Shining The Holy Ark Music

by **Parn** » Mon Feb 20 2006 4:33pm

http://synbios.net/games/STHA/music/

Yes, they are not MP3s. They're Ogg Vorbis files. They play in Winamp just fine. Why do I not use MP3s? Simple... I have music CDs where the sound doesn't end on one track and continues on to another, and MP3 doesn't support gapless track transition. Ogg Vorbis does. Heh...

I recorded these almost seven years ago. I happened to have the master CD lying around that I did these recordings on. Unbelievable that it's been this long.

Edit: The files are now MP3s, as LAME 3.97 supports gapless track transition, so I'm back to using the MP3 format, now and forever.

by **Kazgaroth** » Mon Feb 20 2006 7:14pm

Dude, thanks a lot.

by **Lord Oddeye sama** » Tue Feb 21 2006 10:47am

Thank you very much, Parn !
I've completed my Shining Music Collection thanks to you.
Well, maybe not, I still lack Shining Wisdom tracks from the gamee. Though I've heard the musics aren't that great... I'll search for them anyway.

by **Demonic Weasel** » Tue Feb 21 2006 3:40pm

You should LO. Most of SW music is great with only a couple of exceptions. Anyway this looks pretty cool. Maybe I'll try it out myself.

by **Kalkano** » Tue Feb 21 2006 9:32pm

Parn @ Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:33 am) wrote: http://synbios.net/games/STHA/music/

Yes, they are not MP3s. They're Ogg Vorbis files. They play in Winamp just fine. Why do I not use MP3s? Simple... I have music CDs where the sound doesn't end on one track and continues on to another, and MP3 doesn't support gapless track transition. Ogg Vorbis does. Heh...

I recorded these almost seven years ago. I happened to have the master CD lying around that I did these recordings on. Unbelievable that it's been this long.

.ogg is not a problem. If we want them in .mp3 format, we can just use a converter (I already have). Thanks a ton!

by **Brian** » Tue Feb 21 2006 11:15pm

Thanks for putting up the songs.

I listened to some and I think it will take me a while to get used to them. For me, there could be a song I'll dislike at first, but with repeated listenings, I like it more.

Some of the tracks sound like a Carousel at a county fair, though.

by **Cullsoft** » Wed Feb 22 2006 12:20am

Considering the matching titles, I believe I still have all of those from in MP3 from finding them a few years back (forget where, though)...

Nice to see them up for download, though.

Shame it's a bit hard to get the intros for the battle themes...

by **Lord Oddeye sama** » Wed Feb 22 2006 10:37am

Did you ever notice that the music playing in the Tower of Illusion has exactly the same chords of the music playing in the labyrinth of Shining in the Darkness ?
It's like a kind of improved "remake".

by **Cullsoft** » Wed Feb 22 2006 11:35am

Lord Oddeye @ Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:37 am) wrote: Did you ever notice that the music playing in the Tower of Illusion has exactly the same chords of the music playing in the labyrinth of Shining in the Darkness ?
It's like a kind of improved "remake".

I think everyone who's played both games has noticed that.

by **Rick** » Wed Feb 22 2006 9:54pm

*hangs head in shame*

Not I

by **Lord Oddeye sama** » Wed Feb 22 2006 10:04pm

See Cullsoft ? I knew not everyone was aware of this.

Rick, listen to the labyrinth music of Shining in the Darksness, and right after to the Tower of Illusion's track. You'll notice they have the same "pattern" if you're careful.

by **Basso** » Sat Mar 25 2006 4:48am

I totally love the enrich dungeon music and south shrine music.

I listen to them both loads. Thanks a lot for posting this link.

by **Solo Wing Dragon** » Sun Feb 18 2018 8:58am

Although synbios.net is no longer online, The Internet Archive has a copy of this soundtrack:

https://web.archive.org/web/20071028054 ... index.html

However, some of the tracks weren't archived correctly. These tracks are

- 03. Battle Theme
- 04. Desire Village
- 11. The Mountain Cave
- 14. West Shrine
- 16. Tower of Illusion

Does anyone have a copy of the missing tracks? It would be great to achieve the soundtrack somewhere besides online besides The Internet Archive too. As fans of the game will know, the original soundtrack is actually a re-arranged version; there was no official CD of the original Saturn tracks.

by **Kalkano** » Wed Jul 04 2018 1:46am

I have a 49-Track Game Rip. Not sure where I got it, originally.

Can I just post a link to my Mega here? It's not like the game ever had a real soundtrack to sell.

Edit: Now that I look at the beginning of the thread, it appears that the entire point of this topic was to share the soundtrack. I'm going to assume that means this is okay:

https://mega.nz/#F!KBFF1KiQ!D8_JFmWGL4apCVN46maXKQ