
So what we have here is the official soundtrack to Bioshock. Problem was, it was only released in vinyl! However, a kind fellow digitized it into flac from his record player and posted it in the Lossless thread. From there I decompressed into .wav, used clickRepair (http://www.clickrepair.net/) to fix all the snaps ‘n pops, and then encoded into lame V0 mp3’s.
Sounds pretty stinkin’ good, and there are very, very few clicks/crackles remaining that couldn’t be repaired. So enjoy!
Tracklisting:
01 Ocean On His Shoulders (BioShock Main Theme)
02 Welcome To Rapture
03 Dancers On A String
04 Cohen’s Masterpiece
05 Step Into My Garden
06 The Docks
07 This Is Where They Sleep
08 The Engine City
09 All Spliced Up
10 Dr. Steinman
11 Empty Houses
12 Lost Soul
13 The Good One
14 Rapture Daily News
15 Busted Sub
16 Spliced Aphrodite
17 Diseased Medical
18 Cohen Is Lurking
19 Haunted Slums
20 Bowels Of The City
21 Becoming One Of Them
22 Combat Medly
23 Rise Rapture Rise
24 Gameplay Cues
Download here : Zippyshare (http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/uamIkwQE/file.html)
20 May – Updated Link
True it’s not, but that’s more to the point why the crackles are there, they’ve clearly been added for some artistic merit.
Though yeah as you’ve put the effort into this i’ll save you the cognitive dissonance and agree!
I think eggs is right. They put them in there purposefully. Listen to the opening credit thing (in the game) where they show a vinyl disc player (I think its the 2k Boston screen). They have crackles in the sound there. That’s probably what they were going for. Sorry I didn’t describe that well. Its basically one of the screens they show when you first load up the game.
They didn’t put the crackles in the game because they didn’t want to ruin the music, but the game is based in the 1950’s so I’m willing to bet that they added the pops and crackles to make the vinyl sound like it is from that era.
So thanks for causing me to keep them sealed for that much longer.