the only good way to listen to music is as a .wav file in a secret room of a custom map for a goldsrc mod
there is no way to emulate the experience of listening to the picard song at a really low bitrate with stock hl1 footstep sounds and crowbar clanging in the background from the 5 other people youre trapped in a room plastered with images of the mod author’s agressively straight wolf fursona with
the only way to know is to be there
My first attempt at a gold source map was a hallway with a series of buttons that played different songs from the shrek 2 soundtrack and if you pressed multiple buttons the songs would play over each other
So i know exactly what you mean