Quite a few threads I found can't work out how to get custom songs being played instead of the likes of Dexter Freebish or young Dr Dre... it's really quite easy, heres how!

*Please note this will only work if you select 'custom music' , it appears there is no way to get to make custom radio stations*

Step One

Make sure you have mp3 files on your computer, they must be mp3, nothing else will work. If you need to convert, download a file convertor, there's many out there, the one I used was this: http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

Step Two

Don't like Dexter Freebish, or Ladytron? You need to delete them, notice that there's two custom music folders. There's one in 'my documents/Electronic Arts/The sims 3/ Custom Music' delete all the music out of that one. But that won't just do, because it will always load up the songs in the database. For the other music folder, you need to go to Program Files/TS3/GameData/Shared/Nonpackaged/Custom Music and delete all the songs you don't want on there!

Step Three

Simply copy and paste your mp3's into the custom music folder (the one in my documents) and away you go, when you select custom music on your sim's music system you will hear your own tunes. Enjoy

(Apologies to those who knew all this - probably most of you!)

I, for one, didn't know this. So, thank you.

And I didnt know either so thanks for the great post

absolutely amazing and helpful post! Thank you so very much friend!!!!!!

Agreed, a most helpful post!

NOTE: Admins, this needs a sticky....

Can't you guys just run Media Player in the background? All custom music, all the time, and it works better than music in game, higher bitrates etc.

And if anyone is still in doubt all the info is in the "Readme" including cheats that come installed with the game I must be a boring person am i the only one who reads these things hehe...

mca88 wrote:Can't you guys just run Media Player in the background? All custom music, all the time, and it works better than music in game, higher bitrates etc.

Don't think your sim gets moodlets from songs playing in media player...

Hi there!

Thanks for posting this information - it's helpful to all of us Simmers that love custom music!

-Big Guy-

This is awesome! I figured this out rather quickly!

PROBLEM: Sometimes my custom music never plays... anybody else having this issue?

Thanks! Now maybe I will play Sims 3 more often but I am still rather attached to all my custom content in Sims 2

HELPPP!! i managed to delete the ones in ' my documents ' perfectly, but the ones under '' my computer '' non packaged etc. says its a readme file only and wont delete! helpp

You are my hero. Thanks especially for including the mp3 converter info!

What would be cool is if you could change the custom music path.

All my music is already ripped to mp3's and stored on one of my hard disks (and backed up onto another storage device).

It seems pretty silly to have to duplicate it all once again just for the sake of one game, so if I could point Sims 3 at my personal music folder, and if it could read sub-dirs, I would be very happy.

Kaity

Kaity wrote:What would be cool is if you could change the custom music path.

All my music is already ripped to mp3's and stored on one of my hard disks (and backed up onto another storage device).

It seems pretty silly to have to duplicate it all once again just for the sake of one game, so if I could point Sims 3 at my personal music folder, and if it could read sub-dirs, I would be very happy.

Kaity

What was awesome is in The Sims 1 you could post a shortcut to the music file and it would hunt them down for you! I know this didn't work in TS2 but havn't tried in TS3!

My radio is still having issues though! It stops working sometimes and plays nothing! What is the deal??? All my songs are mp3 files so I don't know what is up! Any ideas?