Audio Ripping Extraction & Converting Tutorial?

[ReeceKun]

New Problem

As you probabally know in each extracted str folder the file names start like

File_1
File_2

For every folder, so theres a TON of 'File_1's

what I normally do is use the search function to find ALL 'File' and then select a bunch (there are 16000 on disc1 alone, but I select about 1000 at a time because windows xp freezes) and rename to 'A'. This renames them to
A
A (1)
A (2) etc

LONG story short 'Str2wav' doesnt work if theres an open space between the A and the (1), so again this requires me to manually close the space and with an estimated 50,000 files to do thats alotta work.

any ideas?

[ReRuss]

maybe try a mass file renamer program...

[Master Kyodai]

mass renamer or why dont you just edit the batch file. i think it searches for like *.STR so just change to *.*? Didnt try but that should work.

[ReeceKun]

edit the batch file. i think it searches for like *.STR so just change to *.*? Didnt try but that should work.

This works , no need to rename the files to str at all, I will try to find a decent mass renamer to give them all a unique file name.

Now I have the speech files, My next question is, music and sfx dsf and streams 'dsf dsflib gebh' , what files are they contained in?, how to extract them? and how to convert them to wav ( i downloaded the dsf+sreams packs but I cant play them, winamp regonises highly experimental as a plugin but wont play anything)

[Master Kyodai]

If you have the dsf pack you should get foobar2000 and the plugin, that's what i use to play and convert dsf.

[ReeceKun]

If you have the dsf pack you should get foobar2000 and the plugin, that's what i use to play and convert dsf.

Could you give me a link to the plugin you use and where it needs to go? , I cant get them to play with foobar or any program.

Also those streams dont include sound effects, I'd like to have a bunch of programs that will rip everything that can be ripped from shenmue .. and know how to use them from a CDI image (GDI dumps are just a bunch of Track.bin files)

DSF Files are usually manually (or in batch processes) created from MLT files.

I have no MLT files.
From the .Bin files (CYCLEMAN.bin) though I would guess they were sound Effects

[Master Kyodai]

The plugin is linked in the compendium thread. afaik there are no MLT files in Shenmue.

[ReeceKun]

The plugin is linked in the compendium thread. afaik there are no MLT files in Shenmue.

Ive seen the links the plugins the .py files etc. If theres no MLTs why are they mentioned in the compendium thread.

Im asking for clear instructions, why bother responding at all?