Euro Truck Simulator 2 / American Truck Simulator Live Radio Transcoder

Project info

This is simple live radio transcoder server for Euro Truck Simulator 2 / American Truck Simulator games.

As you may know internet radio player in these games does not support anything but plain MP3 streams. But there are lots of internet radios novadays that use AAC / AAC+ codecs combined with HLS. Of course, you can play such radios in your favourite player just in the background on a regular PC but this is not so easy to do on devices like Steam Deck.

So this is probably the main reason you would use this project for. You can run this script on your own VPS or (if you don't have it) even directly on your Steam Deck (SD surprisingly has everything to run it out of the box).

Requirements

• python 3
• ffmpeg

Stations file (stations.json)

Before usage, you should modify stations.json file from the repo. It's a simple JSON file which holds all the stations you need to be transcoded. Format is very simple and self-explanatory:

{
	"radio1": {
		"name": "Record Innocence",
		"url": "https://radiorecord.hostingradio.ru/ibiza96.aacp",
		"bitrate": 128
	},
	"radio2": {
		"name": "Record Mix",
		"url": "https://radiorecord.hostingradio.ru/mix96.aacp",
		"bitrate": 128
	}
}

According to this example corresponding radios should be added to your live_streams.sii ATS/ETS file with following URLs:

• http://IP_ADDRESS:PORT/radio1 for "Record Innocence" station
• http://IP_ADDRESS:PORT/radio2 for "Record Mix" station

These MP3 streams will have output bitrate at 128 kbit/s. You can change it to whatever you want up to 320 kbit/s, but keep in mind that higher bitrates will result in higher power consumption.

You should replace IP_ADDRESS with real IP address of your VPS or in case you run it directly on SD with just localhost. Replace PORT with port on which you run the server.

Running the server on SD

$ ./server.py --port 48042

Running the server on VPS

$ ./server.py --host 0.0.0.0 --port 48042

Automatic startup on system boot

If you want to automatically start the service on system boot - modify the etsradiotc.service (set the actual path to server.py script on your VPS/SD) and add it to systemd autostart:

$ sudo cp etsradiotc.service /etc/systemd/system/
$ sudo systemctl enable --now etsradiotc.service

Adding stations to ETS2/ATS

There is a good guide on adding stations to the game here