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So I got LBA2 as soon as I saw that it's been released :) Sadly, no soundtrack as an extra (it's literally impossible how much I love that soundtrack, partly because of nostalgia), but I thought, ah well, never mind, I could extract it from the game before.

But, being the first game from GOG I got, I couldn't, it's not accessible (except for the main theme which is in the folder in ogg format). I sniffed around for solutions and tried turning the LBA2.DAT/GOG files into CUE/BIN ones, but they just didn't work.

So anyone got any idea or solution? It'd be very welcome indeed :)
This question / problem has been solved by Poulscathimage
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HUNDOLOS: So anyone got any idea or solution? It'd be very welcome indeed :)
I would guess that the DAT is OGG, not CD Audio.
Post edited October 29, 2011 by Miaghstir
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HUNDOLOS: I would guess that the DAT is OGG, not CD Audio.
Well the DAT is less than a kilobyte in size...
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The GOG is ISO
and there's no CD audio, it's in adpcm... :S
Post edited October 29, 2011 by HUNDOLOS
According to the DAT file (cue sheet), LBA2.GOG is definitely an ISO image with a seperate OGG soundtrack.

GOG might fix it though, the original LBA had OGG audio which was later replaced by a mixed mode (ISO+CD audio) image.

BTW, http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Cuesheet explains how those files work.
I'm kind of a douche for constantly posting YouTube links to songs, but it's pretty simple to download single tracks off there, unless you want ALL the songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4aYSdVs0c4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GTYeyYnfaI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YM1_R9s4FU&feature=related
Post edited October 29, 2011 by tfishell
Are you sure the music isn't in the installation folder? It was in the version I used to own.

You should be able to download part of the music here:
http://abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_jeu.php?id=660&fic=liens Click on the "7 MP3 tirés du jeu" link.
Poulscath: it is an iso, but the soundtrack is in ADPCM WAV, just like in '97 (except for the US version which had CD audio).

tfishell: the thing is, you have a piece of audio, then it's probably encoded into something else (unless it's being uploaded as uncompressed wav in a video), then Youtube turns it into aac (mp4), and then I have the privilege to download that and encode it once again into either mp3 or (my choice for saving stuff) ogg. No thanks... I'm not an audiophile, but that's not something I'll wanna listen to. Appreciate your efforts though :)

Wesker: it is, but I don't want ADPCM, I want it in proper quality. Same with the download, I do have it in mp3 from sites, I'd just like to know for sure that I got it from a lossless source and saved it the way I like (sadly, my own disc skips at some points now :( ). I'd be even willing to be happy about high quality mp3 downloads, but they are in 128 kbps, usually.
@Hundolos: It sounds like you've already figured out that the music is saved in the /MUSIC/ folder in the LBA2 ISO file. Using VLC, Winamp, or any other player of your choice, you should be able to convert the lossless WAVs to any format you like. I've personally converted my copy of the soundtrack as FLACs using VLC. Thirty seconds of Google will tell you all you need to know to make it happen. :)
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Lusankya: @Hundolos: It sounds like you've already figured out that the music is saved in the /MUSIC/ folder in the LBA2 ISO file. Using VLC, Winamp, or any other player of your choice, you should be able to convert the lossless WAVs to any format you like. I've personally converted my copy of the soundtrack as FLACs using VLC. Thirty seconds of Google will tell you all you need to know to make it happen. :)
Sorry if I come across as offensive, but I really don't need 30 seconds of Google, I know my way around audio. So much so that I can tell you, the wavs aren't lossless. Play them in a proper player that gives you info about the files, and you'll see they're ADPCM wav. That is a lossy compression, and not only that, but it's also based on maths, rather than a psychoacoustic model, so it's not really suited for audio as it should be. It's fast though, which made sense in the 90s, also with mp3 not being around as much as today. But the main point is, it adds some slight hissing noise, that's the nature of that compression, and that's what bugs me. So I suggest you just keep the wavs, no point in converting them to flac. The US version (or any other that had only one voiced language in the game) had the music as proper CD audio, but the dics I have has skipping errors now :S but it's enough to tell the quality difference.