A discussion on restoring EQ's music once and for all

[Dac321]

I've got the music, however I am having issues of submitting it to the web. So if you want the files send me a message on AIM: Dac321eq

[FatMagic]

Originally Posted by Dac321 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've got the music, however I am having issues of submitting it to the web. So if you want the files send me a message on AIM: Dac321eq

Try uploading them to MediaFire.com and sharing them here

[Korthal]

Has anyone had any success with restoring the original music? This thread seems to have died without any resolution.

[Insedeel]

Originally Posted by Korthal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Has anyone had any success with restoring the original music? This thread seems to have died without any resolution.

I have the entire list of eq midis through velious.. Not sure how to get these posted on the web tho for download. They're in the original midi format though so someone would need to go through and rerecord them into mp3 format for use in the titanium client.

[Korthal]

Originally Posted by Insedeel [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have the entire list of eq midis through velious.. Not sure how to get these posted on the web tho for download. They're in the original midi format though so someone would need to go through and rerecord them into mp3 format for use in the titanium client.

Yeah I have all the original midis as well - I was more curious if anyone successfully remastered them into mp3s to make them sound more like they did back in 99.

There were some posts from a few people that were going to try using old hardware to reproduce the music - did anything come from that?

[Insedeel]

I'll mess around with some midi to mp3 converters when I have some time over the weekend here, and see if I can get a decent conversion done.

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by Korthal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There were some posts from a few people that were going to try using old hardware to reproduce the music - did anything come from that?

I actually installed the Classic CD on a P166 with Win98 and an AWE64 yesterday (being on holiday) ... and ran out of disk space. Damn, ain't that Classic. I'll drop a bigger IDE disk into the machine tonight as a secondary and install on that. I seem to have a LOT of IDE disks lying around since the world went SATA LOL.

I tried running Classic as a WINE app on LINUX but the client doesn't recognize WINE's DirectX9.0c driver as DirectX so it won't get past the EULA screen. Not that I expect to connect to anything but I wanted to see if the movie worked [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I did notice that when I installed on LINUX the MIDI (whatever) files are accompanied with SoundFont files, so I'll see if I can load them using the SoundBlaster utils that come with the cards to play the music, since actually being able to zone in to P99 with a Classic client is highly improbable!

Regards,
Mg

[doacleric]

Originally Posted by Korthal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah I have all the original midis as well - I was more curious if anyone successfully remastered them into mp3s to make them sound more like they did back in 99.

There were some posts from a few people that were going to try using old hardware to reproduce the music - did anything come from that?

http://www.xs4all.nl/~treesong/EQmp3.zip

These are about as close as we are going to get without someone running a classic client on a PC from the 1999-2000 era.
Btw, I made those mp3's about 6 years ago =)

[Tork]

Has anyone worked this to completion with original everything?

It continues to impress me how this community is able to forensically restore EQ to its glory days - it makes me want to sway a lighter in the air and sing-along with a Cinderella song.

[Overcast]

Originally Posted by doacleric [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~treesong/EQmp3.zip

These are about as close as we are going to get without someone running a classic client on a PC from the 1999-2000 era.
Btw, I made those mp3's about 6 years ago =)

I still have the *original* EQ CD at home - if I install it - couldn't I get all the original MIDI files?

I'll do that for giggles, but I'm not sure offhand which files or file contains the music.