Thanks very much
just a note though: lame vbr -0 has identical sound quality to a 320kbps mp3, but uses less space. it’s really the best way to encode mp3 files.
I only usually work with lossless codecs – FLAC, WAVPACK, APE, etc – it’s been a couple of years since I used mp3 encoding, but I’ll take your advice and do a HQ VBR rip aswell as a FLAC rip.
The coders have been clever in stopping us extracting the music. Inside each .xwb (wavebank) container are 3-12 .wav files. Each track is made up of 3 of these .wav files. The .xsb (soundbank) files tell the the engine in which order these .wav chucks should be in… not even the Xbox SDK can open .xsb files!!
So I’ve had to manually splice each .wav chunk together in Adobe Audition… plus the majority of the tracks are meant to loop so I’ve had loads of fun editing – non-destructive editing that is.
No drive is capable of reading Xbox discs apart from the Xbox’s own drive. So the only way to read the disc is to place it in an Xbox and connect it to a PC/Laptop and FTP into it. However, this only works with a modded Xbox with a hacked dashboard.