I was listening to my playlist of video game best songs, and I realized that there is probably a ton of hidden gems that I never listened due to never playing the game or never paid attention to.
So I would love to hear what songs you recommend: either from barely mentioned games or soundtracks from known games that you think are underrated.
Nevermind adpcm_ima_apm is clearly wrong.
But i think I hear some artefacts as well when I convert with adpcm_ima_ssi and with adpcm_ima_acp. One part where it’s very noticable is in Dreamer, as the flute sets in there is a white noise in the background that follows the flute in intensity. If I download the MP3s from here https://www.annoinfo.de/Anno_1602/downloads.html then I don’t have that.
Wait if I play the game and listen to Dreamer ingame I also have that white noise! Maybe the ADPCM encoded ones are just shitty!
Wooow. Even the History Edition (2020) in the
BonusContent\Anno_1602_soundtrackdirectory, where they have MP3s, the Dreamer piece has the white noise. You’d think they would master the MP3s properly from the original files, but looks like they just converted the ADPCM trash…Fuck it, I acquired the original version (pre-expansions) from the Internet Archive, and got the PCM encoded ones there. No noise in Dreamer!
Nice! Yeah it would have been surprising if there was no quality loss. The adpcm encoded files are a fraction of the originals size.