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I have the series, but not the soundtracks. Does anybody know where I might find them? ?:| The Deadfrog torrent has long been, well, dead, and I've found nothing via filesharing except the extended versions of the OP and ED themes. There are two CD's worth of music out there.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

I think that they used to be on Supersonic's FTP server, but it got shut down a while ago. I don't have them, but hopefully someone else who does can help you out.

Yeah, I remember reading something like that here, about a month after the site went down... >:(

The FTP will be back up eventually, if it's not back soon, we'll find some other way for you to get it.

Thank you :)

I have been to this site in the past, but never thought to check here for ER information until about a month after the FTP site went down. Talk about bad timing...

Also, a note to ER fans - the translated version of the third episode is out:
http://mugenx.livejournal.com/

I have finally managed to acquire both soundtracks, and have posted the first one to alt.binaries.sounds.anime if anyone is interested in getting it there. I will post the second one in the next day or so.

I could seed on the torrents again soon, or try a Rapidshare type site like Megaupload. I ripped my Eto Rangers CDs a while back. 320kbps mp3.
Edit: Trying on the torrent but that isn't going too well. Might have to make something else I can link to on my site.

any luck?

Megaupload links of the FLAC+CUE (either use the FLAC app to uncompress to WAV, or edit the CUE text file to say .flac and FLAC instead of .wav and WAVE).
You can either uncompress and burn to CD-R, or edit that CUE sheet and listen with track separation in foobar2000 or another player.

Eto Rangers CD1:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZMBPEJ65

Eto Rangers CD2:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SVHR7G74

I dont know about any of those file types

It's the way to get the full CD audio without sending the huge 700 MB ISO image. The CUE sheet gives the ID and track separation, and the wav file is compressed to flac to save space. FLAC preserves the original data, it is like zipping the wave file (raw CD audio) but optimized for audio.
I am also going to try and put up the MP3 version for people who want it already 320K mp3 and do not need the archival copy.
Even flac is 300-400 MB, only saving like half the space of the original. But mp3 is lossy and discards information, meaning it would be bad for trying to redo it to another kind of audio codec. For that it is better to have the raw wave audio (2 channels x 44,100 samples per second per channel × 16 bits per sample = 1,411,200 bit/s = 1,411.2 kbit/s).
When CD ripping, all apps start by pulling out *.wav they just hide it from you sometimes, then compress down to mp3 or whatever and delete the wave file.

do both files need to be on the CD in order to become seperated into individual tracks?

Ah I see what is messing you up. You don't burn these files themselves onto a Data CD. The burning app needs to support selecting a CUE sheet to get its raw CD data from and burn that whole thing to Audio CD. For instance, once I use the Flac app to return the *.flac file to *.wav, it is ready to be burned to CD. Programs like the free ImgBurn should then let you pick the CUE file (the CUE and WAV have to be next to each other in the same folder) and burn to CD. It will use the tracks in the CUE sheet to split it up, and write back the ISRC number identifying the recording I think. The ISRC is how the apps can use online databases to pull down the track names automatically.

In the CUE file it points to the wav file, and is type WAVE. This value is what tells the burning or player app what file the sheet is pointing to and what decoder to use. If you change the value from wav to flac and WAVE to FLAC, then programs like foobar2000 will play it directly without even changing it back to wave file, saving space. Also, you can make your own mp3s or anything you want from it without even burning the CD in foobar2000 or something else.

how do i do thst?

http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
You need their program. I forget if there are other ways to do it with players you might already have. Offhand I can't recall.
I wonder if one of the audio players can burn it directly without uncompressing to wave.

What CD burning program do you have?

This player does FLAC natively
http://www.foobar2000.org/download

IMGBurn v2.5

I should make a guide about this. It is kinda technical but useful to be able to back up CDs with stuff like Exact Audio Copy, and be able to get it back to CD again, while saving 50% space versus just having the CUE+WAV or ISO image.

Once the flac file is back to wav, ImgBurn should let you pick the cue file and burn it to audio CD.
The flac file is just one big file, like a zipped wav file, no internal separation. One big long audio file of the whole CD.

sot to start, I would have to pick write files to folder?

It was write Image to Disc. Usually that would be an ISO, but in this case CUE. I hope you left it wav and WAVE for this in the CUE file. It still needs to be like that for burning.

i think i got it working now, can you tell me the names of the tracks on each cd? (Both in english & Japanease?)

The online CD database had entries, but they had mistakes. I think on my other computer I have the corrected ones. I might have to go fire up my other system so I can just go ahead and add the track listings to my web site for everyone.

I need someone to verify if my romanization is correct anyway. At first I messed up and put "Shuugoshin" when the correct one is "Shugoshin" and things like that. It was too late to fix the deadfrog torrent back then.

may we have a link?

The romanized track list is at:
http://sites.google.com/site/etorangerproject/tracklist

I wondered why that looked funny, I accidentally modified your post, sorry!
I almost spilled my drink thinking the megaupload got removed already.

I will have to add the download links to the top post or something. It was in a reply in the middle.

Ok, I created a sticky thread just for it.