Produced by: Tee Lopes (http://vgmdb.net/artist/26741)

Mastered by: Falk Au Yeong
(http://vgmdb.net/artist/14345)

Tracklist:

Disc 1:
1-01 Opening Movie
1-02 Discovery (Title Screen)
1-03 Comfort Zone (Main Menu/Options)
1-04 Sunshine Cassette (Save/Stage Select)
1-05 Opening (Angel Island Zone)
1-06 Theme of the Hard-Boiled Heavies
1-07 Green Hill Zone - Act 1
1-08 Green Hill Zone - Act 2
1-09 Danger on the Dance Floor (Mini-Boss)
1-10 Act Clear
1-11 Chemical Plant Zone - Act 1
1-12 Chemical Plant Zone - Act 2
1-13 Mean Bean Machine Boss
1-14 Lights, Camera, Action! (Studiopolis Zone - Act 1)
1-15 Prime Time (Studiopolis Zone - Act 2)
1-16 Flying Battery Zone - Act 1
1-17 Flying Battery Zone - Act 2
1-18 Ruby Delusions (Eggman Boss 1)
1-19 Tabloid Jargon (Press Garden Zone - Act 1)
1-20 Blossom Haze (Press Garden Zone - Act 2)
1-21 Hi-Spec Robo Go! (Hard-Boiled Heavies Boss)
1-22 Stardust Speedway Zone - Act 1
1-23 Stardust Speedway Zone - Act 2
1-24 Metal Sonic Boss
1-25 Hydrocity Zone - Act 1
1-26 Hydrocity Zone - Act 2
1-27 Drowning
1-28 Speed Shoes
1-29 Invincibility
Disc Time: 53:08

Disc 2:
2-01 Time Attack/Competition
2-02 Results Screen
2-03 Skyway Octane (Mirage Saloon Zone - Act 1 ST Mix)
2-04 Wildstyle Pistolero (Mirage Saloon Zone - Act 1 K Mix)
2-05 Rogues Gallery (Mirage Saloon Zone - Act 2)
2-06 Blue Spheres Stage
2-07 Oil Ocean Zone - Act 1
2-08 Oil Ocean Zone - Act 2
2-09 Dimension Heist (Special Stage)
2-10 Lava Reef Zone - Act 1
2-11 Lava Reef Zone - Act 2
2-12 Blue Spheres Stage (Speed Up Mix)
2-13 Metallic Madness Zone - Act 1
2-14 Metallic Madness Zone - Act 2
2-15 Eggman Boss 2
2-16 Built to Rule (Titanic Monarch Zone - Act 1)
2-17 Steel Cortex (Titanic Monarch Zone - Act 2)
2-18 Ruby Illusions (Final Boss)
2-19 Ending 1 (Normal)
2-20 Super Sonic
2-21 Egg Reverie Zone 1
2-22 Egg Reverie Zone 2
2-23 Ending 2 (True)
2-24 Staff Roll
2-25 Ending 3 (Knuckles' Secret)
2-26 Game Over
2-27 Continue
2-28 1UP
Disc Time: 50:23

Total Time: 1:43:32
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An amazing soundtrack to a game that once seemed like a dream. (too bad bout denuvo though...) Loud mastering is also a fault.

This is not a recorded rip like other rip before it. The music has been ripped from the game data itself so it's the best quality currently available. Hopefully a complete soundtrack (in lossless) is officially released in the near future.

Enjoy! Link is in the thread below.

!!!!!'s Nexus of Music Thread 2.0 (An Updated Thread) (Thread 119192)

Oh cool, thanks! I'll be sure to tell others about this~! :)

Lmao, I was working on my own rip and you beat me to it.
Classic !!!!! :awsm:

Many thanks !

Yo !!!!!. Nice release man! Did you happen to find the loop points of the songs or did you make your own?

Oh cool, thanks! I'll be sure to tell others about this~! :)

Thanks for your support, Alex!


Yo !!!!!. Nice release man! Did you happen to find the loop points of the songs or did you make your own?

I've looped the songs manually in an audio editor. I'm not knowledgeable of how to find loop points within their original files through hex.

Awesome thank you!

The songs are encoded as VBR V0 (~280kbps), but I'm seeing the original Vorbis files closer to ~160kbps. How were these converted?

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Lmao, I was working on my own rip and you beat me to it.
Classic !!!!! :awsm:

Sorry about that. :p


The songs are encoded as VBR V0 (~280kbps), but I'm seeing the original Vorbis files closer to ~160kbps. How were these converted?

OGG to lossless for editing and then converted to mp3 v0 afterwards.


Hey, what's the total, 59 or 61?

Some tracks in the game are sound effects that I omitted as well as the Hyper Potions song.

Can you upload the OGG files for those of us who don't want a transcode?

Can you upload the OGG files for those of us who don't want a transcode?

From !!!!!:

Tagged OGG (Dropbox) (https://www.dropbox.com/s/1j2hqu6bv5gv6ks/Sonic%20Mania%20%282017-08-29%29%28Christian%20Whitehead%29%28Headcannon%29%2 8PagodaWest%20Games%29%28SEGA%29.7z?dl=0)

That's what I'm waiting for!

Wow, I was going to do it myself but you beat me to it. Thanks!

Leave it to you with the Expanded Editions on a lot of your gamerips. *lol*

Thanks so much for this. :)

Thanks.

Thanks a lot!

Awesome quality release, as always.
Is there a reason the Hyper Potions opening track "Friends" isn't included?

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I'll say the same thing I already said about "SexyFrog" release.
The quality is way worse than the previous rips.

First, the tracks are way shorter than the previous rips which have been released on FFShrine.
(Some 2 minutes long tracks are now just 1 minute)

Also, it's way more compressed and dynamics are destroyed.
Here's a comparison shot (the previous rip on top) =>


It's not your fault, it's just that as usual, they butcher the so-called "official" soundtrack, and rips are better quality.

What? THIS is a rip, not the official soundtrack. I don't see how it's "worse", it's straight-up files from the game.

Loudness is as it is in the game, no more, no less. Maybe the original soundtrack from Data Discs will get a different mastering, but for now, that's the best you can get.

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I think he wrote something about alexthegrand's being the best soundtrack and now he edited out that part in both posts.

And an Audacity screenshot that clearly shows nothing about dynamics. At best it shows that one rip is a line-out console rip, so the volume is slightly lower than the direct OGG file rip. Dynamics look exactly the same.

Arguing for the sake of it...

Not arguing at all, and apparently you don't know anything about dynamics, so don't make a fool out of yourself.
Just go look in details with Audacity.
And yes the console rips are better.
The ones arguing are the ones insulting and denying facts.


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Tyrael87, It's "she", not "he", and I already replied to you in another page.
alexthegrand's rip is not the one I was referring to.
Also, I don't see in what way it changes the facts.

Not arguing at all, and apparently you don't know anything about dynamics, so don't make a fool out of yourself.
Just go look in details with Audacity.

(sigh).

Sonic Mania is everywhere lately, TKS!

Not arguing at all, and apparently you don't know anything about dynamics, so don't make a fool out of yourself.
Just go look in details with Audacity.
And yes the console rips are better.
The ones arguing are the ones insulting and denying facts.


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Tyrael87, It's "she", not "he", and I already replied to you in another page.
alexthegrand's rip is not the one I was referring to.
Also, I don't see in what way it changes the facts.

Or the console rips are falsely coloured for having undergone a conversion from digital to analogue and back again (even a direct digital record would be at the whim of any processing the console is doing). The source material in all releases is 99% likely to be the exact same encode. A direct rip of the game files from the PC is the best match you are going to get - and any alleged 'dynamics' are not really there.

Hopefully Tee Lopes has a full FLAC release with less game-compressed dynamics up his sleeve. Seems like he's being coy about it just now though.

Awesome quality release, as always.
Is there a reason the Hyper Potions opening track "Friends" isn't included?

This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I omitted it due to not fitting in with the rest of the music as well as it being a trimmed version of the original song.


I'll say the same thing I already said about "SexyFrog" release.
The quality is way worse than the previous rips.

First, the tracks are way shorter than the previous rips which have been released on FFShrine.
(Some 2 minutes long tracks are now just 1 minute)

Also, it's way more compressed and dynamics are destroyed.
Here's a comparison shot (the previous rip on top) =>

It's not your fault, it's just that as usual, they butcher the so-called "official" soundtrack, and rips are better quality.

Not quality you mean dynamics. Yes the above audio file seems more desirable but it merely the effect of re-recording audio. Re-recording introduces noise and peaks that severely affect the waveform which is why its not desirable. A spectrum analyzer would show you the quality by seeing where the song frequency cuts off. Notice the cut off on the images below.

Alexthegrand's rip: (frequency rolls off at around 15-16khz)


My rip: (frequency rolls off like the source around 21khz)


Recording severely degraded the original audio even with the added transients. I definitely agree about higher dynamics being better though. :) 10-12db should be the minimum dynamic range to shoot for when mastering.


What? THIS is a rip, not the official soundtrack. I don't see how it's "worse", it's straight-up files from the game.

Loudness is as it is in the game, no more, no less. Maybe the original soundtrack from Data Discs will get a different mastering, but for now, that's the best you can get.

From the preview tracks I think the mastering is still utter crap. I'm assuming the vinyl will just have lower volume but same mastering.

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Thanks I don't ever get picky of the quality i just focus on how exciting the music to game soundtracks are.

This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I omitted it due to not fitting in with the rest of the music as well as it being a trimmed version of the original song.

It's a bit obvious that it was added in the game at the last minute. I do agree. Still, it is technically part of the game, much like that god-awful Street Fighter IV you probably all remember :3

This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I omitted it due to not fitting in with the rest of the music as well as it being a trimmed version of the original song.



Not quality you mean dynamics. Yes the above audio file seems more desirable but it merely the effect of re-recording audio. Re-recording introduces noise and peaks that severely affect the waveform which is why its not desirable. A spectrum analyzer would show you the quality by seeing where the song frequency cuts off. Notice the cut off on the images below.

Alexthegrand's rip: (frequency rolls off at around 15-16khz)


My rip: (frequency rolls off like the source around 21khz)


Recording severely degraded the original audio even with the added transients. I definitely agree about higher dynamics being better though. :) 10-12db should be the minimum dynamic range to shoot for when mastering.

Whelp, you can't say I didn't try.... ^_^; Clearly, your rip is far superior than mine's.

Thanks :D
Sounds Great!

I just noticed that the track 1-06 Theme of the Hard-Boiled Heavies

is actually called "Hard Boiled Heavies Mischief Theme"

Dear lord, just when you thought nCrypt couldn't get any more obnoxious; I have to click the button five or more times before I'm brought to the files instead of a rubbish pop-up window.

Dear lord, just when you thought nCrypt couldn't get any more obnoxious; I have to click the button five or more times before I'm brought to the files instead of a rubbish pop-up window.
No pop-up window should appear there. You're using an adblocker? Or you actually mean Adfly instead of nCrypt?

Shame it was encoded in OGG... MegaDrive/CD were lossless.
The official soundtrack is going to lack a lot of tracks, it sucks...

thanks !!!!!


Shame it was encoded in OGG... MegaDrive/CD were lossless.
The official soundtrack is going to lack a lot of tracks, it sucks...yeah, i'd also loved at have a Flac version of this game music extraction :(
but again, SEGA found another trick to annoy us & as you said, i wonder if we will have this OST complete in Lossless one day ? not sure at all. :|

//EDIT:
finally listened your version !!!!!.
you are right, my ears said that we can't be wrong with the great dynamics of the tracks ;)

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This forum should have a rule against hiding links behind AdFly.

This forum should have a rule against hiding links behind AdFly.

No, you should be better at this. It's very easy.

For adfly, there's a wonderful addon for firefox, which skipped this site automatic. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adfly-skipper/?src=ss

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AWWW MY DUDE this is excellent, thank you so much!

Well for me, AdFly will refuse to take me to my link if I have adBlock on. See, I have adblock on my chrome (sorry those who need ads for money! QAQ I just hate ads! They get real intrusive and some contain malware and stuff... people at deviantart would know what I had to do to my computer after a real nasty piece of malware blue screened by computer and followed up with a near-impossible virus that could not be deleted... I had to completely reset my computer, but that's a story for another day I guess!)

If I have adBlock on, AdFly won't work with me. If I pause adBlock, however, AdFly will work with me. Don't know if that's the problem most adblock users have but... Yeah! I just temporarily pause it and unpause the add-on after I download the file from MEGA.

Can we please not turn this awesome realase thread into an AdFly debate??

Thanks

Thanks!

This forum should have a rule against hiding links behind AdFly.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adfly-skipper-%E2%98%85working-81/obnfifcganohemahpomajbhocfkdgmjb
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adfly-skipper/
You're welcome!

Thanks !

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adfly-skipper-%E2%98%85working-81/obnfifcganohemahpomajbhocfkdgmjb
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adfly-skipper/
You're welcome!

Well, thanks.

Thanks for the soundtrack, dood.

Thank you so much!

thanks!

Much appreciated!

How do you download..?

Thanks!!!

Thanks a lot, although Im a little confused with the ''Expanded Sountrack''title. Lets see whats here.

Thanks a lot, although Im a little confused with the ''Expanded Sountrack''title. Lets see whats here.

I think it means to notify that it's the complete sound track to Sonic Mania.

There's an official vinyl release of Sonic Mania (http://vgmdb.net/album/69136), but it only has 16 tracks and only has music that's original from the game and not remixes of older Sonic music.

This is some good stuff, thanks a lot dood!

Official titles for the following tracks have been revealed (source: http://vgmdb.net/album/74207)

* Havoc Prognosis (Eggman Boss 2)
* Egg panicky - Egg Reverie Zone Pinch Mode (Soundtest Only)
* Guided Tour (Credits)
* The Winner! (Competition Results)
* Glimmering Gift (Super Transformation)
* Eggman Mean Bean
* Head 2 Head (Versus Mode)
* Who's the boss? (Hard Boiled Heavies Mischief Scene)
* Countdown to Continue
* Undefeated (Invincibility)
* The Blur (Speed Shoes)
* Rise of the Icon (Sonic Mania Alternate Intro)

Link's dead :(

Link's dead :(

It's very much alive actually. Just checked it myself.

Will this be updated when the Encore DLC becomes available?

Thanks for this! The official releases are as incomplete as those 20th anniversary releases for the Sonic Adventure games. Sigh. As usual, I appreciate your thoroughness (:

I know I should just be patient, but are you planning on adding the songs from Sonic Mania Plus?

I know I should just be patient, but are you planning on adding the songs from Sonic Mania Plus?

Sonic Mania Encore DLC (2018-07-17)(Christian Whitehead, Headcannon, PagodaWest)(Sega).7z (https://app.box.com/s/auzpjhe67k9w72soqtuveuoiqak8b4xd)

Thank you a lot ^^