a fixed price ... or with a share in profits for each sold game.

[Essedus]

If you bought the product before the license expired on the music, you own the entirety of the content. The expired license for the music only means rockstar can't sell copies of the game with the music in it after expiration, they arent required to retroactively strip the music from the games already bought and paid for

The problem we face is rockstar doesn't give enough of a ♥♥♥♥ to make a distinction between the two. They can still make money off digital gta4 sales, so they strip out the music so they can still sell it.

What they SHOULD be doing is removing the ability to purchase gta4 in its original state on steam, and uploading the new version with the songs stripped out for purchase instead if they want to continue selling it. While still maintaining the ability for users to download the original product if they bought it before hand.

They COULD absolutely do this, it's not beyond the scope of ability by any stretch of the imagination, they just don't give enough of a damn to do it in a way that doesn't give a big ♥♥♥♥ you to the player base.

They chose to go the path of least resistance.

[Plank]

Or if your smart like me you download a older patch online, I mean, like any modding forum.

[RichManSCTV0™]

This is crap. I want a refund

[⎛⎝GracefulFlynBlob⎠⎞]

just rip off u tube or buy the music, convert the files into MP3 format and put them in here.

C:\Users\(computer name)\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\User Music


Independence FM plays all the lost songs. plus much much much more with or without the radio's funny ads going on. You can skip songs, make it go on random or let the radio mode do its thing.