Rarities & B-Sides (April 9, 2008)

Bandit LOAF

Bandit LOAF

Long Live the Confederation!
Never say never - I thought I had finished my collection of Wing Commander soundtrack CDs five years ago (update)... but I was wrong! Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum spotted "Signature Sounds: Electronic Arts Music Sampler Volume One[/b]" at an auction. I immediately set about tracking down a copy and can now reveal its secrets! It is dated 1993 and contains 31 tracks from a variety of EA games... including several from Origin (Strike Commander, Bioforge, Pacific Strike) and two Wing Commander games (Privateer and Super Wing Commander)! Here's the impressive track list, some scans of the package and mp3s of the two Wing Commander pieces!
1. Dream Theme (4D Driving) - Michael J. Sokyrka (Engineered by Jeff Dyck) - 0:48
2. Mission Guadalcanal (Pacific Strike) - Paul Baker - 4:41
3. Slammin' (NBA Showdown '94) - Traz Damji & Jeff Dyck - 1:34
4. Point of Focus (Budokan) - Rob Hubbard - 2:34
5. Driving the Simulation (3DO Driving) - Kris Hatlelid & Edwin Dolinski - 2:04
6. Control (Bioforge) - John Tipton - 1:12
7. Thoughts To Dream (Powermonger) - Jason A.S. Whitely - 5:03
8. Victoria's Theme (4D Tennis) - Edwin Dolinski - 1:01
9. Into One's Own ("Coming Attraction") - Laura Barratt - 1:54
10. Stealth (F-117 Night Storm) - David Whittaker - 1:06
11. Miles Driving By (Car & Driver) - Michael Bartlow - 2:32
12. Combat Montage (Privateer) - Nenad Vugrinec - 5:15 (mp3 - 7.4 mb)
13. Backhanded Melody (4D Tennis) - Edwin Dolinski - 2:28
14. March Around With Ryan (College Football) - Don Veca - 1:56
15. The Metallion (Cybermorph) - Alistair Hirst - 2:55
16. Hoopla (NBA Showdown) - Traz Damji & Jeff Dyck - 1:00
17. Watson Distracts Manager (Holmes I) - Rob Hubbard - 2:17
18. Soothsayer Theme (Holmes I) - Rob Hubbard - 3:09
19. Sweet Victory (NHL '94) - Michael J. Sokyrka (Engineered by Edwin Dolinski) - 1:07
20. Opening Theme (Super Wing Commander) - Joe Basquez - 2:01 (mp3 - 2.9 mb)
21. Chaos (Bioforge) - John Tipton - 2:15
22. Polterguy's Dilemma (Haunting Starring Polterguy) - Tony Berkeley - 1:17
23. Aliens On The Move (ShockWave) - Tony Berkeley - 1:28
24. Uno Momento (FIFA Soccer) - Jeff Dyck - 1:24
25. Object Viewer Waltz (Strike Commander) - Nenad Vugrinec - 1:57
26. Beats To Pieces (Desert Strike) - Jason A.S. Whitely - 3:05
27. Rippin' Rash Thrash (Road Rash 3DO) - Don Veca - 2:59
28. Cheese Grater (Skitchin') - Jeff Dyck - 1:15
29. Braking Late (Indianapolis 500) - Rob Hubbard - 2:34
30. Big Win (4D Driving) - Michael J. Sokyrka - 0:43
31. This Game is Over (3D Driving) - Michael J. Sokyrka - 0:39
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Original update published on April 9, 2008
 
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Great find!!

Looks like an incredible find LOAF. Thanks for sharing.

Any chance you could EAC and FLAC a version for the lossless crowd?
 
EAC Stuff

Hi LOAF,

Sorry for the delay, work has been bad this week.

EAC and FLAC are pretty commonly used to archive rare discs, and share lossless live concerts. (See www.archive.org under live music) EAC stands for Exact Audio Copy and can be downloaded from http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

There are a lot of tutorials on it out there, and you can get as complex as you want with regard to calibrating the read offset with reference CDs, etc. Even if you don't have reference discs to calibrate the read offset, typically it's good enough to just make sure you use secure mode when you extract, and use verification to make sure the CRCs match the ripped track vs. the test read. It's also good to save the log file EAC generates when it's done.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, it can be found at http://flac.sourceforge.net/

FLAC is about the most common of the lossless compression schemes used right now. As the name implies, it compresses your ripped WAV file (known to be good, free of pops, read errors, etc. from EAC) into a smaller file. It's definitely not as much compression as MP3, though unlike MP3, it is lossless. While you could rightly argue an MP3 may sound the same as a lossless, for collecting and archiving, I'm a believer in lossless compression. This web page illustrates the difference between lossless and lossy compression http://www.geocities.com/cfr707/mp3.htm

The FLAC download itself has a GUI interface included, which should be simple enough to compress a single CD worth of WAV files pretty painlessly. If you find you like this method for archiving your rare CDs (as I do), you may be interested in something like Trader's Little Helper, which makes the tasks of creating checksums for the WAV files, compressing WAV files, and creating checksums for the compressed files much, much easier.

Just thought I'd mention it because I know you are interested in accurate preservation of all things Wing Commander. The recent post on the backup tapes is great by the way.

Dave
 
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