The million year old blog
12 Sep
Since this seems to be the topic of the week, I might as well create a new post and share some news with you. A whole bunch of you have been asking for the soundtracks for a couple of Vantage demos. And it seems like some of you are not much for waiting. 😀 Anyway, I just captured the soundtracks for “A Simple Way” and “3 Cows Ahead” [click to download]. As for how I did it, well “3 Cows Ahead” is an avi so it’s a simple matter of an audio extraction. However, I tried a whole bunch of extractors and played around with whatever options available, but the result is never perfect for some reason. Specially the beginning of this one sounds far from what you hear on the avi. Keep in mind the fact that I’m no audio expert anyway. :”> So if you know of an extractor which could do a better job, please let me know. “A Simple Way” was of course a different story. I came across this demo capturing software called “kkapture 0.01” a while ago (on pouet.net BBS). It’s an easy to use application which does a pretty darn impressive job capturing both the audio and the video. So I used this to capture an avi of the demo, and then did the same mp3 extraction. The resulting audio quality is rather good. So…enjoy, and I’d certainly appreciate any bits of technical info that you might wanna throw at me. :>
Update: Wheee! Amoivikos [amv] of ASD has just posted a comment containing some very interesting information regarding a number of great scene tracks. Check it out! Always the best info, does this guy rule or what? 🙂
Update: Sorry guys, there is no full version of the “3 Cows Ahead” soundtrack. It was never finished.
41 Responses for "Audio Capture"
You…YOU…yOU have to find a way for eveything, don’t you? 😉
U Bet! 😉
WOOOOOOOW Thank you! Great job! I just listened to both, and the quality is definitely fine. 🙂
WHEEEEEEEEEE great stuff! 😀
Where’s Kian? I hope this “silences” him! 😛
Anders: What you’re trying to say is, we all hope he’ll stfu now. 🙂 Thank you!
Awesome! Thanx a lot. 🙂
Yeah really thank you, nice of you to actually pay so much attention. 🙂
You’re Certainly Welcome. 🙂
Umm, what did I do to piss everyone off so badly anyway?
Aasemoon thanks a load for the mp3s.
So basically you can do this for every demo soundtrack?
Well… you don’t exactly need to do this for every demo. Sometimes the soundtrack just comes as a separate file like in ASD demos. And sometimes you can download the soundtrack somewhere on the web…from the composer’s homepage for instance. And I don’t know if every single demo out there is capturable with this application. And sometimes you might not even want to have the soundtrack anyway. 😉
Well yeah the first 10 seconds of the 3 cows soundtrack sounds a liiiiittle bit different, but it’s no biggie, it still sounds just fine. The rest is quite the same, and the general audio quality is actually pretty good.
I also feel the need to mention that I really really really really really really really like the soundtrack for 3 Cows. I only wish it was longer. We prolly only have a part of it.
Oook I haven’t even seen the demo but your comment just made me download the soundtrack. Now lets see….
wow ok yeah I see what you’re saying! This one’s fantastic. But yeah I think it might be incomplete.
a Simple Way is the perfect coding tune. 🙂
Yeah it’s also the perfect circuit trashing tune.
since soundtracks is the current talk of the town, Willbe has done a great job at selecting and mixing together some of the best offerings of the scene. The compilations are called demovibes, and I just found out that their homepage seems to be down. So you best bet at downloading demovibes 1 through 5 for now, seems to be going to scene.org
WOW! Ok, given that I’ve realized lately how much top-notch music is offered by the scene, this is definitely a must check out! 🙂 Thanks amv [for all the great info ever since my day 1. :> ]
Kewwwwwwwlllllll! Gotta check it out now! ^_^
++ AMV owns! -_^
Interesting. I knew someone should be doing this. 🙂
I’m gonna go for a track swim now! 😀
Thanks amv.
Sweet! wow! I love this post. Kudos aasemoon for the tracks and kudos amv for the info.
Oh man! 3 cows ahead sound track is so good, you were right! Any chance of getting the full version?
Is there a full version? If you ever have it, I’d sure appreciate a copy too.
Now I’m gonna go check out the stuff amv is talking about. 😉
Awwwwwwwwwwwww….jeeeez!
Sorry that track ain’t complete but that smiley.. ouch baby! 🙂
Well I guess we could live with 2 mins! 🙂
🙁 it’s too bad.
Well I suggest you just go and check out the rest of the tracks from the composer! Or check what amv just posted. 🙂
Shaz: The smiley is because she likes that track. 😛
And you could say it’s been killed.
(lets get dramatic 😉 )
LOL 😀
Thx Aasemoon for the audio capturing, both tracks have great quality. I also tried exctacting the mp3 for 3 cows, but yours still has much better quality.
Aasemoon: So many on the scene.org server from the same composer! Call one out?
So many good ones…
hmmmmm….random?
Bounce To The Rythm
Yeah
🙂
I LIKE IT! 🙂
Who cares anyway? 😉
Hehe…looks like I kinda like it too.
Ehm…you guys should really hear “norkrak riowrz” then.
Just did….oh boy!
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