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Beats me. I would like to know. I would look around for you but I don't have Halo yet so I can't really make any helpful suggestions.

Oh yeah and please no "Buy the soundtrack"s

You bought the game so yeah, you should be able to listen to the music and stuff in it when you want.

What's the directory structure inside the Halo (I'm assuming) folder? Like

-Halo
   L Data
   |   L Worlds
   L Music

That'd help. Unless Halo is just a package. That might be a B*tch to extract.

The music's gotta be in a file or in files somewhere. You'll just need to find and convert them.

I don't know if you're aware, but the music is generated on the fly, composed of many different parts, and is different pretty much different somehow each time you hear it, or at least the CD inserts said so.

Have you ever looked at the victory and defeat music from Myth II? Same sort of idea- different interconnectable music clips that play randomly based on preset probabilities. I believe Halo does something similar, but more complex/elegant.

I don't know if you're aware, but the music is generated on the fly, composed of many different parts, and is different pretty much different somehow each time you hear it, or at least the CD inserts said so.

This is true.
If you were somehow able to open up the sounds file, you'd find hundreds of different sections of the music; splicing them together would take hours of work and the end result would sound like crap compared to the soundtrack.

Seriously, just buy the soundtrack.
The new Special Edition of it only costs $16 and comes with a DVD of footage on Halo 2.

Noooo! Listen to some music! Halo muzak is not good! 

Halo muzak roxors!

I don't know if you're aware, but the music is generated on the fly, composed of many different parts, and is different pretty much different somehow each time you hear it, or at least the CD inserts said so.

This is true.
If you were somehow able to open up the sounds file, you'd find hundreds of different sections of the music; splicing them together would take hours of work and the end result would sound like crap compared to the soundtrack.

Seriously, just buy the soundtrack.
The new Special Edition of it only costs $16 and comes with a DVD of footage on Halo 2.

I don't see how that's possible because whenver I start up the game the same music plays 

they just script certain sequences of music for the intro (and other places throughout the game), while leaving most of it up to triggers within the engine itself (ie, you got ambushed, you're hiding, etc.)

im gonna post here cuz im assuming the answer to this question will be a quick no and i don't want to start a whole new topic and clutter this place up (but it can't hurt to ask).  is there anyway to modify the music that plays on the menu?  ev nova was simple, i just found a file of the menu music (aiff or something i think) and replaced it with a song of my choosing. instead of the standard halo theme i would like to have something more upbeat.  i can't find any music on the cd or in the halo folder, but maybe im just stupid.

your intelligence notwithstanding (just kidding ) there's no way to mess with the music files as you're wanting to do. i replaced some of the music in mohaa with some sevendust, much more appropriate i thought. as far as anyone has been able to tell, the music is all a bunch of different sound bytes that have been cut up and can be scripted together in different manners depending on the situation the player is in, or scripted cinematics, etc. there isn't just a "halo_theme.mp3" file or something you could replace with an identically named file.

hope that made sense, b/c i've just gone crosseyed

no prob man. rest assured that if someone figures this stuff out, we'll post it here for everyone