This game has a great soundtrack; it should really be in the Extras.

Way back when there was the Muckyfoot Website, they offered the tool... If you [GOG] have permission, why not use it?

[url=http://web.aanet.com.au/~wideopen/wideopen/games/startopia/muckyfoot/wav2tfa.html]http://web.aanet.com.au/~wideopen/wideopen/games/startopia/muckyfoot/wav2tfa.html[/url]

**BTW, here is another resource for the game (though many of it's links are now dead :( )
http://www.strategyplanet.com/startopia/modtools.shtml
http://www.strategyplanet.com/startopia/eggs.shtml

Does this mean that nobody wants the soundtrack as MP3's?

Doesn't count for me, I've had the MP3's for years; but I am surprised that no one else has posted a reply encouraging GoG to provide them.

I agree with you. The soundtrack is pretty sweet. It should be an extra. I just finished the single player missions. :)

A friend of mine managed to extract the soundtrack from the game a year ago using a little third party program, last week I managed to convince him to extract them again and submit them to GOG or Youtube at least but he hasn't gotten around to do it yet. I think I will ground him next time I see him.

Funny thing about the soundtrack, you remember these long moments of silence in between each tracks when you were playing the game? These moments of silence are actually in the track themselves, each tracks have two or three minutes of silence before they starts and one more minute after they stop playing. I think it's because he'll have to remove all this silence from the tracks once more that he hasn't found the motivation to do it yet. I'll bug him some more, stay tuned.

Maybe they couldn't get the legal rights to sell it as an extra. I'm guessing if they could they would (as soundtracks are the #1 kind of requested bonus item), but you could always email them about it.

Ah... That explains a lot.Sorry to hear it, but it happens. It's funny how the sound is always a sticking point for releasing old game.

I'm even more interested in those modding guides for which all the links are dead. Does anyone happen to have those or know where they might exist still? Those would definitely make a good extra and surely there would not be any copyright issues as there are with soundtracks.

Is there any program to rip the music files? Someone in the thread mentioned his friend did it but I cannot find one that works with TFA/TFB file extensions.

Just FYI, I believe some of the songs can be downloaded by using the description links in this playlist.

For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoeyagCHN8&list=PL5TjkSYDgzOHhRCUvS-uSKWxxXre9MOgK

"Download link (single MP3 file): http://minus.com/lNXXB6NkhMDKo "

I'v just found music files for 6 tracks (I don't know if there are more of them in-game):
http://www.strategyplanet.com/startopia/files.shtml

Half of them have been uploaded by Mucky Foot, so I guess these are legal uploads.

It's mp3 only, sorry FLAC addicts!
(I'm one myself)

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Modding guide 1.3 can be found here:
[url=http://web.aanet.com.au/~wideopen/wideopen/games/startopia/muckyfoot/downloads.html]http://web.aanet.com.au/~wideopen/wideopen/games/startopia/muckyfoot/downloads.html[/url]

Good news everyone, thanks to blueskirt42 I managed to find a working .tfa -> .wav converter:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051030115930/http://ga-agent.nm.ru/stuff/tfa2wav02.zip

The script to extract the StarTopia soundtrack and convert it to FLAC has just gone live:
Convert the StarTopia soundtrack to FLAC