Extracting music from a game?

[Aliboy]

Greetings peeps. I'm sitting here updating my ipod and going through a load of music that I'd like to have when out and about and I remembered about the music that I liked from Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I've popped the disc in to see if I could see any music files and even been on the composers website to see if it's listed there. So I suppose at the end of the day I'd like to know if anyone here has taken music from a game and how did you do it?
I've looked at the legality of this and it seems to be okay to do this as long as the music is for personal/private use and not for sharing broadcasting etc.
Any help would be reatly appreciated.

Al

 

[Masterdog]

It depends on the game. Given RTCW is based on the Q3 engine, I assume (I've not tried this so I could be completely wrong) it uses pk3 files to store the game's content. These can simply be renamed to .zip and opened like any other .zip file. Within you may be lucky and find mp3 files, or they might be in another format which require a special player, or in a format that can't be played outside RTCW.
It's a similar process with Source games - .gcf files contain most of the game content and can be opened using GCFscape.

 

[Lagmeister]

Depending on the game, you can open the data files, pk3 files in RTCW's case I think, so it should be easy enough to do as they are basically glorified zip files but you will need a 3rd party program to access them.

I think this should work http://files.filefront.com/PakScapeexe/;1323402;/fileinfo.html

edit: Or you could just open them with WinZip as above, I forgot about that one

 

[Aliboy]

Thanks for the reply peeps Just one question though ..... when I pop the disc in ..... what the hell am I looking for

Al

 

[skullman]

http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/448

 

[Aliboy]

http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/448

That my friend has just put you to the top of the xmas card list

Thank you very very much

Al