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To the surprise of precisely nobody, Xbox and Playground Games' new highly anticipated open-world arcade racer Forza Horizon 6 has been a huge hit so far, with the game enjoying rave reviews from critics, a massive Early Access debut, and an even bigger full launch that's seen nearly 300,000 players get behind the wheel concurrently on Steam alone.
The game's even got a healthy modding scene already, with graphics and audio tweaks, ReShade presets, and more live on the Forza Horizon 6 section of Nexus Mods. One project in particular, though, stands above the rest as particularly cool in my eyes: Spotify Radio, a mod that allows you to play your Spotify music through an in-game radio station.
Pretty sick, right? Sadly, though, you can't actually download and use the mod right now, as it was quickly "quarantined" by Nexus Mods' algorithms after they flagged it as potentially dangerous. BigJohn0 says this is because Spotify Radio uses a .dll file, which is sometimes used by bad faith actors to run malware.
Some have asked them to upload the mod on GitHub instead, but BigJohn0 has chosen not to since linking to it on Nexus would go against the site's terms and also because they don't want to publish the source code.
In the end, that means Spotify Radio won't likely be obtainable until Nexus Mods moderators manually review the mod files and verify that they're safe to use, which will hopefully happen sooner rather than later. Keep an eye on it; I'll update this article once it's cleared.
Once the mod is no longer locked down and becomes downloadable again, however, installation will be a very simple process. As the mod page's description states, all you have to do is unzip the mod's files into your Forza Horizon 6 game directory, turn Radio DJ off and Streamer Mode on in-game, and connect Spotify to FH6 Radio in the Connect menu on the app (the button for it looks like a speaker).
Some more good news: the mod works on both the Steam and Xbox on PC versions of the game, and should be completely safe to play with since it's entirely client-side and doesn't upload any data to Forza's servers. The only drawback of Spotify Radio is that it requires having a Spotify Premium membership, as you can't make use of Spotify Connect without one. If you're like me and have one already, though, that's hardly a problem at all.
Will you use the Spotify Radio mod once you can actually download it? Let me know down below.
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