This mod is epic. I recently went away from file based radios and decided to try this out, it still works as of 12/13/2025.

I have some improvements that I would recommend however:

*An array to add object classnames that would support FM radio funcitons.

*An array to add other object types to the supported list, I see it current supports "cars" but swapping it to an array might allow ["cars","air","sea"] for example.

*onPlayerDisconnected support to remove a radio spawned by a player that logged out.

*I seen on the github streamers also recommended a way to have a hard disable method for streamers so they don't get a dcma from the radios, might be a decent inclusion.


Also would love to talk to you about limitations you found during the testing phases of this mod.

apart from that the mod works well, nice job

Please can you add an option to remove server logs? This will be much more convenient as it spams the logs.

any installation instructions? how do i open/bring up the radio for use in game?

cheers

Is it possible to add custom radio URLs to scenarios that don't use a description.ext? I'm hosting an antistasi server for me and my friends and I'd really love to add more radio stations, but Antistasi doesn't seem to use any description.ext files. Simply creating one with nothing in it but
"class CfgRadioStations {
class my_station {
name = "My Radio FM";
url = "http://my-radio.fm/live";
};
};"
Doesn't do anything unfortunately

By any chance has anyone tested this on a 20+ multiplayer server?

can you make this work for .m3u as well?

EDIT: Apparently it has something to do with BattleEye being active. Turning off BattleEye in the launcher let's the mod work as intended. I didn't had this issue before with BattleEye being active. Also, BattleEye blocks the "live_radio_x64.dll".

Hello, I'd like to inform you that the mod isn't working anymore with the latest update - the radio stations are mute and don't play anything.

Regards

@disco the mod is working as default. the mod adds the radio to vehicles, and iirc the easiest way to use it is with ACE

so how do we actually get this to work? do we add an addaction to a object? do we sync a module to an object?
where are instructions on how to get this to work?

Check out my mod if you guys are looking for a large and diverse list. I have about 74 stations currently, with 150 planned.

I also tried creating a second mod to load after this one. Config.cpp is like this:

#define _ARMA_

class CfgPatches
{
class LiveRadio977
{
name = "Live Radio Haram";
author = "Schultz";
version = 1.0;
versionStr = "1.0.0";
versionAr[] = {1,0,0};
};
};
class CfgRadioStations
{
class s80s {
name = "80s80s";
url = "https://streams.80s80s.de/web/mp3-128";
};
class DanceWave {
name = "DanceWave Retro";
url = "http://dancewave.online:8080/retrodance.mp3";
};
class Italian80s {
name = "Feccia Italiana anni 80";
url = "http://maggie.torontocast.com:8118/;";
};
class Newwave80s {
name = "New Wave 80";
url = "http://puma.streemlion.com:2910/stream";
};
class DDR {
name = "DDR Radio";
url = "http://stream.laut.fm/ddr-rock";
};
};

still no luck

Hello first of all thanks for the mod! I am trying to "clone" it to use it on our LAN missions, because we use antistasi (no description.ext) and we want to add some stations.

I edited z\live_radio\addons\interface\CfgRadioStations.hpp and added some stations.

Then I edited z\live_radio\addons\interface\config.cpp from line 49 and added the same stations.

Packed with pboproject (no errors) and i'm just loading the edited version in game.

Still, I can only see the 3 default stations :(

Can you guide me somewhere please? Thanks

@agitar could you tell us the name of the website without putting the url then steam will delete it?

Playing Antistasi and not sure how to access the description.ext for it so I'd highly appreciate it if someone showed me how to access it or if the creator added the rest of the stations displayed in the screenshot because Classic Rock 109, Irish Radio and PulseEDM are the only ones that show up and I'd like to be able to play the other stations in the screenshot ingame too.

If you're looking for online radio stations to add, here's a webpage that lets you search for them:

{链接已删除}https://streamurl.link/

What URL's should or am I able to use?

This mod made my day. I don't know how it got pass my radar. Best music mod out there.

you want to go into the folder where the scenario is located, and then you want to make a new text file. you want to name this file "description" and make sure its filetype is ".ext". Once thats done, follow the steps at the bottom of the description. replace "my radio FM" with the name of the station, and then replace the url with the url that goes to radio station you want to add

I'm wanting to add it to a custom scenario I'm making

are you wondering for a custom scenario you have made, or one from the workshop? or do you want to add it to the mod itself?

Hi, loving the mod so far, just wondering how I can add more radio stations? I saw a comment from Theane about adding stations and I followed that, but still can't get any stations to show other than Classic Rock, Irish Radio, My Radio FM and the Pulse Electronic stuff

How to convert mp3 to streaming audio?

1:54:30 [LIVE_RADIO] (manager) live_radio::streams: ["DEBUG","no listeners, shutting down stream"]


What does this debug error mean?

Great mod.

only thing i can think of then would be for you to make your own local copy of the mod, and edit it to include the stations you want. (it uses the same format as the description.ext file would)

the newer antistasi mods aren't just missions but mods themselves, so I can't do the usual save mission and get a copy of it on your documents folder (also they don't allow normal arma saving because they have a persistent save system that works another way)

if its a workshop mission, you could maybe make a local copy of the mission (to prevent mod updates from reverting your changes). then you would just need to follow the same steps to add the radio stations to its description.ext

Hey, trying to add more stations to my local internet antistasi server but I don't have access to the mission's description.ext as it's a workshop mission, any other way or a tutorial to help me get by?

I'm so glad you are still developing this Brett. This mod is absolutely heaven sent. You're my hero, and everyone in the unit i use this with LOVES the added atmosphere. We are playing a custom gamemode in a particular place in the world, and the ability to add local radio channels from there of all sorts of local music styles just adds so much. I hope you will be motivated to continue working on this mod, it's really uniquely great, one of the best in all of arma (i say having played with all of the more and less popular mods since the A3 Alpha)

Update 0.8 is out, which should fix the crashing issues, as well as some performance improvements.

Changelog
https://github.com/BrettMayson/ArmaRadio/releases/tag/v0.8.0

Would it be possible to add a setting page in game to be able to also use custom radio stations with custom and vanilla missions?

Any chance you could tie it to a loud speaker object? That way we could place one anywhere in the server and it would play 3d sound. Example would be to have music at a trader area.

Brett it would be wonderful if you could adress the bug posted by @ChromeExterior and @Nodoka Hanamura. This mod is unprecedented and awesome, it deserves this final bit of love. All that's needed it a bit of script that closes the radio stream under following certain events, like mission ending etc.

@ChromExterior - Same issue is present in Multiplayer.

Hey, i found a glitch in singleplayer. Upon spawning a vehicle and turning on the radio, returning to the editor with the radio still on does not turn off the radio and the music keeps playing and there's no way to turn it off other than restarting the game entirely.

In regards to the Divide by zero error, I've got my dedi running at the moment. Seems to be working now, No crash for the last 5-6 mines.

Does anyone know places for radio stations to make this work, as any stations i put in (Url to them) they dont work

Is it only possible adding stations via the description.ext which is inside the missions pbo? Im having great difficulty getting things to work out with antistasi mostly because of unrelated problems.

nvm, figured it out simply by adding in description.ext

class CfgRadioStations {
class my_station {
name = "My Radio FM";
url = "http://my-radio.fm/live";
};
class my_station1 {
name = "My Radio FM";
url = "http://my-radio.fm/live";
};
class my_station2 {
name = "My Radio FM";
url = "http://my-radio.fm/live";
};
};

the list can be even longer simply by adding a new number after "class my_station"

how do i add more custom radio stations? i did get one to work in description.ext but i have not figured out how to add more

Hello, I just did some tests with 3 friends on our dedicated server. The problem is not fixed, error code 0xC0000094 - Status_INTERGER_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO. It usually happened when one of us was switching to different channel or changing volume.

I have released an update tonight that will hopefully address the divide by zero error. Please let me know if it persists.

Hi. Love the concept of this mod. The stream starts instant you turn it on, which is great for immersion.

However I am also getting the same error as user Urun below. Only I was playing singleplayer, without any other mod loaded, and it occurred within 2 minutes of play. Can send an RPT if you'd like. Good luck!

In dedicated server, there would be a random crash when someone plays music. Error code 0xC0000094 - Status_INTERGER_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO

What do I need to do if I want it to apply to aircraft?

@Valen, The music will play through your default audio output in windows. There is no way to change this in the current version

@Lk, only live internet radio is supported via CfgRadioStations

I want to ask, is there any other way to add music to this mod?