Extracting music from Nexuiz .pk3 files

[Guest]

Hello everyone of Kubuntu Forums!

Mitt namn är David. I'll do a proper introduction soon enough, there's a question that's been on my mind.

I started playing Nexuiz a few days ago, and alot of the maps have really, really good electronic music playing on them. I'm wondering how I could go about getting those files from the .pk3 map files? I've been told that .pk3 is just a .zip, but I can't figure out how to open them as such.

Thanks!

[Rog131]

Re: Extracting music from Nexuiz .pk3 files

I'm wondering how I could go about getting those files from the .pk3 map files? I've been told that .pk3 is just a .zip, but I can't figure out how to open them as such.

Check:

man file

NAME
file - determine file type

SYNOPSIS

file [-bchikLnNprsvz ] [--mime-type ] [--mime-encoding ] [-f -file ... -namefile ] [-F -file ... -separator ] [-m -file ... -magicfiles ] file
file -C [-m -file ... -magicfile ]
file [--help ]

DESCRIPTION

file tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds causes the file type to be printed.

=> with a test file (renamed zip)

Konsole:

file Test.pk3

Test.pk3: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

Unpack

man unzip

NAME
unzip - list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive

SYNOPSIS
unzip [-Z] [-cflptTuvz[abjnoqsCKLMVWX$/:]] file[.zip] [file(s) . . .] [-x xfile(s) . . .] [-d exdir]

DESCRIPTION
unzip will list, test, or extract files from a ZIP archive, commonly found on MS-DOS systems.

Konsole:

unzip Test.pk3

Archive: Test.pk3
inflating: Test.txt

There are lot of front-ends: ark (archive utility for KDE) , xarchiver (GTK+ frontend for most used compression formats), xarchive (GTK frontend for most used compression tools), ...


...and with the > Nexuiz (> Ubuntu/nexuiz-music), music.pk3:

$ file music.pk3
music.pk3: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract

and

$ unzip music.pk3
Archive: music.pk3
creating: sound/
creating: sound/cdtracks/
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track003.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/thunder.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track006.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track002.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track008.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track007.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track004.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track005.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track009.ogg
inflating: sound/cdtracks/track001.ogg