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Add FLAC (or other lossless formats) as a soundtrack option in progress
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deoren Instead of only providing lossy MP3 files, please consider providing high quality audio files in addition to the MP3 format.
SvitlaSveta4 I want to ask GOG to rework model of selling GAME SOUNDTRACKS, I like to listen Soundtrack more often then play games, So I want to have opportunity to but GAME SOUNDTRACKS even if I do not have base game. My friends all are supporting my idea!
Thijminecraft02 yes
Akylen FLAC is pretty much mandatory these days. Selling music not in the highest of quality is pretty much the same as selling blue ray encoded in XviD. I'm sure customers wouldn't like that. I certainly wouldn't.
Uploads of soundtracks must be uncompressed FLAC or wav. I'd like to see this mandatory. If GOG prides for its difference of DRM, it should also do so for the content itself.
neumi5694 Let's just say: The original format.
If the soundtrack was never avaiable as wave or flac, then what good would it do to convert the mp3 or ogg to flac?
That way - if we compress it to a portable format, we lose more quality than if it was avaible as mp3 or ogg in the beginning.
SaveNetNeutrality WAV would be amazing as well
TheBigCore GOG, please add FLAC for Blood: One Unit Whole Blood.
aitrumak @Sarang Even RED cameras are often not filming lossless. Usually they use [url:[redcode](https://www.red.com/learn/red-101/redcode-file-format)] which is wavelet compression format. It sounds like it is compression of the RAW data, so at least there its closer to the source, but lossy compression nevertheless.
I have seen WAV downloads available for certain soundtracks, so that is certainly a step in the right direction, but FLAC would be good as an option to save bandwidth for some.
Sarang HisDudeness I'd rather have studio quality audio, even at the cost of space. I own an OLED TV because I want a proper picture and if it was an option and I had the money I'd buy a TV that could do Lossless video for 35 mm. films. Settling for crippled 4K, with better but still not master levels colors under HDR is not good enough.
We should never truly settle, we should aspire for Lossless in video(not just with RED camera films either, 35 mm. and 60 mm.) and audio. 24/192 FTW(if the music was mastered at this level of course).
Blastard64 I also think it would be only fair if GOG made available the soundtrack in FLAC for those games, which had redbook audio on original release CDs.
MaximeMartyr Moreover MP3 is a proprietary format. Since GOG stands for DRM-free ideals, I think we might as well stand for free softwares ideals!
Licenses such as GPL or BSD or MIT.
So instead of MP3 proprietary format, let's use free formats such as FLAC, WavPack, TTA!
HisDudeness3008 Opus is not lossless, can reach almost perfect transparency, but still some information is being cut out and you can't get it back.
Opus is the best codec out there, I encoded my whole library in it. Free as in freedom, gapless, new and the most efficient at low bitrates. The best, period.
Still, the reason I vote for FLAC is lossless gives you the freedom to correctly encode into any other codec you'd want. Going from a lossy codec to another (transcoding) should be a federal crime.
I want the freedom to encode because I use opus everywhere, but my car's radio can't read it or Vorbis, so I'm forced to use Mp3. If the soundtrack was given in opus directly, I couldn't get it to play on my car.
hanshan Hell yeah. Give FLAC wherever/whenever GoG can get it... offer it for 2-3 dollars more, for going to the trouble. And why havent more people voted for this? Lots of media players can do FLAC now, and the diffetence is night and day, Bliss.
Feallan @Ray_Rogers It would be a waste of bandwidth, FLAC is about 50% the size of WAV and is just as lossless.
Dar007-Eleven Why not full WAV or ISOs for OSTs? I'm not interested in MP3.
xaxano In regards to Rembrandt2323's post:
OPUS is not lossless, and as such might in most cases be a reasonable alternative to MP3, (Ogg) Vorbis or AAC, but does not compare to FLAC, Monkey (Ape), WavPack or any of the other lossless formats in terms of quality.
That said, since FLAC is lossless, you can just convert it into you own preferred format after getting it from GOG anyway, without losing quality.
rembrandt2323 Do not use FLAC but OPUS since OPUS is (as FLAC) free and is in any way superior over AAC OR FLAC. oPUS can do Loseless and Losefull compression and it's also developed by Xiph
Lethiks Totally endorse this, i love video game's OST but it's always a pain in the ass to find good quality (hears, lossless format that aren't conversion from lossy format like MP3) at a fair price.
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Dowlphin I might receive a lot of flac for this, but I voted.
Gaerzi The Mega Race soundtrack is missing the ending songs (at about 2:00 and 3:50 on www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wv3MtSl6w this video). Would be nice to try to get them in high-quality (not game rips) from Stephane Picq.
Wind Sower I'd love to see the Evil Genius soundtrack in higher quality and/or lossless format.
Agent_Tau Great, keep on the good work =)
JudasIscariot Hi all,
We are going to leave this wish in progress due to the fact that there may be some soundtracks that we might not be able to get in FLAC. Furthermore, we plan on adding more as time goes by :)
Faalagorn Thank you very much GOG :D gogcom.tumblr.com/post/75065199592/over-30-flac-lossless-gaming-soundtracks-now-on
Freddo I would love FLAC downloads of the two Witcher soundtrack
Red_Frog I like most of the extra features that come with a GOG game. Most of them are unnecessary but they are still nice to have. The one thing I consistently don't download is the soundtracks, MP3 is garbage unless it's the source material. Chalk up another vote for some kind of lossless for OSTs. I figure source files can be easily enough found from the game downloads themselves unless it was a mixed mode game with CD audio, though some might find a separate download a nice feature none the less.
gary.williams I would really like all soundtracks to be provided in FLAC/lossless format.
FlamingFirewire Would really like to have some better quality versions of these OSTs if possible - really noticeable in the Bonus tracks for Indigo Prophecy and the other OSTs that are only 128kps - try your best to replace these versions with at least 320kps please
Niggles I only started to have a look at the soundtracks that came with my games and was shocked to find many of them are only ion 128k :(. Can GOG please request 320k minimum or FLAC versions?. Much better listening for customers even if they are only bonuses
pykman System Shock 2 has a FLAC soundtrack as an option!
u2jedi BIG difference between FLAC and an 320kb MP3 audio. I can hear it on my old Altec Lansing 4.1 speakers. I hear the loss in quality very easily. WAV would be cool too, but I will settle for FLAC if necessary. Until I got lucky finding FIXX 'Shuttered Room' (original Germany re-release on CD 1996) through a digital store in FLAC quality, I had to download a 320k MP3 version through torrents, because it is out of print and VERY hard to find, even on Amazon or eBay. I heard the big difference with the purchased FLAC files. So much atmosphere that was lost in the compressed 320kb MP3. 'Time In A Glass' and 'Sinking Island' sound marvelous.
##@@##@@ Yes yes yes! Games like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale have soundtracks that are too epic to be given in 128 kbps MP3's! 320 kbps MP3 or 256 kbps AAC should be the minimum standard!
Faalagorn Whenever it's possible, add FLAC formats, especially since GOG is beyong just old games now. For archival, future-proof and audiophile satisfaction
Smolag That would be great, I could simply encode from FLAC (or any other lossless file) into OGG that I prefer.
jonthomas83 Without a doubt one of THE only things that would make GOG.com better for me! Please add FLAC!
Niggles Would be nice, afterall if you want mp3's you just need to downsize the file
castlefox While most of these older games probably dont have lossless sound files I would really like to see OGG or FLAC files for more recent games.
Benanov New and shiny codecs will come along all the time. (Opus is actually lossy). FLAC (or even ALAC, as it's RF too) is future-proof, and that's what GOG is about, right?
Rixasha I don't expect to actually hear the difference in lossless as such, but I want it because it's future proof. When the source material is lossless you can further encode it to whichever format you need at a given time without fear of further decrease of quality, increased bitrates and amplified compression artefacts. Converting between lossy formats is usually a bad idea. With lossless source, I could have mp3 for cheapo player, ogg vorbis for a more featured one, some presently unnamed codec 5 years from now and just lossless 10 years from now when increased storage has made lossy compression pointless even in cheapo devices. All without generational loss.
fengor www.opus-codec.org/ ist new hot and shiny thing :)
vararg Yes, please provide music in a useful format.
F4LL0UT Being a professional audioguy I'm aware of how mp3 always harms the source material but I can also say that unless it's a strong compression setting and you're listening on top notch equipment differences usually aren't perceivable. Also note that we're talking about video game music here with large portions coming either from old or indie games. In many cases the source material available to GOG and even the developer is already compressed and many compositions aren't produced in high quality in the first place. So really, people shouldn't be so whiney about this.
Freddo It would be great if we were able to download the soundtracks in FLAC if we wanted to, especially the soundtracks for Witcher 1&2.
Vulcan Aspect There is simply no reason other than loss or destruciton of the original masters that this should not be a standard nowadays.
BmB Indeed, low bitrate mp3's destroy music. If lossless isn't possible, the original data without recompression would suffice.
CatShannon I absolutely support this. And I also support the idea of having the files available as OGG instead of MP3.
HTBites Totally agree, I loved this feature from HB. Also offer an mp3 download as well so that we don't have to convert it if want to listen on portables.
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