Question about VOX

[Ponch]

Hello all,

A friend of mine is a studio musician and I've almost convinced him to contribute a couple of original tracks for one of my games at some point down the road. However, he has a question about the security of vox files. And frankly, I don't have a clue about them since all my gme music is midi (and most of that "borrowed" from Video Game Music Archive!)

What I would like to know is if it is possible to "crack" them and swipe the music. If it is possible, I DO NOT want to know how it is done. Just whether or not the possibility exists that somebody could break it open and steal his original music with relative ease.

I understand that almost anything can be cracked with a lot of effort; I just wanted to make sure that there isn't some sort of "Vox Ripper" floating around out there on ther internet somewhere. Because if there is, then I doubt he'll cooperate.

Thanks in advance,

Ponch

[Ishmael]

I reckon the format is safe, but you can always record the output sound and clip off to separate pieces....

[MrColossal]

If he's really that scared of someone stealing his music then he should never ever put his music on the internet

which means don't put it in a game. I can load up your game, record the music while the game is left on pause and there I've stolen it...

But what's more important is that he shouldn't really be that scared of people stealing his music, I don't think a single person has stolen the music Ghormak or Mills or anyone from agsforums has made for a game and used it in a big budget production

Just like no one has stolen our backgrounds or our sprites

[scotch]

Yes, he shouldn't worry, lie to him if needs be.

The music.vox can be extracted, in fact I made a program that can do it, http://www.agagames.com/scotch/music11.ogg I just took that out of BJ4, as proof.

[Ponch]

Wow! Lots of replys!

As much as just telling him a big lie would make things easier on my end, I'm basically an honest person so I'll just be upfront with him and hope he still comes through anyway.

Thanks all,

Ponch