[djpretzel]

SUCCESS! ReMixes 1-2500 retagged! http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41730

Originally Posted by Original Post

The latest ReMix posted is the first to use our new official album art and slightly modified tagging that should make things more convenient in iTunes, etc.

First, the visual:



Now, the (hopefully) less sexy tagging changes:

• Album is now "http://ocremix.org" (no "www")
• Title field includes single quotes around mix title (e.g. Sonic the Hedgehog 'Love Hurts' OC ReMix instead of Sonic the Hedgehog Love Hurts OC ReMix)
• Track # is now populated with the numeric value of the mix ID (OCR01234 = 1234)
• Compilation flag is set
• Added Publisher, Album Artist and Album Artist URL fields (OverClocked ReMix and http://ocremix.org, respectively)

We'd like feedback on these changes, but much of this has already been discussed in Larry's MP3 tagging improvements thread.

We also are planning to release 2 updated torrents featuring these tagging revisions applied to all past ReMixes:
OCR00001-OCR02000 & OCR02001-OCR02400

All past ReMixes will include the following updates:

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

IN PROGRESS:

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

THINGS WE ARE NOT CHANGING:

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

[Matt E. Waldman]

Ooh, lookin' good! Does this apply to all releases or only current and future ones?

[SoulinEther]

looks like i'll need to be getting torrenting again.

[NegimaSonic]

I picked TODAY of all days to go through all my songs, OCR included, and adjust the tags in WMP... why...

But, I love the new design!

[ZealPath]

Finally! Album art! And I have to say, very slick, worth the wait album art at that!

[SubNormal J3]

This looks very polished. Good work. As far as the new tags, I think it might be helpful if the tags were exported to a spreadsheet so that the community could check for any errors before it is finalized since there have been so many changes. Just a thought.

[egometry]

I just created an account after years of listening to ocremixes to say thank you.

Thank you for this update.

[CasualVader]

Very nice album art and the tagging changes are nice. Though I like making the album art be the title screen or box art of the game the ReMix is from. I also change the album title to the game's name. But that's just me. That album art is really nice though........... *squirms from indecision*

[Black Mage]

I love the new art and the quotes in the titles. I'm tempted to re-download everything, but fear I may undo years worth of rating and library building if I overwrite all my files.

I am however updating the album art and album names as we speak.

[Liontamer]

Originally Posted by SubNormal J3

This looks very polished. Good work. As far as the new tags, I think it might be helpful if the tags were exported to a spreadsheet so that the community could check for any errors before it is finalized since there have been so many changes. Just a thought.

There will not be any errors, because I am perfect! In any case, it seems like a headache, BUT I'll think about it.