User:Bravenu3/Audio Extraction

Introduction & Tools
Mass Effect games store most audio in .afc files, located in the game's \BioGame\CookedPC folder. The following programs can be used to extract and convert it to .ogg files (an open source alternative to MP3).


 * Gibbed's Audio Extractor has a search-GUI before extraction, but can only extract audio from the core game. In the left window part is a list with all .afc files from the \Mass Effect 2\BioGame\CookedPC folder. Each .afc file contains a number of .riff files (in the right window part) that need you can select, restrict by search and extract. This is the tool I used, when writing this guide.
 * kyp108's af22ogg can extract both core and DLC audio from a single.afc files, or batched over all .afc files . It can extract either a specific .afc file, or all of them in a given folder and in a given folder.

A big thanks to the programmers of these tools :-)

No matter which tool and method of extraction you choose, you should end up with a bunch of cryptically named folders, subfolders and .ogg files. Now the searching and listening starts ;-)

OGG files can be played with many modern media players, such as MediaMonkey, VLC Media Player, CoolPlayer, Songbird and many others.

Mass Effect 2
see http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/128/index/1447266

Examples
Gibbed's Audio Extractor doesn't seem to support Mass Effect 3 (yet).

Naming Scheme
The extracted folders and audio files contain the following name parts (in alphabetical order of the extracted folders; maybe reorder to fit mission order?):