Sound on Monkey Island

abercius · Post by **abercius** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:19 pm

Hello, I'm sure you've heard this question about a million times, but I just downloaded ScummVM and I'm not sure how to get the music to work, because when I loaded the game using ScummVM there was no sound. Sorry for the noobish question...

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:13 pm

abercius wrote:Hello, I'm sure you've heard this question about a million times, but I just downloaded ScummVM and I'm not sure how to get the music to work, because when I loaded the game using ScummVM there was no sound. Sorry for the noobish question...

Could you be a bit more specific? There are several versions of The Secret of Monkey Island, but the most common answer to the "no sound" question is that the PC CD version uses audio tracks - the kind you can play in any music CD player - for music and some ambient sound effects.

ScummVM should be able to play these tracks directly from the CD (though it may take some configuration if there is more than one CD-ROM player in the computer), but the most convenient way is to rip the audio tracks to MP3, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC as described in the README file.

The PC floppy versions of the game should just work, though the 16 colour version supposedly requires a patch from LucasArts if you want MIDI music, rather than Adlib or PC Speaker/PCjr music.

I'm uncertain about the other versions... I don't think the Amiga music is supported at all, though it can supposedly be simulated by using a recording of it. I don't have it myself, though.

As for sound effects, they are few and far between, and there is no speech whatsoever. (Sometimes, we really do get questions about "missing" speech in games that never had it to begin with.)

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:07 pm

You can get the Amiga emulated music here: www.thescummbar.com

abercius · Post by **abercius** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:48 pm

I'm using the CD/DOS version. Is there an easy way to configure the music to play in this version? I'm not sure where my cd is now... :/

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:53 pm

abercius wrote:I'm using the CD/DOS version. Is there an easy way to configure the music to play in this version? I'm not sure where my cd is now... :/

Yes, but you will need to find that CD because - as I said - the music is in the audio tracks on that CD.

Acabar · Post by **Acabar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:54 pm

I'm having the same problem, except I converted the audio to mp3 tracks, but I'm unsure where I should put them.

spookypeanut · Post by **spookypeanut** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:03 pm

In the same directory as the game, named track1.mp3, track2.mp3, etc

Acabar · Post by **Acabar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:08 pm

Aha! I had a space between track and the number, I guess that was throwing it. Thanks!

Cappy · Post by **Cappy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:49 am

I figured this would be a better place to post rather than creating an entire new topic for this problem.

I'm using the "Monkey Madness" CD. When I go to the "MONKEY1" folder, I have the following files:

ADLIB.IMS
MONKEY.001
MONKEY.INI
ROLAND.IMS
SPEAKER.IMS
MONKEY.000
MONKEY.EXE
MONKEY.PIF
SOUNBLAS.IMS

None of the ripping programs I've tried (Itunes and FreeRIP) have been able to find any music files on the disc. FreeRIP just gives me one big long "Track1" that is about 13 minutes long.

I'd like to play these games, considering it would be the first time I would play them, but I think that not having sound would be a dealbreaker.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Edit: Let me clarify. On the entire disc, I see no sound files whatsoever.

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:04 am

Cappy wrote: None of the ripping programs I've tried (Itunes and FreeRIP) have been able to find any music files on the disc. FreeRIP just gives me one big long "Track1" that is about 13 minutes long.

That "Track1" might be the data track, which wouldn't be of any use here. Can you play the CD in a normal music CD player, or is that unable to find the tracks there as well?

Cappy · Post by **Cappy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:08 am

eriktorbjorn wrote:
Cappy wrote: None of the ripping programs I've tried (Itunes and FreeRIP) have been able to find any music files on the disc. FreeRIP just gives me one big long "Track1" that is about 13 minutes long.
That "Track1" might be the data track, which wouldn't be of any use here. Can you play the CD in a normal music CD player, or is that unable to find the tracks as well?

I would try if I had a normal CD player. I have my computer's DVD/CD drive and my PS2.

And yes, the Track1 is the data track.

Edit: When I open the CD to view files, I get DIRECTX, M3DEMO, MONKEY1, and MONKEY2 folders.

Then AUTORUN, MADNESS, and a couple of text files.

Noelemahc · Post by **Noelemahc** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:20 am

Cappy, CD tracks don't show up as files on the CD. Use a REAL ripping tool (I prefer CDex) to check for audio tracks. Be aware that some regional versions of this compilation did NOT have them at all in any shape way or form, so there might not actually be any on your disc. Sorry.

Cappy · Post by **Cappy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:53 pm

I downloaded CDex and it still only shows a Track1 at 13:58.

I'm not used to ripping files from data/game CDs. When I load up CDex, should the audio files be visible there? Or do I need to do some other wacky configurations?

Noelemahc · Post by **Noelemahc** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:51 pm

When I load up CDex, should the audio files be visible there?

Yes. If they're not, you ain't got it. Sorry.

Muyfa666 · Post by **Muyfa666** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:03 pm

JohnnyWalker2001 wrote:You can get the Amiga emulated music here: www.thescummbar.com

These files are perfectly fine to use with the PC-version of the game if your CD don't have any audio tracks.

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