To hell with that - I'll just record the songs from the X-Box.

El_Fez

fuchikoma

shab

I am surprised that so many people want to do custom soundtracks. I can understand that for a racing game, but GTA is immersive and I feel like that kind of thing pulls you out of that rich world. Why not put personal photos on all of the billboards so that you feel like you are at home?

kingofallcosmos

Nexus6

Cabal17

I tend to be drawn to the stations with music that I am familiar with, so it's almost always Radio Broker and Electrochoc for me.

It's always nice to see that people are discovering new music, though!

mind in rewind

artofwar420

It's great to hear music while playing the game and know, hey, I helped get that into the stores!

--Peter
peter@tunecore.com
[www.tunecore.com]

PeterTuneCore

sascha23

ShaggE

gaijira

(just wish there was a scrolling title of the song playing...)

SigmundTheSeaMonster

seafisch

a) It's Rockstar's niche tastes. They actually pride themselves on this (mainstream ain't cool, yo), but it also means that half the music they like frankly sucks. They like it because nobody else does outside of their little group of friends. Well, sometimes there's a reason for that.

b) Honestly, this has to be the worst-publicized "service" I've ever seen, and I guarantee nobody - nobody - is going to buy music tracks this way. I've had the game since day one and I had no idea this even existed. I read a NY Times article about it the other day and I was like "huh?" I still have no idea how to even do it. (You could say that kind of publicity sure won't hurt... but I guarantee most GTA players are not regular New York Times readers.)

I think it's a good predictor of the future - someday people probably will regularly buy music this way - but I doubt this iteration of this service is going to be anymore mainstream than many of the songs on the soundtrack.

badasscat

I know, the current solution is to take Skeeter's advice, but it would have been nice as a feature. Plus, it would have given Rockstar the chance to lampoon the hell out of the iPhone.

Jazhuis

rabidkeebler

For every GTA game, I would always end up leaving it on a station for hours without knowing it. After prolong amount of time, I would seriously start to like it.

GTA III -MSX
GTA: VC - Wave 103
GTA: SA - SF-UR

But GTA IV for me gave me 2 stations this time around. The Journey and San Juan Sounds (bizarre enough).

Sigma-D

2) Is there any word if Rock Star will do an actual physical CD? Call me old fashioned, but I prefer my music in a form that I can touch and hold and look at the cover art on. I have no problem with using MP3's, but buying something as ephemeral as that aint my bag.

- And I wonder when they'll get the Radio Vladivostok stuff up. I dont see a page for that station yet. (And when can we get the talk radio stations?)

El_Fez

AplusBminus

MikeKelley

MURDERFACE

CheechWizz

Kanadwen

kidko

EmerilLIVE

Also, JNR is aesome

RageKage

Also, is this issue why none of the songs I identify with ZiT! show up on my R* Social Club don't show up?

RageKage

chad5871

That sentence might make more sense now.

@Jazhuis: Yeah honestly thats what I was hoping, that it would be a privilege I'd have to spend game time/money to earn, and that would have been fine with me, not having it at all is the problem.

I will add I love the Jazz station so far, something really classy about killing people to the sounds of Duke Ellington :)

DaiMacculate

Cutedge

SlowDeath420

In my perfect world, however, not only could we use custom playlists as radio stations, but we could walk into a WHIZZ Mobile and upgrade to an MP3-playing phone that could play any of the radio stations or a custom playlist at any time. Mainly because I enjoy having a soundtrack when I'm running a mission outside of the car.

Jazhuis

heisert

iGRIND

Captain Wrong

HootieMac: Section 9 Reject

That soundtrack that came with the special edition was atrocious, sans about two songs. I wonder whose idea it was at Rockstar to think that everyone who bought the SE loves nothing but rap.

Tyber_Zann

Especially good to hear an Aphex Twin track, and Black Devil Disco Club!!!!

MIDI_EVIL

Jae

dirtybacon

What I don't get, is WHERE THE FUCK....is my CD/Tape/etc player for playing songs off my HDD (360 vers). Thats the whole reason I bought the Xbox1 version of all three previous GTA titles, so I could play my own music after I inevitably get tired of the in-game music.

Yes, sorry, no matter how much I like a set of tracks, in this case the ones in GTAIV, any playlist where the track count

A very, very minor gripe on what has so far been a masterpiece of a sequel, but the reason I mention it here is that I can only surmise this deal with Amazon and the ZITS concept in general to be responsible. Its also a bit annoying in light of their recent "fuck casuals" statement, MP3 player support in-game is about the least casual feature I can think of.

Yes, you can do it with the Xbox dash player. Problem is that doesn't integrate well with the game, plays over cutscenes and other vocals, etc. Music should play in vehicles, like its always been.

DaiMacculate

Cool stuff. Off to buy every song on Radio Broker even though I don't like a few of them. Still deserve the support.

karasu is my homeboy

Struct09

dirtybacon

Plus, Rockstar has the ability to search out rare artists, and the clout to sign them. Amazon wants to sign me? yeah, I guess so... Rockstar wants me in GTA! HELLS YEAH!

But it is AWESOME that they have this stuff up now.

dirtybacon

The CD in the CE was basically a sampler platter, but it's pretty good.

Zero_Beat

kryo

DesmondHume

photoboy

Luke Plunkett

Struct09

rubadub

fronsacqc

You'd think they would of worked this out even before announcing the partnership with Amazon? This seems like a big problem.

karasu is my homeboy

ThatsMrOffDutyNinja

shab

Kazzahdrane