It did not take long for Rockstar to release a utility to enable custom soundtracks in Liberty City Stories (LCS). I would hope that it was planned to launch a few days after the release of the game, and not because of the amount of emails and ranting I am sure that Rockstar has received.
At any rate, it is nice to have custom soundtracks in LCS. You can download Rockstar Custom Tracks v1.0 (RCT) from Rockstar's official site, among other places. But you cannot use it on a Mac. It is Windows only software. This is disappointing as I use a Mac application to manage all of my PSP media.
RCT has no love for you music pirates. Nor does it care if you, like me, purchase a lot of music online either through iTunes or another service. RCT only accepts CDs that are either store bought or burnt out to AIFF/WAV format. You can set the burning option to "Audio CD" in iTunes to burn your music to CD so it will import into RCT.
At least CD-Rs are cheap these days.
I think this is an oversight on Rockstar's part but I am sure this was done to keep in good company with the music industry.
As with most copy write protection it only makes things more difficult. It does not prevent people from doing what they want to do. Because of this, I do not see why this road block even exists.
The software works well enough. It is not without annoyances however, l will get to those in a moment. Lets get started.
Download and install RCT, reboot when asked. You have to insert the Audio CD and have your PSP connected via USB before RCT will function. RCT also requires that you have a LCS save file on your Memory Stick. The read me also says not to import the DATA track of Enhanced CDs. This should be obvious, but doing so can cause errors. Now you are ready to launch Rockstar Custom Tracks.
If you have multiple drives you can select them from the upper left of the application window. Available is an option that will search an internet database to gather the names of the CD tracks. This feature is in most jukebox software such as iTunes.
Article comments
1 - simon
its putting music on my GTA game rite now i have not tried it yet but im looking forward to it!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks so much!
2 - Salman
Hi i need sum1 to plz teach me how 2 keep tracks of my own in d gta liberty city stories game so that i can play them by puting on the custom tracks.plz