Valve just released the official Portal 2 soundtrack. For free! Get it on ThinkingWithPortals.com. Keep being awesome, Valve.
Tracklist
Sadly, neither the Want You Gone nor the Turret Opera were included. Perhaps there’s still hope for an extended version?
- Science is Fun
- Concentration Enhancing Menu Initialiser
- 9999999
- The Courtesy Call
- Technical Difficulties
- Overgrowth
- Ghost of Rattman
- Haunted Panels
- The Future Starts With You
- There She Is
- You Know Her?
- The Friendly Faith Plate
- 15 Acres of Broken Glass
- Love as a Construct
- I Saw a Deer Today
- Hard Sunshine
- I’m Different
- Adrenal Vapor
- Turret Wife Serenade (sheet music)
- I Made It All Up
- Comedy = Tragedy + Time
- Triple Laser Phase
I’m really glad the released this put two of my favorite songs are missing. That reaaaaaaaly stinks.
Awesome! Can’t wait to listen! Also I don’t know if you mmissed it, but this is just volume 1, there are still 2 more volumes to be released
If you have bought the game, you already owe copies of Want You Gone and the Turret Opera! For PC you can find the Turret Opera video here (adapt path to where you installed Steam):
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\media\sp_30_a4_finale5.bik
I guess on Mac the path after “Steam” would be similar.
You need the official RAD Game Tools to play it (Windows, Linux, Mac; freeware for playback-only):
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
(mplayer and ffplay can play it, too. In case you use Linux when you aren’t gaming, like I do.)
Want You Gone is available as 44100Hz 16bps WAV(!) file, but it’s not that easy to get it into your audio player because it is in one of the game’s VPK archives:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\pak01_*.vpk
You can use this tool to extract the whole VPK package:
http://blog.gib.me/2009/07/07/left4dead-vpk-extraction-tools-updated/
But it needs .NET installed and extracts ALL files (~5.8 GB). Therefore I wrote myself a command line tool with which you can list the package contents and choose which files to extract:
https://bitbucket.org/panzi/unvpk/
I only tried it on Linux, don’t know if it even compiles on Windows. It also includes a FUSE filesystem that lets you mount the archive like a read-only hard disk so you don’t even need to extract any files. Saves space. (FUSE is more or less Linux only, although there are ports for *BSD and Mac. I only tested Linux.)
Then you can find the song under:
sound/music/portal2_want_you_gone.wav
There is also a file called:
sound/music/portal2_robots_ftw.wav
But I haven’t listened to it because I have yet to play the multiplayer part, and I guess this is the ending song of it.
Note that the other songs (the ones in the soundtrack) are nowhere to find in the Steam folder/VPK package. Instead a LOT of WAV chunks can be found that apparently are stitched together by the game in a context depending manner. So these songs aren’t really there as such in the game anyway.
The turret opera (Cara Mia) is out on Valve’s site – http://www.thinkwithportals.com/music.php – the third volume, down at the bottom. Please, do another a cappella rendition, and have the same group sing it, if at all possible!