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Mygoshi, posted Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:14 am (3457)

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Hello,

I wanted to extract the sounds from the GT4.VOL archive, but there's no script ATM.

Here's the link to it: (expired)

Thanks!

Mygoshi, posted Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:46 pm (3484)

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Please?

aluigi, posted Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:44 pm (3487)

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GT3FSExtract.
On every forum online there are people who had success extracting gt4.vol with the gt3 extractor.

Mygoshi, posted Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:06 pm (3489)

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Thanks! I used this and it extracted ADS files. I'm going to check if I can do something with them.

Mygoshi, posted Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:36 pm (3500)

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I think the ADS file I uploaded is not an audio file. Right?

Mygoshi, posted Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:13 pm (3544)

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I think this tool was made for GT3, probably the extracted files are corrupted.

aluigi, posted Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:37 pm (3548)

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I don't think I can help further.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:44 pm (3549)

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I thought about simply recording the music while I play the game. But it has nothing to do with this format's research.

aluigi, posted Sun Mar 01, 2015 11:17 pm (3552)

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In certain situations the lame recording of the music is not a bad solution.
Yes it takes more effort but in terms of quality is the same of ripping them, if you planned to convert VAG to mp3 obviously.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Mar 01, 2015 11:19 pm (3553)

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I still think using the files remains the best solution.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:52 pm (4479)

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I'm trying to get info about how can I record the music in the highest quality possible in the most accurate way.

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:51 am (4490)

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aluigi wrote:

Yes it takes more effort but in terms of quality is the same of ripping them, if you planned to convert VAG to mp3 obviously.

Certainly not! An internal "what you hear" recording records the ANALOGUE output signal directly before the chinch. That's about the same as looping a cable to the mic input and recording it. As far as I know the only possibility to record truly lossless audio is by looping a SPDIF cable from the output to the input. So you'd need an additional sound card with an SPDIF in.

aluigi, posted Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:51 am (4493)

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I'm not sure if "what you hear" is the analogue output.
It should be handled just at driver level by forking the raw pcm data meant to be sent to the output.

There is not much documentation about these virtual devices ("What you hear", "Stereo mix" and so on) so let me know if you have some links.

Mygoshi, posted Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:33 pm (4498)

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I think I found more interesting files about music, so I'm gonna share them.

Link: (expired)

Could something be done thanks to this? Thanks.

aluigi, posted Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:38 pm (4499)

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Yes and I don't see a table with information.

Mygoshi, posted Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:07 pm (4501)

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The recording solution is slowly becoming necessary...

Teancum, posted Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:11 am (4503)

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Why not rip the music from YouTube?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... mode music

Use Chrome or Firefox and find a plugin that lets you download a YouTube video as an mp3 file.

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:10 am (4511)

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aluigi wrote:

I'm not sure if "what you hear" is the analogue output.
It should be handled just at driver level by forking the raw pcm data meant to be sent to the output.

There is not much documentation about these virtual devices ("What you hear", "Stereo mix" and so on) so let me know if you have some links.

Well yes, that's the idea behind the concept but "what you hear" is literal in this case - just the raw analogue output. You can check it by recording "silence" and then normalizing the recording. You'll see that there's (analogue) background noise.
I was sceptical some years ago when I downloaded a rip where you could hear that somebody recorded a mono output as stereo. When I did an inversed overlay of the channels, the result was all but silence.

aluigi, posted Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:19 pm (4524)

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Very interesting.

Mygoshi, posted Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:41 pm (4536)

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@Teancum: Do you really think my approach is simply taking the music from YouTube and convert it to MP3? First of all the source is already low quality, and convert it again to MP3 128kbps will not help.

Markkoenig, posted Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:30 pm (7612)

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Hi everyone,

I have managed, after hours of websearching (and thanks to this very thread), to find the required software to rip the disc (Apache3 was astonishingly hard to find). I'm there, with the .pss and .idic files. With the 22 000 audio clips in .wav. But where do I go from there to rebuimd the soundtrack? What and how did you do, Mygoshi?

Mygoshi, posted Thu Jun 08, 2017 1:46 pm (23933)

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I recorded the music using my capture card.