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Which thread?

Nah, no it's not.

The hate. It's coming.

Ha! I was about to say...

YouTube no longer uses a 5-star rating system, they use Like/Dislike. That said, we originally disallowed ratings on all videos. In hindsight, it was a complete mistake and ignorant of how YouTube works. I re-enabled them because YouTube's sharing and searchability is primarily based on people "Liking" videos. Disabling the ability to do that drastically decreased the ability of the songs to spread around and reach more people. Also, anyone could go to our YT channel and sort by most viewed or top rated, which can't be disabled, otherwise we would. Whatever's most viewed or top rated on our YouTube channel is more a result of nostalgia bias & our subscriber base at the time the vid was uploaded rather than anything objective, so ultimately we chose to live with it, realizing those sorting methods don't actually reflect what's "best".

That's not objective, that's still very subjective. There's always bias toward game, genre, composer, how recent or old the mix is, just a bunch of things that wouldn't make any top 10/100/1000 list worth anything. The only real benefit is a discussion starter and something that would be shared & debated, but and that's at the expense of other ReMixers & ReMixes that wouldn't be on such a list.

I didn't remember it was from DoD, but it's a revision from the DoD version regardless, and not the same one.

Yeah, you're weird. That's not accurate at all. Oh wait, you're right. It's totally depressing hearing "HEY, it's the party song. Party's over here. C'MON!"

I can only answer the first part, but, no, that source tune would be outside what we could accept. It has to be music created for the medium of a game.

Apparently, he says/thinks that to himself in a dream at the end of EarthBound. He just didn't speak or have his thoughts presented for most of EarthBound. He's talked in the Smash series, so he's not entirely mute throughout his character history. So there's no reason there shouldn't at least be something in the way of a quote. If it's a matter of using a legitimate quote or attempting to make a sentence "true" through omission, go with the former.

STYLE CHANGES http://ocremix.org/info/Kefka_Palazzo Move the quote up top and make it it's own italicized section header, i.e. == ''"QUOTATION STUFF"'' == Quotes look silly having their own section, plus it's cooler to have them up top, makeing it more compelling to read the subsequent bios. Also, for all first mentions of the character name in the article, please bold the name, i.e. '''Kefka Palazzo''' Thanks to anyone who can help! I think these are small but important revisions. To keep easy track of this, work alphabetically. I've done N-Z.

Haha, that's a reach. But I will be trying to holler at Tycho about Phantasy Star Online music at PAX this year if I get the chance. He's got good taste.

Megaupload?

The first part about the filesize limit is right. The second part about why we don't host FLACs for individual ReMixes is not. We're down with hosting FLACs of ReMixes, though until bandwidth is cheaper, we'd probably just keep it torrent-based, not available individually, like we do with our album FLACs. But in 5 years, improvements in technology could make FLACs a drop in the hat. That said, I'm totally fine with gathering FLACs of OC ReMixes, and we can make that official. Letter coming soon to all ReMixers...

In the meantime, could someone make placeholder pages for the new additions? Pololo?

Could I get you to redo that with a ReMix with my updated tagging layout? It might not be dramatically different (especially since OCR02001 uses mostly the same stuff). But I can send you some.

Also thought I posted here too. Super strong stuff, per Star's usual. He's great at pulling off those grandiose soundscapes.

You got that right.

Ah, I gotcha; I haven't looked at those settings in quite a while, since I haven't needed to alter them. Indeed, I used the default, ID3v2.3 UTF-16, because there are some foreign characters we use, mostly accented vowels. I don't know if v2.4 is supposed to be any better, and was thinking about using it, but when edited in iTunes, the tags became v2.3, so I stuck with that. But yeah, you pointing out the non-standard extended tags that were in these files will lead to a lot more cleanup, so you've given me a lot of peace of mind thanks to that eagle eye. I want these files to be as close to perfect as I can get 'em. EDIT: EVERY miscellaneous non-standard tag has been removed.

Yep, I know; that'll be the last thing I change with a mass edit. But for now until everything's updated with the new style, I keep the old URL to remind me we're not fully finished yet. http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0#UNICODE http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0#ISO-8859-1 Dunno what ID3v2 tags these are (Unicode or ISO). Whatever MP3tag uses. Removed POLUARIMETER tag from 6 files, ENGINEER from 4 files and "WWW NO DESCRIPTION" from 367 files (nice). I see there's a way to easily see all extended fields for all files at once in MP3tag, so I'll take a deeper look and make some fixes. Great catch, I definitely appreciate you finding stuff like this before everything was finalized!

Which tags specifically?

http://sites.google.com/site/liontamervgf/OCRTestTaggingv2.rar Strictly 1000+ tracks, and includes prelim album art. Let me know how they work.

AFAIK, they were never posted to the main site, but I'd be willing to listen to them out of curiosity.

Winner winner, chicken dinner. http://twitter.com/ocremix/status/16990605066 http://twitter.com/YasunoriMitsuda/status/16993469655 http://twitter.com/katethegreat19/status/17004060347

The overall levels were too low (except for the bass). The claps felt really tame, but didn't sound as weak once other parts joined in. In the intro, the synths should have been more upfront, as well as the lead at :31. As is, the Rhodes lead just sounded weak and out of place, but you had better instrumentation for the lead from 1:01-1:17 to change things up. Not a fan of the way the Rhodes interacted with everything else here from 1:20-1:48; the brighter tone of it never clicked with what else was in place. Some more stuff at 2:04, repeating earlier sections with a bit more instrumental sauce on top for some contrast. There could have been more going on there to spice it up and make the core of the arrangement feel like it had evolved, but this wasn't bad. The grace notes added onto the melody by the e-piano (2:07-2:11) didn't sound good at all, because the tone/sound didn't fit, and the volume just made it get lost in the rest of the soundscape. It's a good base, but this still needs more spit polishing via EQing work, and IMO, some tweaks to the instrumentation to make the textures sound more cohesive, and further interpretive ideas in the second half to keep it fresh. NO (resubmit)