If you're looking for online radio stations in Project Zomboid, check out my new mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3570220139

less work for me :)

somebody reuploaded yours without even proper credits to original autor.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3568540249

@nikorasu, check the discussions above these comments, there is an option in the game settings.

is there a way to stop the radio static from playing when the music is playing?

Hi so I’m gonna upload the mod to GitHub this weekend and will also do a debug session this weekend.
Goals:
get vinyl player working
Fix all remaining issues ( boombox, wutman fixes)

So if anybody got issues please open a discussion and provide information or comment on the git link which I will provide. Also I’m happy to show you a sneek peek on my planned mods for PZ.

Cheers

Why do you play music from a cassette and from the radio at the same time?

None of the cars spawn with a cassette deck and non of the items to play the cassettes spawn either! I have soooo many cassettes spawning but no way to play them sadly

@meesteq

Subscribe to this mod, subscribe to casette mods (that are ported to B42)

Activate mods in-game

mod load order should be:

Casette mods
True Music 42
TSAR's library

that should be it.

Soo do I need to press the subscribe button only for this mod to work with other music addons? Or should I do other steps like the ones described in the original true music mod?

@scrappy coco
totally fresh game! as in, true music has been installed from the start!

@Prxxy did you test this with a fresh game or old save?

The Boombox appears with missing textures in my game world. The mobile player does have working textures. Vinyl Player I wasn't able to test yet.

@LaRu <3
@Francoti i will try to change this over the weekend.

@scrappy coco
Thank you for reply. I was not aware that spawning of cassettes is done by another mod. I have found mod that was causing issues with spawning and developer of that mod has already promised to fix it over weekend.

I appreciate you finding time to help me guide right way.

@scrappy coco exactly the problem is that when using inventory tetris the base inventory is very limited compared to vanilla so for this reason i can t use it without equipping it in any of my hands because it s bigger, i don t know if its easier to make it attachable or modify tetris mod or make a patch that makes the item smaller, anyways thanks for answering

@LaRu
spawnrates of casettes is done in the Truemusic Addon MOD. Not by this MOD.

I'm having issues with cassettes spawning way too frequently, it seems that spawn rates went crazy after update. Is there way to change it, i could not find in settings.

Thank you for mod :)

@stiffsocks2002 so this is very strange, on my old safe nothing is gone.
Could you please open a discussion and post logs? Try to find new devices also please, maybe updating the mod delete faulty ones? i dont know because i cant replicate this behavior yet.

@Francoti so i tested it, i can use if just in my inventory, not the backpack, but i can see, the options are showing when in the backpack but the menu closes instantly if you try to open it.
so i think this should be fixable. So you can use the wutman while its in your backpack

@Cryptic this is a b42 mod :>

yeah this mod aint working anymore when i booted up my world from a few days ago there is question marks on my cassettes and my Walkman and boombox have disappeared and the cassette player in my car is gone as well what do i do to fix this?

@scrappy coco for now it only works when it s equipped in the hands, because inventory tetris does n t let you hold anything without restrictions like vanilla at the time you unequipped it from any of both hands the "device options" option disappear and making stop playing music when equipping a two handed weapon or something else

Does this mod no longer work with B41 servers after the last update? car radios and boom boxes have disappeared off my server and the Original mod doesn't work either

@Francoti i can try it. dont know how but maybe i can figure this out.
I dont know for sure but the Wutman should be useable even its on Backpack. But im not sure. Could you try this for me?
i will add your request to the ToDo list :D

can you please make that the Walkman can be attached to the belt, cause using it with inventory tetris is super uncomfortable, i tried learning modding so i can make that simple edit but i don t understand at all and i don t have much time cause exams and work, please

im try this out today

Much love <3 @Švedski Šved iz Švedske. Thanks for your support :)

also there is still problem with a Junk container, which gets created, hmmm (missing translation? O.o). But playing music with the Boombox is working again.

Vinyl actually didn'r work at all months ago. The reason was: Vinyl's couldn't be inserted into the Vinyl player. A week ago or so I tried and it seemed to work fine, didn't test much though, could be wrong!

Thanks again! I'll be playing Zomboid a little bit this week, we'll see if I can give any feedback. :)

Updated. Please feedback!
Wutman should work fine now.
Boombox aswell (little bug - sometimes its show two Context Menus - still dont know why - lol)

About Vinyl - didnt check it yet. Maybe next weekend? :D

Np :). Looks like i got it. Testing now boombox and Wutman.
About the Vinylplayer - i cant say if get this thing to work too.
But Boombox and Wutman looking promising now :D. Cleaning up debuglogs atm and testing stuff.
Update: boombox now placeable again and Menu working (Cassette Deck).
Will update more soon.

Bless you once again for yer work :3

making progress, boombox might work soon xD

@hunterr im working on fix but this one seems to be a bit harder to fix :E. My weekend is booked :D

Yeah once you haved placed the boombox a while it doesnt work anymore and you get errors when you click on it. The music also stops playing if you move away too far.

@OgnirRats thanks again. I see now. Lets see if i can fix it.

- boombox and vinyl player errors

@OgnirRats Thank you very much! If there is anything i need to change from my side let me know. I will test placing items - i didnt test this to be honest :D

@Rachel L scroll down the comments, someone recently asked this.

It's a setting in the ADDON mod that actually adds the music, not the base mod (which is this).

How does one lower the ammount of music that spawns when usiing other mods? I keep finding places with 3+ tapes

im updating the template for easier use of function.I keep encountering an error and traced it back to true music b42, specifically upon opening the mods custom items, both the boombox and vinyl playr. Seemingly encountering the error when the item is first placed on the ground, upon opening the device option menu (then slightly shifting player to reload containers around you) produces a phantom container with what looks like a speaker icon. Relatively harmless minus the fact that it seems to spawn randomized loot (seems junk table), and throwing up an error for missing igui tittle for tcmusic.

@turky_jery look at the discussions above the comments. It's a setting you can change in-game.

how would one turn down the sound of the radio static its SUPER loud and i got no clue how to either turn it down or off entirely

Thank you for your reply. I currently have severely crashes in my current run and I dont know if I am able to fix them, but I was able to locate the error log and will post it under the discussion thread from a user named Hunter. Seems that others experience the error too.

The workshop ID from the mod you posted on this site is
Version: 2.15
Workshop ID: 2613146550
Mod ID: truemusic

But I found it unter the ID: 3397198968 in the mods folder because the ID you posted here doesnt exist in my folder. Thanks for the help.

If I cannot recover my save file, I have to downgrade back to build 41 again. Sad to loose a playthrough just because of chunk errors but on the other side, your mod will be working again. Never had a problem with true music on build 41.

@Kris we can investigate your problem. Please open a Discussion and post the logs of you session.

So please share the full error log from C:\Users\YourName\Zomboid\console.txt or C:\Users\YourName\Zomboid\Logs , including any "Caused by" details? (look for logs files named "2025-08-17_18-04_DebugLog.txt" as example).

this would help a lot.

Also please explain "Somehow the Workshop ID is different (3397198968)" i dont understand why it is diffrent.

How do you change how much each tape weighs?

Thank you for your reply. Somehow the Workshop ID is different (3397198968) and I changed the settings and doubled it. Could not find the Boombox. I spawned them in dev mode and encountered another strange problem. After spawning the items, I restarted without dev mode and put a cassette in a box and turned it on. So far so good... but after that I was not able to open the device options nor was able to pick it up again. You cannot select it anymore. I have to uninstall the mod and hope the Box will disappear because I have now a unselectable Boombox play a 30 minute mixtape. I am not writing this for critizising, rather to give an information about this happening. Maybe others have encountered the same?

@Dr.Maggozer spawnrates of casettes is done in the Truemusic Addon MOD. Not by this MOD.

Hey i'm not sure if ive done something wrong or maybe there's a simple fix im just not seeing but i was wondering if there's a way to lower the spawnrates of casettes? Every building i look in will have like 10+ in every wardrobe and drawer in a house.

@Kris look for ~*\TrueMusic_b42\media\lua\server\Items\TCLoading.lua
This file is responsable for spawnrates of the players. Just increase the number.

like this:

table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["LivingRoomShelfNoTapes"].items, "Tsarcraft.TCVinylplayer")
table.insert(ProceduralDistributions["list"]["LivingRoomShelfNoTapes"].items, 2) -- from 0.5 to 2

I really like this mod and I dont know if its just bad luck, but despite finding some cassettes from other music mods, I have not found in over 30 days a single Boombox or VinylPlayer (havent found Vinyls too). I play on the map mod Raven Creek which was updated to Build 42. Is there something I have to do or is it just bad luck? The loot spawn is normal or rare and I would love listen to the cassettes I have (the cassettes in the cars are there, that tells me the mod is working) but I cannot find a Boombox.

@scrappy coco I tried the new update and is now working fine, no more errors. Thank you for your hardwork