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Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Hmm interesting that you say that.

I tried a few years ago to extract the soundtrack, and my result was utter failure. The codec in the WAVs seemed to be some kind of fucky version of PCM I never managed to decode cleanly. Some attempts produced recognizable outputs, but with lots of noise.

Maybe some the codec has been included in the common libraries in the meantime or the player you used recognizes the format while the ones I tried didn’t. What player did you use?

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AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Ah, no I actually had the same issue with the GoG version. I have an original disk which contained the working version. Do you also have the GoG version? And does it play correctly in game for you?

Either way, I can send you the .flac or .wav if you’d like.

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- Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Oh interesting. I have both, but I don’t remember which I tried on. The music works fine in game, so I thought it was simply a proprietary format they used to mush it all onto one disk, as you did back then.
  
  I’ll give it another try just for the challenge tonight, but otherwise I’ll happily take you up on your offer, thank you! I’ll let you know!
  
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  - AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ok, good to know. I’ll try diffing the .wavs from my versions and see what might have gone wrong.
    
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  - AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I checked my two versions and found this helpful site https://green-sky.github.io/anno16_docs/files/music8/
    
    The conversion works, but the waveform looks odd and they sound a little worse to me. Maybe I did something wrong though
    
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    Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ohh from your link:
    
    Since the NINA Version(??), the files are encoded in ADPCM. Before that, the files use normal PCM.
    
    I have the “Königsedition”. “Königsedition” is the version that’s contains all expansions, equivalent to the English “Creation of a New World” which is also what they sell on GoG. Your link mentions NINA, which must refer to “Neue Inseln Neue Abentuer”, the first expansion, followed by “Im Namen des Königs”. So if Königsedition contains both, it probably also has the ADPCM encoded music.
    
    I also found this comment in the Annozone Forum, where someone found the right codec by trial and error after checking the code of this Anno 2018 reimplementation of Anno 1602. Same ffmpeg command.
    
    He claims adpcm_ima_apc and adpcm_ima_ssi give the same result which seems weird to me. And then further down people discuss that some track still sound weird.
    
    Looking at the ffmpeg code it seems there is one more option that looks quite likely, just beneath adpcm_ima_apc, “ADPCM IMA CRYO APC”, namely adpcm_ima_apm, “ADPCM IMA Ubisoft APM” I’ll try what that gives.
    
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