Today I want to show you how to extract media like ingame music, videos, images and textures from many common games. It’s useful if you want to listen to the sound track of your favourite game even when you’re not playing.
Extracting the media should be legal as long as you own the original game!
Search your game in the game index, navigate to the path specified in your Windows Explorer, then use the application given to extract your music. Good Luck!
If you have any questions, or want more games to be added, please comment!
Game index for music:
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Age of Empires II:
Paths:
Age of Empires II/Taunt for taunts
Age of Empires II/SOUND/scenario for ingame speeches
Age of Empires II/SOUND/STREAM for ingame music
Age of Empires II/DATA/sounds.drs
You don’t need a program for all sounds except the last path. You can use DRS Explorer to extract the sounds from the DRS file. -
Age of Empires III:
Path: Age of Empires III/Sound/music/standard
For Age of Empires III, there is no need to extract any music! It’s given as MP3 file. -
Battlefield 1942:
Path: Battlefield 1942/Mods/bf1942/Music
Filetype: *.bik -
Battlefield Vietnam:
Menu Music:
Path: Battlefield Vietnam/Mods/BfVietnam/Music
Filetype: *.bikIngame Music:
Path: Battlefield Vietnam/Mods/BfVietnam/Archives/music.rfa
Filetype: *.rfa -
Call of Duty:
Path: Call of Duty/Main/pak2.pk3
Filetype: *.pk3
When you opened the file, you have to navigate to /sound/music. -
Call of Duty United Offensive:
Path: Call of Duty/uo/pakuo02.pk3
Filetype: *.pk3 -
Call of Duty 2:
Path: Call of Duty2/main/iw_05.iwd
Filetype: *.iwd -
Conflict Global Storm:
Path: Â Conflict Global Storm/Data/FMV
Filetype: *.bik -
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth
Path: The Battle for Middle-earth/Music.big
Filetype: *.big
Inside the file, navigate to data/audio/tracks
Filetype Index:
Filetype: *.rfa
Application: RAT 0.5 [Download]
Usage: Open your game’s *.rfa file with RAT, then click “Extract”.
Filetype: *.bik
Application: RADVideo [Download]
Usage: Select your *.bik file with RAD Video, click “Convert a file”, in the converting window that follows you select what you want (either only video, only audio, or both), then click “Convert”.
Filetype: *.pk3, *.iwd
Application: WinRAR [Download]
Usage: In WinRAR, click File -> Open Archive, then browse to your file’s directory and select “All Files” as filetype, otherwise WinRAR won’t show you the *.pk3/*.iwd file. Open your *.pk3/*.iwd file and extract the media the way you would usually extract *.rar archives with WinRAR
Filetype: *.big
Application: Dragon UnPACKer 5 [Download]
Usage: Open your *.big file with Dragon UnPACKer 5, navigate to the media file you want and rightclick.
Instructions how to extract music from other games not mentioned here, you can use this list!
October 8th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
please comment if you want me to add more games!
October 21st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Great!
January 19th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
how about battlefield 2 menu music??
April 13th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Nice post… But lets say, i want to replace a music with one of my own track and again compile the file back, how do i do it?
April 13th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
@gamerfreek:
Well, this depends on what game you’re trying to do this for. If you tell me the game, I can see whether it’s possible.
May 18th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
any updates coming ?
February 6th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Thanks!
March 11th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
any news coming ?