How to Add Radio Streams To American Truck Simulator

This guide is useful for those who have never added radio stations before. If you don't know how to change your radio stations, this guide can help! I will show you how to add new stations. I initially created this guide because I didn't like the American radio line-up and wanted to listen to Euro Truck Radio while playing American Truck Simulator!

Refer to my disclaimer, please!

Disclaimer

Unfortunately, you cannot add your local radio station. Local radio stations such as Virgin Radio are licensed by-law and are not allowed to be distributed. Most of these streams are run off a player or encrypted, making it an effort to get. You can only add stations that run off a .mp3 stream, in the image below, you can see every radio station ends with the MP3 extension, so make sure yours has the same extension before continuing! You can find lots of MP3 streams by going to https://www.shoutcast.com/.

Finding a Shoutcast Stream Link

To start off by finding the stream link, go to www.SHOUTcast.com. Right click and select Inspect. You can also hold CTRL+SHIFT+I.


Next, go to the console tab in your developer menu and start playing the station you want. For example, I chose this random station. The link is displayed in console after "..but requested an insecure video". You don't need the "?icy=http" at the end, so snip it off if you want.


If your link doesn't have a .mp3 extension, just make sure it's an MP3 stream and copy the link, then add it to your live_streams.sii folder!

Radio List Location

Your radio list is located in your Documents folder under American Truck Radio. In the address bar you can see my name is Tyler, so my location would be "C:\Users\Tyler\Documents\American Truck Simulator"


The file is named "live_streams.sii". If you never opened the file before, it may ask what program you want to use with it. Open with notepad, and it should look something like this:

Adding Radio Stations

Looking at this previous screenshot, refer to one of the lines that start with "stream_data[x]".

When adding a new radio station, we need to make sure each radio station has it's own number under x, so there shouldn't be two stations that say "stream_data[1]" for example.

We are going to add Euro Truck Radio on our queue, even though it's already here. To do this, copy one of the lines and paste it before the bracket, like this:

Don't forget to change x!

Now that you created a new entry for your station, go ahead and find the URL for the station you want. Euro Truck Radio's station link is "http://radio.eurotruckradio.com:8002/;stream.mp3"


If you wanted to add other things such as genre, language and Bit-rate, follow this format:

stream_data[x]: "http://linkhere|station name|genre|language|bitrate"

[jwb2]

Can someone add Reno's Alt 92.1 for me nobody's ever added it and it doesn't have any mp3 format for it anywhere.

[geomodelrailroader]

If you are looking for streams do not use Shoutcast or Radionomy both websites shut down during the pandemic which makes all streams that use their services in ATS worthless. Town Square on the other hand bought Clear Channel and I-Heart and all of their streams are MP3 use those.

[Trillium]

Thank you KubKegger, I followed your method and it worked perfectly!

[KubKegger]

2/2 a good way to be sure is to wait for the radio station to start playing and see if a new link pops up. if so right click that link and go to copy and link source. then paste that into your list. if nothing pops, hit ctrl-r and reload/reset the inspect pane. if the page reloads follow from beginning, if it worked right you should now see the active stream only or a new stream link should have appeared. from there just do the copy link thing. and presto you should have your stream

[KubKegger]

Also a good Pro tip, If you want to find the source of your favorite radio stations live stream head to tune in radio, see if you station is there. if so right click anywhere on the page where the streaming can be played and select "inspect" a side window will open, now at the top of that side pane look for a tab that says "Network" click it. once done slightly below that your going to see a bunch of file types, click on the one that says "Media" now the inspect console will filter out and only show you media streams, hit play on the page you should see some things pop up. be careful at this point as advertisments can be mistaken for the stream. .

[KubKegger]

Just a heads up for **LINUX** users your file will be found in your home folder under "$.local/share/American Truck Simulator/" AND The "Music" folder will be found here too.

[jdavid1278]

Will it allow the mp4 streams from Pandora?

[Baldussimo]

Thank you for this.

[Fidel]

There are a ton of stations here that you can add. I just added a few with no problems using this method.

https://www.internet-radio.com/

[geomodelrailroader]

KSL News Radio works I just tried it