The World of Warcraft Music Patch Thread

[boojum]

Hey guys, lemme give an update. I know that BFA was released forever ago in videogame land, and I have had the complete soundtrack done for some time. I have been holding out on it because I am hoping that when Blizzcon comes around, we will be able to purchase the music from "Old Soldier". If we can get our hands on that, then I would include that in my release and get it into your grubby hands.

Sorry for being piss poor at communication. Between work, writing, WoW grinding, and real life, I find it harder and harder to stay on top of things.

Fret not. Real life comes first.
Looking forward to the BFA collection when you release it.
Question. Are you still planning on re-releasing the previous WOW soundtracks, but simplified?

[carthinius]

Only the handful of rips mentioned before. But I'd like to see your cover attempts at the pre-Burning Crusade patches, and more bar-less variants!

Thanks, I think I'll give them a try! Oh, and bar-less variants will come, too.

I actually like the bar versions Awesome work, mate

Thanks!

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Question. Are you still planning on re-releasing the previous WOW soundtracks, but simplified?

That would be great!

[MaxN]

Does anybody know if there's a breakdown of what cues make up the suites released on the official soundtracks? I'm trying to organize my own game rip while avoiding redundancy, especially since the in-game versions are lower quality.

[MAeron]

Does anybody know if there's a breakdown of what cues make up the suites released on the official soundtracks? I'm trying to organize my own game rip while avoiding redundancy, especially since the in-game versions are lower quality.

No, but that sounds like a fun project.

I assume you mean you want to augment the CD soundtracks with game files for whatever music and variations are missing. The official soundtracks are not 100% like the in-game tracks. Some of them might be re-arranged or from different performances and I know some of them include ambient sound effects (especially tracks on the Taverns album).

[Doublehex]

Question. Are you still planning on re-releasing the previous WOW soundtracks, but simplified?

It is not simplified. It is done without any of the bullshit, with the different musical pieces woven together in a more natural way.

[boojum]

It is not simplified. It is done without any of the bullshit, with the different musical pieces woven together in a more natural way.

Whatever you want to call it. Is something you still plan on doing? Do you want any help? I've got audio editing software.

[MaxN]

No, but that sounds like a fun project.

I assume you mean you want to augment the CD soundtracks with game files for whatever music and variations are missing. The official soundtracks are not 100% like the in-game tracks. Some of them might be re-arranged or from different performances and I know some of them include ambient sound effects (especially tracks on the Taverns album).

Yea. Like right now I know the Stormwind track is made up of Stormwind Intro/06 and Stormwind 07 (06 is the same as the intro moment, just faded in and out), Ironforge is Stormwind 02, Sacred is Stormwind 03, etc. This way I can tell which in-game cues were never released on CD. I might post my results when I'm done if anybody's interested. One thing I realized so far is how dynamically compressed the OSTs are, so much so that the lower bitrate in-game versions almost sound like different songs.

[boojum]

Yea. Like right now I know the Stormwind track is made up of Stormwind Intro/06 and Stormwind 07 (06 is the same as the intro moment, just faded in and out), Ironforge is Stormwind 02, Sacred is Stormwind 03, etc. This way I can tell which in-game cues were never released on CD. I might post my results when I'm done if anybody's interested. One thing I realized so far is how dynamically compressed the OSTs are, so much so that the lower bitrate in-game versions almost sound like different songs.

I'm interested. Would love to have someone tell me what I need to mix together, because the mixing shouldn't be too bad on my end.

[carthinius]

But I'd like to see your cover attempts at the pre-Burning Crusade patches, and more bar-less variants!

As promised: Me attempting to do some more covers for the pre-Burning Crusade patches. Please note that I found it difficult to find nice images for them, so I ended up using the ones Blizzard provides in their WOW timeline. If you have any better images, feel free to drop me a link!

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It is not simplified. It is done without any of the bullshit, with the different musical pieces woven together in a more natural way.

That sounds great! Can't wait to hear it, although I understand it requires lots of time and patience to do that, so I will be patient myself

[Deggial]

I see covers for patches 1.5 and 1.6 in this topic ... are there proper downloads of those soundtracks? Thanks ...

[Amiral]

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Bit off-topic, but I made some homemade covers for the official BfA soundtrack, for those of you who like having covers that fit well together.

(I haven't found a way to post previews of the pics in the forum, sorry)

[MaxN]

As promised: Me attempting to do some more covers for the pre-Burning Crusade patches. Please note that I found it difficult to find nice images for them, so I ended up using the ones Blizzard provides in their WOW timeline. If you have any better images, feel free to drop me a link!

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That sounds great! Can't wait to hear it, although I understand it requires lots of time and patience to do that, so I will be patient myself

Awesome, thanks for these. And yea there is very little good quality art for these patches. That's why I could only come up with bare bones placeholder art for myself, like this:

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[carthinius]

I see covers for patches 1.5 and 1.6 in this topic ... are there proper downloads of those soundtracks? Thanks ...

As far as I know: unfortunately no. I just made them on request. Maybe MaxN knows more!

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Awesome, thanks for these. And yea there is very little good quality art for these patches. That's why I could only come up with bare bones placeholder art for myself, like this:

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You're welcome. And on a side note: that bare bone cover is nice, too! Did you do logo-only covers for all the soundtracks?

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Bit off-topic, but I made some homemade covers for the official BfA soundtrack, for those of you who like having covers that fit well together.

(I haven't found a way to post previews of the pics in the forum, sorry)

Those are pretty good stuff, mate! How did you do those frames?

Oh, and to post previews here: look at lensdump for "embed codes" and use the ones with BBCode. The "Medium image (linked)" for your images are these ones:
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[Amiral]

Those are pretty good stuff, mate! How did you do those frames?

Oh, and to post previews here: look at lensdump for "embed codes" and use the ones with BBCode. The "Medium image (linked)" for your images are these ones:
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Thanks for the tips, Carthinius! I'm new to this whole image-sharing thing.

I made the covers using the Collector's Edition as a base, and then added some bits I found on BfA's website + pics of the metal coins given with the CE. Glad you like them!

[MaxN]

As far as I know: unfortunately no. I just made them on request. Maybe MaxN knows more!

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You're welcome. And on a side note: that bare bone cover is nice, too! Did you do logo-only covers for all the soundtracks?

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Those are pretty good stuff, mate! How did you do those frames?

Oh, and to post previews here: look at lensdump for "embed codes" and use the ones with BBCode. The "Medium image (linked)" for your images are these ones:
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Nah that was the only one. That was when I realized there was only like four songs added to the game in that patch.. felt kind of weird putting together art and id3 tags for just that. So then I started going back to see how much music was added in each patch which is what has sidetracked me currently. But I make art like that for every video game rip I make for myself so eventually I'll do the other patches too.

[inforcer]

The new CASCExplorer was released yesterday. They went from v0.2 to 1.0. You can extract all the files you want up to WoW 8.0. Just head to sound->music in the file structure.

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[Unknown Ninja]

Really looking forward to the re-releases of all the soundtracks. Thank in advance for all the hard work, Doublehex. I truly appreciate it.

[inforcer]

Using the new CASCExplorer released 2 days ago, there are 45 new tracks to grab for 8.1 Tides of Vengeance. Make sure to select the online storage of WoW PTR to get them. Just a heads up for everyone.

I normally would upload it, but I need to do some cloud storage recovery. Will post it eventually unless someone else beats me to it.

[querto]

Haven't played WoW since CATA, but I do like keep up with the music. Thanks for the hard work, Doublehex and inforcer. Any chances for the BFE uploads and/or the planned re-releases soon?

[trrrrss]

i found a few tracks of patch 8.1 on youtube, but i cant rip them. waiting for some1 to provide them. Also, all versions of the same track are in the same video, so i wouldnt rip from there. Say, has an official soundtrack for Tides of vengeance benn released?

[Deggial]

Anyone got a game / complete soundtrack for 8.0+ yet? That would be awesome

[Stormkeeper_]

^seconded

[inforcer]

World of Warcraft - 8.1

Extracted using CASCViewer

Format: MP3 @ 160kbps
Tracks: 45
Covers: 1 (custom)

Spoiler!

password is "testing"

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Why MP3? Only way to extract it.

Why not in higher quality or lossless? MP3's extracted are only encoded at 160. Be a waste of time and space to re-encode them any higher without have the lossless source to begin with.

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World of Warcraft - 8.1.5

Extracted using CASCViewer

Format: MP3 @ 160kbps
Tracks: 36
Covers: 1 (custom)

Spoiler!

password is "testing"

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Why MP3? Only way to extract it.

Why not in higher quality or lossless? MP3's extracted are only encoded at 160. Be a waste of time and space to re-encode them any higher without have the lossless source to begin with.

[Reidor]

Upd: my FTP will be work until to April, 27.

[Deggial]

If anyone needs the 8.0+ soundtracks, I got them