Lightning Hunter Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Thanks to Blade and his new program Audioset, I can proudly present the highest quality in-game soundtrack for Red Alert and the Expansions that we will ever receive! This pack will replace all those old, low-quality 22kHz Mono audio files in the game with 48kHz, Stereo. All of these tracks were taken from various sources to get the best quality available (even Fogger has a high quality version that was not available on the Red Alert music CD by Frank Klepacki). All tracks are replaced, including the menu, credits, and victory screen. This is Version 2 of the release. The first version had only high quality Mono tracks, and is obsolete. It should be replaced with this version. Simply extract all the files to your main Red Alert folder, and all the music in the game will sound much, much better. Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/6ve9zra49c398t2/RedAlertHQ_OST_V2.ZIP Tiberian Dawn is next! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 While this is awesome, I actually believe that the game can use aud files packed with pure pcm audio too, its just that no such files exist. Its something I will look into at some point, so it is possible the sound track could get even higher quality even without someone hacking in support for something like ogg vorbis. Storage space needed would go up about 4x over this current release though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 lol, Blade... they MADE an audio compression format, and it's pretty decent. No reason not to use it, except if you're a FLAC audio freak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsons26 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 lol, Blade... they MADE an audio compression format, and it's pretty decent. No reason not to use it, except if you're a FLAC audio freak Looks like they made a load of compression formats. Seems to me this is only the tip of the iceberg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Well, if Blade wants to figure out how to write such uncompressed AUD files and add it to the tool as option, he's always welcome, of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Hunter Posted August 26, 2015 Author Share Posted August 26, 2015 While this is awesome, I actually believe that the game can use aud files packed with pure pcm audio too, its just that no such files exist. Its something I will look into at some point, so it is possible the sound track could get even higher quality even without someone hacking in support for something like ogg vorbis. Storage space needed would go up about 4x over this current release though Oh, common... I don't mind you adding support for PCM audio, but is it really necessary to mention it here in this thread? People might read your second post and think this pack is low quality garbage. I have personally compared the in-game versions side by side to the originals, and can't tell any difference. Kind of like what Nyergud's said, it's like comparing 320kbps MP3 to FLAC audio. Of course FLAC is better quality on paper, but the average human ear can't tell the difference (I certainly can't). The AUD format is fine. I don't plan on making a third release, unless someone finds higher quality versions of some of the tracks already included in here (like Snake, which is admittedly lower quality than the rest, since nobody has the original version). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Ha ha, I apologise if I have led anyone to believe this package is low quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabidsnypr Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaZz_KCS Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Due to the fact that I have ripped all music from all the different versions of the first two games plus expansions from their original game media of PC, Sega Saturn and PSX, together with the soundtrack CDs it is safe to say that I should have almost all source files in high quality as far as is goes. There are a few songs that - however - you managed to obtain in stereo that I just could not locate in ANY game media. Let me give you an example: Due to the fact that I have ripped all the diff. system versions of CnC and RA, I now also, as well as you have several higher res. version of songs that were only in Mono in the PC version. For example, the Sega Saturn and PSX versions of Tiberian Dawn have Redbook Audio and XA audio tracks used for some songs, making them higher quality and stereo as compared to the PC counterpart. But this is not true for all tracks. The track "Demolition" from Tiberian Dawn in NOWHERE TO BE FOUND except in the PC version. It is not used/present in the game data of the PSX version, nor is it used/present in the SSaturn game data. it is ONLY USED in the PC-version. Neither is it featured on the Soundtrack CD. Therefore, the only version I have is the one ripped from the Tiberian Dawn PC game and is in 22.05 kHz mono. You, however have EVERY song in the pack as stereo so I was wondering where you aquired the stereo versions for these few tracks that were only as mono versions present in the PC game and not only hte soundtrack CD as well. I hope you understood what I meant. Even ripping ALL games from EVERY SYSTEM, also checking the soundtrack CDs, I am still missing some stereo version that you, curiously enough, DID FIND somewhere... I would be happy for an info where you ripped/aquired them or to get the lossless versions of these source files... Thanks in advance. jaZz_KCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 The jukebox on Frank Klepacki's website On a related note, there is an error in the CD (and original ingame) version of the Counterstrike track "Voice Rhythm 2" (at 3:47), and that's actually fixed in the version on Frank's website, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Hunter Posted November 26, 2015 Author Share Posted November 26, 2015 Hehe, I never noticed that error... Not sure it is worth uploading a whole new version of the soundtrack, since I don't think it is noticeable unless you know it's there in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 I believe Funky's RA patch actually fixes this too, by using Frank's version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Hunter Posted November 26, 2015 Author Share Posted November 26, 2015 I believe Funky's RA patch actually fixes this too, by using Frank's version. But I'm guessing it isn't the stereo high-quality version, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Obviously not; we didn't have any tool to make those But it would be rather dumb to install a higher quality audio pack and have that error come back, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Hunter Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 Obviously not; we didn't have any tool to make those But it would be rather dumb to install a higher quality audio pack and have that error come back, no? What I'm getting at here is that I can create a stereo version of Voice Rhythm 2 without the error, and release it as a patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Really, in this day and age, who still cares about reuploading or redownloading a couple hundred megabytes? You'll use more traffic the next time Steam finds some game to update in your library :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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