Enhancement: disable radio chatter

[Crunch Berries]

There needs to be an easy way to disable radio chatter. I know how to do it by editing/replacing .dav files, but it's a real pain (harder now that the radio files are inside ap files). This shouldn't be difficult to implement (maybe a hot spot on the radio to turn it off in each train). If I hear "Foreman Dan Hernandez" one more time, I might scream...

[fyoLt6HJmeBGy2kmVekR]

Totally agree! A toggle option to disable this should be put in place. The repeating chatter is so annoying "Take it to the hook, take it to the hook!" and "Foreman Dan Hernandez" are the main annoyances :)

[6000 Chipmunks]

Great, I was hoping this was fixed. :( Now, I've got 4 hours in ONE scenario of listening to this stuff. :(

[DTG_Martin]

Originally posted by Crunch Berries:

There needs to be an easy way to disable radio chatter. I know how to do it by editing/replacing .dav files, but it's a real pain (harder now that the radio files are inside ap files). This shouldn't be difficult to implement (maybe a hot spot on the radio to turn it off in each train). If I hear "Foreman Dan Hernandez" one more time, I might scream...

A great suggestion Crunch Berries. I will pass it on to our Train Simulator development team to consider adding in a future version of TS. Thank you for getting in touch.

- Martin

[Wizard]

Originally posted by ScottyT:

"Foreman Dan Hernandez"

After driving the Horseshoe curve for over an hour it started to sound like "[...]those damn bananas". But yeah the radio loop should be a lot longer to not want you kill someone or they just actually say coherrent sentences or something.

[Mavadelo]

I simply use railroadradio.net for those routes, yes you still here foreman dan but it is mixed in with normal real life radio chatter making it a whole lot less annoying

[Growler]

Originally posted by Mavadelo:

I simply use railroadradio.net for those routes, yes you still here foreman dan but it is mixed in with normal real life radio chatter making it a whole lot less annoying

Great link. I wasn't aware of that site. Note also, that you can disable the radio chatter for any of your locos by making a relatively minor edit the radio sound file. For those interested in such an option, here's the link for a simple code edit (if you're going to use, please do back up your original sound file(s) first, just in case something goes amiss)

Click here for link[railworksamerica.com]

I think I'm going to record some of the real live chatter, and replace the irritating small sound loop that comes with these US locos.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Crunch Berries:

There needs to be an easy way to disable radio chatter. I know how to do it by editing/replacing .dav files, but it's a real pain (harder now that the radio files are inside ap files). This shouldn't be difficult to implement (maybe a hot spot on the radio to turn it off in each train). If I hear "Foreman Dan Hernandez" one more time, I might scream...

Thanks! I never paid enough attn to know what they said, or care. Now I'll hear it. And it'll annoy me :'(

[ReIntegration]

I've tried replacing the current .dav files with newer radio chatter but it doesn't work. You just don't hear anything. So I put back the original .dav files.

[ReIntegration]

Originally posted by Growler:

Originally posted by Mavadelo:

I simply use railroadradio.net for those routes, yes you still here foreman dan but it is mixed in with normal real life radio chatter making it a whole lot less annoying

Great link. I wasn't aware of that site. Note also, that you can disable the radio chatter for any of your locos by making a relatively minor edit the radio sound file. For those interested in such an option, here's the link for a simple code edit (if you're going to use, please do back up your original sound file(s) first, just in case something goes amiss)

Click here for link[railworksamerica.com]

I think I'm going to record some of the real live chatter, and replace the irritating small sound loop that comes with these US locos.

If you figure out how to do this please post how you did it. I have a audio (.wav) file or live radio chatter and tried to replace it with the ones on the game and it does not work. I tried putting them in a wav and dav files and it won't play. I even updated the XML file and still the radio chatter is off now. Only when I put the original dav file back it will work again. Am I doing something wrong or missing a step?

[SteffenLS]

Originally posted by DTG_Martin:

Originally posted by Crunch Berries:

There needs to be an easy way to disable radio chatter. I know how to do it by editing/replacing .dav files, but it's a real pain (harder now that the radio files are inside ap files). This shouldn't be difficult to implement (maybe a hot spot on the radio to turn it off in each train). If I hear "Foreman Dan Hernandez" one more time, I might scream...

A great suggestion Crunch Berries. I will pass it on to our Train Simulator development team to consider adding in a future version of TS. Thank you for getting in touch.

- Martin

Any news on this subject Martin ?

[OldAlaskaGuy]

I use railroad radio net at least the chatter changes and you can adjust the volume level in windows.