HTFCustomRadio

HTF Custom Radio

Turns the How to Fish radio into a dial with your stations.

The in-game radio isn't a playlist player: it's a dial with channels, each sitting at its own

frequency. This mod replaces what those channels play. The radio has 4 channels, so 4 of

your stations are on the air at once.

Install it and you're done

Nothing to configure. The mod uses your Windows music folder and turns each subfolder

into a station:

Music/

├── Lofi/ -> "Lofi" station

├── Rock/ -> "Rock" station

└── Jazz/ -> "Jazz" station

Drop music in there, load the game, pick up a radio and turn the dial.

Supported formats:.ogg,.wav,.mp3. OGG loads faster and uses less memory.

Prefer a different folder? Put it in MusicFolders (several separated by;). Want a whole

folder to be one single station instead of being split up? Set SplitSubfolders = false.

In-game keys

• F10 — skip to the next song on whatever station you're tuned into. The mod works out

which one from the dial, so there's nothing to select.

• F9 — re-scan your folders without restarting the game, handy while setting stations up.

Both are rebindable in the config.

Multiplayer

Works in co-op without anyone else installing it. The tuned frequency is already synced

by the game; audio plays locally on each client. Nothing can drift out of sync — you hear

your library, your friend hears theirs, both on the same spot of the dial.

Everyone hearing the same thing

Read this before expecting it to work. Right now only the song name travels over the

network, never the audio. That means every player must already own the same files, in a

folder with the same name. If the host has Rock/song.mp3 and you have Music/song.mp3,

nothing happens — the mod tells you so in the log, but nothing plays.

Automatic file transfer, so that only the host needs the music, is being worked on.

With SyncWithHost = true (the default), the host decides which song plays and when, and

everyone who does have that file starts it together.

• Players without the mod are completely unaffected — the message is skipped on their end.
• If you're missing a file, your log says exactly which station and song, and you keep

playing your own music.

• Set SyncWithHost = false to always hear your own library regardless of the host.

The practical way to use it today: one person picks the music, zips their station folder, and

sends it to everyone else to drop into their own music folder. Same folder name, same file

names.

Being upfront: this feature could not be tested in a real multiplayer session before release.

If something misbehaves, turn it off and please report it.

Internet radio

StreamStations = Lofi=

The URL must point at a direct audio stream (.mp3.ogg), like the ones internet

radio stations publish. A YouTube link won't work: Unity plays audio, not web pages. If you

want one specific song from YouTube, download it first and drop it in a folder.

Sharing a station pack

To hand a friend a pack with everything included, put the music inside the plugin folder:

BepInEx/plugins/HTFCustomRadio/Stations/

├── 88.5 - Lofi/

│ └── track01.ogg

└── 101.2 - Metal/

└── whatever.mp3

The mod looks for Stations folders inside any installed plugin, so station packs can

be published as separate packages that depend on this one.

Stations are assigned to the dial in alphabetical order. That's deliberate: two players

with the same pack get the same order and can talk about the same station.

Options

| Option | Default | What it does |

|---|---|---|

| UseMyMusicFolder | true | Use your Windows music folder, no setup needed |

| MusicFolders | empty | Extra folders, separated by; |

| SplitSubfolders | true | Each subfolder becomes its own station |

| SkipKey | F10 | Skip to the next song |

| ReloadKey | F9 | Re-scan folders without restarting |

| Shuffle | true | Random order, never repeating the previous track |

| KeepOriginalStations | 0 | How many of the game's own sta