Thank you action_fan, EverNightX, InkPanther, Warloch_Ahead, dtgreene, cose_vecchie, neumi5694, VanishedOne, Vainamoinen and HypersomniacLive for your participation up to this point.
Good idea of yours. How many do you have? You can post by groups of letters and I or any volunteer can compare them to the DLC results from the GOG store.

Excellent, another source of information. Let me review its contents along with the problems you mention. Thanks for the information and for the effort at the time, HypersomniacLive and IAmSinistar. Its usefulness is unquestionable.

It's about 800 I think. Makes me wish this forum had spoiler tags.
Maybe a uploaded text file would be more convenient.

I'll post them later when I am at home.

There you go, the textfile is uploaded

https://turb.pw/dv99z0qqqmo7.html

Don't take the format description literally, I always convert wav-files to flac. There is no point in wasting disk space.
Also I removed the original Sam & Max soundtracks, since they are fully present in the remakes soundtracks.
Apart from that right now nothing off comes to my mind right now, maybe some mp3 soundtracks instead of flac form the time before I was able to convert 24 and 32 bit wavs without loss.

On topic of soundtracks, it is actually very rare that an "official" soundtrack contains all the music there is in the game. Most of the time, it only contains the "main" tracks and none of the ambient/additional music, or even different versions from what plays in the game, as is the case with the already mentioned Venetica for example.

The only truly full and complete soundtracks have to be gotten from the game files these days. Titan Quest + Immortal Throne for example had official soundtrack at barely 2 hours, while the actual complete soundtrack of all the game music is almost 4 hours.

My contribution:
All the Unreal games have all the music present in the folder structure, exactly as heard in the game.

.umx files for Unreal and UT 99
.ogg files for UT 2003/2004

The I of the Dragon also has music directly in a folder. MP3 files.

I also don't consider ambient sounds music. But in the TQ case, entire tracks were missing. All the generic music loops in all acts (about 3 for each act, each several minutes long), mini-boss combat tracks, shorter location tracks etc. A substantial part of the music from the game was simply not present in the soundtrack. I personally would expect something called "Official soundtrack" to be extensive and trying to contain everything. Especially when it's being offered for sale separately. I would never buy a soundtrack of a game I own in the first place, but even if I did not own the game, I still would not when I can't expect the soundtrack to be complete. TQ was the first game where I really noticed this discrepancy and since then, I am really doubtful of any "official" soundtracks.

Another example would be Enclave. Official soundtrack - 64 minutes, music straight from game files - 95 minutes.

many has also uploaded old soundtracks of various games to youtube

If OP doesn't want to do it, I can do it as I'm already a soundtrack hoarder...

My time zone is the US west coast, so I'm behind just about everyone on time zones plus I have a doctor appointment tomorrow and it's Easter weekend. The soonest that I'll do anything is Monday. Also, I'm really into spreadsheets so potentially catalogue the entire GOG site on a spreadsheet to track the soundtrack situation for each game.

Some games just have their soundtracks sitting there in their game folder as music files. Guild of Dungeoneering is like this, except that it's technically missing one track. At the other end, Absolute Drift has no official OST, so the situation really is a bunch of music tracks by two artists scattered across several albums.

Don't get me wrong, I am the first to believe and confirm that there are soundtrack with missing tracks.
I just don't think it's the majority.
If you're looking for another complete one, check the Turrican anthology on Bandcamp or Amazon.

Enclave ... I actually think they said it was just samples, but I am not sure. But yes, I found a much more complete version of it, but it's not labelet 'gog' in my directory :)



btw, your mentions of the Unreal games would be a good topic for a new thread: Games that don't come with an official soundtrack (well, basically it doesn't matter), but where the music fils can be extracted from the game directory or an archive file (without requiering the decrpytion key for a Unreal Engine decompiler)
I also extracted the Monkey Island SE soundtracks, but they are not listed as 'gog' soundtracks. Jedi Knight and X-Wing use the classic Star Wars soundtrack without changes, so that could be mentioned as well.

Beyond Divinity (WAV) and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw (OGG) also have music files in sub-folders. RGO has over 24 hours worth of music from the various in-game radio stations, though much of that length comes from the classical music station. :)

Offer accepted, the more the better. I am coming back from a vacation. I still have to review the list on #19 during the weekend.

I completely forgot about this as I didn't bookmark this thread. Okay, it's already getting late here, so I'm not going to start anything until tomorrow.



Oh and if nobody has mentioned it, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves is another one where the soundtrack is sitting there among the files. This one is a bit of a mess though as nothing is really organized, but I can't complain too much as it is a free game. Anyway, I figured out what I think are the track names for this one.

So tomorrow...
1. start spreadsheet
2. post the track info and album art for Sang-Froid.

Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves

These are all in .WAV format in one of the folders with a bunch of other files. Some of the files are sound effects or dialogue, but here's the info for the ones that I found that are music tracks. There's probably some that I missed as this game has a ton of .WAV tracks.

edit - Track length info included to facilitate locating the individual files as I've since renamed those that got dumped in my music collection and don't want to go looking for them all a second time (even knowing their track length.)

credited to Artifice Studio because I don't know who else to credit them to
Main Menu - 2:48
Loading Music - 0:31
Loading Music - 0:30, three tracks
Docteur - 1:58
Mont et Par Vaux - 2:36
Mont et Par Vaux (Tension) - 0:54
Nordique - 1:22
Nordique - 2:06
Vendredi - 2:45
Bordeau - 4:54
Ermite - 2:09
Win - 0:04
Dead - 0:09
Village - 1:26

credited to La Volée d'Castors
8e Côte (Part 1) - 2:06
8e Côte (Part 2) - 1:27

credited to La Nef
Reel à Bouche (Intro) - 2:20
Reel à Bouche - 2:46

credited to Mario Loiselle et Domino
La Valse des Cerfs-Volants - 3:17

attached image: album art.... I don't have info on where I got this as there is no official soundtrack for this game. Names of tracks with artist information was posted by the game's developers themselves on a Steam post.

Iirc, most of Starbound's OSTs are available in the game's data file (game.pak iirc), which can be extracted with one of the tools shipped with the game itself. (I'll reinstall the game to confirm the exact procedure, so I'll make a follow-up explanation as to how)