With the strides in playing loopable audio streaming over at hcs.com, especially for GameCube audio, I have become infatuated with ADX. This format came into prominence during the DreamCast era, and allows for seamless, loopable tracks.

What is even better...there are tools and tutorials out there about how to make your own!

As an experiment, I ripped all(? hope I didn't miss any...) the loopable tracks from Disc 1 of the Dirge of Cerberus OST, investigated them, and got to work. And for the most part, I think it worked! A couple times I had to...um...cheat.

Anyway, heeeeeeeeeere's a SendSpace for ya!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/khjj5d

Although the files are considerably bigger than MP3s, the loopability more than makes up for it. hcs's in_cube makes it a snap. Still only want one playthrough? You can do that. Traditional two loops? Yep. Three? You bet. Do you want "Counteroffensive" to play over and over and OVER??? Then do it!

Oh yeah...and a bonus. A fellow named Lian_Kazairl most kindly recorded the unreleased "Tutorial" music. I gave that the ADX spin as well. And I bet my fellow Hmz-fans will love it.

If there's enough demand, maybe I'll go after Disc 2...

p.s. Oh yeah...I also went after "More Complicated" and "Beyond the One" from Star Ocean 3 Director's Cut. I'm guessing that some of you want to hear them also...?

Definately interested in disc2! Thanks. I didn't like the fact that the tracks did not loop on the OST.
Thanks!

~Andy

Did they play alright for you?

Yes, they played okay. But did you extract the tracks from the game files directly and that format is adx? Or did you rip the tracks from the OST and change them into this format?

Cause, I know there's quite a bit of music missing from the OST.

Thanks,
~Andy

If you read his post, you'd read that he ripped them from the OST disc.  The BGM in DoC isn't ADX.

Anyway, that is very neat.  Good job. how hard is it to loop the tracks?

About the same challenge level as my scissor-work to your audio chunks. Actually, perhaps easier since I only have to worry about setting loop points instead of a lot of copy-paste.

Makes me wish that I knew about this back when I was slicing up Musashi Samurai Legend and Dragon Quest Yangus. In fact, I'm almost tempted top release all future break-aparts in this format!

Oh...I understand that the very latest in_cube plugin MIGHT be playing these in mono. Has anyone experienced this yet?

Man, I had forgotten about all this.

But when the Dirge of Cerberus Multiplayer Sound Collection was handed out recently, well, I sprang back into action.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n4cidj

Enjoy!
And now I better get to work on Disc 2 of the OST...

Yes!

Thanks a bunch

...does that SendSpace for disc one of the OST still work?!?

No.

Ah, I didn't think so.

Well, when I finish Disc 2, I'll repost Disc 1 separately at the same time. Hopefully, it'll be tomorrow or Tuesday.

Umm, do you have any plans on doing DS games, now that STRM2WAV has been released. Deep Dungeon (and a bunch of other games too) uses only STRM for music, but the files are one-loop and there's no support for looppoints yet.

I'm not sure yet. It depends on how much time I'll have to play around with this.

Oh...and at LONG LAST...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/00kz5i
That's the loopables from DoC disc 2...and I'm finally done!!!

So...who needs part 1 again?