Anyone had any luck, extracting the game music into audio files, ever?

[avada]

Hi!

It's an old nuisance that I can't listen to the game music in any convenient way. LTDMTest.exe mostly works but it's incredibly cumbersome, and fails with the "Ambush" music. I found some tools, but they mostly failed at playing or extracting audio from the DLS/SGT/STY files nolf uses. I even tried directmusic producer, but it also fails wit Ambush for some reason, It can't even play SGT-s and the motifs in the STY. Playback seems to work with the other compositions (I tried "Nolftheme"). But exporting to wav seems completely non-functional.

A new idea I had was try to unpack the audio from the MAC version, it shouldn't use the troublesome long abandoned Directmusic format. But I got stuck on being unable extract the game installer.

 

[Eliteone]

Might give this a try. 

[avada]

Hi!

Thanks! So this appeared just the other day? Interesting. Though not a good sign that there's no mention of NOLF.

Don't you happen to have an installed/unpacked instance of MacOS nolf? Specifically the music folder.

[avada]

It's weird that I can't even find a single second of footage from Mac gameplay. The  basis my thinking of the mac version having the original audio, but not in DirectMusic format is what ChatGPT said, but I can't verify.

[Eliteone]

18 hours ago, avada said:

Hi!

Thanks! So this appeared just the other day? Interesting. Though not a good sign that there's no mention of NOLF.

Don't you happen to have an installed/unpacked instance of MacOS nolf? Specifically the music folder.

All I have is this

[avada]

That's where I'm pretty much stuck. Oh well...

[Eliteone]

7 hours ago, avada said:

That's where I'm pretty much stuck. Oh well...

Check out what I added to the downloads a bit ago.

[avada]

7 hours ago, Eliteone said:

Check out what I added to the downloads a bit ago.

Thanks.
Hm. It seems I have this. It has problems. It's has missing instruments (for example "13. BaDeDum.mp3"), and there's no reverb which makes it sound artificial. Also it's encoded in really low quality mp3. So Anyway, I'm qoing to try to continue to do dig up the mac files, maybe that's in a format more easily convertible.

On a related note: I managed to extract the PS2 music, and I wanted to submit it here. But I can only select the "James Bond Nightfire" categories. The others are un-selectable. Why is this?
 

Edited September 3 by avada

[Eliteone]

31 minutes ago, avada said:

Thanks.
Hm. It seems I have this. It has problems. It's has missing instruments (for example "13. BaDeDum.mp3"), and there's no reverb which makes it sound artificial. Also it's encoded in really low quality mp3. So Anyway, I'm qoing to try to continue to do dig up the mac files, maybe that's in a format more easily convertible.

On a related note: I managed to extract the PS2 music, and I wanted to submit it here. But I can only select the "James Bond Nightfire" categories. The others are un-selectable. Why is this?
 

How big is the file?   If you want DM me a link and I'll get it uploaded here.  

[avada]

7 hours ago, Eliteone said:

How big is the file?   If you want DM me a link and I'll get it uploaded here.  

Not particularly big, 275 MB losslessly compressed for 3 hours of music. As it turns out it's mono and 24khz.

https://mega.nz/file/QloExbjZ#BX03QoCx06SZOPuoX0W3eSst7-Eioyu4nE4kIQElFdE

[Eliteone]

Just now, avada said:

Not particularly big, 275 MB losslessly compressed for 3 hours of music. As it turns out it's mono and 24khz.

https://mega.nz/file/QloExbjZ#BX03QoCx06SZOPuoX0W3eSst7-Eioyu4nE4kIQElFdE

Grabbed it. I'll get it uploaded later today.  Thanks 

[Eliteone]

14 minutes ago, Eliteone said:

Grabbed it. I'll get it uploaded later today.  Thanks 

It's on the downloads here.

[Larry]

Not to be a unappreciative whiner but what happen to the PlayStation music? It seems like it was made by a completely different band or and writer. Its does not 

have the same great character compared to the PC Nolf, all the songs sound almost the same and to be honest IMO mundane.

[Eliteone]

2 hours ago, Larry said:

Not to be a unappreciative whiner but what happen to the PlayStation music? It seems like it was made by a completely different band or and writer. Its does not 

have the same great character compared to the PC Nolf, all the songs sound almost the same and to be honest IMO mundane.

We have the PS2 version on the downloads now as well.

[avada]

On 9/3/2025 at 10:19 PM, Larry said:

Not to be a unappreciative whiner but what happen to the PlayStation music? It seems like it was made by a completely different band or and writer. Its does not 

have the same great character compared to the PC Nolf, all the songs sound almost the same and to be honest IMO mundane.

For unknown reasons a new soundtrack was composed by a different composer, not Guy Whitmore. (There's conflicting info about that. Either Nathan Grigg, or Rebecca Kneubuhl)

He also apparently didn't compose for the GOTY extra levels. Maybe he split with Monolith for some reason. (But his music wasn't replaced for the mac edition for some reason)

It certainly doesn't have the dramatic tone and atmosphere. What sucks more that it doesn't match the tone of scenes. There's a rather cheery soundtrack over the intro cutscene for one:

But I figured it would be good for listening music in the background, on occasion.

[Larry]

1 hour ago, avada said:

 

It certainly doesn't have the dramatic tone and atmosphere.

 

Exactly I counld't agree more.

[avada]

Well, I managed to get the MAC files. It's less then I expected. 64kbps 22050hz, so not high fidelity.

Anyway it could be put up on this website for completeness sake: https://mega.nz/file/NhgFyQgb#2Zm9E7XqKFPbXoKLOLJvQypE11wcCzBSBVmzrqTBeNY
The music is in parts, so some sorting may be required. I left the SGT files in place, they are only a few bites, so it's the music folder as it is.

 

On 9/3/2025 at 10:19 PM, Larry said:

all the songs sound almost the same and to be honest IMO mundane.

Also, some are actually the same. I just realized a bunch of tracks appear in multiple missions folder. I guess they should be there, since they were neatly organized into separate folders. (Unless the ripping tool did something weird)