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I have no idea where something like this would go but I really don't care.

I'm working on a small project for Stronghold Crusader, and I want to change the soundtrack to songs of my own liking. Thing is, these Audio files are in a RAW format which makes them exceedingly difficult to edit. I can use Wavepad to import/export RAW audio and it works in-game, although it has an incredibly distorted quality.

Audacity is really different, it loads RAW Audio with no difficulties and can export them good with high qualities. But, when I load up stronghold crusader, the only thing I hear is ear-bleeding static.

Google is not showing any promising results, and I have been looking for an alternative program for *looks at clock* two hours now.

Try Audacity, it might work

TheDR, on 23 Nov 2009, 14:30, said:

I already tried that

Sobek, on 23 Nov 2009, 14:15, said:

RAW isn't even really an audio format. It's just a list of raw audio samples, without any information about how to play those samples. As a result, anything that wants to play RAW files has to 'guess' the correct format. If it guesses wrong, you get horrible noise.

Most likely, the problem arises because Audacity guesses correctly, but then exports into the wrong format. The game is probably hard wired to play RAW files in a fixed format, so if the files are in the wrong format, you're going to get wrong audio. So you should get Audacity to export the files in the format that the game expects.
Edited by CodeCat, 23 November 2009 - 21:53.

Sobek, on 23 Nov 2009, 21:32, said:

Sorry about that, tried to help fast and didn't read it twice

Search the internet for some sort of stronghold modding forum perhaps?

TheDR, on 23 Nov 2009, 16:23, said:

Stronghold Knights They do some modding, and claim to have some really good SHC modders there.

But, it seems CodeCat was right. The Crusader Music seems to be 16bit signed PCM. I've exported a test track and it works really well