javarox1022: My buddy bought the game, based on the intro video on GOG's site. He's a big Bowie fan. Imagine his surprise when the "intro" part of the game played... but the Bowie song did not. It was like it was cut out of the game. I don't know if this was intentional, or not, but he never could get the intro to play the music like it does in the video on GOG. Now he's claiming false advertising. If they took the music out of the game, shouldn't they have said something about it on the website. You know, "Sorry, but due to licensing issues we had to rip the music out of the game..." or something like that? I told him maybe it was just a problem on his end. All the other sounds effects and music seem to be working. Just the parts where Bowie is singing are not.

502: The audio files are in the TRACKS folder with the .adp extension, but I don't know if they can be converted to a more common format. Perhaps it was a deliberate attempt to make the songs exclusively available from within the game.

It's not like "Hours..." is not readily available elsewhere and we are hopelessly dependent on GOG for a soundtrack bonus, but think about it, some of the sound files could be perfect phone ringtones or notification sounds, especially now that we are all so hyped up about Omikron again.

timotaka: At least according to Wikipedia the tracks on the album are actually rewritten versions of what is used in the game. So having the actual game soundtrack available separately would have... how should I put this... cultural value?

edit: I just remembered that I had converted some of Omikron's music myself, and dug out the program to do that. Does anybody have recommendations where to upload it so others can get it too?

more edit: Here is a link to download the ADP to WAV conversion program I found on the net. It's a simple command line executable. I can tell it works very well from personal experience. Oh, and and in case you just want the actual songs from the game's soundtrack, those are files numbered 3 and 79-86.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cxh2iqmlpdvy4ha

timotaka: Here is a link to download the ADP to WAV conversion program I found on the net. It's a simple command line executable. I can tell it works very well from personal experience. Oh, and and in case you just want the actual songs from the game's soundtrack, those are files numbered 3 and 79-86.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cxh2iqmlpdvy4ha

javarox1022: My buddy bought the game, based on the intro video on GOG's site. He's a big Bowie fan. Imagine his surprise when the "intro" part of the game played... but the Bowie song did not. It was like it was cut out of the game. I don't know if this was intentional, or not, but he never could get the intro to play the music like it does in the video on GOG. Now he's claiming false advertising. If they took the music out of the game, shouldn't they have said something about it on the website. You know, "Sorry, but due to licensing issues we had to rip the music out of the game..." or something like that? I told him maybe it was just a problem on his end. All the other sounds effects and music seem to be working. Just the parts where Bowie is singing are not.

javarox1022: My buddy bought the game, based on the intro video on GOG's site. He's a big Bowie fan. Imagine his surprise when the "intro" part of the game played... but the Bowie song did not. It was like it was cut out of the game. I don't know if this was intentional, or not, but he never could get the intro to play the music like it does in the video on GOG. Now he's claiming false advertising. If they took the music out of the game, shouldn't they have said something about it on the website. You know, "Sorry, but due to licensing issues we had to rip the music out of the game..." or something like that? I told him maybe it was just a problem on his end. All the other sounds effects and music seem to be working. Just the parts where Bowie is singing are not.

grunthos64: Its sad that the soundtrack is missing from the Gog version........its an obvious bonus item! Most people will play it for the Bowie factor with others just curious what the pre-Indigo Prophecy/Heavy Rain people were doing.

David Bowie's album Hours is readily available everywhere though and it has New Angels of Promise in it! Suspicious Minds replaces Omikron from the lyrics.......no idea if it was Bowie cannibalizing his own music for the game or vice versa.

SonataFanatica: Also, this Batch-File might come in handy (as you normally have to type each single filename in the command line, like "adp2wav 32.ADP 32.WAV").
http://www.mediafire.com/?b80lbdc30cvq0ni
Just copy it (convert.bat) into the TRACKS folder (together with the files from timotaka, of course), and run it.

ERISS: That's actually a .txt file, you have to configure Windows to not hide the well known extensions,
then remove the .txt in oder to make the file a .bat file.

timotaka: edit: I just remembered that I had converted some of Omikron's music myself, and dug out the program to do that. Does anybody have recommendations where to upload it so others can get it too?

more edit: Here is a link to download the ADP to WAV conversion program I found on the net. It's a simple command line executable. I can tell it works very well from personal experience. Oh, and and in case you just want the actual songs from the game's soundtrack, those are files numbered 3 and 79-86.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cxh2iqmlpdvy4ha

SonataFanatica: Also, this Batch-File might come in handy (as you normally have to type each single filename in the command line, like "adp2wav 32.ADP 32.WAV").

http://www.mediafire.com/?b80lbdc30cvq0ni

Aldarith: Wow - just got all the files converted.

It's crazy to have access to all of these tracks! I'd be interested in putting together a name .txt and sharing it but I'd need some help.

What's track 79? I don't recall that being in the game.