Thread: Music crackling / saturated / distorted

Hi,
Onmy 3G iPhone I remarked the music in Myst island tower is crackling .There looks to be a big trouble here with music - sound effects playok however - that wasn’t present in the original Myst. I surprisewhether this could be because ofa corrupted download, and whetherother users experience same problem.

The music or sound contains few noise at times because of the age of the master game, but I don't think the quality is worse as compared to the original. Perhaps it's because you play the game with earphones, though you may have played the original game with speakers. The noise is more remarkable with earphones as compared with speakers.

Hi , I will keep in a report on this. I will examine it out on My iPod touch and somebody applying a phone will even have a listen. Thanks for your report

Thank you Erik, however I noticed it first with the iPhone built-in speaker, hence it should be the same speaker quality than was my old LC475's one. Thank you Mystdee, perhaps we could share some samples from in-game music to compare ?

I will extract the original musics from the original CD and compare them ! If I'm right the original musics were 8 bits linear PCM, but I don't understand how a new compression could have added saturation. Was the novel music remastered from 16 bits masters ? All other games are exact with my iPhone. I will also check for other Ages. I'm perhaps too much focused to details but I actually was surprised by this problem, like I experience these musics a lot.

I was playing today for the 1st time and at some point - I think it was the 1st time I returned to the island later going to Channel wood - and the music stopped altogether. I however have sound affects but no music.

I'm not certain till if it will affect other areas or if it will persist when I go rear and attempt to play tonight. BTW Channel wood was the 1st age I have gone to thus far. I am playing on an iPod Touch 2nd generation with software edition 2.2.1.

There are some areas where no music is heard. If you could be more particular like to where you were when the music stopped and was it abrupt or had to moved to another area etc. It would assist to pinpoint the trouble if there is indeed supposed to be music there. Thanks

It was loosing with the flyover scene when I re-entered Channel wood. But it is rear now and I actually don't experience why. Wasn't there some music with the island itself? I can't remember may be it was only sfx everything the time.

Sorry for the delay, I had to proceed playing the game to examine for other musics. Everything other musics are fine . Only Myst island's vault and observatory musics have problems. I still created few discovering about that version.

I would enjoy to experience what sound or music initializes are applied, and images sizes. I'm convinced the game download size could have been reduced a much more, or lossless standard musics could have been supported

We have still to consider that, as Myst has to mix many sounds effects and music in actual time, applying uncompressed audio files lets a lower processor load. For images, we could have the selection to apply the native ratio quite rather horizontally stretched images.