Random Radio

The music'll find you. - Johnny Silverhand

If you're like me, you get bored listening to only a single station at a time when you're traveling around Night City, and wish you could just mix all the stations together, considering there's good music (and interesting news) on multiple different stations. And not only that, but it feels like you hear some songs too much and other songs never enough. Well, now there's a fix for that.

With this mod, every time you listen to your personal radio (in RadioPort, the Metro, or when driving a vehicle), the songs that play will be randomly selected from only what you've allowed to play (no matter what station they come from), and (by default) no song will play twice until every song (that you allow) has had a chance to play once.

Quick note: Only in-game music is supported. Other radio mod music like RadioExt is not. See 'Untested Potential Issues' below.

This mod also specifically lets the news and station identifications play, for extra immersion. And includes an on-screen notification for each song as it comes on, nice and big so you can actually read it. Or even set the track to display on your vehicle's dashboard. Or turn any of that off if you don't want it.

As a bonus, this mod will turn on your radio when you get in a vehicle. And let you control your RadioPort more intuitively: want it to automatically turn on (when allowed) and be on all the time? Or want to turn it off and force it to be off all the time? You pick. If you want it on, it stays on (when allowed). If you want it off, it stays off. Simple and intuitive.

And there's one final function to help you manage your playlist: The Forced setting, which temporarily Forces the song(s) you want to play. This way you can hear specific songs on request without messing up your overall playlist.

After a Forced song plays once, it will slip back into the 'On' list silently in the background. You can Force more than one song, in which case they'll play randomly until they've each played once and slip into your regular On playlist one by one as they're played. But I recommend using On for your main playlist and only Forcing songs as needed.

How to use:

This mod requires redscript. In addition, unless you want to run with the default settings and every song enabled, then you also need Mod Settings. Mod Settings itself requires ArchiveXL and RED4ext.

Once all that's installed, go into Mod Settings and adjust your settings. Turn On the songs you want, turn Off the songs you don't, and Force the songs you want to hear first (to help you decide whether to turn them On or Off). Honestly, that's pretty much it. You're done. If you're the kind of person that doesn't like to read very much, you can stop here, that's really all you need t