Soundtrack Music, Jeff van Dyck, where to buy?

[Kia Sidhe]

Hi! I had the soundtrack to this game on CD from a limited(?) box. But now I can´t find it anywhere. I tried Spotify, Google Play, mp3va but all I found was a free version from some ehr website...
But where can I buy legal mp3s of Jeff van Dycks earlier music? (Everything before Shogun II seems deleted)
Unfortunately it seems that the soundtrack isn´t included in definitive edition.

[Inardesco]

There doesnt seem to be any place to get the soundtrack for a price.

[Kia Sidhe]

Yeah, well I guess there is no money in this. It would be nice if CA & Steam could offer us some service in this area though.

[Shadow of the SPQR]

I find the tracks I like on youtube, and that's enough for me. I don't feel the need to buy something that the company isn't selling.

[Kia Sidhe]

True, but I want songs like "Dry Well" on my playlist when I´m at work you see... I tried the turkish artist version, but it´s not quite as good.

[Ashur_Arbaces]

Search for 'Music.DAT' files in the gamefiles. Despite their classification as '.DAT' files they can function as normal audio files and can be played by programs like VLC Media Player or windows media player. The entire soundtrack of each campaign is one big file thoug so you will have to edit the files yourself into individual files if you want them seperately. I think the extension used for the sound files is '.SND.PACK', so packed SND files. At least I think thats the case I'm by no means an expert and I could have interpreted the info I got after looking into the files completely wrong.

That said If you want a more official option: https://vgmdb.net/album/6064

This CD came with the collectors edition in 2006 and is as far as I know the only CD release of the soundtrack. It doesn't have all the soundtracks thoug.
I imagine it's quite hard to track down too.

If neither of these options are ideal just rip the soundtracks of youtube. I highly recommend you convert what you get from youtube to lossless .Flac or .Wav files thoug or otherwise you will get some low quality compressed versions of the youtube version of the songs wich are already compressed during upload by youtube and there's also the risk that the uploader didn't use the highest possible quality when uploading either.

[Inardesco]

.mp3 is generally better quality than .wav and .flac isnt supported by all media players

[Ashur_Arbaces]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

.mp3 is generally better quality than .wav and .flac isnt supported by all media players

Wav Is a lossless format and MP3 is not. Unless the original recording for the Wav is really ♥♥♥♥ a Wav file has better audio than MP3. The main reason to use MP3 over Wav is storage space, MP3 takes up way less space.

Flac possibly not working on many devices is indeed an issue to take into account and Wav takes up a lot of space. But converting youtube to MP3 will cause a significant loss in audio quality because the audio gets compressed again while getting a Wav or Flac from youtube will maintain the same audio quality as the video.

[Gigantus]

Got the original sound track CD from the Kingdoms release back in the days when CDs ruled the world - 22 sound tracks plus another 29 extracted from the game.

https://ibb.co/gMtMTCd

The link to it is from Mediafire which Steam blocks - so you need to remove the double XX in the link below to get the correct address. The download itself is in ZIP format, you know the drill.

https://www.mediaXXfire.com/file/zug4h9sb3zhvmca/M2TW_Music_CD.zip/file

--- Sound track List ---

Against The Rock
Amen
Battle of Tollan
BladeGrass
Brothers Together
By The Marmara
Call Of The Sheep
Crack your head with a Tabla
Crusaders
Darker Skies Ahead
Death Lullaby
Destiny
Discovery
Dream of Albion
Duke of Death
Eagle Totem
Earth And Clay
Fear Frozen
Folder.jpg
Forest Haze
Ghosts Of Loch
High Winds
Honour Moment
Honour Of Sultan
Hymn Of War
Inca
Jaguar Jig
Kebabka
Lakota Lambada
Lift Thine Eyes
Lifted To The Hotplate
Lone Wanderer
Mare Nostrum
Memories of Mictlan
New Arc Ascending
Nothing Left
Octli
Parched
Rip Out My Beating Heart
Secret Sandals
Sister Davul
Solenka
Song For Toomba
Starsand
Sun Eyes
This is it
Time and Again
Valley Of Death
War of Kings
We are all one
Wind Cuts

[Ashur_Arbaces]

Full soundtrack of the game for reference (got it from the description of a youtube video):

0:00:00 Amen
0:03:23 Time and Again
0:05:30 The Widow
0:07:03 Field Of Blood
0:13:01 Grey Meadow
0:15:54 Lilly
0:18:40 Peter The Piper
0:19:52 Devil's Harp
0:24:46 Destiny
0:26:51 BladeGrass
0:30:23 Call Of The Sheep
0:33:23 Fear Frozen
0:36:26 Sister Davul
0:39:11 Solenka
0:42:54 This Is It
0:46:06 The Duke of Death
0:51:28 Nothing Left
0:56:09 Crusaders
1:00:19 Going Home
1:01:18 Duty
1:02:01 Spirit Fingers
1:02:51 Did They Have To Die Here Today
1:03:59 Olivia
1:06:08 Vineyard
1:07:36 Whispers In The Grove
1:10:06 By The Marmara
1:12:16 Secret Sandals
1:14:59 Mare Nostrum
1:18:31 Death Lullaby
1:22:30 Song For Toomba
1:26:22 Lifted To The Hotplate
1:29:50 Grab Your Castanets
1:30:47 Cordone
1:31:31 Persian Pyjamas
1:35:20 Sacred Oud
1:40:15 Honour Of Sultan
1:42:20 Kebabka
1:45:51 Starsand
1:50:04 High Winds
1:53:24 Crack your head with a Tabla
1:57:49 Wind Cuts
2:02:42 Balalip
2:03:48 Fly Away
2:04:42 Octli
2:07:53 Memories of Mictlan
2:10:46 Inca
2:14:15 Lakota Lambada
2:17:35 Jaguar Jig
2:20:05 Battle of Tollan
2:24:20 Clash of Nahual
2:26:13 Mextli Mambo
2:27:12 Muahyan

Americas:
2:28:05 Discovery
2:30:40 Earth And Clay
2:33:15 Temple Dreams
2:36:02 Dream Sky
2:37:53 Lone Wanderer
2:40:16 Eagle Totem
2:43:25 Rip Out My Beating Heart
2:46:27 Shining Sparrow
2:47:03 Spirit Passing

Britannia:
2:47:47 Dream of Albion
2:50:47 Wandering Hills
2:51:58 Bagpipe Chant
2:52:53 Banjooie
2:53:07 Celtic Tears
2:53:34 Cummin
2:53:48 Erin
2:57:09 Fiddle Me This
2:57:25 Green Eyes
2:57:40 Lavender Rosemary
2:57:55 Madocello Whistle
2:58:59 Mandy
2:59:46 Parsley Sage
3:00:10 Pasture
3:00:30 Peppermint Thyme
3:00:46 Uille an Me
3:01:32 Ghosts Of Loch
3:04:33 Tally-ho
3:05:47 New Arc Ascending
3:11:07 War of Kings
3:16:42 Harvest
3:17:06 Black Garden

Crusades:
3:17:38 Dry Well
3:19:31 Against The Rock
3:21:34 Dunes
3:23:40 Nay
3:24:25 Zither Shimmer
3:27:21 Sun Eyes
3:30:31 Parched
3:34:28 Honour Moment
3:41:05 Valley Of Death
3:44:46 Hands High
3:45:27 Blood Blisters

Teutonic:
3:46:12 Mountains Of Home
3:47:57 Brothers Together
3:50:08 Besieged
3:50:46 Hearty Horn
3:51:47 Hope Needed
3:52:21 Iron Wolf
3:53:47 Man Camp
3:54:11 Signal Ahead
3:54:43 Hungry Sword
3:56:01 Forest Haze
3:58:57 Hymn Of War
4:02:19 Darker Skies Ahead
4:07:57 Chaos Victorious
4:08:28 Warrior's Tomb
4:09:18 Lift Thine Eyes

4:15:01 We Are All One

[Kia Sidhe]

Originally posted by Ashur_Arbaces:

Full soundtrack of the game for reference (got it from the description of a youtube video):

0:00:00 Amen

Thanks a lot! :)
Yeah, this is the soundtrack I had before. Unfortunately "Dry Well" isn´t included(my personal favorite) but you can´t have it all.
I´ll try to credit/support this soundtrack if I find it somewhere more official.

[Crimson]

you can dL an unpacker in TWCenter and unpack all the audio files including speech, effects and of course music. Since you already paid for the game, you basically paid for the music as well.

[Gigantus]

Here is the link to the tool: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=32

Extract into the sounds directory and run the extract_sounds.bat file

[Kia Sidhe]

Thank you! Looks like a great tool! Now I only need to know how to find the folders/files the easiest way. Where´s Steam saving my games?

To answer myself: steamapps/common

It works!

[Gigantus]

One is glad to be of service