April 29, 200917 yr What format does RS use now? They aren't midis... I'm thinking VERY low bitrate wavs Runescape player since 2005 Ego Sum Deus Quo Malum Caligo et Barathum
April 29, 200917 yr What format does RS use now? They aren't midis... I'm thinking VERY low bitrate wavs Probably not; think smaller. It's probably OGG with some low quality, or some super-fancy way of doing MIDIs... Linux User/Enthusiast | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Stack Overflow Member | GIMP User...Alright, the Elf City update lured me back to RS over a year ago.
April 29, 200917 yr What format does RS use now? They aren't midis... I'm thinking VERY low bitrate wavs Probably not; think smaller. It's probably OGG with some low quality, or some super-fancy way of doing MIDIs... Wouldn't that require client side installation of the .ogg codec? Seems unlikely. Twitter ||| Google+ ||| Facebook ||| LinkedIn ||| My very interesting weblog about science
April 29, 200917 yr I've seen this as well. The most boring and irritating music centres on areas that have been around for ages (or since RuneScape was created), like Lumbridge and Draynor (I hate 'Harmony' with a passion), and the most exciting and appropriate ones are in recent quests. I'd like it if they overhauled some of the earlier tracks. Most of the time I leave mine off, but if I ever have the music on I must admit: I quite like the ones from Lumbridge and Draynor. They fit into a medieval theme, which is good. I remember when I first ever played the game, the track from Lumridge never left my head and I personally thought it was a great opening music track to pull the player in.
April 29, 200917 yr I'm probably one of the few folk here that recalls the old, old music tracks from WAY back when (I'm talkin' post-RS2 beta), and I've gotta say, the tracks have significantly improved over the years. Keep in mind, my tastes in music are eclectic; I'll be listening to trance one moment and probably have metal on in the next, then probably Classical for all I care, but for whatever reason, I usually enjoy the sounds in RS. One of the major reasons that they won't move to a MP3 format is simply due to file size. Someone posted a(n) [evil, evil evil] link to 400 songs at under 12MB. Do you think you could achieve that kind of compression on a single MP3 (let alone 400), and let it still sound good? If you figure it out, I'd be curious to learn; I want to stream my music to my laptop in such a way that it doesn't affect network performance too much. :P FWIW, the quality of sound with these MIDI files is actually decent. A handful of my favorite songs: Sound of Guthix Technology Fe Fi Fo Fum Fanfare 3 Attack 5 Tears of Guthix Claustrophobia ... and about 400 others. Not many songs in RS [or RL for that matter] that I reject with a passion... Yeah, that's why I suggest approaching it in the same way as graphics, it's not a vital part of the game. Clearly some computers aren't going to be able to handle the download, so they can still have their MIDIs. But it would be nice to make the game more immersive for computers than can. The MIDI-ish versions are decent, but you can't deny that they would be better as orchestrated MP3s, which would lift RS quality wise back into the popular MMOs of today. :thumbup: Besides, Jagex is situated in Cambridge. If that isn't an opportunity to get a great orchestra of music students, I don't know what is. :) ~ W ~
April 29, 200917 yr most of those games have to be installed on your computer . You can play rs from your browser without installing anything than java . That's how they do it :P WRONG! Go to any windows folder and paste this in C:\WINDOWS\.jagex_cache_32\runescape If anyone wants to download some of the rs midis from 2006, I found it at fileplanet. About 400 songs, under 12mb http://www.fileplanet.com/157955/150000 ... usic-v1.26 Wow, for some reason those midis sound MUCH better than the current music quality, they're just more catchy. Why did they change this??
April 30, 200917 yr I have never listened to runescape music in years. Since they brought in the option to not have to listen to the start up music. I might try playing it with the music on to see if it makes any difference to how I play.
April 30, 200917 yr If anyone wants to download some of the rs midis from 2006, I found it at fileplanet. About 400 songs, under 12mb http://www.fileplanet.com/157955/150000 ... usic-v1.26 Good find! Back when I was trying to max out Mage Training Arena, I did a side goal to accompany that. It was to listen to all of the RuneScape tracks from start to finish. Needless to say, I found some very good tunes that kept me sane through the ordeal. The Complete MTA Handbook | Runecrafting Pouch Analysis | Mobilizing Armies Locator Index
April 30, 200917 yr RS has music? Who knew?! I turned it off a long time ago, midi music gives me a massive headache. Nice that they have been working on it though. :)
April 30, 200917 yr I am really happy with the songs RS has as it is. Over the years me and my friend have found some great songs that we like, and we share new ones with each other if we find we like one. My favourite (sort of oldie) song is probably Mutant Medley, even though lots of the new ones are much better with atmosphere thanks to the upgrade in technology. The Root of the Problem/All Evil are also fantastic tunes. As for upgrading, im not sure if the cost to Jagex would benefit them in the long run, considering recording and then having only half the population bother to download them. I think it would be nice though to have an optional music pack to download if we want, maybe a few hundred megabyte in size or even larger! Then we could tick a box in game to request the music files directly from our PC instead of the applet, if they did upgrade I would enjoy that method of implementation. (sp) Just kidding ladies, you know I love you =DGuide to Making Money with NPC Trading
April 30, 200917 yr I only listen to one song on the rs playlist, that's Sea Shanty 2. It's just to epic to not listen to haha.
April 30, 200917 yr I am really happy with the songs RS has as it is. Over the years me and my friend have found some great songs that we like, and we share new ones with each other if we find we like one. My favourite (sort of oldie) song is probably Mutant Medley, even though lots of the new ones are much better with atmosphere thanks to the upgrade in technology. The Root of the Problem/All Evil are also fantastic tunes. As for upgrading, im not sure if the cost to Jagex would benefit them in the long run, considering recording and then having only half the population bother to download them. I think it would be nice though to have an optional music pack to download if we want, maybe a few hundred megabyte in size or even larger! Then we could tick a box in game to request the music files directly from our PC instead of the applet, if they did upgrade I would enjoy that method of implementation. (sp) If it was ever done, I expect this would be the best way. It would add an increased memory requirement to players wishing to hear the MP3 versions, but that's to be expected. Updates involving new tracks will have to take slightly longer, but it's a one off and not too common. Once it's downloaded, the MP3s wouldn't be intrusive to the performance of the applet. Nice. :thumbup: P.S. Even if it was only available half of the population, that is still a hell of a lot of people. ~ W ~
May 2, 200917 yr I've been playing since classic and I am just now listening to the music for the first time on purpose. Wow :S It's pretty bad. It kind of reminds me of those keyboards you could get at sears that had a demo button that would play some cheesy song so you could move your hand along with it and amaze your freinds.
May 3, 200917 yr most of those games have to be installed on your computer . You can play rs from your browser without installing anything than java . That's how they do it :P WRONG! Go to any windows folder and paste this in C:\WINDOWS\.jagex_cache_32\runescape If anyone wants to download some of the rs midis from 2006, I found it at fileplanet. About 400 songs, under 12mb http://www.fileplanet.com/157955/150000 ... usic-v1.26 Wow, for some reason those midis sound MUCH better than the current music quality, they're just more catchy. Why did they change this?? They changed it because sometimes, midis sound diffirent depending on your system and sound card. They changed so it had a universal sound.. Runescape player since 2005 Ego Sum Deus Quo Malum Caligo et Barathum
May 3, 200917 yr The epic awesomeness of "temple desecrated" cannot be matched :thumbsup: I personally like Runescape music "An Amateur practices until he can get it right. A Professional practices until he can't get it wrong." Quests just keep bringing me back to this game.
May 5, 200917 yr I have always loved the RS music. But I agree, it has become better :). Add me if you so wish: SwreeTak
May 5, 200917 yr The Runescape music tracks have improved drastically over the past few years but some could still do with an improvement. Click my signature for my blog!
May 8, 200917 yr I listen to it from time to time; some of the songs aren't half bad. I just prefer my music more lol. The runescape music player is pretty lame, whenever you move the song resets even though they were supposed to have fixed that. :|
May 8, 200917 yr Author I don't care who you are, but... ANIMAL APOGEE IS TEH BEST RUNESCAPE TRACK EVA! Temple Desecrated, Throne of Bandos and the track for the chaos tunnels will always be my favorites :thumbsup: "There are only two strategies in war. Move forward or change. The victor is the first to realise that when he cannot move forward he must change." ~ Mod Mark H ~
May 9, 200917 yr Yeah here is the file from Fileplanet that I uploaded to Megaupload. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1G8M2BJC Don't download if you don't trust it, I don't really care, but it is the real thing. The songs are from several years ago, so they have changed almost all of them to the songs that are in the game currently. Also, they are only like 410 songs (esitmate), so nearly 200 songs have been made after these were copied. Its great quality btw, and I prefer the old ones anyway...Castle Wars is epic...
May 9, 200917 yr My favourites are: Scape Santa Adventure Sea Shanty 2 And that Castle Wars one is awesome too. Then there are those music that I cannot stand listening for more than 10 seconds. 00:00:0500:00:0400:00:0300:00:0200:00:0100:00:00 Break the Walls down!
May 9, 200917 yr My list of favorites: Waterfall Temple of Light Temple Desecrated The Sound of Guthix Strength of Saradomin(First D Boot drop almost put me in tears, after a few hours of getting owned trying to solo Bandos and Sara) Understanding(before any of the music updates) Background(also before music updates) Animal Apogee(another near tears experience as I saw the obelisk light up for the first time) 4x Phat owner: Blue, Green, 2x Purple 3100+ GWD bosses soloed.Solo GWD Drops:5 Bandos Plates, 4 Bandos Boots, 3 Bandos Hilts, 2 Arma Helms, Arma Skirt, Arma Plate, 3 Arma Hilts, 4 Zammy Spears, Steam Staff, 15 Sara Swords, 6 Sara Hilts, 29 Shards.
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