Radio controls

[Kethevin]

I know how to turn the radio on and change stations (without pressing R) but is there a way to turn it off while my view remains in the cab?

[TwinShadow]

Well I looked into the controls, but there's nothing to actually stop it without having to go into the radio screen. Just playing next/previous favorite and the volume controls.

[BOYCOTT]

the radio is this game is beyond useless, get winamp, don't install the other crap the installer asks you to (ads), setup global hotkeys for song next, song back, play and set pause to the same as play as well.

[ for last, ] for next, \ for pause/play works extremely well for the most part.

[TwinShadow]

The in-game radio serves my needs. Plays the 181.1 FM station I listen to all the time just fine. Not being able to pause in-game is a minor set back, but I can overlook it.

[Trego]

I just assigned keys to increase and decrease the volume .. simples

[BOYCOTT]

Originally posted by TwinShadow:

The in-game radio serves my needs. Plays the 181.1 FM station I listen to all the time just fine. Not being able to pause in-game is a minor set back, but I can overlook it.

i will admit, i'm an audiophile so my demands from a music player are much higher, heck i spent $300 on a receiver, another $200 on a pair of speakers (Klipsch reference II, love them) and a subwoofer for around the $200 mark or so to use with my computer because i couldn't find a good 5.1 computer speaker set anymore these days.

so yeah, i am that whackjob who uses two media players and goes out of their way to try to find ways to get a better randomization algorithm so you don't feel like it's just a playlist that makes minor variations.

[Sodacan70]

I had the same issue but made a bit of a workaround without using the volume:

In your config folder there should be a file called live_streams.ssi config file.
Mine was in C:/Users/.../Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/live_streams.ssi

in this file you will see a list of all of the available streams e.g.
stream_data[0]: "http://ice-the.musicradio.com:80/LBC973MP3Low|LBC||EN|0|0"
stream_data[1]: "http://edge-bauersefm-04-cr.sharp-stream.com/vinylfm_instream_se_mp3?|Vinyl 107|60's, 70's & 80's|SE|96|0"
stream_data[2]: "http://media-ice.musicradio.com/SmoothLondonMP3|Smooth Radio|70s and 80s|EN|128|0"

All I did was open the file in Notepad & add a dummy stream to the end:

stream_data[256]: "http://fake.fk/fake.mp3|RADIO OFF|RADIO OFF|EN|0|0"

Once saved, I went in game and selected my own RADIO OFF stream as one of my favourite streams. To switch the radio off I just select the dummy stream in the same way I'd switch channel.

[BobMaster]

Originally posted by BOYCOTT:

the radio is this game is beyond useless, get winamp, don't install the other crap the installer asks you to (ads), setup global hotkeys for song next, song back, play and set pause to the same as play as well.

[ for last, ] for next, \ for pause/play works extremely well for the most part.

I am trying to get the global Winamp hotkeys to work, but every time I start ETS2, they no longer respond.
Is there a trick getting them to work ?