Internet Radio for Self Radio

[aLendo]

How about adding the option to type in internet radio adresses in the self radio in GTA. Listening to your favourite radio show in game would be awesome. Please someone make a mod for this.

[PROkrastinator]

YES! Do it! It would be great!

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

Originally posted by aLendo:

How about adding the option to type in internet radio adresses in the self radio in GTA. Listening to your favourite radio show in game would be awesome. Please someone make a mod for this.

How about no, just stream your own music and turn off in game music?
Stop asking for the most irrelevant things to make the actual game more broke
People are having enough issues let alone people ask for really irrelevant options

[aLendo]

Cause the way they have implemented the radio in the GTA games do so much to keep the game feeling alive, make me feel like I am in a real world and not just radio controlling a protagonist in a computer game. When I go into a car and the radio in the car would be tuned in to my local real life radio station, that would just make that feeling even better.

I didn't say anything about listening to my own music, I hate having to choose what to listen to, I get tired of the songs before I find new ones. And streaming it in the background, ala Spotify or Youtube would absolutely delete the feeling you get from having the radio on in a car.

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

Originally posted by aLendo:

Cause the way they have implemented the radio in the GTA games do so much to keep the game feeling alive, make me feel like I am in a real world and not just radio controlling a protagonist in a computer game. When I go into a car and the radio in the car would be tuned in to my local real life radio station, that would just make that feeling even better.

I didn't say anything about listening to my own music, I hate having to choose what to listen to, I get tired of the songs before I find new ones. And streaming it in the background, ala Spotify or Youtube would absolutely delete the feeling you get from having the radio on in a car.

Right, so now you want RS to pay for streaming licensing fees, which puts up the cost to your own gaming purchase?

[PROkrastinator]

Originally posted by Snake Plissken:

Right, so now you want RS to pay for streaming licensing fees, which puts up the cost to your own gaming purchase?

Explain that to me. Does Winamp, VLC or a game like Beathazzard have to pay fees for streaming support?
I don't know about streaming via Spotify or Youtube, maybe that could bring some licensing issues, but regular internet radio stations?

Would be great to have that - it should be no big deal to add .pls .m3u .asx or .ram support or maje just a .txt config to put link inside.

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

Anytime you air anything in public, you need to pay royalties, so bars restaurants etc, so yes streaming over the net is the same thing, you would need to pay a subscription fee

[PROkrastinator]

Originally posted by Snake Plissken:

Anytime you air anything in public, you need to pay royalties, so bars restaurants etc, so yes streaming over the net is the same thing, you would need to pay a subscription fee

You dont air it in public, the stations do, and you are the only one "ingame" that can hear it (same as with your mp3s), GTA custom radio would only be your local player.
For instance: if you open that link http://www.punkrockers-radio.de/playlists/punkrockers.pls in your VLC or Winamp they would not pay any fees and you neither.

As i wrote, some games like: Beat Hazzard already supporting .pls files.

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

Wow dude, a net broadcast is public, so oblivious

[PROkrastinator]

...and that why the broadcasters pay and not the listeners. In this case Rockstar would not be the broadcasters, the file, or the link to stream from, is on your computer.

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

Jesus dude, you somehow think it's legal to opt into a service which has already paid for royalties, then RS just pays nothing off their backs?
Erm, no

[PROkrastinator]

What service would that be? I can understand that Spotify or Youtube is a service, but a link is a link and a .pls is a file with a link. There are like a million internet radio stations, they can only see how much users are streaming, but not with what program, app or device.
Trust me, i know guys who are running such a station, and yes they are paying fees.

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

OK I will explain this easy, you do realize if you're in a restaraunt, if they're streaming RADIO music, they need a license to do this
So IF Rockstar allow an addin to allow music to be streamed via the net, without paying the artist any royalties, this is against the law, because you don't have the artist's approval to do so
This is what a royaltie allows 3rd parties to do so
You're talking about RS being that 3rd party but not paying any royalties
How much do you think they paid for the licensing for their in house music?

[PROkrastinator]

Ok than who is paying royalties if you tune in a random internet radio? You? Your webbrowser or your musicplayer company?

You must understand that the music you are streaming in "self radio" is not forwarded via the net even if you play online, therefore it is not public. It is the same thing as you open a link in your musicplayer.

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

You're missing the point, you're asking Rockstar to stream music for FREE when the station has already paid for the licensing to do so
I don't think you can understand the simplest of things

[PROkrastinator]

No, i am asking to support .pls or link support in the "selfradio" folder on my computer. The traffic of streamed media would not even go through rockstars servers.

Sorry for my bad english, im a lazy german...