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Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 09, 2004, 06:23:28 pm

I took the liberty of editing and renaming the high-quality soundtrack files off of warpcore to have the same name and length as their FS2 counterparts; this basically doubles the quality of some FS2 musics.

Unfortunately, I had to compress them...they're all in OGG format, which supposedly gives superior sound to MP3. They can be decompressed using Winamp or dbPoweramp (You might need to get a plugin for OGG format though).

Readme:
http://fs2source.warpcore.org/mediavps/musicreadme.txt
Self-extracting RAR:
http://fs2source.warpcore.org/mediavps/music.exe

I also split up the ending cutscene music...

Ending Supernova cutscene music:
http://fs2source.warpcore.org/mediavps/sathanas.ogg
Music for Petrarch's monologue - perfect for briefing or debriefing or credits.
http://fs2source.warpcore.org/mediavps/monologue.ogg

Enjoy. :)

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: Gregster2k on June 09, 2004, 07:57:56 pm

OWNAGE!

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 09, 2004, 08:21:14 pm

?

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: DaBrain on June 10, 2004, 02:45:28 am

:yes:  Excellent work.

FreeSpace needs to get ogg support ;)

But converting them to wav will do for now.

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: DaBrain on June 10, 2004, 02:32:07 pm

This is stuff for the mediaVP ;)
Too bad that all music sounds better in Winamp than in FS2 :(

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 10, 2004, 07:17:09 pm

Try this build (http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/latest/fs2_open_Cex.zip) and see if you notice a difference.

Also make sure you aren't just hearing a difference in volume. I thought they sounded the same in Winamp and FS2, but I may have been wrong.

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: redsniper on June 10, 2004, 09:42:37 pm

:wtf: the cex build?

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 10, 2004, 09:50:56 pm

:nod:
I just uploaded it today, has the latest CVS + a couple line changes that should switch the sound quality to 48khz.

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: DaBrain on June 11, 2004, 10:32:56 am

Ok, I'll try it.
But the link won't work :(

Yeah 48 khz  :yes:

I'm just unhappy I lost my Audigy. :( 96 khz :(

How much khz did the vanilla FS2 use ?

Edit: http://fs2source.warpcore.org/exes/latest/fs2_open_Cex.exe

I'll post my results later :)

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: DaBrain on June 11, 2004, 11:26:05 am

I think it sounds better, especially some custom sounds.

But sometimes it crackles. But only voice and sfx.

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: Psychoo on June 11, 2004, 02:20:26 pm

Listen to the words in "Sathanas" theme... same words as in "FS2 Cinematic".
"Agnus Dei..."... in Latin: Agnus Dei= Passover (Agnus=Lamb, Dei=God) interesting, isn't it? :cool:  
I was listening to other words in both Sathanas nad Cinemstic themes but I understand only one more word- Alleluja (Hallelujah :D in English?).
There are some more words in Sathanas theme, someone undrestand them?  :confused: ;)

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 14, 2004, 09:41:38 pm

DB: Which mission are you having problems with?

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: Taristin on June 14, 2004, 11:44:20 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Psychoo
Listen to the words in "Sathanas" theme... same words as in "FS2 Cinematic".
"Agnus Dei..."... in Latin: Agnus Dei= Passover (Agnus=Lamb, Dei=God) interesting, isn't it? :cool:  
I was listening to other words in both Sathanas nad Cinemstic themes but I understand only one more word- Alleluja (Hallelujah :D in English?).
There are some more words in Sathanas theme, someone undrestand them?  :confused: ;)

Someone tell me what he's talking about?

Agnus Dei? Where was that...?



Edit: Oh. I think I understand, now. In Fs2_cinema.wav...  Is that when the female voice is played? With the same sound played when evil occurs in the sixth day? :p

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: karajorma on June 15, 2004, 05:30:46 am

Watch the last cutscene in FS2 (the bit with Capella) and listen to the words.

As you say there are also words in the cinema.wav.

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: Psychoo on June 15, 2004, 08:18:46 am

...and learn Latin language to understand it :)

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: J3Vr6 on June 15, 2004, 09:34:46 am

So did increasing the frequency make a difference?

Title: High-quality Freespace 2 music
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 22, 2004, 06:52:44 pm

Doesn't seem to have, it just made things not work on people's computers. :doubt:

Here's an attempt at resampling some Freespace 1 music to a higher quality, and making it somewhat stereo.

Freespace 1 M4: Worlds Apart (http://fs2source.warpcore.org/temp/m4_hiquality.exe)

All OGG, like the last set.