The Official System Shock 2 Soundtrack

Nameless Voice on 23/4/2007 at 12:51

Awesome indeed.

addink on 23/4/2007 at 13:10

indeed \:D/

Hemebond on 23/4/2007 at 13:10

If you want to retain the quality, why not rip the CD to (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) FLAC? Can't be much bigger.

Kolya on 23/4/2007 at 13:57

Quote Posted by Hemebond

If you want to retain the quality, why not rip the CD to (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) FLAC? Can't be much bigger.

QFE

Bjossi on 23/4/2007 at 14:29

Quote Posted by Hemebond

If you want to retain the quality, why not rip the CD to (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) FLAC? Can't be much bigger.

I barely hear a difference between 320 kbps mp3 and CD playback. Upping the filesize 4.7 - 5x seems like excessive for very little quality increase.

ZylonBane on 23/4/2007 at 14:49

This is 100% nifty. Thanks!

Kolya on 23/4/2007 at 16:06

I decoded the files to wavs and re-encoded them as flacs.
Original MP3s: 114 MB
FLACs: 233 MB

I'm not saying 320 kbps isn't good enough but why go for anything less than lossless when MysteryDev has the CD that we all have been waiting for for years? Everyone could still create the MP3s he wants from the source.

ZylonBane on 23/4/2007 at 16:18

Either way, this should really come in handy for that guy who's working on reproducing the cutscenes.

Bjossi on 23/4/2007 at 16:18

If the FLACs are 233 MBs, then they aren't lossless. The original CD should take at least 500 MBs considering the bitrate is over 1 Mbps.

But ripping the CD again with lossless audio and offering it for download as well wouldn't hurt at all.

ZylonBane on 23/4/2007 at 16:23

Bjossi, FLAC has an average compression ratio of (http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html) around 50%, so there's nothing unusual about a claim of 233MB. Techno music is especially compressible too.