Red Alert 2 Music

[Antallica]

Anyone know how to get the music off the RA2 cd? Some of those songs are mint.

Yeah I know I can get them off P2P but the dudes are always full up.:D

[swiftynz]

i got the special edition or whatever it was. came with an extra DVD of the making of the cutscenes etc plus a CD with (you guessed it) all the music :D

shame i dont have it here tho :confused:

there is a way to get the music off the cd, have you tried opening the .MIX files in winzip? if that doesn't work you'll have to find out what compression they used. and even after that you need to hunt down the codec for the audio files....

it is surprisingly good music really. much better than the rubbish that came with tiberian sun!! :rolleyes:

[Ragnor]

Try and determine whether the audio is a seperate track on the cd, if it is.. you can probably rip them to mp3 via a decent ripper..

If they are part of the game data it gets complex... some games have there own, use and uncommon, or use a proprietary file format for music.. the tracks will all be there in the game folder or on cd but as files with a .whatever extension..

Other games embed the music in compressed archives, dat or mpq.

If the music and sound is a whole bunch of files in the game folder / on the cd.. all you need to find is something that can read the format... then you can get them into mp3 or wave in countless ways.

example: Diablo II.. stores the video and music for the game in large .mpq files... someone created a tool that enables you to extract stuff from the mpq's...

Finally use teh google...to search

[KingJackal]

Originally posted by swiftynz
i got the special edition or whatever it was. came with an extra DVD of the making of the cutscenes etc plus a CD with (you guessed it) all the music :D

shame i dont have it here tho :confused:

there is a way to get the music off the cd, have you tried opening the .MIX files in winzip? if that doesn't work you'll have to find out what compression they used. and even after that you need to hunt down the codec for the audio files....

it is surprisingly good music really. much better than the rubbish that came with tiberian sun!! :rolleyes:

Lol - same here. Yeah, both Red Alerts had pretty good music. And BTW, the old '.mix in Winzip' trick hasn't worked since Red Alert1 IIRC.

....I think they cottoned on to the fact that they could make more $$$s by actually stopping people from just copying out the special edition stuff ;).

[Antallica]

Yeah the music sweet as makes the game all the more worthwhile, ahh well I'll hit the searches for a while and see what I can find.

[swiftynz]

yea i tried opening the mix files in winzip after i'd posted that (probably should have tried it BEFORE i posted :p). it certainly doesn't work. :(

btw ragnor, the music is compressed into .mix files like in diablo 2 (only not .mpq files) , as i implied in my other post ;).

[Ragnor]

Originally posted by swiftynz
yea i tried opening the mix files in winzip after i'd posted that (probably should have tried it BEFORE i posted :p). it certainly doesn't work. :(

btw ragnor, the music is compressed into .mix files like in diablo 2 (only not .mpq files) , as i implied in my other post ;).

Ah you posted while I was writing mine...no doubt someone out there will have made a extraction util for .mix

[TheChosen_1]

My fav song in the Red alert original was hell march, man that song rocks, I just played that song all the time:D
Anyone else like that song?

[swiftynz]

hell march = teh r0><0rz ;)
hell march 2 on ra2 sounds just as good but there are better songs :)

[Ragnor]

Hell march ... hell yeah ..I love that one!

[Ragnor]

Who's the man..?

I've found a solution for you...


Mixman 3.5 - Extracts and Adds almost everything from/to the Command & Conquer .mix-files. Sounds, Musics, Graphics... The ZIP file also includes some good converters to convert the extracted files to new better known file formats.

http://hem.spray.se/joakim.slettengren/files/mm35.zip

If that link doesn't work just goto the main page of the site.
http://hem.spray.se/joakim.slettengren/

[Solid Snake]

Was wondeirng about that... tis was easy to rip music from the game. Mmm, basically you get this program wich can pry into MIX files, as MIX files are Westwood's own type of file compression type such as Doom WAD, Quakes PAK [except PK3 which is just Zip rename], UT's UNR and so on... anyways, you'll get this file which is NOT a wave. You have to convert that file from whatever it is [you can still open it up as a pure sound and you'll get some playback .. but with a lot of static] to a wave. Generally I believe all Red Alert 2 tracks ARE just mono wave sounds in the end... I can't remember ... but I have done it before.

Gots them all on MP3 now.

A lot of tools here for all C&C based games.

http://www.xra2x.com/files/util/xcc/