Sound Add-On

[R'as al Ghul]

Hello Raz.

I think you've answered your own question.
I know no program that can do that for me. Of course it would be nice but,
it would have to extract, convert and install to Medieval without more user interference than pointing at the Medieval folder.
I know the files are big and that not everybody has a good connection but that's all I can offer right now.

[Puzz3D]

You'll loose sound quality if you convert to mp3, and this won't be recovered when you convert back to wav.

[Raz]

IIRC, the sound you lose is at the frequency that the normal human cannot hear. Which is why MP3 is now much more common in video games with MIDI close too.

From Wiki:

It provides a representation of sound within a short term time/frequency analysis window, by using psychoacoustic models to discard or reduce precision of components less audible to human hearing, and recording the remaining information in an efficient manner. This is relatively similar to the principles used by JPEG, an image compression format.

[Puzz3D]

IIRC, the sound you lose is at the frequency that the normal human cannot hear. Which is why MP3 is now much more common in video games with MIDI close too.

You can hear the difference (even the wiki article says less audible to human hearing not normal human cannot hear), but of course it partly depends on the quality of your playback system and the sound being reproduced. MP3 is a lossy compression algorithm and an area where people, in general, have accepted lower quality in music playback. The highest mp3 bit rate is 360 kbit/sec, and at that point you might as well go to a lossless algorithm such as FLAC. An audio CD is 1,411 kbit/s which some audiophiles still consider to be inadequate for full fidelity. I don't know the bit rate of the wav files used in Shogun, but wav can equal or exceed CD audio.

[TosaInu]

Hello,

Apart from the losing quality issue, I think it makes it more difficult to get the copy installed and working.