Author Topic: PC game music (Read 4566 times)

the_broom · « **on:** March 01, 2005, 12:12:42 pm »

Is there a way to rip the music from, say, Starcraft or Dune 2000 into mp3 or wav format?
I searched the cd's and folders of both games. Starcraft seems to be missing music files comepletely, but Dune 2000 uses a format called .aud. Is there a way to play these or convert them? (although it's less important, I'd like unreal tournament music, and the format of the music for it is .umx.)
I'd like these songs for a flash movie I'm making, particualrily dune.

Any help is appeciated.

protoman · « **Reply #1 on:** March 01, 2005, 03:04:26 pm »

never heard of any of those formats ... anyone have experience with them?

Superyoshi · « **Reply #2 on:** March 01, 2005, 06:19:02 pm »

Here's what I do. I set up my mic (which I do not have, heh) to only record the audio from my computer, than play the game (This is also how I get a lot of the game songs through an emulator). If you want I can send you the few Starcraft songs I have acquired through Limewire.

mugenmidget · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2005, 08:25:04 pm »

I'd go with what Superyoshi partially danced upon...which is using Stereo Mixer or Wave Mixer for your recording input. Here's a quick step by step for Windows XP and probably other Windows operating systems:

1) Enter Volume Control from the Control Panel or by double clicking
the speaker/megaphone icon that's usually idling in your taskbar.

2) Once open, go to Options ---> Properties

3) With that open, switch over the radio button (the circles that you click to move the dot to) to Recording.

4) Check the list below for a name like "Wave Mixer" or "Stereo Mixer" and make sure its box is checked.

5) Click OK and you're brought back to the main Volume Control window, but now it's in Recording Control. Make sure that the "Select" checkbox for Stereo Mixer is checked.

6) You'll want to keep the recording volume for Stereo Mixer fairly low, probably best sandwiched between the first and second notch.

7) You can now close out once the "Select" box is checked and your volume is set. Now start recording in most any program and perhaps have a test run by playing an MP3 or something easily accessible that produces noise through your speakers/headphones.

That's about as much as I can help you on that subject.

the_broom · « **Reply #4 on:** March 02, 2005, 11:05:05 am »

to superyoshi: Thanks! do you have a hotmail account? My parents are pertty stiff on what I put on the computer, and I can't put messenger on my computer. Send them to me through hotmail if you can. The address is in my profile.
to mugenmidget: Thanks! I'll have to work on that. I'm sure glad dune has a music test screen....