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Is it possible to make a soundtrack CD?

Alchemedic

By Alchemedic,
Posted on: 2012-09-01 06:13 in Player Questions

 

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Being the sentimental old fool that I am, I'm thinking if the efforts to open up the source code come to naught, I'd be slightly less sad if I could still play the old CoH background music on a CD in my car after the lights go out for the last time in Paragon City. (Heck, I still play the soundtrack from Rome Total War!)

Is there a way to take the files for the various zone area soundtracks plus the opening screen music and make a CD that's playable in a standard player? I can't even find which files *are* the music files.

 

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Originally Posted by Quinzel View Post
You can find all the music files on Paragon Wiki.
D'oh! I never thought to look on ParagonWiki for techie files. Thanks, Quinzel!

OK...now can anyone recommend a good converter to put ogg files into something a CD player will recognise?

 

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You could always use the ffmpeg command line. I don't know how "ready" the latest Xuggler (java wrapper for ffmpeg) version is, that MIGHT be simpler depending on how comfortable you are with using command line utilities.

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Is that all the music?

You can also buy the going rogue sound track via itunes/amazon.

Format Factory (windows freeware) will convert ogg to mp3 which any burning program will be able to make into an old fashioned CD

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awesome

I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.

Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.

So sad to be ending ):

 

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I discovered that most of the music from the original release was "stock" music that Cryptic purchased. I found this out when a guest walked on the stage of a talkshow to the Atlas Park Music.

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Originally Posted by Cryosteel View Post
I discovered that most of the music from the original release was "stock" music that Cryptic purchased. I found this out when a guest walked on the stage of a talkshow to the Atlas Park Music.
Noooooooooooo!! LALALALALALA! Too bad I can't hear you...

[Never thought there would be something about CoH that I didn't want to know. That AP theme will ALWAYS be CoH to me, no matter what!]

 

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Hi,

and the Atlas zone music is also used by the MotoGP world as the intro/title music for their race day programmes. I googled it and got the composer and often wonder which company was plagerising it (if any).

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Originally Posted by Cryosteel View Post
I discovered that most of the music from the original release was "stock" music that Cryptic purchased. I found this out when a guest walked on the stage of a talkshow to the Atlas Park Music.
Yeah, much of the music for the game was generic royalty-free, open-license stuff. I think some of the music for City of Villains was specific to the game, but I'm not sure. I do know for sure that the music used in Cimerora and the ITF was specifically composed for the game, and it seems that continued with Going Rogue, which of course got a soundtrack release.

 

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Originally Posted by Quinzel View Post
You can find all the music files on Paragon Wiki.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Music

451 music files... so take your pick.
This actually made my day. Thank you!

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The wiki page, sadly, lacks newer tracks used during the trials and new story arcs.

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Yeah, I went there looking for the dramatic music from the Keyes trial, and it wasn't there.

Most of the old (pre-GR) songs I downloaded back when they were still available on the official FTP site, but that site has been gone for a while. (I think it went down when GR came out, in fact)