BG2 soundtrack discovery!!!

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I've noticed around that people have been seeking and not finding the BG2 soundtrack which is supposed to be included with the BG2 ultimate collection (but isn't)

I finally found the link, after some searching! Hopefully this helps some of y'all out!

Link:
http://www.3ddownloads.com/forge/forgottenwars/audio/BG2Music.zip

By the way, if this link already exists on SP, my apologies for double posting but I couldn't find it!

 

I really liked all the music and that from BGII. Good to be able to play it at will huh

 

Yep. Apart from the fact that it's LOADS of MB and will take me hours to download...*sigh*

 

Excellent lizard, the music is awesome. Again I love my broadband connection.

 

We've already had a couple threads with this site posted... here and here.

But, this is great music nonetheless. In the few naps I have taken, I have fallen asleep to it. Although, when I imported it to iTunes, it did it alphabetically, so I had to listen to 15 battle tracks before getting the nice quiet stuff

 

thanks, going to dl it now. would you happen to know of a similar site hosting the iwd soundtracks?

 

Yay for almost 80MB of BG2 music!

Not so yay for my crummy DSL speeds.

 

Why not just download Acm2Wav?

Then you can chose what music you have and it works on other IE games. You could use it to find what songs you like and swap them around from different games.

And it isn't 80MB

 

Nope, the zip file is 80mb, unzipped it is 90mb
The difference is very small, because an mp3 file is already zipped.

But now that I can't find the time to play the game, between school, Oblivion, and *couch* work, this collection is extra welcome

 

Enag... I have the music, but I forget where I got it. Let me do a quick search to see if I can find the site.

Nope, couldn't find it. I found a 3 song demo:
http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10053&ID=322


This is a (free) converter... it should convert the music. Not sure how well it works.
http://bim.km.ru/gap/

 

I don't want to bum anyone out, but I got the soundtrack for BG, BG2, and IWD. I hav never listened to them, maybe I should try them out.

 

Where did you get IWD soundtrack?

 

I bought the Ultimate Collection with IWD, HOF, and IWD2 and it was in there. I just popped it in, its not bad.

 

You can extract all the music from the game by yourself.

I forget where I found this webpage so I'll just include everything here. Everything was from that origin webpage, except the last 3 songs which I found by myself.

By the way, the Java Runtime Environment described by the author was an older version. The newest version is better.

Also by the way, Ogg Vorbis is a better 'lossy' music file compression format than Mp3
http://www.vorbis.com/
and Monkey's Audio is a very good 'lossless' compression format.
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/


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Extracting Music from

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
and
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
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by T. Malasri - Aug. 10, 2001
kmalasri@hotmail.com | gte985m@prism.gatech.edu


I was very impressed by the music in SoA and even more so by that in
ToB. Unfortunately, it's somewhat of a pain to extract the music for
listening outside of the game. The following is an outline of the
procedure I have used. (Note: I suspect this will work for the original
Baldur's Gate as well, although I haven't tried myself.)


1. Software Tools You Need

- Near Infinity
An Infinity engine browser and editor.
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~joh/ni/download.html
- acm2wav.exe
Not surprisingly, converts ACM files to WAV. This is actually
all you need to make WAVs of the game music, but I prefer using
it with Near Infinity because it makes browsing and converting
large numbers of files MUCH easier.
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte985m/files/acm2wav.exe
- General audio player
Winamp recommended
- WAV sound editor
Windows Sound Recorder is fine.
- MPEG encoder (if desired)
I used SCMPX, a nice little free program that you can get from
CNET Downloads (http://downloads.cnet.com/). Just do a search
for "SCMPX."

Note that Near Infinity is a Java program, so if you don't have the Java
Runtime Environment (or SDK), you will need to go download it from Sun at
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/. More information can be found at the
Near Infinity homepage given above.


2. Getting Started

Place acm2wav.exe in your install directory for BG2. Place the Near
Infinity jar archive anywhere convenient, and double-click on it to run
it. When it asks for a keyfile, use "Chitin.key" from your BG2 folder.

You will see a large window with a listing of game resources on the
left. Find and expand the "Music" tab. Note that the MUS files you see
here are not the actual music data. They are essentially just playlists
telling the game how to play the actual files (which are ACMs scattered
throughout the subfolders in BG2\music\).


3. Previewing and Extracting Sound Files

To browse through the game's music, simply click on any of the files
within the Music tab. Whenever you click on a file, Near Infinity will
show the associated playlist and automatically use acm2wav to convert
the needed ACM files to WAV. These WAVs will show up in the same folder
that you put the "NearInfinity.jar" archive in. You can use the built-
in player to preview them, but I recommend Winamp (or any other audio
player) for one major reason.

The Near Infinity player doesn't seem to allow you to choose files to
play from the playlist. This isn't really a problem in itself, but a
lot of the MUS files contain references to "SPC1" BEFORE anything else.
It turns out that SPC1 is about a minute or so of silence. So, if you
use the built-in player, you have to sit through this before hearing
anything!

(My guess is that SPC1 is used for padding in the game, to prevent the
music from audibly looping as soon as it's finished with one cycle. Most
of the melodies are pretty short, so hearing them over and over without
any breaks probably WOULD get old very fast =P)

Near Infinity deletes the WAV files it generates when you select a
different MUS file, so move aside and/or rename any WAVs that you want
to keep as you browse. Assuming that you don't have gobs of hard drive
space to waste, convert them to MP3, and voila -- new additions to your
Winamp playlist!


4. Note on Putting Together Battle Music

You'll notice that all of the battle music (logically enough, it
generally begins with "B" in the MUS file list) consists of a lot of
small files. This is because unlike regular background music, the game
has to be able to start/stop the battle music to correspond with what
the player is doing. So, in order to allow for smoother transitions,
the music is chopped up into small parts.

Use Windows Sound Recorder (or something similar) to string together the
individual WAVs in alphabetical order so that you have a single WAV
file. Be careful, however... you may not need every WAV that Near
Infinity generates for you. The files toward the end can be alternate
endings that are used to stop the music at various locations. Thus,
it's a good idea to play these files individually first, so that you
don't end up with 3 or 4 different endings tacked on to the music.


5. List of Known Music

A few of the MUS files are pretty self-explanatory; MXAERIE, for
instance, is obviously the Aerie romance music. Unfortunately, most of
the files are rather cryptically named. Following is a list of the ones
I've extracted and kept. (I don't particularly care for the dark
brooding music that plays in dungeons and sewers, so if you want those
files you'll have to look on your own =P)


BJR Battle - Irenicus (also Demogorgon in ToB)
BRD Battle - Various dragons
BSD Battle - Various dragons
DREAM2 Watcher's Keep exterior
HARP_V2 Harper Hold
HARP_V6 Harper Hold
MB Battle - Melissan
MX0015 Inside noble houses
MX0020 City Gates
MX0021 Crooked Crane
MX0313 Crooked Crane (?)
MX0406 Copper Coronet
MX0500 Bridge District
MX0512 Inside various temples
MX0700 Waukeen's Promenade
MX0900 Temple District (also game launcher)
MX1300 de'Arnise Keep
MX1304 de'Arnise Keep (?)
MX1600 Brynnlaw
MX1900 Druid Grove
MX2000 Trademeet
MX4500 Pocket Plane
MX5200 Yaga-Shura's lair
MX5500 Amkethran
MX6000 Abazigal's lair
MX6100 Sendai's lair
MX6200 Throne of Bhaal
MXAERIE Romance - Aerie
MXANOM Romance - Anomen
MXJAHIR Romance - Jaheira
MXMELIS Melissan dialogs, character endings
MXVICON Romance - Viconia
TAV1 Tavern (from BG1)
TAV2 Tavern (from BG1)
TAV3 Tavern (from BG1)
TAV4 Tavern (from BG1)
THEME Main menu (SoA)
THEMET Main menu (ToB)
VB Battle - Various Bhaalspawn


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MX2100 Underdark
MX2300 City of Caverns


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Planscape: Torment
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CHAR_04A Deionarra

 

I was pretty sure I'd read about someone putting up a similar link, but I couldn't for the life of me find it when searching and posting this. So, sorry for the redundancy.
I actually BOUGHT the IWD soundtrack for pretty cheap somewhere online.
It is GENIUS. Soule is a brilliant composer.
And yeah, too bad about the file size, but if you've got highspeed it's just as timeconsuming as converting everything (blech, who wants to do that? )
It's WORTH it though, I really love it! GO DOWNLOAD IT NOWWWWW!