Welcome to my first guide!

As many of you who got the SMRPG Soundtrack may have noticed, the playlist lists fewer tracks than are actually in the soundtrack! This is great, but also confusing; great because it means more amazing music, but confusing because.... well... what's the extra track?

Additionally, many of you (including me) have been dismayed to find that the soundtrack is only available in .wav format, and devoid of any "tags" making it hard to play or find in a music player, such as STEAM or whatever else you play music on.

This guide is intended to address those issues.

For some reason, the music is not downloaded into the MUSIC folder in STEAM, but rather is shows up in the game folder.

If you're running Windows and have Steam installed on your main drive, you can probably find the music by going to:

c:/program files/valve/steamapps/common/SaturdayMorningRPG/

You should see the files listed as something like "Track1.wav" and there's a file called SMRPG-SoundtrackCover.jpg for cover art.

I took all these files and put them in their own folder... just be careful NOT to grab any of the game files.

If you're not running windows, or aren't sure where the files are, you can right-click on SMRPG in the STEAM interface. Choose "Properties" from the pop up, and then find the tab/button for "browse Local Files." That will take you directly to the folder regardless of where they are.

I run STEAM of both Windows and Linux and have it on a "non-os" drive for windows, but it has to be on the "OS" drive in Linux.

As anyone with a keen and astute sense of .... files.... will note, the official playlist says there are 27 tracks, but there are actually 28.

"I'm not going to complain about getting extra music, but.... what do I do with this?" was a question I asked myself, upon seeing the extra file.

When I compared the times and the playlist given, I found that song #25 (and everything afterwards) was just wrong. After a little thought and comparison, I have changed the playlist so it looks like this:

1. Tune in for Saturday Morning RPG! 00:37
2. Saved by the Bell 03:53
3. What Was That? 01:12
4. Something's Wrong 01:44
5. I'm Going In 01:06
6. Battle Scene 04:18
7. Dream Big 02:57
8. Dawn of a New Day 01:49
9. Power Plant 02:46
10. What Once Was Lost 02:04
11. Trust -Badbots Theme- 00:44
12. Meanwhile... 00:40
13. Trouble Abounds 01:11
14. Fallen Angel 01:01
15. Red Horizon 02:26
16. Sterner Stuff 02:05
17. Castle of the Gods 03:13
18. We Need to Talk 01:16
19. Determination 01:41
20. Beast 02:52
21. Overdrive 02:02
22. Escape 03:10
23. Legacy 06:05
24. No Risk No Glory 04:18
25. <Christmas In SMRPG> 8:45
26. Castle of the Gods (Variation) 01:03
27. Dawn of a New Day (Stemage and C-jeff) 03:58
28. SATURDAY MORNING ARCADE SHOOTER (virt) 04:26

As the soundtrack comes, track #25 is NOT listed in the Soundtrack listing. It sounds like Christmas/holiday music, so I just gave it that name (on my end) and moved the existing files down the track list. You will note that the "Official" Track List has "Castle of The Gods (variation) as track #25 but the length of the tracks dosn't match. I simply moved the names "down" the list to match the times.

What is track # 25 really named? I don't know, but it sounds like holiday/christmas music so I just gave it that name. Maybe the track-list will get updated someday and the correct info will show up. For now, I named my track 25 "Christmas in SMRPG" but you can name it whatever you want....until we get the proper name.

Many of you were as disappointed to see that all the music files are in .wav format. I know we all have our various preferences as far as what format we like our music files in, but I know that we can almost universally agree that .wav files with no metadata or ID3 tags is...... lazy .... and makes enjoying the music (not to mention FINDING it) much harder, if not impossible.

"Yeah, but what can we do about it, though?" you ask?

It is totally possible to take these files and convert them to a format that is both playable and contains the metadata so you can know that you're enjoying. You can do it for FREE! YES! FREE!!!!!

For those who missed it... you can TRANSFORM (convert) the files from .wav format, devoid of metadata or ID3 tags and make it so you can find it, play it (in your preferred format) and love the tunes again.... or anew...

I know that not everyone likes MP3s, but it is one of my preferred formats. .ogg, and .FLAC are also great, though not all media players will play them.

There's a free audio recording (TRANSFORMING) program out there that I like, called AUDACITY which will allow you to take existing files and (basically) TRANSFORM them into a different file format. and.... just in case you missed it... it's FREE. Sure there are other programs out there, and maybe you have your own personal fave, but I keep coming back to AUDACITY be cause it does more than most others....and .... it's FREE. It works on Windows, MAC, Linux.... so .... yeah.

Audacity will save in pretty much any format you want, plus you can edit the files, and ....it's FREE... in case you missed that.... it's also open-source so you know it's free of spyware. That said, newer versions (+v3.0.1) of the program have (apparently) added telemetry reporting, but older versions don't have that.

If you're going to save in .mp3 format, Audacity needs a plugin, but that's also free.

I don't have a tutorial on how to use the program, but I can make (or add) one if enough people want.

I also know there are other conversion methods and programs out there, but this one has been my "keep-coming-back" preferred.

Basically, you open the program, drag the audio file in (or import it) and save it in the new format with the appropriate info.

You can google "audacity" or go to the devs website: www(dot)AudacityTeam(dot)org

If anyone needs a guide on how to use it, YouTube has some tutorials, or I can make one...if I get enough people asking.

As anyone who has this soundtrack has noticed, there are issues... but they are fixable, BY THE POWER OF GRAY ...aayyeehh... ...persistence and Techno Wizardry....errr.... technology.

The audio files can be moved and TRANSFORM'd into a format that's playable, and the missing info can be added if you know what to do, because...

...."Knowing is Half The Battle."


Give this guide a "like" if it helped you. If not, May The Force Be With You....anyways. ;)