is there a way to rip songs off of a game

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Toblerone Man

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Screamer 2 has some of the best techno I've ever heard on it. I own the CD and am wondering if there's a way to rip the songs so that I can listen to them outside the game? lemme no
 
I don'tt know if you can quite do that. But I know some game manufacturers have promotional sites where you can download mp3s for title songs as well as screenshots, wallpapers, and a few other things like video clips and screen savers. Those are in addition to the demos. Run a search for game sites under that title. Usually there is some free stuff available.
 
The game probably installed the music on your hard drive. Check the folder that it's installed in, see if you can find any folders related to music. It may be in the data folder
 
Yes look around your install folders... I doubt you will find anything though. I'm not even sure if this is legal ;). I'm guessing it is not.
 
I know Flatout 2 has a great sound track, but it doesnt store any of the songs ont he drive that you can get to. It's stored in a large data file.
 
The sounds as well as music heard in games is not generally ever seen in mp3 format. rather they are tracks meshed along with video in game's design. If the track is at the opening when first starting a game it will usually play repeatedly if you don't go into a menu or start a level. That's when you can kick back and simply listen without. Other then that we can't help you there.
 
It varies from game to game.... For example, I know you can play the songs from Oblivion, not sure if you can rip them, but there somewhere on the disc/files/computer.........
 
If you search around a little, I've found some of the music from FlatOut 2 for very reasonable prices. I have Yellowcard - Breathing on my stereo and MP3 player :)
 
speedyink said:
If the music is a data file, just rename it to .mp3 and you can play it in windows media player.
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Just renaming a file won't necessary see a playable file for WMP. It will depend mainly on the actual format. A file conversion tool would more likely be needed. If you get the artist's name sometimes you can find tracks on cds at music stores or online where there's a mix of tracks.

When going into a store that deals with recycled softwares one cd found was strictly wav files. Others will various artists of different music catagories. The WMP works when ripping music off of cds to the drive is that licenses are downloaded for playback without the actual disk in the drive. There you go through MS where those plus additional information is automatic. If you were able to locate a cd just like sound tracks from movies are sold there would be no fuss. You walk around with a walkman!
 
PC eye said:
Just renaming a file won't necessary see a playable file for WMP. It will depend mainly on the actual format. A file conversion tool would more likely be needed.
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It worked for me. From what I've seen the data file for the music is really just an mp3 file in disguise. The only thing was that all the songs were in one file. Nothing a little Adobe Audition can't fix.

Edit: I just tried it on some different games, looks like this wont work for some games. It works for Sims 2, how about Sims 2 music;)
 
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speedyink said:
It worked for me. From what I've seen the data file for the music is really just an mp3 file in disguise. The only thing was that all the songs were in one file. Nothing a little Adobe Audition can't fix.

Edit: I just tried it on some different games, looks like this wont work for some games. It works for Sims 2, how about Sims 2 music;)
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So it isn't always mp3s in... what? :P That was good! So some of those music files in games aren't just aren't WMP compatible afterall. hhmm... it won't work for... a good number of the hundreds of titles out.

Often the tracks are joined at the hip so to speak with the video overlay where the two tracks are actually compressed into an archive. Simply taking the audio track and running it separately may never see any good results due to the way it was processed. In a sense a game has it's own multimedia player designed into it. Your system simply provides the output by card or onboard sound. Something basic like a stereo wav file can be converted to mp3 easy enough. But some unknown format into mp3 files if they were extracted?
 
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