Topic: SFC1 and SFA soundtracks? (Read 5970 times)

TAnimaL · « **Reply #20 on:** April 14, 2009, 09:57:39 am »

there are a lot of freeware .mp3 programs out there. Quicktime is one of the most useful free apps for audio/video, and I recommend Quicktime Pro for any and all who ever need to convert files; for $30, you can do all sorts of playback/conversions . There's wmv plugin for it as well.

TAnimaL · « **Reply #21 on:** April 14, 2009, 10:45:18 am »

OK, a thousand apologies everyone. I do my day work on a Mac, and use that as my storage site for all my SFC files. When I uploaded the SFC1 music it appended the *.mp3 with garbage that makes it unplayable in windows media player et. al. (maybe when I zipped it?) It didn't effect the SFA music, even though I did the same thing with those files.

Anyway, I'll correct the SFC1 music on battleclinic later today. Sorry for the inconvenience. (The SFC1 music there will play with Quicktime and iTunes for now.)

JackSlayer · « **Reply #22 on:** April 14, 2009, 12:12:11 pm »

NP bro, and thanks

TAnimaL · « **Reply #23 on:** April 18, 2009, 08:13:39 am »

I re-loaded the SFC1 music onto Battleclinic, for anyone that's interested. In two parts; it also has the "Lyran Mission Start" track that was missing before.

JackSlayer · « **Reply #24 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:35:21 pm »

Excellent, heading there now

TAnimaL · « **Reply #25 on:** April 18, 2009, 11:29:47 pm »

I started playing around with SFC-EAW/OP music tracks too. I unzipped the music file and started assembling the pieces into complete tracks. As many of you probably know, the music is collected into smaller chunks - 4-5 seconds - and is written so that these chunks can bridge from one theme to another. I'm going to try to create a playlist of "complete" songs for my own perusal, but if anyone else is interested, I'll upload them when I get it further along.

Tangentally, I'm trying to replace the off-the-shelf OP music with my own tracks, but having trouble with WinZip. I've set my compression to "none" (and turned off the read-only attribute on the files), but no joy. Pretty sure it's a WinZip problem, 'cause I took the original OP music tracks that I backed up and tried to recompress-with-no-compression, but those didn't work either. (Backed-up "sfcmusic.zip" does work, tho)

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

JackSlayer · « **Reply #26 on:** April 19, 2009, 06:46:20 am »

don't use the "Add" button use the "Add with wildcards" with NO commpression instead.

yochenhsieh · « **Reply #27 on:** April 19, 2009, 10:53:07 am »

Quote from: TAnimaL on April 18, 2009, 11:29:47 pm

I started playing around with SFC-EAW/OP music tracks too. I unzipped the music file and started assembling the pieces into complete tracks. As many of you probably know, the music is collected into smaller chunks - 4-5 seconds - and is written so that these chunks can bridge from one theme to another. I'm going to try to create a playlist of "complete" songs for my own perusal, but if anyone else is interested, I'll upload them when I get it further along.

Tangentally, I'm trying to replace the off-the-shelf OP music with my own tracks, but having trouble with WinZip. I've set my compression to "none" (and turned off the read-only attribute on the files), but no joy. Pretty sure it's a WinZip problem, 'cause I took the original OP music tracks that I backed up and tried to recompress-with-no-compression, but those didn't work either. (Backed-up "sfcmusic.zip" does work, tho)

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I don't have EAW/OP installed now. What audio format do they use?

If they use mp3 like SFC3, read here:
http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163385804.0.html

JackSlayer · « **Reply #28 on:** April 19, 2009, 01:16:41 pm »

No EAW/OP use .wav's only

Bit Rate: 705kbps
Audio Sample size: 16bit
Channels: 2(stereo)
Audio Sample rate: 22kHz
Audio Format: PCM

TAnimaL · « **Reply #29 on:** April 25, 2009, 10:52:35 pm »

Thanks much for the tips - my problem turned out to be operator error ( I was putting the wavs into a folder and then zipped the folder. d'oh. You have to zip the wavs INTO a file called "sfcmusic.zip"). I've replaced a few tracks and am continuing to replace some more; at some point I'll put out for people to hear.

btw, does anyone know how forgiving the game is with different music? So far I've been replacing tracks more or less 1-to-1; that is, putting a new 40 second track where there was a 40 second track previously. If I make my modified music.zip too big, will it slow the game down? Or will it be ok as long as I keep the wavs at 705kb, stereo 22k?

JackSlayer · « **Reply #30 on:** May 11, 2009, 07:52:38 pm »

keep the wavs at the correct size you should be able to replace all of it as i have done it in the past with small tracks it does work but very teedius (spelling).

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