The game has recently been readded to steam, this has also had the music removed.
What gets me is if a game had the licensing to have that music in it, it doesnt matter if its 2,3 5, 10 or 20 yrs down the line and the game still (but not that ofeten) works on current systems, should not matter about soundtracks, it was in at the creation with royalties paid. Should be there forever.
Just like Alan Wake games. I would expect to see this return then minus the music. But then thats half the game gone.

So I got the new steam version, used the bottom one and there is no sound folder that was extracted? Tried using the extracter on the .dta but the bar doesnt move


EDIT: Okay it seems it was because the sounds was already there so the xtractor was getting confused, I deleted the original folder and the xtractor worked fine

Me again, so I just started playing and the intro has no sound, and I'd assume all cutscenes will be the same. Does this mean I have been unsuccessful in restoring the original music...or?

It looks like it. There should be sound in the intro. I can't comment on the Steam version, but in the GOG version (which I'm playing) there is definitely sound in the intro.

After about 10 attempts :P I was able to restore the original music. Thanks.

Thank you for the help

I seem to have music in the cut scenes when I started the game after trying to put in the original music but I seem to have no voices.

Not sure what I did wrong.

Thanks for your help, Mafia without music isn't Mafia at all :)

Just out of curiosity, has anyone looked into the blanked-out .ogg files in <Mafia DIR>\sounds\MUSIC to see what all of the 6KB (blanked out) ogg files should be? It'd be nice to have someone that knew which song was , for example, city_music_15.ogg.... Seems like if you just wanted background music, you could look into those files.

Note that because of this discussion (awhile back ) I realized how interesting Django Reinhardt is. And then, listening around to some of his stuff it reminded me of the game from years ago.

Thank you so much for your work. I just started playing the Steam version with the old .dtas added and it does make the game so much better. Django unchained.

Greetings. This is my first post - and the purpose is to say THANK YOU to those responsible for putting the music track back on Mafia. Your work has benefitted many of us....and is much appreciated.

We need such great tutorial for Mafia II too!!!

To restore the original music in Mafia II download this files and overwrite the files in your Mafia II folder with it!

Ugh, I messed with this for a bit before I figured it out. OP should amend his ... OP, to include that if you own the gog version, you should DELETE the sounds folder entirely in your mafia installation, and copy the 2 .dta files to the main mafia folder.