More hidden music in Pets

[jrd]

Just an FYI: Like NL before it, Pets includes some hidden music in the differing locales, all in the Pop genre. These songs are all by the original artists and are in Simlish.

Danish: West End Girls - Suburbia
Dutch: Krezip - Can't You be Mine
Finnish: Roni - Never Coming Back
French: Kisha - Sowieso
German: Kisha - Sowieso, Krezip - Can't You be Mine
Italian: Finely - Run Away
Japanese: West End Girls - Suburbia
Korean: West End Girls - Suburbia
Norwegian: Lene Marlin - What If
Russian: The Smokebreakers - Baby Let's Dance
Spanish: La Oreja de Van Gohg - Dulce Locura (sic)
Swedish: Lene Marlin - What If, West End Girls - Suburbia
UK English: Finely - Run Away, West End Girls - Suburbia

Just open <PETS>\TSData\Res\Locale\<Locale here>\Sound\Pop.package in SimPE and extract the audio resource(s) to the My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Music\pop folder to get all the music that is on your HDD anyway.

Songs that appear in multiple locales are identical, no need to extract them more than once.

[dizzy]

* dizzy wonders how much they had to pay EA to get this gig 

[jrd]

I only know about the Krezip deal, apparently they were approached by EA (not the other way around). The artist or group gets some more exposure, EA gets some more advertising… I suppose that is also why these songs are locale-locked. Buying a song for the Dutch and German markets must be a lot cheaper than buying it world-wide.

Not a bad haul though, 8 more songs. NL had more (15) but I ain't complaing ^.^

[OpiumGirl]

Hey Jordi,
Since this is a relevant topic,
could you possibly tell me how to extract the ones from NL as well?
I have never even heard of this...
It'd be mighty nice.
Thanks so much!

[CyberOps]

Is it possible to make a package with all the hidden music from all expansions ?

[Orikes]

I didn't realize there were locked up ones in Nightlife easier. I'd like to get them in the game, but not quite sure I feel confident enough to muck around in SimPE for this.

[jrd]

I can't offer these songs for download as that would be piracy. You have them already, just extract!

Nightlife's hidden songs are all in the House mix category. Look for them in <NL>\TSData\Res\Locale\<Locale here>\Sound\HouseMix.package -- just open in SimPE and extract to My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Music\House Mix

NL songlist is
Annie: Heartbeat
Annie: Chewing Gum
Christian Forss: Hubny Harb (That's How It Goes)
Andy & Lucas: Madre
Andy & Lucas: Mi Barrio
Victoria: Cry
Jeanette: Run with me
The Faders: Jump
The Faders: Whatever It Takes
Timo Maas: Sims 2 Theme remix
Lux Spencers: O blay wobba zoon (All I Want To Do)
Adam Freeland: Busy
Musikk ft. John Rock: Summer Lovin'
Hyper: Sim the Builder
Junkie XL: Sims 2 Uni Theme remix
Cansei de Ser Sexy: Gabloodip neep (Computer Heat)

The ID3 tags will tell you which song is which. I don't recall exactly which locale contained which (German has the Annie songs, Spanish Andy & Lucas, UK English The Faders, and Lux Spencers and Christian Forss are in the Scandinavian locales). If there's interest I'll post a more detailed list later when I get back home.

[jrd]

Oh, and since all music works the same way you can easily extract all songs in the game and put them on your iPod or whatever. Just go to <GAME PATH>\TSData\Res\Sound\ where GAME PATH is the base game or an expansion, and extract the music you want from the packages. All songs are in MP3 format, and have their artist and song name in the ID3 tag.

[OpiumGirl]

Great, thank you for the info!
I don't actually want to "listen" to it
Only in the game.
(Just had to have that known) 

[dizzy]

All the tracks *since Uni* have ID3 tags, that is. 

Here's a list of the base tracks:

Code:

3.2M build1-Sim Builder.mp3         4.1M neighborhood-The Sims 2 Theme.mp3
3.4M build2-Busy Sim.mp3            3.2M pop1-Hero.mp3
1.4M build3-Sim Heartbeat.mp3       3.4M pop2-Neighborhood.mp3
2.7M buy1-Simsation.mp3             3.8M pop3-Chocolate.mp3
2.4M buy2-First Volley.mp3          3.6M pop4-360.mp3
3.5M buy3-Sim Heaven.mp3            4.7M rnb1-2Night.mp3
3.1M cas1-Bare Bones.mp3            4.6M rnb2-Smoove.mp3
1.1M cas2-Sim Time Sim Place.mp3    3.8M rnb3-Love of Mine.mp3
3.1M cas3-Makeover.mp3              4.2M rnb4-Baby Love Me.mp3
4.1M hiphop1-Urban Lift.mp3         3.8M rnb5-Show Me the Way.mp3
3.6M hiphop2-Shicka Zicka Soom.mp3  4.7M salsa1-Cherry ChaCha.mp3
3.7M hiphop3-Somethin' Real.mp3     2.3M salsa2-Heat of the Heart.mp3
3.8M hiphop4-Dance Hauled.mp3       3.9M salsa3-Dance the Dawn.mp3
3.4M hiphop5-In Da Sims.mp3         3.8M salsa4-Bonito.mp3
4.4M metal1-Monkey Failure.mp3      4.4M salsa5-Who Can Say.mp3
2.6M metal2-Ride the Speedway.mp3   3.6M techno1-DJ Funktronic.mp3
2.8M metal3-Turgid Apocalypse.mp3   4.9M techno2-Dance Down.mp3
2.2M metal4-Be a Good Child.mp3     4.8M techno3-New Phase 1.mp3
4.5M metal5-Man's Fire.mp3          3.4M techno4-Simmathon.mp3
3.7M metal6-Shun Me Out.mp3         3.3M techno5-Banana Blaster.mp3

[CyberOps]

Do you have to extract them or can they bu used as it is ?
And if not could not a hack/mod be made to make them active ?

[kewian]

Do you have to use simpe? Because im looking at it right now .... could i just copy the file to the appropriate location?

[jrd]

You have to extract them. The .package is a wrapper around the mp3 file, so the file structure is changed and audio players (including the audio libraries in TS2) can't read it.

How hard can extracting be?
1. Open SimPE for Pets.
2. Click the Open button.
3. Browse to the package (path given earlier in thread. Use "Open in Pets" if you don't know where your Pets is  ).
4. Right-click the "mp3 or xa Sound file" resource(s)
5. Choose extract.
6. Choose path.

Hardly rocket science…

Mods can't make this work. The game is designed to look for the files in base+locale (or base only for US English), so it will ignore anything in other locales.

[Orikes]

Do I run the danger of duplicating songs if I accidentally grab something that's already in my pop music folder?

Sorry for being dense about this Jordi. I've actually been wanting to get the Sim songs on my iPod, but wasn't exactly sure how to go about doing it.

[kewian]

You have to extract them. The .package is a wrapper around the mp3 file, so the file structure is changed and audio players (including the audio libraries in TS2) can't read it.

How hard can extracting be?
1. Open SimPE for Pets.
2. Click the Open button.
3. Browse to the package (path given earlier in thread. Use "Open in Pets" if you don't know where your Pets is  ).
4. Right-click the "mp3 or xa Sound file" resource(s)
5. Choose extract.
6. Choose path.

Hardly rocket science…

Mods can't make this work. The game is designed to look for the files in base+locale (or base only for US English), so it will ignore anything in other locales.

  Oh I know it shouldnt be hard. Ive never messed with simpe before though. it looked just like a package file is why I was thinking it would transfer over.

[numaari]

How hard can extracting be?
1. Open SimPE for Pets.
2. Click the Open button.
3. Browse to the package (path given earlier in thread. Use "Open in Pets" if you don't know where your Pets is  ).
4. Right-click the "mp3 or xa Sound file" resource(s)
5. Choose extract.
6. Choose path.

Hardly rocket science…

Apparently, I am an idiot.  I can get SimPE as far as #4, but when I try to right-click, no menu pops up.  So I can't choose extract, or any other option, as there aren't any options.  I DID reinstall SimPE to see if that could have been the problem, but it wasn't.

I can find the "mp3 or xa Sound file" listing ok, but that's as far as I can go.  Crap.  I would have loved to put these on my mp3 player to confound my co-workers.

[miros]

Maybe I can clarify: You left click on the resource type in the left column, then right click on each resource in the right column.

[CyberOps]

Just wanted to say thanks, i managed to extract them with simpe.

Interesting program that simpe anyway, now if only i could make my own hacks with it lol

Anyways thanks.

[jrd]

Thanks miros. True that

Orikes: there's no risk in extracting songs TS2 already knows to access, it will not conflict. I have extracted all Pop, Techno, and House Mix songs so I get audio warnings that songs were found twice, but TS2 simply plays the songs and only lists them once.

[CyberOps]

Jordi could you tell me where i find those techno songs then ?

Already got the pop and housemix

[jrd]

Same place as the other soundfiles.

%The Sims 2%\TSData\Res\Sound\

Techno is Techno.package IIRC. Dizzy has the titles and filesizes a few posts up, just match filesize to title

[numaari]

Thanks, miros (and Jordi)!  I just don't use SimPE for much of anything, so I had most of the options hidden/closed...  working now!

[Marhis]

Thanks, I didn't know of this .

Orikes, don't worry: when you extract the songs, you have to name them in the usual dialog window for saving files, so unless you'll name them exactly the same, no overwriting.

[dizzy]

I don't remember Nightlife that well.

Code:

housemix01-The Faders - Jump.mp3
housemix02-Andy&Lucas - Madre.mp3
housemix03-Andy&Lucas - Mi Barrio.mp3
housemix04-Musikk Feat. John Rock - Summer Lovin'.mp3
housemix05-Jeanette - Run with me.mp3
housemix06-Annie - Heartbeat.mp3
housemix07-Victoria - Cry.mp3
housemix08-Christian Forss - Hubny Harb.mp3
housemix09-Annie - Chewing Gum.mp3
housemix10-LUX Spencers - O blay wobba zoon.mp3
housemix11-The Faders - What it takes.mp3

Looks like there's 8 tracks in Pets:

Code:

pop1-Lene Marlin - What If.mp3
pop2-Krezip - Can't You be Mine.mp3
pop3-West End Girls - Suburbia.mp3
pop4-Kisha - Sowieso.mp3
pop5-Roni - Never Coming Back.mp3
pop6-Finely - Run Away.mp3
pop7-La Oreja de Van Gohg - Dulce Locura.mp3
pop8-The Smokebreakers - Baby Let's Dance.mp3

At least, I think that's correct.

[Qwiggles]

Okay, I'm joining the not-quite-so-sure-but-I-gotta-try-this group.  I think I've extracted an audio resource correctly.  So do I end up with a SimPE packed file and an XML document after extraction?  And unless I changed the name of the file, it would be named with a bunch of numbers?

Then I tried to go into the game's audio settings to check if the new song ended up in the Pop list.  But I don't think so...  The only other way I could think of looking for the song is playing all the pop songs from the stereo except that I don't know what these songs sound like.

Well, I guess if someone can confirm that I've got the right type of files in my My Doc...\Pop folder, I'll trust that I do have the new songs.