Valet2 on 4/1/2018 at 02:31

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I got a very old and rare CD of 1999 bundled with a German magazine Talknet. It has two red-book audio tracks which appeared to be two uncompressed tracks from the first Thief game. The spectrum makes me think it's an original version rendered in 33 kHz. Anyway, it sounds much better than anything you've heard before!

(ftp://gamemusic@ftp.valet2.com/Eric_Brosius_Thief_The_Dark_Project_1999_FLAC/)

(empty password)

The tracks were written by Eric Brosius with help of Josh "Robotkid" Randall.

Judith on 4/1/2018 at 15:36

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It doesn't have that hiss noise present in the originals, but the quality of sound samples is the same, so it's not that big of a difference (not like with the Deus Ex or SS2 OST for example). Thanks anyway.

Child Of Karras on 4/1/2018 at 23:00

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...until you split it up into a Mid/side signal. Then you hear that the cut at 15 kHz is not because of 32 kHz rendering but because of audio compression, probably 128 kbit/s MP3. This causes heavy artifacts in the side signal. Still, without the 8-bit noise is much comfortable to listen to.

ZylonBane on 8/1/2018 at 06:48

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Why would Redbook audio tracks have MP3 compression artifacts?

Valet2 on 8/1/2018 at 18:08

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But the tracks that were used in cutscenes were in ever worse quality, 8 bit (that's why there's a hiss noise) and 22 kHz.

http://valet2.com/images/thiefmusic/thief_music_cutscenes.png

The GOG soundtrack have simply denoised and resampled with mirrored spectrum, using the same low quality tracks.

http://valet2.com/images/thiefmusic/thief_music_gog.png

This cd that I've found clearly uses lossy source, yeah. That's sad. But this is still the best quality available.

http://valet2.com/images/thiefmusic/thief_music_cd.png

If someone is in touch with Eric maybe he could ask him if he still has the original music files?