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Mygoshi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:06 am (2334)

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Hello, seeking help regarding the .mus files from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for PS2.

Link: (expired)

Thanks.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:36 am (2339)

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Added samples.

aluigi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:49 am (2342)

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I think this is a thread for the Audio section, correct?

Mygoshi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:55 am (2344)

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I think the .mus are archive. But I'm not 100% sure.

aluigi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:10 pm (2346)

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Honestly I'm confused.
If MUS is an archive and it can be correctly extracted with my script or other programs, now I think that your problem is with the extracted audio files, right?

Mygoshi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:16 pm (2347)

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The problem is that there are silences/or noises between the tracks, so I have to remove the silent sections.

aluigi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:31 pm (2349)

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One thing you can try is adding some zeroes after each track.
Maybe the decoder wants some padding/alignment between each audio frame.

Another hypothesis may be related to some additional bytes at the end of each track, something like additional information or headers.

The problem related to the "order" of the files is probably caused by the dynamic music that changes depending by the scene.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:38 pm (2351)

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Yes, but it's pretty hard to work on this.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Dec 28, 2014 8:45 pm (2365)

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Here's the result with Awave studio, I opened the original archive (exterior.mus): https://mega.co.nz/#!cAQRQDaK!HhbM8LfwQ ... XdvL_d5qjc

Mygoshi, posted Mon Jan 19, 2015 7:24 pm (2755)

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Is there a way to make in order the files and have the original filenames?

TGE, posted Tue Jan 20, 2015 7:56 am (2790)

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Only if there are filenames stored in the file itself.
The files should be ordered from top to bottom though using the index number.

Mygoshi, posted Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:15 am (2964)

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How the PS2 can merge the files without noises between them?

Mygoshi, posted Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:35 pm (3060)

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I think I found an index file that can help you, aluigi

Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!BAI01ILT!DxIgS2tJ6 ... K5mXo3mXq8

aluigi, posted Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:57 am (3074)

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It's just a text file without useful information.

Mygoshi, posted Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:58 am (3075)

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But how the PS2 works without noise between the seperated tracks?

Mygoshi, posted Sat Feb 07, 2015 8:49 pm (3096)

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Here's the SOUND.BIG bigfile: https://mega.co.nz/#!lAJFUDhC!0T9u_GNno ... 0iwBLQ49C4

Mygoshi, posted Tue Jun 16, 2015 11:31 am (5757)

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Is a "vssever.scc" file would help? And can you get a look at this please?

https://mega.co.nz/#!QAAkmZoS!XGS0pZo6M ... BdvB4P2mZQ

flo94cody, posted Wed Jun 17, 2015 4:21 pm (5770)

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I'm glad to see someone is interested by HP2 musics.
There is a thing that I don't understand, you're looking for .asf that are in the .mus archives but what about .asf that aren't in ?
Because I have 2 directories (Gamecube but I suppose it's the same) :
"EA Musics" who contain the .mus files and .mpf/.scc
and "EA Sounds" that contain about 61 .asf that are the files you should be looking for, no ?
I'm not english, sorry if I misunderstand.

Mygoshi, posted Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:22 am (5779)

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.mus are archives of .asf segments in them for EAMusic
EASound contains the amb/sfx and because ambience aren't archives they're directly .asf and .sdt are sounddata but I can't open them from the GC/Xbox version than I can with the PS2

Cameron007, posted Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:37 pm (12518)

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I'm going to resurrect this thread, because I'm having some good luck with VG music right now. I tried a script to extract the .mus files, but it didn't work. Is there anything else that can do it?

Mygoshi, posted Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:41 pm (12520)

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You need MUS SCHL Extractor by Dandapani. Then, you convert the .asf into wav with SX.exe (dave mercier)

Cameron007, posted Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:49 pm (12521)

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Got the ASF files. But nothing happens when I drag them onto SX. Am I doing it wrong?

Mygoshi, posted Sat Apr 09, 2016 5:13 pm (12522)

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Yes. You need to launch SX.bat, not drag the files into the .exe

Cameron007, posted Sat Apr 09, 2016 5:38 pm (12524)

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I'm not seeing an SX.bat file.