Unreal Series Complete Music Collection
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8 GB worth of this on http?
....find a host....i dare ya
Then either break it down in parts or let Skillz mirror it like he already said he would to HTTP.
I dont have an account with them...but would they even be willing to host? I doubt it.
That site belongs to Skillz ..
Of course he'll host it for you, Skillz is the man when it comes to helping out the community that way.
C'mon factoryx, lets get this baby done the right way so those without P2P can benefit from your hard work.
BTW, good job on the compilations, especially in lossless formats.
As mentioned previously. Yes, I will host it.
Just use the contact page to get the FTP credentials and upload it to the utfiles directory. Drop me a PM and I'll move it over to the site.
I was going to, but I ran into two things:
1. XMPlay doesn't export to quadrophonic. (Annoying.) The real problem with this is that XMPlay/Modplug Tracker play things a bit differently (especially with sample volume levels), so I couldn't make a harmonious rip.
2. After a lot of asking around on tracker forums, I got the explanation: "Certain songs composed for Unreal and Unreal Tournament have the S91 command, which is encoded as Pro-Logic surround sound in most trackers and mod players. One would normally need a Pro-Logic decoder to get this kind of surround. Without it, one will just hear a surround-like effect because the waveform of the left side of the channel is flipped by 180 degrees on the right side. This is normally how surround is emulated on a stereo setup. It's unlikely that this effect was intended to be exported to multichannel WAV or listened to in that manner. If for some reason you'd like to see which samples the S91 command targets for Pro-Logic surround, open a song in which the command is present in the OpenMPT tracker program, then export it to quadraphonic WAV."
Hey guys. I registered here to say thanks to author of this thread.
This is what I was searching for all the time.
Haven't found this on Skillz's site, so I will use torrent.
And have a question, what's the purpose of MOD/UMX files stored there as well?
This is what I was searching for all the time.
Haven't found this on Skillz's site, so I will use torrent.
And have a question, what's the purpose of MOD/UMX files stored there as well?
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The UMXs are there kind of as a way to say, "these are truly the original files" with total assurance. Some are identical of course, but I took them all from separate game installs. The MODs are there just for convenience, so anyone who wants to edit the track doesn't have to strip the UMX shell first.
Most players support UMX playback. All a UMX file is...they take a normal S3M, IT, XM tracker file, and just put a small "shell" on it, and rename the file extension to UMX. It's still the same tracker file playing underneath, so there's no quality issue. The MODs and the UMX tracks are equal.
UE1/2 doesn't support multichannel audio streams anywhere except the software spatialization of 3d sounds mixed within the 3d environment. Even in mod players surround positioning was never fully implemented to any kind of reliably and resulted in vastly different listening experiences depending on the most minor of client differences.
What surround flags in mods actually did in UE was take advantage of a "bug" in the galaxy driver that caused it to simulate reverb in a stereo image. The sample based format of mods meant stereo samples with reverb tails were very expensive (large size) so being able to trick the engine into doing that in software was really cool.
I can't really recall much detail from the retail music but I know I did this with several songs from 7Bullets if anyone wants to check it out.
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Well, if there's some way we can possibly recreate the effect or even just get some simple quadrophonic rips going, I'll make some special folders for each game for them and rerelease.
That's fascinating stuff, though... Where'd you learn about it? It was pretty hard getting any info at all about the extra channels. It's another thing that makes me step back and realize how much of an achievement Unreal/UT were, and how wonderful it is to keep investing time and interest into these games.
That's fascinating stuff, though... Where'd you learn about it? It was pretty hard getting any info at all about the extra channels. It's another thing that makes me step back and realize how much of an achievement Unreal/UT were, and how wonderful it is to keep investing time and interest into these games.
There's a lot of mod flags that don't work correctly or at all rendered through galaxy. I think I was trying to pinpoint which ones worked. Since it was taking advantage of a bug in galaxy this effect doesn't happen in OpenAL (old Mac/Linux clients, new Win driver) or FMOD.
is this on any http? I am trying the torrent, but it will take me over a month to complete. I lost my unreal music disc. Was before we had these fancy things called usb's and external drives. Trying to get the ol UT music back but seems I am going to be pulling out over a month of DL unless there is another workaround.
Sorry to be a thread necro but I kinda joined the forums to tell the OP that he has indeed done a great job putting all this music together.
I also wanted to let him know that the Unreal Championship menu music in this torrent has nothing to to with the actual UC menu music I hear when I play on my Xbox. I've been looking for the real menu music of UC since back when I bought the game in '02.
By "menu music" I mean the music you hear as soon as you get past the cinematic and to the "press start" screen and beyond (choose profile -> actual menu). It's a totally unique semi-dark techno industrial piece. It's actually called "Level 2" even thou it is featured during the menu.
I also wanted to let him know that the Unreal Championship menu music in this torrent has nothing to to with the actual UC menu music I hear when I play on my Xbox. I've been looking for the real menu music of UC since back when I bought the game in '02.
By "menu music" I mean the music you hear as soon as you get past the cinematic and to the "press start" screen and beyond (choose profile -> actual menu). It's a totally unique semi-dark techno industrial piece. It's actually called "Level 2" even thou it is featured during the menu.
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