Ye Old Compression Topic( Musicians that HAVE worked with AGS may be interested)

[Dualnames]

I'm composing the music on a game, and I'm wondering you guys that have composed music before how do you send your music files? Do you compress them into a certain format(mp3, ogg) and send them? Do you allow authors to compress them as they like? What's really the best thing to do in order not to have a ginormous music vox file but still maintain music quality?

[Phemar]

Generally you would compress all you music, except the original recordings. The final product should definitely be compressed. Ogg or mp3 should be fine, although mp3 does have licensing issues.

[Intense Degree]

Personally I would always go for .ogg unless you are recording live music or something where the quality was paramount. At the end of the day it will be compressed down for a game and if it is synthesized music (i.e. not real recorded instruments) you won't lose much with ogg.

EDIT: Looks like Phemar beat me to it!

[Dualnames]

oCompressed to what bitrate though? Or just keep the 1440 bitrate from the wav and just compress it to a 1440 bitrate ogg/mp3?

[Phemar]

128 should be more than enough.

[Ishmael]

Depending on instruments 128 messes some frequencies up. 160 is the more than enough option for MP3, Ogg quality 5 is about the same but compresses better IIRC. Might be wrong though, been a while since I concidered myself with size of files when compressing

[Phemar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_codecs

Handy page if you're still unsure.