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Heroes of Might and Magic seriesWill the Heroes 3 soundtrack be available in FLAC format?(5 posts)(5 posts)
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Posted January 31, 2014
It's great to see that Heroes II, Heroes IV and Heroes V has their soundtracks up in FLAC format so my question is: will H3 get this treatment too? I know it's a slim chance because the soundtrack was always in mp3 format but I'm curious.

Btw. I've just looked into the H5 FLAC soundtrack to see if the Main Menu theme was fixed in the FLAC version and it's still broken. Please fix that, it's been like that in the MP3 version too for ages!
Post edited January 31, 2014 by Sance231
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Posted January 31, 2014
No because it was never released in FLAC or CD-Audio. But few tracks from HoMM III can be found on HoMM II Gold CD from Heroes of Might and Magic Millenium Edition compilation (CD2).
Post edited January 31, 2014 by Tarnum
Posted February 01, 2014
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Tarnum: No because it was never released in FLAC or CD-Audio. But few tracks from HoMM III can be found on HoMM II Gold CD from Heroes of Might and Magic Millenium Edition compilation (CD2).
I knew about a Polish version of Shadow and Death that came with a soundtrack CD. Searched around a bit and while I was right, sadly it seems that the source for the CD was the MP3 files. How sad. :(
Post edited February 01, 2014 by Sance231
Posted February 03, 2014
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Tarnum: No because it was never released in FLAC or CD-Audio. But few tracks from HoMM III can be found on HoMM II Gold CD from Heroes of Might and Magic Millenium Edition compilation (CD2).
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Sance231: I knew about a Polish version of Shadow and Death that came with a soundtrack CD. Searched around a bit and while I was right, sadly it seems that the source for the CD was the MP3 files. How sad. :(
Yeah, the CD was sourced from mp3 files, though honestly I don't know if those were the same files as game mp3. If someone is that long in CDProjekt and has good memory (it's been 14 years or so), he might know the answer.

I had a look into these files some time ago and the spectrum are slightly different. I don't know if this comes from decompression lossy -> lossless or what, but the differences are there.

On the other hand, both have a cutoff at roughly the same place (I cannot check it now as I won't have access my PC for 2 weeks).
Posted March 23, 2014
Note that the source of the HoMM 4 soundtrack is the official OST, which is a transcode of mp3, so there is no reason to prefer the FLAC.
Soundtrack from HoMM 5 has the same issue, but some tracks are true lossless (mainly the expansions tracks).

HoMM 2 however is true lossless, because it came from the game CD, in CDDA.
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