No Music Quake and expansions GOG edition

[Neils]

Hello everyone,
I have a problem, I recently bought GOG Quake and expansions, the problem is that the music plays during the game, as it was in the cd and nosequé according to law data GOG can only use what is installed on the computer.

The game uses the engine such glquake.exe I donot like making music in quake fence and expansions help please

[Mr.Burns]

Hi
I'm not entirely sure I understand the question properly but if you wish to disable CD music during your game of Quake (1), have you tried adding -nocdaudio to your command line? I haven't tested this as I'm currently not on a machine with Quake installed but it's worth a try

Hope this helps

Monty

[Neils]

sorry I do not speak very well English.

What I say is that NO plays music during the game

[ezzetabi]

For licensing reasons, gog cannot do it directly. But I strongly suggest to manually extract the musics, compress them with vorbis, and use another moder engine.

There are instructions both for Windows and Linux (the latter one is written by me btw).

There are many modern Quake engines, I personally like: quakespasm, qbism, and darkplaces.

[Neils]

tDoes anyone have the music of the 3 games? I managed to do it and not walk, could anyone please upload

[ezzetabi]

Google this hash, you should find everything:

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Just one note: the impel game is an old version, but it does contain the music.
On the other hand in Quaddicted you find the last version, but without the music.


Use the link in the next message.

[Henry]

ezzetabi, posting a hash for an illegal quake compilation torrent?!
Shame on you!

You still do not seem to understand the structure of quaddicted.
Of course quaddicted has impel music tracks as well as ALL other Quake expansion music tracks:
https://www.quaddicted.com/files/music/

We do not need warez kids for this.

[Johnny Law]

The GOG forum for Quake also has a lot of threads about this. Like:

My One-click Audioextractor, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

How do I use my own music, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

[Mindf!3ldzX]

ezzetabi, posting a hash for an illegal quake compilation torrent?!
Shame on you!

You still do not seem to understand the structure of quaddicted.
Of course quaddicted has impel music tracks as well as ALL other Quake expansion music tracks:
https://www.quaddicted.com/files/music/

We do not need warez kids for this.

Woah buddy calm your jets.

He isn't the only one who doesn't understand the Quaddicted site structure! Some one just recently posted about a ne_dynamic mod , and it's apparently being hosted on Quaddicted albeit behind some obscure lack-of-linking section!

The same can be said for MUSIC! I just skimmed over the front page of Quaddicted and found no section linking to MUSIC!

There is no Mods group/link/category/CLICKME linking to Mods, same goes for Music!

If licensing reasons stopped GOG from providing the musical scores for Quake1 and other mods, what gave Quaddicted the greenlight to do the same thing? Giving it out for free?

Just saying..... Get in contact with Quaddicted site owner and be productive rather than just someone wagging the finger at your fellow comrade.

[ezzetabi]

I am also confused by your problem. Downloading from quaddicted is ok, while downloading using the hash is not... what is going on?

Besides I assume Neils bought the game in gog anyway. If he did not, it is his problem. Not mine.

Anyhow, thanks for the link. Another subsection of quaddicted I knew nothing about.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I am also confused by your problem. Downloading from quaddicted is ok, while downloading using the hash is not... what is going on?

Besides I assume Neils bought the game in gog anyway. If he did not, it is his problem. Not mine.

Anyhow, thanks for the link. Another subsection of quaddicted I knew nothing about.

The torrent hastag you instruct to search for to has not only music but
-entire base game (this for sure is bad, could you remove your hashtag?)
-entire expansion packs (same as above)

Quake1 isn't abandonware/freeware , but the question/point still remains ,

What makes Quaddicted immune from what stops GOG from supplying the music tracks?

[Johnny Law]

"Immune" is the wrong word. It's more that id/Zenimax has been winking at the community distribution of the Quake soundtrack for the past decade or so. Possibly because this helps restore a large part of the experience that has been missing from the downloadable versions of Quake.

Of course nobody at id/Zenimax has officially said anything about this, but we do know that guys who work on the Quake IP at id these days are familiar with the digital-distro version of Quake and its soundtrack situation -- they've mentioned it in forum discussions, the links to ripped soundtrack files were in a sticky-thread in the old Steam community forum for Quake, etc. Just judging from appearances it looks like an accommodation benefitting the players and requiring less work from the developers, similar to the way that Night Dive winks at "Le Corbeau" making patches for Dark Engine games using illegally leaked source code.

Officially selling the soundtrack though brings on board all the folks concerned with the music licensing agreements. One odd part here is that GOG is in fact still selling the soundtrack, but only as a CD image instead of ripped tracks... it was specifically selling the ripped tracks that got them in trouble. I'm not sure what's going on there but it smells like fine-grained legalities.

It's entirely possible that id/Zenimax will at some point have a change of heart -- or some new person will learn about things and disapprove -- and then require the removal of soundtrack file hosting. The GOG Quake distro, and the various shenanigans that have happened with the way it handles the soundtrack, probably makes this more likely. It would be disappointing but entirely within their rights. And if they are suddenly more interested in making their digital-distro versions of Quake handle the soundtrack properly, then that's good.