Unfortunately .. high quality music packs - "Dissolution of Eternity" and "Malice" are dead links,

Just saying.

Your not missing much.

The packs are simply the game music tracks - ripped to OGG (Vorbis) format and stuck in a ZIP file (extension renamed to pk3) under a certain folder structure.

Mainly for use with the DarkPlaces engine.

The tracks inside can be extracted with 7zip or similar.


There's other links in that thread, specifically here:
https://www.quaddicted.com/files/music/

Where you can get the music files - if anyone is unable to rip.

Ahhh .. ok. Thank You!

Looks like something's wrong with the track divisions in the main game cue. The last two or so seconds of each track gets cut off and slapped onto the previous track. I burned it to a CD-R and it has the beginnings cut off in-game.
Edit: The Scourge cue is fine, Dissolution has the same problem though

If the original CD has pre-emphasis set, then just about all rips of it on the web will not be de-emphasised properly, as most rippers have only recently learned how to handle the subcode. New rips are needed.

This worked perfectly for me, thank you!.

I've written a little tool that parses CUE sheets and outputs OGG files... should make things a lot easier:

http://www.gog.com/forum/quake_series/my_oneclick_audioextractor

It doesn't deemphasize, but it extracts all the music and there's a little howto included that will tell you where to put each file so that the mission packs get the correct tracks.

It seems that this issue can only exist because (a) somehow the licensing for game and the game's music is separate and (b) the rights holders for the music (TVT and Sonic Mayhem, I believe that latter works as an independent contractor) are requiring a fee-for-use that the publisher (this is not a storefront issue) is unwilling to pay. If the above obtains either in whole or in part I cannot understand how it would be legally permissible to utilise disk images that contain the copyrighted IP, viz. the music.

Clarity on this issue would be greatly appreciated so that we can all understand why we have to jump through hoops to get the music to play that, all things considered, should be considered part of the game.

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CD playback is not completely functional, as it is not possible to loop music or even repeat the same CD track without a 3rd-party fix using multiple console commands to switch tracks or reset the CD. It's not the same and mars the integrity of the title.

Sad that we have to do so much messing around to get the game to run properly with the music. Also I don't see a Winquake launcher. Oh well it's still slightly better than the Steam version I guess.

The sooner you accept that Quake is id1/pak0.pak, id1/pak1.pak, hidden/pak0.pak, rogue/pak0.pak, two music CD images that you need to extract, and you need to use a modern engine the happier you will be.

There's a reason Reznor told TVT to go **** themselves after Pretty Hate Machine. Now the question is how did TVT get the rights to this music if this was around the time Reznor was very explicit about how these ***holes can eat a ******* ****.

"In 2010, the rights to the TVT catalog were acquired by Bicycle Music Group. A remastered version of Pretty Hate Machine was released and digital versions of its singles were put back into print.
The co-publishing rights to Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails catalog include the songs from all album releases from Pretty Hate Machine through Year Zero. As well, in acquiring the master recording rights to NIN’s groundbreaking debut, Pretty Hate Machine, Bicycle will be responsible for re-releasing this album which has been out of print and unavailable through digital distribution outlets for several years. “It goes without saying how important these works are to the entire landscape of Alternative Rock. Our team sees incredible creative and business opportunities with this catalog and we look forward to working with our new partners and artists," said Steve Salm, Partner at Bicycle."

Oh that's how.

Reznor is chill when it comes to his music. He encouraged all of Australia to pirate his music when the record companies were going to charge Australian fans more for Year Zero. Reznor isn't the problem here.

I don't criticize anyone here, also not Trent Reznor. The question is how the contract was done nearly 20 years ago. Maybe there is a special clause in the contract not to offer the soundtrack separeted in any way, because it was a standard term for Reznor in his contracts and he just wanted to be sure that a company does not monetize his work in another way without explicit permission. Because Trent is amiable to his fans does not mean he was and very likely is still not careless in how he is making contracts with companies. So it's maybe the wording of the contract that can legally backfire on Bethesda and GOG. For them only contract is relevant and how it legally can be construed.

Keep also in mind tht in 20 years things changes. Digital music was still at the beginning and I'm pretty sure no one thought that the game will need extracted audiofiles. It was also a novelty that a big musican made a soundtrack for a game, which means it was also something new for a gaming company how the music should be licensed.

To sum up, as we don't know all contracts and licensing details, we can only speculate. For me it's reasonable that a contract with a rockstar is more detailled and restrictive to protect his rights than a usual deal back then with an inhouse musician or a normal composer who normally gives away the rights of his work to the developer or publisher. Some clauses in that contract, which were maybe standard clauses for every well bigger musician back then, makes it maybe risky for Bethesda and GOG to extract the music. That was very likely not done in purpose to harm the fans in any way, but in a way to protect the rights of the musician also in the future from to this time unkown ways of monetization. Again, just my guess.

I just ripped all the retail disks and notice the missing tracks in the tracks on the .CUE files so I posted the complete rip with all the right settings.

Retail Disk GOG Disk Copy Hope this helps anyone looking for the right numbers so you can stop guessing and checking.

Side Note: Quakes Theme song as the same tonal qualities as Doom 3's its incredible!