75 replies to this topic

[Calamity_Jones]

why are we changing to .wav instead of .mp3???

It's definately much more fun, original and legal doing everything from scratch.

[Cylon]

Don't worry i make a joke, i wasn't serious

@Hobbes no worries man it's your mod forum

Well i don't know which of the two formats gets better sound quality so.....

[Boomerang Python]

There's not much difference between .mp3 and .wav when recording voices, but .wav is teh much smaller. Thus we use .wav.

[Torn]

MP3 is smaller isn't it? I thought it was because .wav files were needed for the engine.

[hobbes-99]

yeah thats what I thought too? :S

[Juggernaut]

the WAV is what the C&C engine eats, nothing else for unitsounds

MP3 has much more quality but is also bigger in size

[Torn]

I swear mp3 is smaller. Hence why songs are like 4 mbs each for an mp3 and they are huge sizes when wav.

[Major_Gilbear]

CnC games use Wavs, not MP3s. Irrespective of similarity, the games still only accept limited formats.

Having said that, you can convert the Wavs to Ogg files (with a Wav>Ogg converter like OggDrop), and they work fine. Ogg files are also *much* smaller.

The Oggs work in RA2 anyway, But I'm not so sure about Gens, so you'll need to test them. Still, could be useful .

[Torn]

Cheers for the info. I forgot about Ogg as a audio format, and hopefully it'll work in Gens as it does in RA2

[Calamity_Jones]

wasn't there talk about making .ogg players instead of .mp3's as the files are much smaller and what-not?

[Juggernaut]

let's just stick to WAV please (FFS!!) as i cannot convert the current sounds again without losing quality or even have to REMAKE the sounds, which will result in totally different sounds as i do everything from scratch ¬¬'

so, all repeat after me; WAV is GOOD, WAV is NICE...

ok?


... please??....

[Torn]

Some mp3 players support ogg, and the mp3 player on my phone supports .aac (i think it's apple's audio format). I managed to get 30 odd songs on a 64mb mmc card using that format

[hobbes-99]

let's just stick to WAV please (FFS!!) as i cannot convert the current sounds again without losing quality or even have to REMAKE the sounds, which will result in totally different sounds as i do everything from scratch ¬¬'

so, all repeat after me; WAV is GOOD, WAV is NICE...

ok?


... please??....

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however...
WAV is GOOD, WAV is NICE...

[Juggernaut]

whahaha

great!

[Calamity_Jones]

.wav is my fave file extension.. .I had to be forcefully removed from my pc for changing every file extension on every file to .wav....

on a more sane note, I'm almost done adding in the new IG voices

[hobbes-99]

nayce!!

any word on the Tau voices?

[Boomerang Python]

He's working on it... The list was kinda huge so..

[Calamity_Jones]

SIRYESSIR!

[Boomerang Python]

Who are you to question my loyalty, wretched heretic spy!