Just to correct you, FLAC is a lossless compression format, so of course the file size will be smaller. Default old BW soundtracks use 22050 Hz that's why their size is less, but if you compress remastered tracks into this hertz they will sound really catastrophic bad! And also there is ADPCM which is modern of PCM codec by Microsoft which can compress well without lack of quality, but BW refuses to run this type of codec in game. No, I won't do it, because it is impossible to compress them without losing quality. Now is a time to get drunk before Christmas passes :D. If you all really want me to compress anyway, I'll do it, but not now. Others were extract from SCII HOTS update. I copied from OST only title music, and briefing room themes from there, and it doesn't got expansion musics, you can't see 4th track for every race. Of course it is improved if you compare with 1998 default tracks which you hear when playing without my patch. You mean to convert? FLAC is even bigger than wav, I guess. However, I believe the CD would have the better quality music since it hasn't been through additional edits. You can compress the wav files to FLAC without quality loss.īy the way, I compared the wav files with and could not tell a difference. Files are about 2 GB, because I didn't compress wav files to prevent any quality loss and SCBW reads only wav files, so you can't replace with ogg, mp3 or any other type of format (about compressing issues read below posts).
Now every track looks cooler than ever! Also I replaced briefing room themes with high quality musics from original StarCraft OST and cutted/added/mixed them to achieve right duration. So I needed to fix them by expert sound program, and it wasn't really easy work because of listening every millisecond, I mean I did a lot to give you the best sounding.
STARCRAFT REMASTERED OST FULL
One of terran track got screwed equalizers and some protoss tracks were with so much cracks and clicks, I discovered them by listening every second of track on full volume with high quality headphones.
I really respect composers of remastered tracks but guys who compiled them really ruined some tracks. Now you'll hear them while playing without running any music player.