Rufous

Grand Theft Auto V Legacy

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GTA V - Self Radio (How To)



I've used multiple Steam Guides to set up my Self Radio and still came across problems.  Here is my little guide, and it is highly recommended for those running the lower specs for the game








Intro

When I first looked at adding custom music to my GTA V Radio I searched the Steam Guides for it. They Worked, but I had Issues.  These issues included not loading Story Mode and slow game play. This is my guide to hopefully help those who may have had the same issues, and also run the game with Min Spec PC. I hope this helps.





Linking To Music

A lot of gudie talk about COPYING your music to the required folder.  This is a waste of HDD Space, as Shortcuts can be used.Not only can you shortcut to a specific MP3 file, you can shortcut to a folder, and this is what I have done.As per other guides, this all needs to go into "'user'\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V\User Music\"You can shotcut to multiple folders, and there is no need to shortcut to nested folders as GTA V searches sub directories for you...     E.G.  Shortcutting to  "C:\Music\" will also include mp3s in "C:\Music\Top100\" and  "C:\Music\My Favourite Songs"So, by all means shotcut to each individual folder you want to add to yout radio, otherwise, just shortcut to your musics root folder.





Importing Music

Now everying is done within Windows, load GTA V.Once the game has loaded and BEFORE you start playing, you need to access the Settings Menu.Once in settings, go to Audio subsetting.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|  THIS IS THE BIG BIT FOR LOW END PC USERS!!!!!  || * EXPLAINED LATER  (1)*                                             |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|   Turn Auto Scan for Music to "OFF"                             |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Select "Perform Quick Scan For Music"   - Depending on how many sub-folders you have, how many mp3's you have and your computer specs, this may take a while .It took 5mins for me, but I have a low end PC for this game.    - Once completed you will get a notification of "xxx songs added"





What Makes This Guide Different

*Besides any spelling mistakes...What makes this guide different.#1 - Shortcutting - Yes,. other guide may tell you to shortcut to a file, but i'm letting you know that shortcutting to a folder will work, and will also include it's subfolders#2 - "Auto Scan" - BIGGEST HELP FOR LOW END USERS!!! Once you have done your initial scan fro music and it has all been added, you don't need this feature.  THIS FEATURE is what cause my load times to increase drastically as everytime i hit "Load Story Mode" it was rescanning all the folders it was linked to.      - Once you've initially done the scan, unless you are adding more files to the linked folders you don't need to be rescanning them.  If you do add more files, just follow the process mentioned before for a Quick Scan.#3 - Once the scans are done, You are able to delete the shortcuts that were created, and still have the music linked to your radio station in game.





Conclusion

- Don't copy your music, just shortcut to it.- Turn OFF Auto-Scan in Audio SettingsLike, Thumbs, Gift, Whatever if this guide helped you :)