Hi all,

I have Quake, and Mission Pack 1 & 2 up and running great. I've managed to get the original sound track for Quake working with my GoG Quake too, which is nice. However, I'm stumped with the music for the mission packs. Can anyone help me get the music working with them....without having to use different source ports?

Hi there!

No Problem!
Just follow the guide from our colleague here:

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

This should give you the originial, unaltered soundtracks of id1 / hipnotic and rogue.

(And do not de-emphasize them, that is a bullshit rumor in the internet. The soundtracks are fine and intended as they are!)

If you want to use the "old" engine try to create a subfolder in id1/hipnotic/rogue named "music" and put the ripped tracks as WAV Files in there, this should do the job. And do not forget to name the tracks track02 track03 track04 and so on. (Quake cd audio did start with track02 as 01 was the data track with the game.)

Reinstall from GOG Galaxy. Validate. Start.

Or reinstall Quake 1 from offline package. Start it by GOG's links (DOS version). Music will work.
For Windows exe just mount music images disks (.cue files) - three of them for three game\addons.

In short: music will work initially for GOG releases of Q1\Q2.

GOG prefer DOS version for better compatibilities. Mostly no Windows exe at all even if it should be. But Quake is opposite situation. Win exe still here and... DOS version is not easier. (also id not a good developer, not matter if they do that for purpose (same for Q1 and Q2, there is no best exe\render option))
GOG often provide game disks for DOS versions. But that not for audiocd tracks. To hear lossless(almost) quality music - from disk image - you should play Windows version.

GOG lie about copyrights problems with music for Q1 - they just dont want double music from 3 disks images that already included, and they shoould be included for DOS version. So GOG just lazy to put another variant for Q1.
And thats great. Another variant is - OGG lossy format, not lossless one.

So for Quake 1 from GOG we have original disks. You can use anything (even WMP Player or Itunes Player) to grab .cda tracks from them to WAV\MP3\any else lossy or lossless formats.

Thank you, but this is great for regular Quake....but the mission packs (hipnotic and rogue) just won't play any music at all no matter what I try.

I had no discs mounted at the time, and I also tried it with the gamea/gamed cue files mounted...same result, no music.

However, I was bale to fix the mission pack music by using the "Restore music playback" section of this guide - https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Quake (vanilla restoration patch). This way, I have music for Quake, Mission Pack 1 and Mission Pack 2 all working perfectly for the GoG versions. Finally!

The only thing is I prefer the non de-emphasised versions of the tracks, so I substituted those in place of the de-emphasised versions, and it's perfect.