Liontamer

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Thanks for the catch.

I'm listening to this again, and while I agree with the sections of clutter I pointed out and I was borderline, I definitely grandpa'ed the vote in terms of the production & volume. With some time away from it, this production is in fact cool, the mixing is reasonably separated and the textures are working well enough, so I'll definitely flip my vote. Nothing wrong with this intensity, and like I said before, the arrangement was way over the line. YES

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Independent, i.e. independently developed w/o much OCR input, but submitted as an OCR album. It's a loose classification, but one meant to be to faster to prep and release for us internally. http://ocremix.org/album/54/audio-engineering-a-tribute-to-cid http://ocremix.org/album/57/futebol-arte-world-cup-tribute-ep

You're all terrible, yes!

For the database component, if he didn't develop it himself, djpretzel would need to spec out how he'd want it developed in PHPMaker. That's above my pay grade (of $0), but it'd be nice to have a framework to start with so that someone else could develop it, since a more automated submission process has been something we've talked about for years (not just the notion of it, but also discussion of the functionality). It's basically something we'd need for the Workshop, and we're hoping to use the Patreon support to fund that kind of coding work. Re: community input, we're not going to institute community voting, even as a filter or in an advisory role. It doesn't work for this process. In the Workshop, I've seen instances where people go "Oh, I dunno, they'd probably reject this." or "They'd pass this for sure." and people are wrong about that. I'd like to avoid false hope or uniformed discouragement. Plus, the main reason why community voting doesn't work is because of nostalgia and genre bias. If a track sounds good on some level, or trigger positive nostalgia, someone will want it posted as an OC ReMix even if the arrangement or production doesn't meet the bar. And if someone submits a less appreciated genre at OCR like dubstep, metal, rap, something with vocals, or something with purposeful distortion, that 70% rating you're putting out there would never get met. We already have "community voting" and it doesn't mean a thing to me. This approved ReMix has 93 thumbs up, 110 thumbs down on YouTube. I get that you're saying a community vote would just be guidance, but if it doesn't help us answer the question of whether it fits our standards, and it just has people disliking the genre or premise of the arrangement, it's not guidance, it's chatter and noise. Even if we tried our best to steer people to vote with the standards in mind, popular voting isn't about whether a track fits the standards, it's just a popularity contest. We already know how popularity contests work as far as OC ReMixes; it just tilts to popular games & genres at the expense of more obscure ones, and that's not useful for us. Believe me, I wish it was different.

He knows that!

On the production side, I also thought the guitar being mixed both in such a lo-fi way and behind the synths and beatwork didn't make much sense to me, and the tone of the beats didn't mesh well with the guitar. It wasn't a dealbreaker issue, just something that didn't sound cohesive, IMO, with the beats seeming so tepid while the guitar rocked out. Maybe something with a little more density to it could layer together better (and also serve to briefly vary up the beats). As far as the arrangement, I'm co-signed with Chimpa and OA. The VGM source material should be at LEAST half of the arrangement so that the video game music is the dominant part of the track. We have that rule so that we don't post mostly original writing with small bits of VGM weaved in. Unless we're missing something as far as other Doom themes being used, you're doing your own thing for most of this track and it has nothing to do with Doom except 2:39-3:30. There's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, because it's the music you want to make; it just falls outside of our arrangement/source usage standards. NO

Dat troof! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=134839993&postcount=15450

Both Shariq & I are out for Halloween tomorrow night, so there's no OCR Talkback episode this Friday. That said, we aim to be back with the show the following Friday, November 7th. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! GO spook some children and give them apples instead of candy!

Just sanity checking the source usage. I didn't recognize some of the stated connections from Jordan, but I could ID just over half, so I'm cool with it. The track was 4:38-long, so I needed to confirm the source usage somewhere in at least 139 seconds of the track for the source usage to be dominant in the arrangement. :00-:01.5, :03.5-:05.25, :07-:12.25, :14.5-:16.25, :18.25-:19.75, :21.75-:27, :29-:30.75, :32.25-:34, :36.5-:41.25, :47-1:16, 1:45.5-1:49, 1:52.75-1:56.25, 2:00-2:01, 2:03.5-2:05, 2:07-2:12, 2:18-2:30.75, 2:32.5-2:47, 2:47-2:48.25, 2:54.5-2:56, 3:01.75-3:05.5, 3:09-3:12.5, 3:16.25-3:44.5, 3:49?, 3:59.75-4:01.75, 4:03.75-4:05, 4:07-4:12.25, 4:14.5-4:16.25, 4:17-4:18.5 = 142.5 seconds or 51.25% The groove was smoove, and the source tunes were bobbin' and weavin' throughout. Pretty cerebral stuff as far as examining the arrangement, but when it comes to the flow, it all melts like butter. YES

Just droppin' this here. I'm DEFINITELY not a feminist, and agree with the rationale of this Onion op-ed. Feminists like Aneeta Sarkesisnans [sic] clearly want to eliminate all men. http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-dont-support-feminism-if-it-means-murdering-all,37301/

http://ocremix.org/info/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_aren.27t_the_ReMixes_ranked_by_popularity.2Fratings.3F Alpha nav may make a comeback. We're also (slowly, just like everything we work on working on expanding the tagging system to integrate genre/mood/instrument tags into the site, but that's a ways away. Something randomly promoting new artists could be cool. I'd love to hear more ideas about discovery that aren't best/toplists/most popular.

AFAIK, I don't see the APE tag anywhere in MP3tag, but I've Googled some instances of people complaining they couldn't edit that kind of tag out. Will see if stripping the tags and reapplying them would get rid of an APETAGEX.

Yep, it wasn't us... it was YOU!

Load them in MP3tag, sort by comment, look through the ones where the comments start with http://, then determine what you don't need.

Yep. They're roughly slotted chronologically with when they were first posted (which was back before OCR used ID #s).

Of course. We got what we could from it.

Yeah, we'll see if we can find the old writeups before we can add the pages. If djp can't locate the original writeups, we'll add some new comments to go along with the pages. djp just needs some time to search his backups. That said, I'm really hyped that they're all back!

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