Welcome to the mad house and you are definitely in the right place to talk about Ventures. Most people shorten the name of the bike from Royal Star Venture to just Venture so it's actually one in the same. 99 to 2013 are second generations the first gens were more straight tourer than cruiser.
These bikes are rock solid expect to get 150K or more out of them, they are easy to work on and with this forums help you can do anything you want to do to the bike.
I actually play tapes in my tape deck but several members have removed the cassette deck and made it a storage pocket, you can find out how to do that here also. There is an Aux jack you can hook your phone or mp3 player up to.
Hope you stick around it will be the best 12 bucks you ever spent.