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Old Mar 27, 2008, 08:43 AM
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Currently soundtracks ripped from the CD (usually called Redbook Audio) don't qualify as soundtracks for display here., as out focus is on actual soundtrack releases.

A lot of people do seem to classify redbooks separately from game rips (because you can "stick them in a cd player"), but in essence they are the same thing. Back in the early days of CD gaming systems, the game code and graphics didn't really fill a whole CD, so there was plenty of room left for music tracks (and this was the only way to move beyond chiptunes.) Nowadays it makes more sense to compress the music (either lossless, or more likely lossy) and put it in the game data.

So, perhaps someday someone will make an attempt at cataloging every piece of music that has ever been in a game, but that's quite a daunting task, and I don't think anyone is currently working on it.
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