User-made music

Downloadable community music

The FreeSpace Music Restoration Project (FSMRP) was a now-defunct effort to retrieve the uncompressed versions of the FS1 and FS2 musical scores. What music the FSMRP did collect can be downloaded here. The music shipped with the FreeSpace games was in a compressed format, and the lossless FLAC files were stored on tape drives. Some of the information on the tape drives have been recovered by Volition and released to the community; the rest has been either unreleased (mainly because either FSMRP or Volition didn't bother to share) or corrupted. Hiring a data recovery specialist to retrieve this data has not been a priority for the company.

Music in user-made campaigns

Beyond the Red Line has a completely original soundtrack composed by MaX. The BTRL soundtrack has been widely praised by the FreeSpace community, and has been used in more than one FSPort campaign by Orpheus.

Blue Planet has more new music than any FreeSpace mod, save BtRL, and has been widely praised for its soundtrack. Included is music from Final Fantasy, Dune, and various internet music sites such as Freeplay Music. Most notably, it makes use of the excellent Second Reality (S3M format) track, which was also previously used by Inferno Release 1.

Wing Commander Saga contains a single original track, wcsagaidea.ogg, used for the "mainhall". It also contains many of the old Wing Commander tracks, which can also be downloaded at WCNews.

Transcend is one of the most "cinematic" of all FS campaigns, and it's been praised for its Betrayal.wav, the campaign's only "original" (eg taken from a game other than FS2) music track.

The Procyon Insurgency and BrShivans.rar contained some music tracks taken from other games. PI also used some FSMRP music (see above); in fact, CP5670 (the campaign designer) was a member of the FSMRP.

Note about using Newgrounds Music

Newgrounds Music portal is a collection of user-made sountracks and music. This portal contains over 20+ different genres of music. The music is available for download and use for any time. However if you are going to use one of the soundtrack, there is a liscense agreement in which you have to make sure you:

• Attribution: You must give credit to the artist.

• Noncommercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes unless you make specific arrangements with the artist under another license.

• Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or build upon this music, you may distribute the resulting creation only under a license identical to this one.

This is the main things to look out for if you are considering on using a sountrack for your mod. If you want to understand the full liscese legal code, please visit the following website of the Creative Commons:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode

Popular sources of free music

Freeplay Music
Newgrounds Music Portal