A few months ago, the Rainbow Six composer Bill Brown posted the soundtrack "<span class="bold">The Original Scores 1998-2004</span>" to listen to on Soundcloud, via a comment on his Facebook page. For those of you like me who do not have the original CD to hear this fantastic music (the GOG release does not feature any of it), this is a real treat. Just click and listen.

Now if only we could get the early RS game(s) to play digital music files ... (and by the way, I thought that was part of GOGs original mission statement, to reverse engineer classic games as a complete digital package? Why did they not rip the music for this release?)

In the meantime, I'm playing the original RS and EW campaigns as a mod for the more improved engine of RS2 Rogue Spear (which I do have the CD and music for thankfully). So anyway, I downloaded the above soundtrack MP3s of the original game to play in the background (with foobar2000) - the five "Planning" tracks in particular - and just pausing it in when the action starts. It makes the planning stage far more enjoyable. :)

I'm really liking the Rainbow Six main theme too, though the Rogue Spear one probably remains my favorite ... and the Urban Ops "remix" is pretty sweet. (Have not listened to or played RS3 yet)

Possibly, licensing? Does Bill Brown hold the rights? Might be worth asking him if GOG can distribute the OST with the game.

This... I like this.....
This WHOLE THREAD.... I like it a lot. +1 infinity

I stay far away as possible from Facebook, so someone else will have to ask him. (GOG?! :P) ... In any case, the music was created specifically for the game, so I'm not sure why it would have a separate license to the game itself. (As opposed to popular music tracks in the likes of GTA games, for example). Not that I really know anything about this stuff.

By the way, I did not just mean including the OST as bonus download; the game itself is supposed to play this very same music. The music is M.I.A. :D

I always wondered and still do, why wont my rainbow six play for example the planning music. I bough a cd copy of rainbow six propably in like 2006-2007 or something like that and only music i heard really was some of the stuff like when youre running out of time I would get a small piece of music or when your teammate dies you get a sad sounding little bit of music. But never got the planning music.

Well, RS is supposed to stream music off the CD, like a normal audio CD. For that to work, your CD drive should have an audio cable plugged into your soundcard, or motherboard if you use on-board sound. My guess, that audio cable might not be connected inside your computer.

You would likely still be able to play audio CDs in Windows, because most media players (WMP) "rip" a digital copy of the CD tracks to play them. You can usually tell when it does that because the drive will speed up to noisy levels (x40), while playing CDs normally it should be quiet (x1), if I'm not mistaken.