[Liontamer]

We're in the home stretch of this project and a re-release of the single mix torrents. :-)

Originally Posted by Original Post

Hey y'all. I was interested in updating the tags of OC ReMixes and wanted to know what fields should be added to the picture.

Album art is a given. What dimensions are the most appropriate for standard stuff like iTunes?

Album artist/band is also important, along with Publisher.

Aside from those, am I missing anything major that comes up as blank in major music applications?

Rama, where you at?

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IN PROGRESS:

• Lyrics unavailable for some ReMixes (HELP US OUT HERE)
• Higher bitrate encodings (but NO CHANGES OR REVISIONS)
  New bitrate/encoding requirement at either 192kbps or VBR1 (ReMixers, post your high quality WAV, FLAC or 192kbps or VBR1 MP3 encodings here OR host them and send links to larryoji@ocremix.org)

THINGS WE ARE NOT CHANGING:

• ReMixer name(s) as Artist
• "http://ocremix.org" as Album Title
• "Game" as Genre
• Official album art design

DONE:

• MP3 validation (e.g. MPEG frame consistency, length of stored VBR header) for player compatibility
• Added missing VBR headers
• Removed all non-standard ID3v2.3 tags and all non-ID3v2.3 tags (e.g. ID3v1, APE)
• Standardized filenames and ID3v2.3 tags (e.g. proper game titles, correct capitalization/spacing of mix titles, single quotes around mix title)
• Quality control & corrections of all existing fields (e.g. ReMixer name changes, missing/corrected composers/platforms/years)
• Added Track # (ReMix ID #), Publisher (OverClocked ReMix), Album Artist (OverClocked ReMix) and Album Artist URL ("http://ocremix.org") fields
• Added Compilation flag for grouping of single mixes as one album
• Added game to Grouping/Content Group field for sorting by game title
• Added ReMix titles (w/o game name prefix & 'OC ReMix' suffix) to Subtitle field
• Standardized URL field (OCR Artist profile URL)
• Added artist submission and website comments to Comments field (when available)
• Embedded confirmed lyrics in Comments and Unsynced Lyrics fields
• Removed extra silence from tracks

[Doulifée]

i have this one in my windows ocr folder. Don't remember who did it.

[HalcyonSpirit]

I think I remember one of the biggest complaints people have had in the past is that, when put into iTunes, all the songs come up as separate albums based on the artist, despite all the songs being part of the same album. It results in a plethora of "http://www.ocremix.org" albums showing up. So I suggest that this problem be fixed.

[Liontamer]

Originally Posted by HalcyonSpirit

I think I remember one of the biggest complaints people have had in the past is that, when put into iTunes, all the songs come up as separate albums based on the artist, despite all the songs being part of the same album. It results in a plethora of "http://www.ocremix.org" albums showing up. So I suggest that this problem be fixed.

I believe the Album artist/band field I mentioned takes care of that.

[Ramaniscence]

Originally Posted by Liontamer

Hey y'all. I was interested in updating the tags of OC ReMixes and wanted to know what fields should be added to the picture.

Album art is a given. What dimensions are the most appropriate for standard stuff like iTunes?

Album artist/band is also important, along with Publisher.

Aside from those, am I missing anything major that comes up as blank in major music applications?

Rama, where you at?

Lyrics, where necessary/possible. That's one of the things I try to do with all the R:TS mixes, and since there's not too many songs that actally HAVE lyrics, it should be pretty easy to add. Lots of media players'll pop something up, or have a little display thing for lyrics, so it's cool to have.

Album art doesn't need to be any bigger than 300x300. I don't know if that's the "standard" so to speak, but that's what I see most often.

That's just the first thing that comes to mind, though. I'll look and see if there's anything else I'm missing.

[Liontamer]

Originally Posted by Ramaniscence

Lyrics, where necessary/possible. That's one of the things I try to do with all the R:TS mixes, and since there's not too many songs that actally HAVE lyrics, it should be pretty easy to add. Lots of media players'll pop something up, or have a little display thing for lyrics, so it's cool to have.

Album art doesn't need to be any bigger than 300x300. I don't know if that's the "standard" so to speak, but that's what I see most often.

That's just the first thing that comes to mind, though. I'll look and see if there's anything else I'm missing.

Thanks, man. Good catch on lyrics! Just double check on the art sizes you're seeing. I'm sure the display size in programs is smaller than 300x300, but if there's any program that shows off something larger, I'd rather we didn't have art that was too small and might look pixelated.

[JaDE ARaN HaRuNo]

Hey Larry... I think any photo size for iTunes will work and display on all iPods. Each game has a standard photo displayed when reading reviews on OCR... I usually right click on those, save on my hard drive, and select that photo for the specific track. It was a lot of work, but it looks nice on my iPod.

[OA]

300x300 is the sized used for the itunes 'flip book' view-

[Liontamer]

Originally Posted by JaDE ARaN HaRuNo

Hey Larry... I think any photo size for iTunes will work and display on all iPods. Each game has a standard photo displayed when reading reviews on OCR... I usually right click on those, save on my hard drive, and select that photo for the specific track. It was a lot of work, but it looks nice on my iPod.

Custom art per game could be cool, but too much worky! I lazy.

Originally Posted by OA

300x300 is the sized used for the itunes 'flip book' view-

So when you extract the art from pro iTunes releases, is it also 300x300, or is it larger and just scaled down for the flipbook view?

[Ramaniscence]

Originally Posted by Liontamer

Custom art per game could be cool, but too much worky! I lazy.



So when you extract the art from pro iTunes releases, is it also 300x300, or is it larger and just scaled down for the flipbook view?

iTunes pretty much scales infinitely. Most media players do. I don't know of many instances where you'll find something display BY DEFAULT more than 300x300

BUT

When iTunes pulls album art from the iTunes store, they're 600x600. I checked for multiple songs from multiple CDs, both less known and more well known.

So 600x600 is my final answer.