Posted October 11, 2011
Firstly. Congrats to GOG for bringing back such a fantastic classic game. One of my all time favourites.
Much of the games music back in the day was crisp clear 44khz uncompressed CD Audio. It sounded absolutely AMAZING.
In the gog release it's compressed into 60kbps .OGG files and It sounds TERRIBLE. Just wait for the music to build up on the main menu screen if you can't hear it at first. It's also missing the first few seconds off the start of the song there too.
Now I collect game soundtracks AND I'm a fan of the OGG format, so I have an 80kbps version of the soundtrack on hand. Swap the files in and it works fine, sounds GREAT.
So what gives? It would have added 3mb to the download for a respectable bitrate. :/
When I first read it was on GOG I expected there to be a high quality MP3 version of the soundtrack for download as an extra too.
Edit: My apologies for the bad spelling of awful and original in the title, my browser's spellcheck didn't work in that field. :P
Much of the games music back in the day was crisp clear 44khz uncompressed CD Audio. It sounded absolutely AMAZING.
In the gog release it's compressed into 60kbps .OGG files and It sounds TERRIBLE. Just wait for the music to build up on the main menu screen if you can't hear it at first. It's also missing the first few seconds off the start of the song there too.
Now I collect game soundtracks AND I'm a fan of the OGG format, so I have an 80kbps version of the soundtrack on hand. Swap the files in and it works fine, sounds GREAT.
So what gives? It would have added 3mb to the download for a respectable bitrate. :/
When I first read it was on GOG I expected there to be a high quality MP3 version of the soundtrack for download as an extra too.
Edit: My apologies for the bad spelling of awful and original in the title, my browser's spellcheck didn't work in that field. :P
Post edited October 11, 2011 by FluffyLynx