Misc Cities Skylines Scripts

Miscellaneous Cities Skylines and Cities Skylines 2 scripts and helpers.

convert_cs1-radio_to_cs2.py

Automatically copies and tags CS1 radio for CS2, and creates radio network and channel settings files for each supported station.

Description

Used to automatically copy, rename and tag Cities Skylines 1 Radio tracks, prepared for use in Cities Skylines 2. Where the original artist is not clear, the default is to attribute Colossal Order. The script automatically generates Cities Skylines 2 Radio Network and Radio Channel settings files for each channel (JSON files, type ".coc").

The script uses a mapping CSV file that contains the following Cities Skylines radio stations:

Station	Folder	DLC	Release date
All That Jazz	Jazz	Paid DLC	2017-12-05
Calm the Mind Radio	CalmTheMind	Paid DLC	2022-01-25
Campus Radio	CampusRadio	Paid DLC	2019-05-21
Carols, Candles and Candy	Christmas Radio	Free DLC	2017-12-05
Classics Radio, The	Classical	Base game	2015-03-10
Coast to Coast Radio	CoastToCoast	Paid DLC	2020-03-26
Concerts Radio	Concerts	Paid DLC	2017-08-17
Country Road Radio	Country	Paid DLC	2018-05-24
Deep Focus Radio	DeepFocus	Paid DLC	2019-05-21
Downtown Radio	DowntownRadio	Paid DLC	2019-11-07
Gold FM	GoldFM	Base game	2015-03-10
K-Pop Station	KPopRadio	Paid DLC	2022-11-15
Official Mars Radio	Mars	Free in Patch 1.9.2	2018-03-09
On Air Radio	OnAir	Paid DLC	2022-01-25
Paradise Radio	ParadiseRadio	Paid DLC	2022-09-14
Rail Hawk Radio	RailHawk	Paid DLC	2021-05-21
Relaxation Station	Relaxation	Paid DLC	2016-11-29
Rock City Radio	Rock	Paid DLC	2017-05-18
Shoreline Radio	ShorelineRadio	Paid DLC	2022-09-14
Smooth Funk Radio	SmoothFunk	Base game	2015-03-10
Sunny Breeze Radio	SunnyBreeze	Paid DLC	2021-05-21
Synthetic Dawn Radio	Synthetic	Paid DLC	2018-10-23

Request: If you have the Music Pack DLCs below and are willing to provide the data (folders & filenames) for them, that would be great!

Not supported stations (due to not having bought them yet):

Station	Folder	DLC	Release date
80s Downtown Beat	?	Paid DLC	2022-11-15
80s Movie Tunes	?	Paid DLC	2023-03-22
90s Pop Radio	?	Paid DLC	2023-05-23
African Vibes	?	Paid DLC	2022-12-13
Jadia Radio	?	Paid DLC	2023-03-22
Piano Tunes Radio	?	Paid DLC	2023-05-23
Pop Punk Radio	?	Paid DLC	2023-03-22

Hint: The tagged music is also prepared for import into your favourite music player/library, with tags like Album, Artist and Title added. You can then use the script convert_ogg_to_mp3.py to convert the .ogg files to .mp3, with all tags kept!

How to use

First install at least Python 3.9 and the following dependencies:

• mutagen
• pandas

Run "convert_cs1-radio_to_cs2.py" with options:

• -i or --input="path" [default="C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Cities_Skylines/Files/Radio/Music/"]
  • Path to files to operate on.
• -o or --output="path" [default="./out/"]
  • Path to output of files.
• -v
  • Enable verbose output.

Note! The script needs the cs1_to_cs2_mapping.csv file in the same folder as the script to execute. This file contains the mapping of original files and the appropriate tags and output filenames. If you want to use different mappings of tags, than this is where you can change that.

Example

convert_cs1-radio_to_cs2.py -v -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities_Skylines\Files\Radio\Music\"

Getting the music in-game

Warning: Making the game unable to find the "cache.db" file per steps below will greatly impact your game load time. On my system, it goes from 5-10 seconds, to at least a 50-60 seconds as the cache is rebuilt every time you load the game. If you use this method, make sure you can restore the file without reinstalling the game! If using Steam, you can verify the install, on other platforms, just make sure to keep a copy of it!

Assuming your installation folder is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities Skylines II", follow the steps below.

1. Copy the output of the script to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities Skylines II\Cities2_Data\StreamingAssets\Audio~\Radio" and
2. Rename "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities Skylines II\Cities2_Data\StreamingAssets\cache.db" to something else like "cache.db.old".

There might be better methods to get music in-game, but so far I've not found one. Hopefully Colossal Order/Paradox will provide a better mehthod via mods or similar to include additional music content.

Missing functionality/content

• A number of Music Pack DLCs (see above)
• Conversion of Cities Skylines 1 radio blurbs to Cities Skylines 2
• Conversion of Cities Skylines 1 radio talk to Cities Skylines 2
• Cities Skylines 2 radio network art/icon
• Cities Skylines 2 radio channel art/icon
• Cities Skylines 2 radio channel description
• Cities Skylines 2 radio channel playlist length
• Track numbers for each track
• Additional meta data for each tack
• Album art

convert_ogg_to_mp3.py

Automatically converts .ogg files to .mp3, keeping tags.

How to use

Install at least Python 3.9. No additional dependencies.

Run "convert_ogg_to_mp3.py" with options:

• -i or --input="path" [default="*.ogg"]
  • Path to files to operate on. Wildcards can be applied."
• -o or --output="path" [default="./out/"]
  • Path to output of files.
• -f or --ffmepg="path" [default=%FFMPEG%]
  • Path to where on the system the ffmpeg binaries are located.
• -v
  • Enable verbose output.

Example

convert_ogg_to_mp3.py -v -i "out" -o "outmp3

Missing functionality/content

• Proper error checking etc...