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Please release a STO soundtrack!

matthian1701matthian1701 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited March 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Cryptic seems to have a lot of energy lately, so I suggest they put it into releasing a STO soundtrack. The game has great music, and I'd love to have it on my iPod. I don't mean a physical CD release - just mp3s on iTunes would be great. Cryptic, make it so! :D:cool:
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I can see it now, people driving down main street with that Opera Klingon song playing.:eek:
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  • jonnyreloadjonnyreload Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    matthian1701 wrote: »
    Cryptic seems to have a lot of energy lately, so I suggest they put it into releasing a STO soundtrack. The game has great music, and I'd love to have it on my iPod. I don't mean a physical CD release - just mp3s on iTunes would be great. Cryptic, make it so! :D:cool:

    Your kidding right....? :confused: STO has one of the worst scores I've ever heard for any game I've ever played. It's just so... Bland and generic (and this is coming from an avid composer and movie score fanatic, not just a gamer.) I know they didn't have the budget for Elfman, Zimmer, or Williams but come on, this was utterly generic music accompanied by a few familiar Star Trek chords used through countless commercials and advertisements.

    God forbid they use an orchestra from a high school or a low budget orchestra trying to make a name for themselves, the majority of this game is suppose to be "epic" yet 90% of the music is done on frigging synthesizers and run through an audio booth with little bells and whistles. It's utter garbage and insulting to anyone who would consider themselves an avid fan of composed and scored music.... Oh god, I let my inner music nerd out for a moment... I am so sorry about that. :eek:
    Fell free to drop me a line for anything! @jonnyreload :biggrin:
  • inosaskainosaska Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    STO has terrible music and its been off since day 1.
  • matthian1701matthian1701 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    jonnyreload wrote: »
    Your kidding right....? :confused: STO has one of the worst scores I've ever heard for any game I've ever played. It's just so... Bland and generic (and this is coming from an avid composer and movie score fanatic, not just a gamer.) I know they didn't have the budget for Elfman, Zimmer, or Williams but come on, this was utterly generic music accompanied by a few familiar Star Trek chords used through countless commercials and advertisements.

    God forbid they use an orchestra from a high school or a low budget orchestra trying to make a name for themselves, the majority of this game is suppose to be "epic" yet 90% of the music is done on frigging synthesizers and run through an audio booth with little bells and whistles. It's utter garbage and insulting to anyone who would consider themselves an avid fan of composed and scored music.... Oh god, I let my inner music nerd out for a moment... I am so sorry about that. :eek:

    Luckily I'm allowed to have my own opinion on music, and I think the music is great. :D Sorry you typed out so much vitriol for no reason :(
  • darthstormstrikedarthstormstrike Member Posts: 771 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Only good thing about the STO soundtrack is you can turn it off and play your own music through iTunes or Winamp. But then that makes it no longer the STO soundtrack now. But on the flip side, better music and I already have the MP3's.
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  • srafaoraspsrafaorasp Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I like the music on New romulis the rest of the music i can ignore. not bad enough to turn off and not good enough to go wow over
  • olivia211olivia211 Member Posts: 675 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I'd completely forgot this game had music till I saw this post. I turn off all the music on all my games.
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  • pyryckpyryck Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Does STO really have music that comes with it? ;)

    Now don't assume that I'm a music-hater because I'm not. Six years of playing music brought with it a very profound enjoyment of many different and varied forms of music.

    Very first thing I do with any computer game that I install to play is to configure the music OFF. I'm playing a game to play and since I'm in the mood to play, I don't need any sort of mood music to go with the game. I would rather listen to the sound effects or actually be able to hear any audible character voices. :)
  • evendzharevendzhar Member Posts: 209 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    jonnyreload wrote: »
    It's just so... Bland and generic (and this is coming from an avid composer and movie score fanatic, not just a gamer.)
    The reason STO's music is so generic is because... it is. The music is licensed from an external source and wasn't created with Star Trek in mind.

    This license probably also prohibits Cryptic from releasing a soundtrack.
  • jonnyreloadjonnyreload Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    matthian1701 wrote: »
    Luckily I'm allowed to have my own opinion on music, and I think the music is great. :D Sorry you typed out so much vitriol for no reason :(

    I didn't realize clearly and concisely stating an opinion was considered vitriol, thanks for educatin me brah! :D
    evendzhar wrote: »
    The reason STO's music is so generic is because... it is. The music is licensed from an external source and wasn't created with Star Trek in mind.

    This license probably also prohibits Cryptic from releasing a soundtrack.

    Yeah I know... It's a shame since the TV shows had some pretty good composers as well. I mean even if you took generic scored music and run it through a live orchestra rather then synthesize it, it still sounds 10 times better. I'd bet money that if you even took the pieces of music that are in the game right now, got a live orchestra to perform them, people would be like "ERMAGERD TIS MURSIC IS EWRSOME!!!" I'm just saying they could have done a bit more even on a limited budget if they cared.
    Fell free to drop me a line for anything! @jonnyreload :biggrin:
  • darimunddarimund Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    jonnyreload wrote: »
    if they cared.

    key phrase right there.
  • kalvorax#3775 kalvorax
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         Member Posts: 1,663 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    *goes digging through the game files and gets all the music*

    google is your friend...besides as others have posted already a supposed soundtrack wouldnt sell well anyways...if at all
  • thomas28ththomas28th Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I disabled my music before the end of closed beta and kept it off since...So technically, its been off since day -65 or so.
  • avantgarde01avantgarde01 Member Posts: 273 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Quite a bit of STO's music can be found here:

    http://www.kmmproductions.com/mu_sto.html
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    This is a PC game that isn't by Bethesda so, of course, I turned off the music settings about a day into playing it. Like every other PC game that isn't by Bethesda.

    Jeremy Soule, this game is not.

    I have no idea why PC games even bother with in-house music in the 2010's. It's like having an option to reduce the graphics to 8-bit sprites.

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  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    STO has quite a few great tracks to it. You just have to find them.
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  • rocknrobot1rocknrobot1 Member Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    It's quite a mix here for me... while some of the STO music can be a bit annoying at times, there are some tracks i really, really love.

    But overall yes, i like it a lot. :)
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I miss where you could just open the music folder in a game and just play the MP3 or MIDI or etc. It's how I got the ST:Armada and Bridge Commander music!
    Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
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