WRAR - RadioActive Radio

Somewhere beneath the shattered streets of Roxbury, in an airless hole with broken walls and flickering lights, a long-forgotten machine toils in oblivious solitude. Old World voices call out to Boston-transformed, the after-hours broadcast playing an endless loop, awaiting the morning DJ who will never return. One day, the cores will run dry, and the voices will be silenced, forever. But for now, WRAR will continue to provide melodious comfort to world-weary wastelanders.

WRAR is a carefully curated selection of 159 Big Band and Swing hits (with just a touch of Blues and Jazz) covering a period from the late 30s to the early 60s that marked the pinnacle of that genre. That's almost 8 hours of music. The primary criteria for inclusion were 1) Lore-Friendliness and 2) compatibility with each other. Oh, and they had to be songs I'd willingly listen to over and over and over again. These songs are similar to what you would hear on Diamond City Radio, minus the Jump Blues and Rockabilly. There are a few instrumentals but also a strong bias toward songs with vocals. I am a huge fan of the mods "More Where That Comes From" and "Elvani's Track Pack", and have (hopefully) avoided overlap with any songs found in those mods, on DCR, RNV, or GNR. FWIW, I'm also a big fan of "Atomic Radio", but I'm still looking for their playlist.

Included, just for flavor, is about 7 minutes (all total) of lore-friendly DJ chatter, popping up every half-hour or so.  This was recorded by an experienced voice actor on professional-grade equipment (not me on my gaming mic like I tried at first). The DJ serves up PSAs, adverts, sports & weather to immersively set the station in the Fallout universe version of Boston on the night before the bombs fell.  Or, if you'd rather not, you can just "mute" the DJ (more below). Here's a sample on SoundCloud of what the DJ sounds like.

WRAR comes with a workshop-buildable radio object (looks just like the stock radios), pre-tuned to RadioActive Radio. It can be found under "Decorations -> Miscellaneous" or, maybe, "Decorations -> Mods - Miscellaneous", depending upon whether or not you're running Workshop Rearranged (which I highly recommend).

An optional (short) quest mod was added with version 2. 0, packaged separately. If you don't want quests with your radio mods, feel free to ignore it. Even if you do choose to give it a try, it has been built as an "ESPfe" (light plugin) so it won't take up a precious ESP slot in your load order (but you can still sort it). It includes support for (but not a requirement for) "Canary Save File Monitor" to help detect and troubleshoot instances of a certain base game bug.

Have you ever wondered where the music was coming from, or how it managed to keep coming? Now, with "Old World Swing", you can find out, plus get to know the whole WRAR gang a little better t