Hi to every Drakan devotee here in the forum;
I don't know if you already found a way to rip the music from the PS2 version of The Ancients' gates; in any case here's the method I followed to harvest all the sound effects, tunes and voices from my copy of the game.
First of all download the program PSound v2.01 (I found it here:
http://snailrush.online.fr/) and unzip it in a folder directly placed in C: (this is important).
Then locate somewhere the file WnASPI32.dll and place it inside the same folder.
Start the program and insert your disk inside the CD/DVD player; in the menu FILE choose SCAN DIRECTORY (not SCAN CD/DVD ROM, it often does nothing) and point to your CD/DVD player choosing the language folder that you prefer (in my disk there are English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). It's always a good idea to feed it always with the final folder containing the audio tracks, not one above, or it won't show anything.
Since I'm Italian I choose my nationality folder; from there, for example, I enter the COMMON folder and then the SOUNDS one. Here I find 212 audio tracks, generally fx and cutscene/ambient short musics .
If from ITALIAN folder I choose the LEVELS one, entering in LEVEL0RO I find Rynn and Arokh's voices of the intro, plus some fx. In LEVEL1ON folder there are 636 files, mainly voices and so on, I let you discover.
If from ITALIAN folder I enter MUSIC and from there I scan PS2MUSIC I find the 38 music pieces of the game. I guess now you understood the concept; just remember, after scanning a folder, to erase the found files from the list before proceeding to scan a new folder or the program will go in confusion.
When you want to export the files (by default in .wav format) simply select the ones you want (or all the files) and click on CONVERT, the third icon from left under the File menu. Choose the destination folder and the quest is complete.
If you want to convert to mp3 format just use your favourite converter (I generally use Audacity to check the volume and eventually fade or add silence to the track, but it's a matter of tastes and knowledge I guess).
I think it's all, good life to everybody and always follow Brekk's wise advices ^^.