Guide: Converting DoW/WA Music

[Amon]

Ok thanks for telling me. Now I feel more comfortable with that. But I'm still to lazy to download those programs and do all that shit. Could someone please just post the music files?

[vecctor]

Obviously you are also too lazy to read the whole thread

http://forums.relicnews.com/showpost...6&postcount=17

@Demonic Badger - I thought about doing something like that, but I figured making a guide to get it out would be better. I'm pretty sure releasing the tracks for anyone to download would be illegal, while this method is just using your copy of the game to get the music (which isn't any different than modding).

http://forums.relicnews.com/showpost...4&postcount=60

No, no one is hosting the soundtrack. There is no point - it wastes more bandwidth then downloading the tools to extract and convert it, and technically is against the games ELUA and copyright for the game (as anyone who doesn't own the game could download the music).

[fenris_fastlane]

my files got converted to .AIFF for no apparent reason..

and i cant convert them from aiff to wav..

im sorry but i dont know how to do it,
allso when i tried to play the AIFF file in winamp, with the special codec. the file is blank, and wont sound at all..

any help regarding this would be greatly appretiated

[Ramrod]

I'm getting a weird Run-time error. I was getting error 429 before, but I used KickStartRom's advice and managed to register LuaDC.dll. Now I'm getting Run-time Error 5: Invalid procedure call or argument.

How do I fix this?

[Dask]

Just finished converting Dark Crusade music to .wav
Only about 10 new full-length music files:sadpanda:
Nothing really great like in the original DOW, just good backround music.:guitar:

[danuker]

I have been cross checking the new soundtracks with the soundplaylistmusic.lua and it seems that none of the new battle music are the fully mixed versions, just the percussion/brass versions which does sound very soft ingame.

Seems like a shame to me.

[radicalgamer]

everthing works for me except i cant find any of the music or sound form DC and WA (i have all of them dowloaded on my D: drive ) that matter when i extracted the "W40kData-Sound-Full.sga" in the dark crusade directory. i couldnt get anything from IG necrons or tau, only found the old stuff for the original 4 races in both the "dawn of war" folder and "dawn of war - darkcrusade" folder i had.

[RZetlin]

Same here. I can find the W40kData-Sound-Full.sga but I can't find the file for the DC music.

UPDATE:

I found the file that has the DC music.

It's under:

<Drive>\THQ\Dawn of War - Dark Crusade\DXP2\DXP2Data-Music.sga

To extract the files, read the instructions on the first post.

There should be 117 files if converted to WAV.

[radicalgamer]

wow there it is lol thx a buch, hope i can find the music i was looking for now

[KajiTetsushi]

Does this thing work for Homeworld 2 sound files as well? I asked because of this one problem:

If I tell give the program the code "fda2aifc.exe *.fda", the program's response is: File Not Relic Chunky.

Where did I go wrong? Hope for some answers a.s.a.p.

[The Legacy]

That's because Homeworld 2 doesn't use FDA's. It actually uses AIFC as standard, so look up that second program that changes it from AIFC to WAV.

[KajiTetsushi]

How come the files are in .FDA form?

EDIT: Never mind. Thanks for the help there.

[The Legacy]

No problem. No idea why they gave them the extension FDA without conversion. o_O

[falen55]

hey guys, im trying to find the sound files for the endgame movies for each of the races in dark crusade. so far ive been unsuccessful. can anyone help me out pleez?

[88_Chevy]

totally awesome guide dude, now have termies smiting the foes of the imperium whenever i open firefox lol.

[falen55]

ok, i found the sound files for the endgame movies thanx to james raynor.
it was in the sga file under Dawn of War - Dark Crusade\DXP2\Locale\English
under data\sound\speech\nis
all the way at the bottom under filenames str_nis_rac_outro_*racename*.fda

[RyanY]

I'm having the same problem as Gabriel. I've downloaded and installed VB6 SP5, but when I input regsvr32 luadc.dll into cmd I get the message Loadlibrary(luadc.dll) failed - The specified module could not be found.

Also, I get Run Time error 429 active component cant create object when I try to open SpookyRAT.

Any help would be appriciated!!

[James Raynor]

Friends greetings,Hey RyanY did you try this?
Start->Run...
cmd
cd c:\windows\system32
regsvr32 luadc.dll
regsvr32 comdlg32.ocx
regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx

It helps me when i re DL SpookyRATv200 and try to move some of the files in c:windows\system32 i get an error but doing this command, i was able to usu it.

[RyanY]

Got it working now, I forgot to copy the DLL and OCX files into the system32 directory. Thanks for the help.

I can't seem to find the files for sound effects like speech etc, does anyone know where I can find them?

[James Raynor]

ok, i found the sound files for the endgame movies thanx to james raynor.
it was in the sga file under Dawn of War - Dark Crusade\DXP2\Locale\English
under data\sound\speech\nis
all the way at the bottom under filenames str_nis_rac_outro_*racename*.fda

and for the units sound it's in :\THQ\Dawn of War - Dark Crusade\DXP2\DXP2Data-Sound-Full.sga

All of this for dark crusade.

[vecctor]

I can't seem to find the files for sound effects like speech etc, does anyone know where I can find them?

I haven't updated stuff for DC yet, but the unit sound location for the first games is listed in the very last paragraph of the original post.

[D.E.]

I could really use these music files for a video project Im going to be using but this process just isnt working. I hate to be a picky pete but could somebody upload the files for download somewhere? Thankyou very much,

[redrum rummor]

Please, does anyone know the filename of the ingame music that goes DA... DA DA DA DAAAA DA DA DA DAAA, lots of drums, i've shofted through both music RDA files for DOW and DC, where is it ??.

[redrum rummor]

Someone must know ??? its driving me mad it plays every time i play ehhhhh

Found it AT LAST...it was music_ork_theme in case anyone else wants to know.

[HomerDOHSimpson]

does anyone know the filename of the ingame music that goes DA... DA DA DA DAAAA DA DA DA DAAA,

Someone must know ??? its driving me mad it plays every time i play ehhhhh

Found it AT LAST...it was music_ork_theme in case anyone else wants to know.

I thought you're talking of the Star Wars Imperial March...

[Abyss]

Hmm I've come back intreasted in Dawn of War but I can't find the conversion plug in link that was posted earlier. Can anyone link me one that works?

[vecctor]

Hmm I've come back intreasted in Dawn of War but I can't find the conversion plug in link that was posted earlier. Can anyone link me one that works?

Could you be more specific?

[Abyss]

EDIT:

Haha...didn't read the whole thread Found the link thanks for the great work!

[ViperKnight]

@redrum

That music would probably be the Ork theme
It's in the wh40k folder and in the "W40kData-Sound-Full.sga" file under "music_ork_theme".

This is great as I'm converting the videos to have sound :clap:
Although....does anybody know which AVI is the one for the new Dark Crusade intro? Because I've looked everywhere and I can't find it

[vecctor]

Assuming a default installation path, it would be like this:

C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War - Dark Crusade\Engine\Movies

dow_intro.avi

[ViperKnight]

Doh!
I quickly looked at the filesize and it was the same as the old DoW one so I thought it was the same.
Thanks mate:thumb:

[Gabriel Angelos]

I finally discovered where to find the DC musci.

anyhow do you think this could work for extracting the music from DOW beta?

I remember there are some songs that only appear on the beta version and where pretty cool.

[vecctor]

The same process would probably work. I'd be curious about what you find - it seems odd that there would be songs in the beta that didn't end up in the full game.

[Gabriel Angelos]

by the way do you know where are the voice files? I am looking for the speech of the demon prince, tought I can only find the fx sounds.
I am looking for the speech file of the demon prince when its says, I am destruction incarnate.

[vecctor]

Just a guess, since I haven't extracted it: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade\DXP2\Locale\English\DXP2Data-Sound-Speech.sga

[Gabriel Angelos]

I managed to find the one of pathetic Creature and Your Souls are Mine!

anyhow now my next task is to find the loading music of when you assault an enemie capital.

if you notice the loading screen music is very nice, I wonder where is that music.

I already extracted the loading music of the normal games in case you would suggest that.

[Lt. Razeil]

being a dow fanatic i create movie so i thought i could use the games music. right done the first few steps downloading that thing and putting in the files and registering them, but spookys tool doesnt work. could i do this with corsixs SGA reader instead?

[Neakal]

All hail Vecctor!

[Lt. Razeil]

dear: ardias93 the files are 30MB each, and only one can be sent at a time, either give the tutorial your best, or send CERTERN tracks over, not thw hole lot. thanks

[Dengate]

Here's an odd fact: the (brilliant) race music which plays in the Skirmish or Multiplayer lobby for Space Marines isn't with the rest of the music. It's not in the DXP2-Data-Music.sga file at all, actually.

Instead, it's in the WH40kdata-Sound-Full.sga file, in the WH40k directory. There's some other music in there, possibly from the first games.

Well worth a look.

[Neakal]

Yeh. I found the songs that were originally from the DoW still in the old files. Apparently DC installs that section like a separate game even if you only install DC and nothing else.

[Viper114]

I'm trying to use these steps to extract and listen to some Homeworld 2 music, but when I use Command Prompt to start the conversion (which the extracted file is sitting in the same directory), it gives me an error that says:

File not Relic Chunky.

What the hell does that mean?

[Finaldeath]

This only works for Dawn of War is why. Find the tools for the homeworld games in their respective forums, Viper.

[UnDirector]

Hmmm, I tried step by step the extraction procedure, and it worked, but after the first reboot I go a nice error message related to [insert here: typical windows error message] and had to reinstal windows.

Of course I only got to extract a part of the DoW soundtrack. But the WA is N/A. Is there anyone who has the full dow/wa ST in mp3 format? I mean other formats take up several megs of data. Anyway, looking forward for a full collection. Thank you.

[Finaldeath]

Do not ask for downloads, since Relic has not released them it is considered warez here. If you own the original game you can even extract the relevant data off the installation CD's.

[UnDirector]

*Angelic, inocent, puppy eyes looking at the comissar* What is warez?

Putting aside joking, understood, and I won't ask for it anymore.

Extracting off the cd ain't working either without the mentioned extraction program, and since I can't afford an other 2 hours of windows instal, I will just wait, 'till someone finds a less compromissing way to solve the soundtrack issues.

[shangheili]

so it is not possible to get DC musics to mp3?

[Finaldeath]

Follow the tutorial but find the appropriately-named "DXP2Data-Music.sga" file to extract the FDA files from.

[Lt. Razeil]

ah thank you for that, ill do it right away!

[cagecrawler]

Do not ask for downloads, since Relic has not released them it is considered warez here.

Be careful, you'd be making Relic IP available to people without the game - big no-no.