Beneath A Steel Sky Enhanced Music Released by JamesWoodcock

md5 · Post by **md5** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:25 am

sirdeiu wrote:Hello there.
I've build Scummvm from Git(Kubuntu 11.10 - x86_64), version 1.5.0git. Got BASS Cd version (from Scummvm Extras) loaded into Scummvm - set the needed audio options ("Now select [Edit Game], switch to Audio tab, tick the ‘Overide Global Audio Settings’ and set Sample Rate to 44kHz." - Both that and global Audio Options).

No enhanced music working. Can't hear the new music. Any ideas why ?

In which scene does this occur? Note that there is no music during the first part of the intro in the CD version

sirdeiu · Post by **sirdeiu** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:20 pm

Right at the beginning of the game, when you get the crowbar to open the door. Exactly like the beginning of the youtube movie that mr. Woodcock has on his website to demo the music package.

EDIT: Ok got back home from work, had another go at it. Seems I lacked Vorbis support on the first compile/run. After compiling it again, double checking the features (scummvm -v) I now have:

ScummVM 1.5.0git812-gc451bd4 ( Nov 25 2011 18:03:08 )
Features compiled in: Vorbis ALSA SEQ TiMidity RGB zLib

And the game works now with the lovely new music from mr. James Woodcock. So thanks mr. James.

JamesWoodcock · Post by **JamesWoodcock** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:11 pm

Glad you are sorted

Sid Vicious · Post by **Sid Vicious** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:58 pm

Got the same problem. Extracted music to BASS directory, but it didn't work.

I have Scumm VM 1.4.0 for Windows with voribs compilled in...

quimico · Post by **quimico** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:04 am

Sid Vicious wrote:Got the same problem. Extracted music to BASS directory, but it didn't work.

I have Scumm VM 1.4.0 for Windows with voribs compilled in...

Hi, first of all thank you James for the lovely music, this really enhances the whole experience of playing this game.
On the technical side I have a similar problem with the music. I've got an Auzentech sound card, same chipset as Creatives, and 5.1 Creative speakers and decoder. The problem I've got is that if I select optical in my decoder I heard the FX sound but no music, and if I select analogic then I got the music but no FX sounds. Apparently I can not get both at the same time but I'm not sure if it's a bad config of the settings at ScummVM, or a limitation or what. Hope you can help

Post by **criezy** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:50 am

Sid Vicious wrote:Got the same problem. Extracted music to BASS directory, but it didn't work.

I have Scumm VM 1.4.0 for Windows with voribs compilled in...

If you read carefully the instructions on James' website you will see the following sentence:

Make sure you have the latest daily build of ScummVM from their website or version 1.4.1 or later (when it is released).

which basically means ScummVM 1.4.0 does not support the enhanced soundtrack.

quimico · Post by **quimico** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:26 pm

criezy wrote:
Sid Vicious wrote:Got the same problem. Extracted music to BASS directory, but it didn't work.

I have Scumm VM 1.4.0 for Windows with voribs compilled in...
If you read carefully the instructions on James' website you will see the following sentence:
Make sure you have the latest daily build of ScummVM from their website or version 1.4.1 or later (when it is released).
which basically means ScummVM 1.4.0 does not support the enhanced soundtrack.

I hate you, you are right

With the latest build both music and FX works perfect. Cheers m8

Sid Vicious · Post by **Sid Vicious** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:11 pm

I think I found what I need.
And thank you, Mr. James. It sounds perfectly.

JamesWoodcock · Post by **JamesWoodcock** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:59 am

My Beneath A Steel Sky Enhanced Soundtrack Updated – Version 1.1 Released for ScummVM:

http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/2012/02/ ... r-scummvm/

raina · Post by **raina** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:00 pm

Nice. I was just tagging and listening to 1.0 the other night. Is there a chance of a FLAC version? If bandwidth is an issue, I, and probably a dozen others would gladly mirror it. Or better yet, put it on one of those legal torrent sites.

JamesWoodcock · Post by **JamesWoodcock** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:04 pm

Sorry but a FLAC release isn't in my plans for the moment at least.

Londonist · Post by **Londonist** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:29 am

Hi James. Thank you for your enhanced version of this great soundtrack. I've been listening to it for a while. Even though it's very faithful to the original, I've found a small issue:

Tracks

music404 (bar music)
music405 (bar music)
music601 (LINK world, 1:03 onwards)

The piano you're using there, maybe it should sound more like a Rhodes electric piano. Here's how a Rhodes piano is supposed to sound like (for me that's definitely how Dave Cummins meant it to sound):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfWgLaD7 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Zom0wP ... re=related

I hope you consider this and give it a go. That would be the icing on the cake for this great soundtrack.

Cheers

nilsbyte · Post by **nilsbyte** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:03 am

this game kicks ass! very athmospheric. i wished there was a sequel.

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:35 pm

nilsbyte wrote:this game kicks ass! very athmospheric. i wished there was a sequel.

There have been some rumors, like this article, that a Beneath a Steel Sky sequel will happen. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.