Posted February 03, 2014
I really like the Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive soundtrack, but the quality of the audio files is so horrible. Did they ever officially release the soundtrack on CD or as a download in a better format?
No Manz Guy
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Dalswyn
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Posted February 09, 2014
Have you checked the installation folder? The music and the dialogues are all there as MP3.
No Manz Guy
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Posted February 10, 2014
Have you checked the installation folder? The music and the dialogues are all there as MP3.
The only source I can think of that would have better quality would be a CD release of the soundtrack, but I am unaware of one. I was hoping someone else had heard of a release.
Post edited February 10, 2014 by drasticontrast
Dalswyn
Xi Jinping = Winnie-the-Pooh Moron
Registered: Mar 2009
From Taiwan
Posted February 10, 2014
I'm not aware of a collector/special edition. Spellbound has been shut down, some of their former employees have moved to Black Forest Games, you may want to try there.
I think your best bet would be to contact the two composers directly. I'd try it myself, but event though I'm working on my German proficiency right now, I'm not fluent enough to serve as a middleman.
Giovanni Vindigni:
http://www.vindigni.de/kontakt/index.html
Michael Anarp:
(not 100% certain it's him, but he's a musician, that's for sure)
Buchenweg 4
77836 Rheinmünster
Tel.: 07227-992870
Cell phone: 0173-3260750
michael[at]anarp.de
I think your best bet would be to contact the two composers directly. I'd try it myself, but event though I'm working on my German proficiency right now, I'm not fluent enough to serve as a middleman.
Giovanni Vindigni:
http://www.vindigni.de/kontakt/index.html
Michael Anarp:
(not 100% certain it's him, but he's a musician, that's for sure)
Buchenweg 4
77836 Rheinmünster
Tel.: 07227-992870
Cell phone: 0173-3260750
michael[at]anarp.de
Melodo
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Registered: May 2016
From Germany
Posted May 09, 2016
Have you checked the installation folder? The music and the dialogues are all there as MP3.
The only source I can think of that would have better quality would be a CD release of the soundtrack, but I am unaware of one. I was hoping someone else had heard of a release.
did you write to the two composers? I did last week but didn't get an answer yet. I am German and wrote in German but maybe they don't check their mails so often. I would love to hear that soundtrack in cd quality :))
Greez, Melodo
No Manz Guy
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Registered: Jan 2011
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Posted June 02, 2016
The only source I can think of that would have better quality would be a CD release of the soundtrack, but I am unaware of one. I was hoping someone else had heard of a release.
did you write to the two composers? I did last week but didn't get an answer yet. I am German and wrote in German but maybe they don't check their mails so often. I would love to hear that soundtrack in cd quality :))
Greez, Melodo
No Manz Guy
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Registered: Jan 2011
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Posted January 10, 2017
Well, it's certainly taken a while for things to settle down, but I've just sent an email to Giovanni; we'll see how that goes. Melodo, did you ever hear back from either of them?drasticontrast: The original files that come with the game are PCM WAVs; unlike normal WAV files, these are very lossy codecs that distort the upper frequencies. The FLAC files that come with the GOG version have been encoded from these game files, so they are equally noisy.
The only source I can think of that would have better quality would be a CD release of the soundtrack, but I am unaware of one. I was hoping someone else had heard of a release.
Melodo: Hey drasticontrast,
did you write to the two composers? I did last week but didn't get an answer yet. I am German and wrote in German but maybe they don't check their mails so often. I would love to hear that soundtrack in cd quality :))
Greez, Melodo Well, it's certainly taken a while for things to settle down, but I've just sent an email to Giovanni; we'll see how that goes. Melodo, did you ever hear back from either of them?
The only source I can think of that would have better quality would be a CD release of the soundtrack, but I am unaware of one. I was hoping someone else had heard of a release.
did you write to the two composers? I did last week but didn't get an answer yet. I am German and wrote in German but maybe they don't check their mails so often. I would love to hear that soundtrack in cd quality :))
Greez, Melodo
Post edited January 10, 2017 by drasticontrast
syscall
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Registered: Dec 2013
From Austria
Posted July 12, 2018
did you write to the two composers? I did last week but didn't get an answer yet. I am German and wrote in German but maybe they don't check their mails so often. I would love to hear that soundtrack in cd quality :))
Greez, Melodo
No Manz Guy
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Registered: Jan 2011
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Posted July 14, 2018
Well, it's certainly taken a while for things to settle down, but I've just sent an email to Giovanni; we'll see how that goes. Melodo, did you ever hear back from either of them?
aristides86
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Registered: Feb 2012
From Russian Federation
Posted September 07, 2018
I played Desperados alot. So I can point out the music from the game whenever I hear it and I heard it on TV (usually in the news and morning shows) quite a few times. So I concluded that it's a stock music, guys. If it's true there's no point in expecting it released separately on CD. Anyone can buy it and use it, there's no exclusive rights. And it makes sense, they were a small team, don't think they could afford a professional composer
Post edited September 07, 2018 by aristides86