A discussion on restoring EQ's music once and for all

[Damaja]

Originally Posted by eqdruid76 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly, the sound card in my computer back in 1999 was a complete POS, and the game music sputtered, skipped and froze on notes to the point I turned it off an kept if off. I'm thankful just to be able to hear the tunes at all now. :P

I turned my music off, yea SOME of the music in certain zones was memorable, but the attack music and that DAMNED Rivervale music drove my F'ing crazy. I do not regret turning the music off lol

[Insedeel]

Originally Posted by Korthal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Has anyone had any success with restoring the original music? This thread seems to have died without any resolution.

I have the entire list of eq midis through velious.. Not sure how to get these posted on the web tho for download. They're in the original midi format though so someone would need to go through and rerecord them into mp3 format for use in the titanium client.

[Korthal]

Originally Posted by Insedeel [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have the entire list of eq midis through velious.. Not sure how to get these posted on the web tho for download. They're in the original midi format though so someone would need to go through and rerecord them into mp3 format for use in the titanium client.

Yeah I have all the original midis as well - I was more curious if anyone successfully remastered them into mp3s to make them sound more like they did back in 99.

There were some posts from a few people that were going to try using old hardware to reproduce the music - did anything come from that?

[Insedeel]

I'll mess around with some midi to mp3 converters when I have some time over the weekend here, and see if I can get a decent conversion done.

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by Korthal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There were some posts from a few people that were going to try using old hardware to reproduce the music - did anything come from that?

I actually installed the Classic CD on a P166 with Win98 and an AWE64 yesterday (being on holiday) ... and ran out of disk space. Damn, ain't that Classic. I'll drop a bigger IDE disk into the machine tonight as a secondary and install on that. I seem to have a LOT of IDE disks lying around since the world went SATA LOL.

I tried running Classic as a WINE app on LINUX but the client doesn't recognize WINE's DirectX9.0c driver as DirectX so it won't get past the EULA screen. Not that I expect to connect to anything but I wanted to see if the movie worked [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I did notice that when I installed on LINUX the MIDI (whatever) files are accompanied with SoundFont files, so I'll see if I can load them using the SoundBlaster utils that come with the cards to play the music, since actually being able to zone in to P99 with a Classic client is highly improbable!

Regards,
Mg

[mgellan]

Almost success - I have it all running and have been able to test the XMI files with a player kindly provided to me by Windcatcher from the eqemu forums - I'm planning on trying WinAMP as well. The music is HUGELY different played with the SYNTHUSR.SF2 soundfont loaded into the AWE64 versus using the Windows MIDI section. Right now I'm just trying to get the noise level down, for some reason it's very extreme with lots of hiss (which I can remove) and some thumping thats random (so I can't remove) - once thats done I'll post the files in a lossless format...

Regards,
Mg

[Fryhole]

Originally Posted by mgellan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Almost success - I have it all running and have been able to test the XMI files with a player kindly provided to me by Windcatcher from the eqemu forums - I'm planning on trying WinAMP as well. The music is HUGELY different played with the SYNTHUSR.SF2 soundfont loaded into the AWE64 versus using the Windows MIDI section. Right now I'm just trying to get the noise level down, for some reason it's very extreme with lots of hiss (which I can remove) and some thumping thats random (so I can't remove) - once thats done I'll post the files in a lossless format...

Regards,
Mg

After that, us random Joes can just copy the music into the EQ folder and we'll have the awesome music? Sounds good - thank you for your efforts.

[Yrahcaz]

I turned off my music very soon after starting the game and used to listen to some radio shows. After hearing the 'good' music, I'm a little bummed that I didn't stick it out to hear some of the zones outside good old Stemfont and Ak'Anon.

[loobusk]

If someone can make it so that we can get this uber sounding original wavetable music on project 1999, that person really deserves a medal man. Damn, someone pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[girth]

Or a title.

Mgellan, God of Sound