John Kettler Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 This should fuel your love for the Motherland and get your blood boiling. Cool visuals, real period Russian artillery and procedures, plus a huge German force played by Red Army in VISMODS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy8mxh0P63M Should you not be inclined to fight for the Motherland, there's always the penal battalion! This is the sharp end of the Russian spear, war on full display, brilliantly depicted. NOT one of those cheesy Hollywood recent war movies! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Awesome. Anyone know how to get that song as a .wav file for use in CMBB? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Yes, keep on fighting, Russians! You will win eventually! Trust me. BTW, did anyone notice that the band leader is sporting a Hitler-stache? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streety Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Don't know about the fabulous song that Kettler has posted, but you can get various Red Army Choir songs freely (and legally I think) from the web, and free software to convert to wav format - so happy interweb hunting. I've got the Red Army singing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", which is ace! Do many people have this recording or am I sitting on a rarity? I got Tipperary from the Silent Hunter modding community, where you can still find hundreds of WW2 tracks via their "Radio Room" or Gramophone (sometimes spelt gramaphone). Modder "Jimbuna" provides 365 tracks in ogg format here (scroll down for all 11 "oggvorbis" zips): http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/jimbunaGWX3.0 To simply listen to them, you need a free ogg combatible player, such as: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ And there are various free wav converters. I use Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Then there's the (often very funny) "Charlie and his Orchestra" - the German propaganda music, aimed at demoralising the Brits and discouraging the Yanks from getting involved in the war. But the allies actually found the music a laugh, and despite being officially banned, the music grew popular in Britain and Churchill was a fan. Completely (and I'm sure, legally) free mp3 tracks from here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/03/charlie_and_his.html Anyway, I could wav Tipperary and edit it for CM use I guess, but frankly the above list gives you about 400 tracks or more to do your own with. And rather than convert a theme tune, I just sometimes shove them all into the vlc player and play them while I'm playing CM or modding. But if you do want to convert a track for CM use, the theme-tune file you need to replace for CMBO, CMBB and CMAK is 00005010.wav, and make sure your wav is in the following format: bit rate = 1411kbps audio sample size = 16bit channels = 2 (stereo) audio sample rate = 44khz audio format = pcm If you go to CMMODS you'll find my Dads Army theme tune, which I uploaded for CMBO but it should work for any CM1 game: http://cmmods.greenasjade.net/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 When I were a lud, my dad took me to Albert Hall to hear the Red Army Choir and I still remember their rendition of Tipperary. BTW: I understand how to get the tracks. But, what is the (crayon version plz) process to convert to usable .wav files for CM1 and/or CM2? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streety Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Don't know anything about CM2, but to convert any music file to a CM1-friendly wav, I use audacity. In audacity: Click on the Edit tab and then click on Preferences. When the preferences box comes up, click on the Quality tab and you'll see various options. Make sure default sample rate is set to 44100Hz, and that default sample format is set to 16bit. Don't worry about the other quality settings for now. Then, still in Preferences, click on the File Formats tab and set the Uncompressed File Formats to a WAV PCM format - use WAV (Micorsoft 16bit PCM). Click ok to save these settings. Don't worry about other settings for now. Now open your music file in Audacity. Click on the File tab and select Export as WAV. And choose where to save the new wav file. Then simply exit - no need to save changes as you haven't altered the original file. Now you have your wav file, you just have to rename it to 00005010.wav and then put it in your game's WAV folder. The important thing to remember is to match the quality and format settings to whatever the game's original wav file is set to, or else it may not play properly, or at the wrong speed or not at all. I've merely given you the theme-tune settings but different sound files in the game (explosions, clicks, ambient, voices, etc) can be formatted differently. To check each game's current sound file's specific settings you have to right click on the wav file, select properties and then click on the summary tab. I don't have a wav index, so you'd have to listen to specific files. Some don't like to play with windows player but will with the VLC player. I'll try to email the Tipperary track to you over the weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streety Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Better still, I've just edited the chorus for CMBB and will upload it with the right file name to CMMODS as it's quite good! You'll just have to put it as it is into the wav folder and sing away! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Hey Streety, can you do the one that Kettler links to at the start of this thread as well plz? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streety Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Yes. Done. Check out CMMODS. As far as I can tell, it is legal (at least in the UK) to save anything given freely on the web (and TV or radio) for your own private use (except obscene-illegal stuff of course). Google are trying to change the law with regard to youtube offerings, because current copyright law itself makes running youtube in its current form legally highly problematic. But they haven't yet managed to change the law and may have trouble ever doing so. As far as I can tell, all I've done is freely assist your own private use after viewing the clip. However, if I or CMMODS ever get a complaint/challenge, I imagine my sound clips would be withdrawn immediately without arguing about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 That is awesome of you. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altipueri Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Having just finished reading Antony Beevor's Stalingrad in a marathon exhausting and depressing late night early morning late morning session the idea of Russians singing "A long way to Tipperary" seems sacrilegiously wickedly funny. Must do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streety Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Just to say I've edited the Sacred War clip for CMBB, removing the too-abrupt end by fading out the last few seconds. Updated file now at CMMODS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 Here are the lyrics for Sacred War--in Cyrillic, transliterated Russian and English translation. http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/sviashchennaia-vojna.htm Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Much more inspiring that the German patriotic songs. I love it on my CMBB esp that I'm playing in a huge CMBB tourny scenario with 3+ battalions per side plus companies of armor(!). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted September 2, 2012 Author Share Posted September 2, 2012 Erwin, May I suggest Royal Opponent and Trappenjagd? They're both full of juicy CM goodness, hair pulling frustration, nail biting and abject terror. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Might be actually helpful if you tell where they at? Scenario depot II? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted September 2, 2012 Author Share Posted September 2, 2012 Erwin, Never thought about that. Thought I did well to remember the titles! Royal Opponent is on your CMBB disc. Everything I've found so far in the Trappenjagd search has only confused me. There may be as many as five scenarios, making a mini campaign. Please check with NGcavscout. I think he and I played this once. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazing 88's Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Thanks for mentioning 'Trappenjagd', I missed downloading these previously. I really enjoy historical scenarios / ops. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 Just discovered Farewell of Slavianka! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_of_Slavianka Vid (full of WW II Russian military posters) Same song, but melody only Katyusha (the folk song that the BM-13 was named for) Vid has excellent wartime pics, many by top Russian combat photographers. A paean to the actual BM-13 (Great footage) Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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