Where would I look for things like that? On midimusicadventures I don't see it, and there are oggs at places like SierraChest, but the places I know to look didn't lead me to FLACs.
You wouldn't, most of my private collection isn't available publically. I'll try to get some uploads soonish, though. There's 4 tracks for Phantas 2, including a HQ version of Rage.
The others are called "Opening Sequence", "Hecatomb", and something else, unless there's only 3 and I forgot.
Ok, I finished pulling out the MIDIs last night, but if you already have them that's cool. I've been assuming things I don't see on the site (or Marten's extensions to it) are missing, but now I'm realizing your collection is more complete than I thought. Is there anything you are missing?
Yeah, I actually run a different Sierra music website, it's not on there either though. I have been collecting Sierra music, MIDI and audio, for almost 20 years now, so I've acquired quite a bit.
Things I'm missing are just masters of digital audio games I haven't acquired yet, and a few master MIDI scores. I don't have much of the Phantas games because I never played them, and Phantas 2's masters were destroyed, save for the few I found via Mark Seibert, which is another story. Phantas 1 I can't remember if the cutscenes have music that's different to the MIDI, whether MIDI plays but digitally recorded in the cutscenes, or whether there's no audio.
Well since I claimed it shouldn't be hard to get the audio using scummvm code, I tried it today. In a debug-version of scummvm, I saw that it puts the cut-scenes through an AVI decoder, and -- very lucky, here -- it turns out ffmpeg could make FLACs of them (and mp4's for that matter) as-is! No code modification needed. So now I have almost 4 hours of cutscene audio in pristine form. Of course most of that is just footsteps, conversations, and audio stabs, but maybe there is "soundtrack"-type material in there. 5.duk is the end credits song I couldn't get before, so I know I'll keep that.
The cut-scenes are also higher-fidelity sound than the soundtrack files (which were mono 22050Hz). ffmpeg say they are: adpcm_ima_dk3 (b[0][0][0] / 0x0062), 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 266 kb/s.
edit: for me, the cut-scenes I added to my personal soundtrack were: 1, 4, 5, 860, 3240, 4640, 4981, 5006, 6230, 6611, 6922, 10350, and 10605. These -- subjectively -- had the most to add to the sonic palette while being almost completely speech-free. If anyone else tries it I hope I've saved you some time. A slightly longer set if you can stand a little dialog (and in the sex scenes, a bunch of panting) would be: 1, 4, 5, 860, 1630, 3240, 4640, 4981, 4950, 5005, 5006, 5007, 6230, 6240, 6530, 6580, 6611, 6922, 7960, 8215, 10010, 10350, 10500, 10520, 10605. (all these are from the *.DUK files).
Yeah, I actually found this out earlier this year! I think the post was on Facebook though. I had forgotten they were 44kHz though!
Thanks a LOT for the cutscene numbers, those could be very useful. Any longer than 30 seconds from the short set?