Converting HOOT soundtracks (F.A.O. Knurek!) by Lunar at 4:18 PM EDT on May 25, 2012
Is there any trivial way of converting soundtracks in HOOT to WAV/MP3/a more practical format? Either a component or plugin for fb2k/Winamp would work, or some functionality in the software itself. I'm trying to avoid having to record each song one-by-one in a wave editor, as that's kind of a pain in the glutes.
1) Get latest Hoot version, there was one released this month 2) Use the xml pack from http://hoot.joshw.info/, it has menu language set to English. 3) Wave writing is the last option in the System Menu (second, after file). Make sure you wave an 'outs' subdirectory in Hoot install and that it isn't write protected
Hmm, it records songs in real-time anyway, which is a bit clunky. I don't suppose any of these soundtracks have songlength tags? I was hoping for an automated bounce like foobar2000. This isn't much more advantageous to recording the wave mix in Windows straight into a wave editor unfortunately.
Also I copied across all the xmls, but it's still all Japanese for me. Nonetheless I'm glad I updated it. Maybe I'll try and download all the soundtracks en-mass while I'm here... any easy way to do that? :3
Hack for Hoot to not play songs neverendingly: 1) Get Cheap and put it into the hoot directory. 2) Run hoot, then when it's loaded execute 'hootclient.exe list 1.txt'. This will create a textfile which will store all the song data. You can freely edit this (would be a good idea to divide it gamewise). The first column corresponds to the playtime. 3) Now run cheap.exe (hoot still running), fileselector will pop-up. Choose the playlist. 4) You can change the default songtime in cheap.ini.
Re: downloads - just use wget or any similar downloader on select subdirectories of hoot.joshw.info
Re: language - Make sure that in hoot.ini this line:
;language=japanese.lng
has a semicolon at beginning.
by dissident93 at 11:50 PM EST on February 21, 2014
Should be up on JoshW mirror. Can't say if it works at all though, haven't used it in ages.
by dissident93 at 5:05 PM EST on February 22, 2014
thanks, but I can't get it to work. I don't see a "hootclient.exe list 1.txt" in the directory (unless you meant just hootclient.exe or the XML files? it still crashes when I load either one of them though)
I understand hoot's source code is ancient (2001 if I remember right) but it would be so much easier to use if it didn't have to log in real time, and maybe added a VGM export option (I can't get s98 logging to work either)