There's no way FZX is streamed. The minis are ~2kb and the lib is 10MB. There is no way that entire soundtrack fit in 10MB streamed. I could very easily be very wrong and Nintendo somehow managed to shove it all down into 10MB by making it mono and like 3khz or something but I doubt it's compressed THAT well. Plus I would think they would have used better synths if that were the case.
10 MB 22050 Hz mono 4-bit ADPCM is 15 minutes. Consider that the USF set, which loops at least twice, is 40 minutes (no more than 20 minutes of unique audio).
Indeed. There are a few other settings that needed adjustment for it to be a 1:1 copy of the original, like the read offset correction wasn't adjusted properly. It's alright though. As arbingordon said, it was his first rip. :-)
It may have more to do with things like decompression speed and computing power. The higher the level of compression, the longer it will take to decompress the data, also, when playing back the highly compressed audio file, it takes more computing power. Some lossless codecs are also tuned to be more sensitive to errors, others are tuned for slightly better compression and yet others for slightly less compression but more speed in encoding/decoding.
If you intend to use lossless compression exclusively for archiving, then using the highest quality compression is fine. If you use them more for playback or decoding, for when you want to burn the files to CD, a lower level of compression will do.
I would say that it has multiple levels similar to many archive formats, only those archive formats actually require more resources to unpack higher compression levels. Maybe some people just care more about the compression time, even if it is only once per file.
Too bad Portrait of Ruin is the only handheld Castlevania game with a full synth soundtrack in addition to the typical distorted hardware recordings layered upon scratchy Gameboy/DS-ness.
Even relatively high quality MP3s of this one were hard to find.
Unfortunately, I can't help out on any of your requests (they do look interesting though). But, I am interested in some of the albums you say you have. There are so many Sonic Adventure albums out there (at least, I have multiples of them. Perhaps they're named differently depending on the translation?), that I'm not sure what the differences are. Would you be able to clarify that for me? More specifically, what's the benefit/difference of the albums you have, as opposed to others out there (mostly other versions/itterations/compositions/etc.)?
Also, Dreamfall (the name intrigues me) sounds interesting. I'd be interested in listening to that.... So, yah, if you get around to uploading any of those, there's at least one person here who's mildly interested.
Last, good luck on hunting down those albums. If you come across them, let us know. Thanks in advance. Mouser X over and out.
Thank for sharing Nights Journey of Dreams 3 disc set, it's a good one that I forgot to request. :) I think that there were a few settings that weren't adjusted in EAC, as shown int the log file, but if you're interested in adjusting these files I'll gladly show you what to do and you can use it for future uploads, if you want. :p
I can't stand CD audio games that use special "TV mastering," which basically entails pumping up the bass to compensate for people using crappy TV speakers. (Dracula X)
The Boktai Rare Soundtrack. Its name does it justice; it was released in limited numbers as a pre-order bonus for Lunar Knights (Boktai DS) in Japan. Asking for FLAC is probably asking for the moon, but I'd at least like to find high quality MP3s if that's at all possible.
Did anyone get that Lunar Harmony of teh Blue Star soundtrack that came with the game when it was preordered? ;-) Theres a rip out already but yeah its in vbr. It sounds much better!! Lossless would be great.
by CyberSpark at 10:31 PM EST on November 15, 2009
Wow. I thought this thread was gone for good. It's good to have it back from the grave, though. :)
Hey, anyone got ALL OVER MELTY BLOOD ~ Melty Blood Actress Again for Limited Edition Original Sound Track or The War of Genesis III PART1 + PART2 Original Sound Track in EAC lossless or the actual CDs?
by arbingordon at 5:56 PM EST on November 16, 2009
CyberSpark, you plan to upload the 2CD ost for Sonic Adventure in flac?
I have a bunch of stuff up here- explod mp3s Please download casually (no downthemall!). It's my friend's hosting space. AFAIK I haven't been a burden on his bandwidth, but I try not to test it too much. Focus has mainly been on NES stuff so far, but there are other things in there as well. Lots of obscure stuff, all ripped by me and not from official OSTs (which I sort of don't often trust as far as classic chiptune soundtracks are concerned).
Sorry for the audiophiles, my rips are typically 224k mp3. (I see all the discussion on lossless! :D )
For what it's worth though, I find that starting from a good emulation or hardware source is easily the first most important step. All the poor quality rips I stumble across are 192k and lower, and probably just ripped out of not-so-great emulators. My ear can't really tell the difference for chip vg music starting at 224 and up though.
I also use an mp3 tagging system I'm quite fond of. It'll put everything in one neat, organized little place in your library, hopefully some of you will dig it...
And there's a bunch of stuff up on youtube as well- youtube channel
:)
edited 6:11 AM EST November 19, 2009
by CyberSpark at 10:13 PM EST on November 24, 2009
CyberSpark, you plan to upload the 2CD ost for Sonic Adventure in flac?
If you're a long time member of GamingForce Forums, you can get SONIC ADVENTURE "Digi-LOG Conversation" Original Sound Track right now, otherwise I'll have to make a new archive and re-upload, which will take time because I'm working on many other things. The archive that's uploaded at GamingForce Forums requires 75+ posts, btw, and the archive is password protected.
by arbingordon at 5:40 PM EST on November 25, 2009
i think i have a gamingforce account, but i know i dont have 75 posts
Bootleg (properly called pirate) CDs are not the same disc as official pressings. They are inferior in manufacturing and often audio quality. I have encountered bootleg anime CDs that sounded like low-bitrate MP3s. They are bad copies of the original. They are not the original. Furthermore, the person who created the music does not benefit from the sale of the disc.
The bootlegs I have (Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, and Viewtiful Joe 1 + 2) sound good. I know Jecht's Theme has a weird background hum, but I'm pretty sure that's part of the official pressing...?
Possible. Some of them you can't really tell a difference (but they are still certainly not a real pressing). But man those MP3-sourced ones are hilariously bad. I feel sorry for the people who get duped into buying them.
I've never had a bootleg where I could tell from the data, luckily, but the materials are typically notably shoddy. There's the cover art scanned/photoreproduced from the original cover, with the original publisher and catalog number blocked out and replaced, occasionally backwards or upside down or from a different album. In one case a new CD had an opaque plastic disc holder, which blocked the reverse of the back cover (which they printed anyway).
The only points I see to buying albums are: 1) Showing support 2) Having a cool physical object 3) Having an authentic physical object
Bootlegs don't fulfill 1 and 3, and poor bootlegs don't provide 2. Those that I do have are from before I figured out that philosophy (and knew to be wary of unusual bargains) or where 2 won out.
I've had both and never had a problem... As long as it sounds the same or better quality than mp3s im sold :).. It is very hard to get originals sometimes so the chinese bootlegger shops will have to do. I have yet to have a bad sounding bootleg cd so far :D
Most silver-pressed bootlegs are exactly similar to the authentic releases data-wise, except they usually have a different offset which can be fixed with Cue Tools. Say for example a bootleg differs in offset of 667 samples; it then can be readjusted in Cue Tools to match the original (the Accurate Rip database will tell you the correct offset of the original pressing if an entry exists and it has something to compare to like the bootleg) and all the track CRC values will match. Tools like TripleFLAC and Cue Tools will show all the offset results submitted to the AR database.
If you have both a bootleg and an original on hand, or you downloaded them in lossless, properly ripped with EAC, do a WAV comparison in EAC and you will find that the only difference is missing or shifted null (dead silence) samples.
Since I like this thread and would like to bump it, figure I'll post up something I made for myself a while back. Basically, I got tired of having to keep 4 copies of the ocarina of time ost around in order to have decent looping copies of all the tracks, instead of the single-shot copies on the complete JPN release. I took all the looping songs from the two european releases, along with 3 or 4 from the north american release (mastered a lot quieter than the other 3, avoided it as much as I could since I figured any major normalization problems would come from there), and all the fixed-length tracks from the japanese release. Applied the album replaygain values from the original releases to even out the mastering differences and put it all together into one complete, two-disc soundtrack. Obviously not for the archivist types, but if you just want good-sounding copies of all the songs you might like to have it. All of the tracks are in high quality mp3 (LAME V0).
Not an official soundtrack, but there was once a set to Banjo-Kazooie called "Complete Note Score" (I think. Can't really remember) floating around on the net. I'm not sure of the source of it.
The USF is more than sufficient now. But I wanted to compare the tracklist *order* of the Complete Note Score to the USF set.
Elebits FLAC by Trogdorbad at 10:29 PM EDT on June 4, 2021
So CyberSpark posted about it on page 42 and it doesn't look like it got linked afterwards, but I would love the FLAC rip of The Smile of You ~theme from Elebits~ if someone here has it :)