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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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I don't know how to deal with those. Don't dispute it further because if you do and it's rejected, you (wrongly in this case) will get copyright strikes. I don't know how to get a human being to resolve it. We can investigate further at some point, but it's just a point of annoyance for now.

It's all a matter of degrees, yes. Game journalism does have ethics/transparency improvements it needs, so Gamergate will help in that regard, but that movement is overall less helpful and more misguided due to the other fears that have been too much of a part of it. The other stuff that's being protested -- women/minority developers and fears of "social justice warrior" progressive changes -- the people against that can't stop it, they'll only hasten it by reacting with fear, threats, and harassment. Being remotely anywhere in the ballpark on only 1 out of 3 core points is pretty bad. To me, Gamergate here would would be like a bunch of people coming into OCR, claiming 1) the judges are all corrupt and only approve the ReMixes they like or are from their friends by quoting positive/negative judging comments, and 2) the judges approve "objectively bad music like dubstep/rap/metal" to pursue an SJW all-genre inclusion agenda, then also complaining that 3) the submissions take too long to be judged. And those people harassing you and staff to "fix" our judging policies. Well, one out of those three issues has a point. But if you base an anti-OCR Judgegate movement assuming all three things are right, and a lot of vitriol gets used on points 1 & 2, well...

http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241 IMO, The Onion nailed it. Gamergate on the whole is getting nothing productive done so far. Also, I saw about Dale North leaving Destructoid. I'm sure we'll hear more about it at some point, but I dunno if he's leaving over that guy that was fired a year ago, even though that blacklisting claim against Niero seemingly has some legs to it given the letter of Florida law as claimed by whoever put up that information. Seems more like Dale left over interpersonal things, but it's only a guess. If Dale still wants to do gaming news, he'll find somewhere like Polygon or Verge or whatever, I don't doubt that.

Why are you using that line on me? I don't believe it's 100% trolls/harassers. I don't know how large the group is, but there's definitely a segment of GamerGate supporters who: 1) aren't harassing people; 2) aren't threatened by female game developers or more diverse depictions of women in games; 3) want a higher standard of ethics in games journalism. But the ethical people in GamerGate who have had 0 to do with the trolling and death threats should probably ditch #GamerGate as a hashtag and move to #GamerEthics or something new so that they can continue that effort without the baggage of the trolls who use it as smokescreen to harass. I'm sure it's out there, but I haven't really seen anyone gather a big list of issues to fix re: payola/unprofessionalism in gaming journalism (and proven examples of corruption in action). I'd love to see a good one. TotalBiscuit's talked about broader issues like exclusive advance reviews and stuff like that, where there's much more pressure/incentive to rate a game highly. And there's of course the Jeff Gerstmann controversy from a while back. Does anyone document the number of exclusive advance reviews various outlets have, or how outlets have rated games they had ad campaigns for, and keep track of other metrics like that?

That's stupid and conspiratorial. He should probably shut up about it.

Agreed with Vinnie with his concerns on the lead vocals. Also, the piano sounds extra unrealistic, and the dynamics are pretty flat for such a short piece due to the texture always having the same overall intensity. Is that brass or strings for that part at :53? Either way the sample there didn't sound realistic either, though it wasn't a dealbreaker since it was just accenting things. If you can't get the voice triggering to not sound so rigid, you can see if XPRTn00by would wanna provide more stuff. It sounds like a good WIP/sketch of an unfinished mix as far as mapping out the structure, but it ain't a contender yet. Needs more realism and dynamics FTW. NO (resubmit)

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