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On December 21 2014 13:28 xboi209 wrote:
Well StarCraft doesn't support stereo sound so you can cut the file size in half by converting the sounds to mono.
That is not true, sc samples (voice fx etc...) are 32KHZ MONO files but even though, it doesn't prevent you from having stereo. since you can choose weather the sample is played on the left or right which is called a "pan". Even if you replace those native samples with quality audio cd sample (16bit 44100hz) it will still be played the same way. For instance Scan plays scbw with sc2 samples.
Usually old games before 2000, have low quality sample rate with the main purpose to have smaller file and save space.
As for the native tracks they are definitely compressed or else you would need more than one cd to install starcraft. This "remastered edition" i believe is nothing more than the same track with 44100hz stereo samples with probably effects added up to improve the mix. Now I am not an sound engineer but I am into sound programming.
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Wow this is epic. Thanks a lot
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Patch works like a charm and it sounds awesome, especially after using the iccup version for all those years that comes without the music.
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On December 22 2014 08:58 xboi209 wrote: -mca
I already used that OST CD to replace some tracks, briefing room themes and title music. I compared them with lossy source and there isn't any difference, I mean, really, seriously THERE ARE NOT any differences. Only some crazy audio gourmet with big ass headphones might see difference (i am semi gourmet too because prefer FLAC to 320kpbs MP3). I'm saying it not because I'm lazy or something, but I have my cautious and prudent reasons:
At first - I can't use every track, because this CD didn't have Expansion BroodWar soundtracks - which are Terran 4, Protoss 4, Zerg 4.
At second - Their duration time is different. Ending and starting are messed up with fade in, fade out effects. That messes the music! What I did is perfect durations to make them look like default music time. The lossy (which you say) SCII source got perfect duration.
And this CD's purpose is just to listen, so they cut so many seconds. How could I replace for example Title Music if it's fading out at ending? The Title Music should have infinite seamless loop. But I found solution by mixing and I did it, you got losless Title Screen music.
If you don't believe download SCII OST CD (maybe from torrent?) and compare with MY FINAL SOURCE.
You maybe think that it hurts you because you just checked out the first source ogg files which I extracted from SCII. You should check out MY FINAL SOURCE which I used in mpq's. There it is, for not extracting wav's from mpq:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4dhr1m6z4424a7b/SCBW_Remastered_wavs.zip?dl=0
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And for GOD"S SAKE please stop complaining about size. Do you read description? It's not my fault, the game's engine made by Blizz.
Some admin guy gave a guide, maybe it can trick BW engine, and I can reduce size by 60%. But it can fail too.
UPD:
And it failed.
PM to pheer:
I got bad news for you.
I tried, and converted that wav first into 320kpbs MP3, then using prog into wav again, size reduced to 9MB and it played super well in media player. But after I put this modified wav into mpq, I heard only silence. You can lie to Windows, but can't lie into BroodWar...
Anyways,
Thanx for all.
PM me if you get any solution.
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I only meant to compress it as flac for distributing the wav. Of course they do not work with the mpq files. However, some of us only want to have the higher quality tracks for listening. Hope you understand.
Thanks for the effort!
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On December 22 2014 17:43 flashimba wrote:
I only meant to compress it as flac for distributing the wav. Of course they do not work with the mpq files. However, some of us only want to have the higher quality tracks for listening. Hope you understand.
Thanks for the effort!
I'm not angry, I just want to make clear that for now BW doesn't read any compressed type of wav files. I just felt ridiculous and confused when xboi209 mentioned that BW can't read stereo so for this to convert them to mono to reduce size, lol.
As you see, flac can reduce the size about 40%. But how BW engine can read flac if even most of players at Windows and Android can't read it.
I gave the source files. You can manually convert them to flac with converter (or sound program) and run with foobar. Or you can buy (or download) original OST CD and listem to them, they're losless flac. But they don't have expansion tracks  .
I don't know if I can post there pirate links or not. Don't ban me :/.
Links:
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2742028
http://kickass.so/ost-2008-starcraft-original-game-soundtrack-flac-derek- duke-glenn-stafford-t7283993.html
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Don't worry about the size, who cares about 2GB in 2014? I love these tracks.
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I always appreciate higher sound quality.
I downloaded this. Thank you.
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On December 22 2014 00:38 endy wrote:
Patch works like a charm and it sounds awesome, especially after using the iccup version for all those years that comes without the music.
Yes, these files are a perfect replacement for the iccup stripped down version that doesn't have any music. It really does sound amazing, thank you for putting this together and doing the hard work of slicing the files so it plays smooth. Great christmas present 
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Thanks everyone for appreciating this patch. Hey, I'm sorry if I was mad and yelling to someone.
First at morning I was pissed off from my mom with her dumb tips for improving my life, she lives in another country and mails me occasionaly. Then my (wife's) grandma told me that I talk everyday and I said her to silence and never talk me again if she thinks like that. I know that I'm wrong and look like a bad heartless person, but sometimes I think that it will be better if grandma dies, lol (after climax moment, irritation and rage I realize that I'm deadly wrong and my thoughts are so childish). Then after while I was downloading smth in PC so to pass some time I started to play Clash of Clans in my tablet (you probably heard about it, it's really popular but I don't enjoy it so much). And there in chat everybody from Russia every minute write bullshit about Ukraine, so abusive comments. I accept that you can write about country, but you can't say that everyone who lives there is dumb. I wonder why there isn't Ukrainian global, while Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese etc. exist. Then I wanted to go out for a drink and walk, and suddenly there's massive rain. Today my day just sucked might be because it's first day of week  . Maybe that's why I was a little mad at comments. I need some anger management therapy or tour, or some drink because when I'm angry I start to see some flashings in my eyes and everything turns into dark. But you know, there are so many retards IRL (I'm not about ma or grandma, I love them!) because of them you can act really batshit crazy.
Oh, I realize that I wrote so much, tl;dr ;-)
Right now we're with pheer working at reducing the size of files. I achieved it, and soon download link will appear. The reduced size download is for multiplayer users, you can't play single player camps with it.
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Hey, thanks for this outscar. Downloading the lossless 2007 CD version.
Is there a download link for the 2013 remastered version in flac? I'm kind of confused about what link is what... and because my internet is shitty it would make me sad to find out I downloaded 2GB for nothing when the correct link was just below.
Would love to listen to it while playing other games. Thanks again!
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This is so fucking baller, thank you so much outscar. Remastered music for all, and to all a good night (day)!
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On December 23 2014 02:33 zeo wrote:
Hey, thanks for this outscar. Downloading the lossless 2007 CD version.
Is there a download link for the 2013 remastered version in flac? I'm kind of confused about what link is what... and because my internet is shitty it would make me sad to find out I downloaded 2GB for nothing when the correct link was just below.
Would love to listen to it while playing other games. Thanks again!
You can download my source http://www.dropbox.com/s/4dhr1m6z4424a7b/SCBW_Remastered_wavs.zip?dl=0 which got expansion tracks. If you think that sizes are bigger you can manually turn every wav into FLAC.
2007 OST CD is lossless but doesn't contain some expansion musics. So if you think that you don't need expansion tracks (like first UED terran mision in snow, first zeratul and kerrigan mission) you can download official OST.
So I suggest you my source link for full soundtrack.
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Multiplayer version with reduced size is added!
Check out links at OP.
Cheers!
I'll be off.
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Didn't notice that you added iccup version! That's nice!
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outscar, you're doing god's work here. The StarCraft soundtrack is amazing, and it's great to play with the higher quality music. I was hoping to get the "Single + multiplayer" mpq download, but it's no longer hosted. Any chance you could put it back up? Many thanks!
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On September 30 2015 12:24 angryeyebrows17 wrote:
outscar, you're doing god's work here. The StarCraft soundtrack is amazing, and it's great to play with the higher quality music. I was hoping to get the "Single + multiplayer" mpq download, but it's no longer hosted. Any chance you could put it back up? Many thanks!
This was actually my mistake, I let the domain expire. Download links are fixed!
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i like this kerrigan artwork
there is not many campaign fan art work that resembles element within actual game :/
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EPT
