Direct download link: http://dl021.filefactory.com/get/i.php?f=2fcef6
Don't be worried by the .exe extension. It's just a self extracting rar file that automatically assumes you installed FFXI in the default directory. If you want to virus check it, feel free, but my PC is clean and I've already scanned it myself with AVG just so I can say for sure theres no viruses. You can also right click it and extract the files that way if you don't feel safe and you know where the files go; the self extractor was just to ease installation issues.
Anyway, if you want to make a backup copy for some reason of the 80s porno music we call the Aht Urghan expansion, then just copy the following folder to another directory: C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\sound4\win\music\data
In terms of what this replaces:
- Title (Vanadiel March 4, aka Star Wars) music replaced with Apocolyptica main theme
- Whitegate, etc. replaced with an ambient 5 minute long track that still fits the city and sounds much less annoying when you're in the city for an extended period of time
- Thicket, Woodlands replaced with some track I have no idea where I got it from (it was off a CD I burned a while ago with random game music)
- Boat music replaced with one of Lineage II's tracks
- Reef replaced with another track I forgot the name of
- Group battle music heard when fighting in outside expansion areas taken from RTCW's soundtrack
- Mire replaced with something that I forgot the name of as well
In terms of legallity, all these tracks are available for free on the web. Most of them came from http://www.billbrownmusic.com with two exceptions (those being title music + thicket/woodlands), which came from another site that hosts game music that hasn't been released in CD format (at least in the US).