Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 But its at a whopping 23,7 megs (and thats zipped mp3s mind you!) I will be uploading it to the mod database sometime this week... hope you all like it! Heres the Readme: All these sounds are in mp3 format because of their file size (219 Mb unzipped!!!) and to use them in CMBB you have to convert them into wav format again... for this i suggest you use a program like CDex wich you can find at http://www.cdex.n3.net I primarily made this mod for my own enjoyment but since I´m such a nice guy I thought I´d share it with the rest of you... I have also used (with his kind permission) some of scipios sounds... I´m not sure about all of them but I do know that all the cannon and explosion sounds are his. I´ve broken this mod into several smallar mods for all you (like me) poor bastards with 56k modems out there. The addon zip contains background sounds wich are quite large (14+ megs as zipped mp3s!) and i put these in a special zip for the above mentioned reason... The alternative00000411.wav is an alternative version of the sharpshooter sound. This one is just one shot as opposed to the one I use in my mod wich contains five shots representing the fact that the sharpshooter fires of a volley when he expends one "ammo". I´ve tried to make the sounds longer so that the battles will sound more intense and this means that some of the sounds (especially the smg sounds of weapons emptying their mags) will last longer than the firing animation and tracers in the game... but this is no real problem... I have also changed some of the german voice wavs to wavs from MOH:AA (my favourite fps... thanx EA!!) I hope you enjoy this mod as much as I do... /Oddball_E8 aka Josef Porta [ November 13, 2002, 08:02 PM: Message edited by: Oddball_E8 ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoobie Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 YES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 I think I might be doing something like this... I will be uploading it day by day... since im on a 56k modem i wont be able to upload all of it in one go... i think i might be able to use my friends computer (he has broadband) but if i cant i will upload it on a daily basis... about 3 zips per day... (they are about 1-2 megs each) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 Ooops... forgot to mention this in the readme... you have to make sure that you convert the files into a wav format of PCM Freq. 44100 channels 1 bits 16 or else you might experience some wierd effects... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 First zip is up... and more will be coming tonite (cant sleep... its 2:30 am here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 Well since i am a real idiot and tired to boot its not strange that i only now realised that DBpoweramp is a much better program for converting the files... you can download this at http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ sorry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markgame Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Originally posted by Oddball_E8: Well since i am a real idiot and tired to boot its not strange that i only now realised that DBpoweramp is a much better program for converting the files... you can download this at http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ sorry... Wow, you aren't kidding about DBpoweramp. What a great little app, and it can be used through the right click context menu as well. Good call! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 Yup... ive had it installed for quite some time now so i just didnt think about it... but it sure is great isnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne.hatcher@hok.com Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Where do we get it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColumbusOHGamer Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Originally posted by Oddball_E8: But its at a whopping 23,7 megs (and thats zipped mp3s mind you!)...All these sounds are in mp3 format because of their file size (219 Mb unzipped!!!) and to use them in CMBB you have to convert them into wav format again...I hate to tell you this, but your going about the sound mod thing the wrong way. A .ZIPed .WAV file will only be 1%-2% larger than a .ZIPed file of those same .WAVs converted to MP3s. In addition, most people don't want to have to fart around with converting 23.7MB of sound files. What I'm trying to say is, to make things easy for those that use your mod, just make it a .ZIP file of .WAVs, not MP3s. You're not really saving any filespace by making them into MP3's and it will make the users a lot happier and more apt to use your mods in the future. Just a word of advice from the mod database... COG Edit: I will gladly help rearrange the mods in the database should you decide to change them. [ November 14, 2002, 09:43 AM: Message edited by: ColumbusOHGamer ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 Hmmm... advice taken... but i asked the master himself (scipio) and he said it still saved space if you zipped them as mp3s instead of waves... and as for converting its a jiffy with the DbPowerAMP... just extract all the mp3s to a folder and then just select all of them, right click and choose wav... Piece of cace :cool: oh well it makes no difference now since they are all uploaded... thanx for your great site btw... loving it! visit it about 5 times per day just to see whats new... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 Originally posted by wayne.hatcher@hok.com: Where do we get it?why at CM Mod Database of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal DI FOLCO Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 I agree with CoH, you make people lose 1 hour converting for at most 2% space gain ! :eek: ! And I'd also rather get a 25Mb file than 10 small chunks ... Can you post that big-ready-to-use version for all of us poor broadband users ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColumbusOHGamer Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Hey Oddball, Do you mind if I create a single, .WAVs only, .zip file? I'll post it under your name so you get cedit for it of course. Also, I'm going to add a comment in the description of your mods that they MP3's and need to be converted. Is that OK too? Let me know... COG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Please do COG! I'm a 56k type, myself, but I would rather d/l 20+ megs of .wavs than have to go get some software I'll never use again and go through the whole conversion process. I've been a Modslut since the early days of BO, but I never fooled with any of Scipio's sounds, or others, that were mp3's for the very reason you mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Particular slut ain't he... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 Sure you can... and to you vergeltungswaffe... that would be like 200+ megs... have fun downloading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Originally posted by ColumbusOHGamer: This is not correct. Example, sound file 00000209.wav = 138 kb zipped = 103 kb 192bit mp3 = 39 kb = 62% smaller then the zipped wav. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engel Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 MP3 do compress to much smaller files than zipped wav's, since the method of compression is totally different. File compression methods don't do well at all with audio or image files, because they rely on finding repeating patterns in the data, and audio and images have very little of such data. You have to approach compressing such files from totally different angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColumbusOHGamer Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 This is not correct. Example, sound file 00000209.wav = 138 kb zipped = 103 kb 192bit mp3 = 39 kb = 62% smaller then the zipped wav.You are 100% correct sir! I stand corrected. Here's my results (I used the.WAV files from Windoze): 77 Raw .WAV Files = 6.73MB .WAV files .zip'd with WinZip = 5.5MB 192 bitrate MP3's = 2.35MB 320 bitrate MP3's = 3.87MB .ZIP'd 320 bitrate MP3's = 3.64MB I was totally wrong about this. And with that little DBPowerAmp, it only took 7 seconds to convert the MP3's to WAV. That's roughly 1 second per meg, so it should only take about 30 seconds max to convert the .MP3's to .WAV files. I endorse this method completely. COG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadHunter Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 I still can't seem to get to the Mod database from here - maybe it's the firewall at work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 15, 2002 Author Share Posted November 15, 2002 try typing in the adress manually... www.cozog.com or cm.cozog.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoobie Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 upload the rest of the sound oddball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renaud Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 Seeing as how the mp3 format is so much more compact than wav's, makes me wonder why BTS didn't use mp3 as the format for CMBB sound files in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted November 15, 2002 Author Share Posted November 15, 2002 Originally posted by MrNoobie: upload the rest of the sound oddballI will... but youll have to wait till saturday night (my time)... oooooor... IF youre lucky i might do it tonite... (this is 06:45 my time... just woke up ) Besides... its just ambiance sounds and a new startup song... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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