That MP3 Soundtrack...

Yahoo/Geocities sucks.

Try this place.

http://hammer.prohosting.com/~kravak/

There is a link to the mp3 file.   It worked fine about 2 min ago...
(2100EST)

-=Kr'rt

> http://hammer.prohosting.com/~kravak/

Works at 2200EST, although with two 11-year olds in the
background, I'm not sure which battle noises are which....

Mmm, I like it. Wonder if my friends will like it on tuesday when we play SG.
And wonder how long time I can play it for them without them going crazy.....
(My cat is listening to it very attentively and obviously a little
disturbed by it. I think that is agood sign :-)

> http://hammer.prohosting.com/~kravak/

Very cool!

Looped onto a tape, should go well in the background of any game!

Excellent work Kr'rt. Does anyone know of if something similar has been done
for FT? Or a suggestion of a 'suitable' soundtrack? I'm using Star Wars
soundtrack CDs at the moment.

> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 02:18:06 GMT

Cheers,

> Paul Radford wrote:

No, but I've got a good one for OGRE. "The March of the Dinochrome Brigade"
aka the sound track from the game ZOIDS for the C64. Use it for

> Paul Radford wrote:

I'd also be interested in a suitable soundtrack. I don't own the Star Wars
CDs, so I'm using the Babylon5 CDs instead. Seems to create a reasonable
atmosphere....

WRT making game soundtracks. First step is to get into MP3s, downloading them
and playing them. (hope you have some bandwidth.) Then you can search the hell
out of everywhere for suitable MP3s. Kr'rt's MP3 sight is has a lot of rare
stuff. Then you develop your playlists depending on what you're playing.

At GZG the concept was almost executed properly as we brought down tons of
MP3s,
expect that my CD/DVD drive on my notebook began developing serious
problem. But a notebook or rio, combined with one of those surround sound
systems for your PC can give you the power of creating appropriate soundtracks
on the fly. We had the aliens soundtrack going for Stuart's game, then
switched to Rot Hafen for general gaming, then during parts of Grey Day had
ambient combat sounds going on.

(Note that whoever brought the CD player to G3 had burnt some very nice gaming
music onto CDs also, same concept except audio instead of MP3)

Next time Kr'rt comes up (end of month) we'll make a concerted effort to
consolidate all the stuff I have into appropriate directories so Kr'rt can
make MP3 directories for download.

Los P.S. Personally I'm a huge soundtrack fan and at any given time of the day
have one running through my head differning on the situation. On some of our
more harrowing "insertions" I'll usually have Holst's "Mars" cranking through
my head.... It even adds a flare of dramatic to even mundane situations and in
writing Rot Hafen, I found that the appropriate music significantly aided the
creative process.

> Paul Radford wrote:

> Excellent work Kr'rt.

BTW It has been about 18 months since we had a serious soundtrack discussion.
As you guys may know, you often need look no further than some of your own
game disks. A few places to look (Note: With every one of these games. the
music is worth the price of the game)...

Mechwarrior 2: (audio) Excellent music, Kind of airy and spacey but very much
power Armor or tanks in alien environment types of stuff. (Note: MW3's music
is a bit more heavy but has some good tracks)

Shattered Steel: (audio) If you ever see this CD in a bargain bin, buy it!
Forget the game (Which wasn't half bad) but the audio CD tracks are uniformly
excellent. Thing main fleet action type stuff. Must have. I'll get this
converted to MP3 and over to Kr'rt by the end of the month.

Descent2: (audio) This is heavier and faster stuff (by Type O negative and
Skinny Puppy), but very well crafted and has a lot of appropriate tracks.

Rainbow Six and others in the series: (Audio) A Bill Brown Masterpiece: Grate
FMA type stuff or ground action. Again worth the price of the game (Which is
awesome too)

Incubation: (Audio) Anyone remember this game? They put more effort into the
soundtrack than the game. Has some great creeping around music, again an FMA
bug hunt type of thing. (I always got a kick out of the incubation "Rap" tune.

Decent Freespace: (Needs an extractor to Wav format) Excellent music,
particularly the briefing tracks. (A good briefing mission prep buildup always
helps to screw up the old courage.)

Homeworld: (Needs an extractor to AIFF format) This has some great stuff, good
space battle type stuff.

Battlezone: (audio) Another excellent sound track, great for Stargrunt type
stuff.
Classical/electronic type stuff.

Quake: (Audio) The original Trent Reznor stuff. All airy, ambiance stuff but
very well done.

Shogo: (needs extractor to MP3) has some great modernistic type stuff.

Incoming Rage (Audio) another solid futuristic type of soundtrack.

Plus a ton others I'm no doubt missing.

For EXCELLENT ambiance/sound effects: If you own Talonsoft's WestFront
or Eastfront: Go to the wav director (actually it's the root directory). The
large wav files which are like BackG*.Wav Are just ambient sounds with distant
fire fights. There are the best and most realistic firefights around and you
can hear some of them in Kr'rts Kra'Vak MP3 he uploaded.

Los

> Brian Quirt wrote:

> Paul Radford wrote:

> Los wrote:

I've already ripped these into MP3 format. Interested?

I have to give credit to Tom Barclay for telling me about this two CDs.
They are the Sci-Fi Channels CDs of movie and TV soundtracks.  They
come in four volumes, purchased separately.

I own:

Vol 1. Final Frontiers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000G4T3/qid=952282514/sr=1-9/0
02-7242250-9636242
Vol 3. The Uninvited
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000G4T5/ref=sim_music/002-7242
250-9636242

Very appropriate.

Jon

> Paul Radford wrote:

Yes!

Magic

[quoted original message omitted]

> Does anyone know of if something similar has been done for FT? Or a

For FT - The Planets, by Holst (?)

> Denny Graver wrote:

> For FT - The Planets, by Holst (?)

Another good one for Ogre or Mech combat is: Thunder Lizard by David Van
Tieghem on Saftey In Numbers (Private
Music/RCA)

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Brian Bell bkb@beol.net
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> -----Original Message-----

On the subject of E,L,P tunes, don't forget "Lucky Man."

Can't resist adding my 2 cents worth which to recomend two Pink Floyd tunes,
"Interstellar Overdrive" and "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".

Enjoy, Tom Granvold <thomas.granvold@eng.sun.com>

> "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Brian Bilderback wrote:

> At 09:53 AM 3/5/00 -0500, Los wrote:

Or just own a buttload of CDs, especially within the area you're interested
in. (Well over 200 here, in total, though about a quarter are classical
and most of those don't apply to gaming -- though there are some
seriously notable exceptions, most mentioned.)

> a notebook or rio, combined with one of those surround sound systems
[snip]

True 'nuff. I tossed the MIB score into the CD player during my game, but it
was a bit far from my table and the general noise level at the time was pretty
high.

Where is his MP3 sight?

> Los wrote:

> Los wrote:

Channing asked

> Where is his MP3 sight?

Just above the end of the muzzle, although I don't know why you'd need a sight
on a machine pistol.

(Maybe they meant "site", though).

Harrufff....  :)

I don't have a site, per se. I am frequently on Napster (www.napster.com) and
have a huge amount of MP3s shared. My user ID is WEASEL450 and "IF YOU CHOOSE
NOT TO GO OUT AND PURCHASE THE ACTUAL ALBUMS OF THE MP3S YOU GET FROM ME, YOU
MUST DELETE THEM ASAP."

heh <G> :) ;) etc...

Napster is a wonderful prog and has multiple servers so you may not find me
for a time. They have chat rooms based on genre but they are usually there
just to show your presence. I frequent the 80's, Soundtracks and Themes chat
rooms. You can also set up your "hot list" with my user name and it will show
when I am online

-=Kr'rt

Quoth "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>...
> Los wrote: