Music... coincedence or not?

[Born Lippy]

An idle thought...

Has anyone ever noticed that if you put TR1 in your cd player and skip track one that it plays various music tracks from the game? I did that by accident when i was little with a frogger game and it had everything. My friend tried it with TR2 and it worked for her as well. BUT, it does not work for AOD (rats, darn, and a kick in the shins). Was this something they forgot to do, (ahem) or does it only work for older games? Please, somebody enlighten me.

[Tipsko]

It has to do with how they put the music on. Tomb Raider 1 and 2 are both combined data+music cd's. From Tomb Raider 3 on they used compressed audio. That means you can put a lot more data on a cd if you compress it.

see it like this:
you can burn about 100-200 MP3's (compressed music) on a normal cd. If the average song is about 3 minutes, you can have 300-600 minutes of music on a cd! That's a lot more than the limit of 74/80 minutes if you wouldn't compress it!

Hope this was helpful ;),
Tipsko

[Leigh Croft]

I used to like listening to some of the tracks from TR II, i liked being able to listen to the scripts from the little in game cut scenes aswell :p

[Tipsko]

Snow mobile soundtrack with a lot of bass :)

[WesternWhiteWolf]

I listen to the TR1 music a lot of the time. It's so relaxing...

I didn't know that you could do the same with TR2 I like the Venice music!!!:D

[Born Lippy]

That was very helpful, thanks a bunch. My favourite track on TR2 is the one that you can play in Lara's house. The one that sounds all synthersizer-classical-music-ish. Very good homework music. :D