Since many people hate the fact that there is no police-scanner action in game, I'm gonna teach you how to have soem sweet radio talk in the background, when you're on patrol.

We will listen to the NYPD radio over internet, this is legal.

Now, GTA IV doesn't accept M3U files anymore, so we will have to have a program running in the background. Use what-ever program you'd like to use, for example Windows Media Player or iTunes. For this tutorial though, and for my own game, I'm going to use VLC. You can get it from here.

First Step:

Download VLC or any media player of your choice. I'm going with VLC, from here.

Second Step:

Open your media player, in this case VLC and go to "Media > Open Networkstream..." (or similar on other media players)

What you want to do now is enter the following address into the field...

http://relay.radioreference.com:80/931287466

...and hit Play.

Now you will have a police scanner running in vlc. If you don't hear anything, don't worry, they don't always talk; just wait a bit.

Third Step:

Open GTA IV and play. You might wanna adjust the volume of your media player so it isn't too loud ingame.

Have fun!

Edited June 23, 201114 yr by Break

Thanks dude. +rep or whatever it is on this forum

Wow... This is great. Thanks for sharing. :biggrin:

This is damn awesome! Could a moderator make a sticky from this topic?

Edited June 26, 201114 yr by xDodox

This is damn awesome! Could a moderator make a sticky from this topic?

Hmm I suppose I could.

Since many people hate the fact that there is no police-scanner action in game, I'm gonna teach you how to have soem sweet radio talk in the background, when you're on patrol.

We will listen to the NYPD radio over internet, this is legal.

Now, GTA IV doesn't accept M3U files anymore, so we will have to have a program running in the background. Use what-ever program you'd like to use, for example Windows Media Player or iTunes. For this tutorial though, and for my own game, I'm going to use VLC. You can get it from here.

First Step:

Download VLC or any media player of your choice. I'm going with VLC, from here.

Second Step:

Open your media player, in this case VLC and go to "Media > Open Networkstream..." (or similar on other media players)

What you want to do now is enter the following address into the field...

http://relay.radioreference.com:80/931287466

...and hit Play.

Now you will have a police scanner running in vlc. If you don't hear anything, don't worry, they don't always talk; just wait a bit.

Third Step:

Open GTA IV and play. You might wanna adjust the volume of your media player so it isn't too loud ingame.

Have fun!

This is awesome this will make videos and playing so much more realistic ... Great Find.

This is awesome this will make videos and playing so much more realistic ... Great Find.

No need to quote the whole post...

You can download 5-0 scanner on iphone and get police radios for all states in america and also other countrys, its free aswell.

For those who dint no.

This is pretty cool, I actually thought one of the calls was ingame and I was like "why did the game not prompt me to hit y!?" lol

In Chrome, you can just go to the site and get the same effect.

EDIT: You can go to RadioReference.com, Live Audio, and you can select feeds from many different PDs (or even FDs and other safety agencies)

Edited June 28, 201114 yr by cp702

I don't know if this is something really obvious to other people playing .91 but if you switch to Independence radio while on duty you get a police scanner.

This idea did make my LCPDFR gameplay much more enjoyable! I would've never thought of this, very nice idea

Woudnt it be possible to save it as whatever the format gta iv is using and place it in music folder?

Woudnt it be possible to save it as whatever the format gta iv is using and place it in music folder?

No, because this is a live audio stream not a file.

You da man. Awesome :)

That didn't work for me, so I did a bit of searching and discovered this - http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=14037 Can simply open this in winamp, its the NYPD live feed :P

This is nice! Thank you! But I figured one thing...Don't turn it up all the way! :yes:

i dont need a online police scanner i have one on my phone its pretty awesome its on the droid

WOW this is awesome and work's great! YOU. ARE. THE. MAN, nuff said

Cool! :thumbsup: