lossless audio pack

[Colonel Sanders]

A new dlc seems to have been released today without much fanfare. It has "lossless audio files" for the music, sound effects, and voices, but I'm not sure if it's for in the game or just the files to have

[Admiral Hyouta Curtiss]

The game will use the lossless files if they are installed.

[Id3alistic]

Can yall notice the difference?

[Evangela]

It's 10 GB for this? Holy cow.

I need to delete English dub files to save some spaces.

[Koby]

Originally posted by Evangela:

It's 10 GB for this? Holy cow.

I need to delete English dub files to save some spaces.

lossless audio is huge and there is a ton of audio in these games even though most dialogue isn't voiced because the scripts are simply that huge. So file size was pretty much expected, if anything I'm surprised it's only 10GB and not far more. I wonder if they used compression. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For comparison a lossy 128kbps aac audio file for a 20 minute video clip is only like 30 MB. Meanwhile a lossless audio file for the same clip would be 150-250 MB.

I've seen movies only 2 hours long with 7.1 channel audio have lossless audio files as big as 6 GB.

[Brave Sir Robin]

Can you even tell the difference without a audiophile set up? I've played back the OST MP3 and Flak versions of tracks, and with my regular PC speakers I can't hear any real difference to justify keeping the 5x file size versions.

[TheCombatButler]

Its definitely noticeable with the voice acting for me. background music might be a bit clearer, but imo voices get the biggest upgrade from this. they just sound so clean and nice now :)

[Kyle G]

Filthy casual like me barely notices the audio upgrade.

[Nik]

Does it fix ♥♥♥♥ like Estelle being super quiet? That's literally all I care about.

[notPoland TolakUUTNIPolri]

As long it gonna fix inconsistently voices that i heard about on cold steel 4 unlike on previous title, that's all i care about.

[The Joy of Pain(ting?)]

how do i delete this audio pack? it took so much space

[XanaduCSIV]

I found English lossless tracks missing. Confirmed Agate is silent in game when he should be talking in battle. I wanted to report the issue here to see if the missing audio files can be included. Here's why:
\data\voice\opus = 16,254 files
\data\voice\wav = 15,222 files

\se, \bgm, \voice_jp all have matching counts between ..\opus and ..\wav

Confirm tests by renaming ..\opus to something like ..\opus_DON'TCALLME

This forces calls to .WAV's only.
Play a battle with Agate, confirm he doesn't grunt when swinging his huge lump of iron.