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:

• 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: *.bik

  Ingame 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:  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!