Good work! I like that track.

In my GOG version the file is called SPACEE.C93 (since I guess there is a version in a few different languages there). In the old game I had it's space.c93.

I wonder if there is any way to cut out the voice in the end, to leave just music. Never tried to edit audio in such way. I guess there are some filters for that sort of thing.

Also, for easier concatenation after cleaning the noise you can use ffmpeg. It simplifies such stuff a lot.

By the way, your concatenated VOC file is already 16 bit WAV, not the original 8 bit VOC. I guess your editor implicitly converted it. When you concatenate with ffmpeg you can tell it to preserve the codec.

I used Audacity.. whoops. I'll try ffmpeg.

And no, I believe you can't remove "see you in hell!" without hurting the music, as it would've been easier if it was on separate channel.

Audacity can also save in VOC (File > Export Audio > Other uncompressed files > Options > Header > VOC (and then probably unsigned 8 bit encoding if I'm not mistaken), though I don't see the option of keeping the codec. I.e. it always first converts into some internal format, then exports in whatever you say it to.

GOG release has 3 versions of that sequence (in English, German and French). Which means that in theory there can be a way to extract common parts from all 3 and remove the differences, which can produce a better result than cutting it out from one file by targeting human voice frequencies. But it's already an exercise for a good sound engineer :) I have no clue how to do that in practice.

shmerl, thank you for the audio tracks you sent me. I found a VLC player, but unfortunately I cannot seem to find a way to merge the files in a program like Audacity and then turn it into an MP3 file (or something like that). Would you happen to know a program that could do this? If not, V_Racer, would you? The song I'm trying to get into an MP3 format should be labeled "Oceanmus". Thank you both for your time.

Take a look at this: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=191372#p191372

It's an import-append plugin for Audacity. May be V_Racer has some other Audiacty plugins that he can recommend.

Alternatively you can concatenate a lot of audio files with ffmpeg: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate

Can someone more talented compile all the music files extracted into a compressed file and upload it somewhere?

They require manual cleaning in this form. So if you have time - feel free to help with it and then it would be trivial to concatenate all the results. As I said, if I'll have time I'll write the proper parser to avoid extracting data with noise. I can't give any ETA on this - I do it in my free time.

Uploading all those files for public access isn't really proper because it's against GOG rules. But if you extract your own files - it's fine. As I said above, if you need help with extracting - feel free to comment here.

ACK! I should've changed my oldbutt (circa 2005) username a bit sooner..

Anyway, here's an MP3 for you. Sorry for being a bit late, life happens.

I usually provide the files in voc's and FLAC's. It cuts off at the end on video for some reason, but it doesn't on actual audio files.

I'll do a couple of tracks I personally like soon.

Thank you very much! Sounds great. Thank you for your time and effort.

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Hi there,
Is there an option to run this in cygwin ?
I'm very confused by the script and dont know how to make it work.

Do you have the extracted files? I'm a little bit better with audio-editors instead of with Linux-Scripts.

Hi. It should be doable. The script uses dd tool as you can notice. So you need to figure out how to get dd on Windows. Not sure if Cygwin provides it.

Here is a third party implementation: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

So install it somewhere where the script can find it (in the PATH or same directory) and then run the script. As I wrote, pass the resource file to the script as a parameter.

The script also uses stat and grep tools. Make sure you have them too. You might need to tweak the script to call all those with .exe, since I don't remember if Cygwin can handle executable on Windows without providing .exe extension.

At some point I'll just write a proper parser on some other language (I'll post here when that will happen).

Link if possible, please?

Here: https://mega.nz/#!0sdEWZha!nWHLh5LXsIUs8N1Q6qsTxRFGBQCHHYDlEjygwjyxMSE

Some sound effects are baked on top of the music tracks, like the aircraft computer's voice, but there's no player gunfire.