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Superbadass.

Remixing is based on sampling the original audio tracks, whether that's slicing/manipulating the original instrumental and/or vocal track, or creating a brand new instrumental track while retaining the original vocal track. Arrangement is transposing/adapting a composition into other instrumentation. ReMixing (capital R, capital M) = rearrangement. Rearrangement, I treat as a level beyond arrangement with a greater level of interpretation (section 4 of the Standards). There are traditional remixes that use a lot of the same interpretive techniques as OC ReMixes, but the main difference is that remixes sample with the original audio and OC ReMixes (in a supermajority of cases) don't. When you hear melodies and other things from video game music in OC ReMixes, those are usually sequenced by the ReMixer rather than taken from the original audio. That's just how I've come to view those terms; other folks may have different perspectives and definitions.

1. I had already cleared out every possible unnecessary field via MP3tag, so this came as a surprise. But the reason this was still around is because the "Release Time" field can only be manually added into MP3tag; it wasn't selectable. Either way, that caught 170 old mixes with that old data still in there. Good catch, I'm glad we took care of that. 2. I'll upload something post-1000 later tonight. 3. There were 2 or 3 other incorrect years that I fixed as well, mostly ones posted near the turn of the year. Glad you noticed. I've thought about using the URL Audio File/WWWAUDIOFILE field to add the URL for each ReMix, but I have no idea what MP3 players use that data. If anyone knows of a program that does so, let me know.

That's a conscious decision. It's "Encoded by" in Winamp 2 and "Encoded" in Winamp 5, so I'm OK with how I'm using it. It's much more important to me to actually promote the ReMixer and their contact info. There's a separate "Encoder Settings" tag that overrides the "Encoded by/with" field in iTunes if it's filled out. Yep, that's just a test tag that a few other mixes have, but won't be in the final file. Glad you noticed it. If there are other fields filled out, the Album Artist field isn't working, or any other issues like that, everyone please let me know.

Here's 18MB of test mixes, retagged. I threw in some bootleg album art. They're all early mixes. Please play these files in various programs and let me know what issues, if any, you encounter. http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BzZ-TkKWy5oLZmZhMTVjZTYtZmY5Zi00ZGI5LTlhYmMtMWE0ODdmYjZiOWZj&hl=en

It's fine. Doug covered it.

Yeah, you didn't read the thread. Dunno what iTunes limitations are, but since I don't use it to tag mixes, it's moot point. MP3tag handles more then 3 digits just fine, and iTunes diplays more than 3 digits in the track #s with no problem. It doesn't display the extra 0s we add in, which is fine.

Well, the ID3 tag titling might bother you a little, since those will have the Roman numerals, but for me, I always sort by filename, so it's not an issue. Also, we're not adding 1's for anything in filenames (e.g. "Super_Mario_Bros_1"; it'd be a waste time putting 1 on every game that's had a sequel, and it muddies up the proper name.

17kHz for me, but only at the beginning of it. It immediately blends into ambient noise after it starts up.

Yep. Proper game names for all filenames & titles. The filenames will continue using numbers instead of roman numerals.

Oh, excellent. I shouldn't have forgotten that, thanks!

I use Mp3tag as well. It's the album, and that's 100% on purpose. That's something we're always going to keep. Check the first post to see a rundown of the fixes I've done in preparation for redoing the files.

Former TNA wrestler Austin Creed (formerly Consequences Creed) sent in a donation last night! Thanks, Austin! http://gocreedgo.com http://twitter.com/austincreed He's been a fan longer than I have, and he'll be in Japan next week for a show. He's probably going to get to go to Akihabara. DAMN YOU, CREED!

I've gone ahead and just merged 3 other threads about tagging into this one, so that people can look at the first post and be more likely to understand that this is already being worked on. Yep. Also, we didn't tag any genre fields with the URL; your Zune must be doing something weird. The album field is tagged with the URL, not the genre field. We can handle that. We upped the filesize limit to 8MB, so adding album art isn't a big deal. Also, there's no point doing a folder approach, because most people DL individual tracks. They'll be without album art, but I'll be sure to host a couple of tracks that people can use to test the revisions this weekend.

Excitement!

It's not. Your ears are broken.

Swanky swanky!

You are wrong. I use lavender soap that The Lady bought. I smell great. You can't buy everything off Amazon and have OCR get a cut, because not everything is available through our aStore. But most items in our demographic (games, computer parts, tech, comics, Blu-ray/DVDs, etc.) are eligible through the aStore. The aStore always clarifies when something's not available for purchase that way. OCR gets 6% of Amazon purchases, and there's 0 extra charge to the order.

You may put me on record saying, "This is dope. Get it."

I've been pimping it everywhere.

The principle of the idea is good. Dunno how practical it would be, but a simpler answer that could be automated is the genre/moods/instrumentations showing when you hover over the ReMix name on the front page. But it all comes down to practicality and whether or not it would actually look good in practice, which I'm not sure of.

Would have to figure out a way to integrate that info, but doesn't sound like a bad idea. Just not sure how it would work with the front page.

4chan?

Before we release another ReMix torrent, I want to give everyone the chance to replace ReMixes with our new larger filesize limit of 8.00MB, up from 6.00MB. This is an open offer to have ANY posted or to-be-posted ReMix on OCR replaced with a higher quality version. I don't care if it's from 1999 or if we posted it last week. This is JUST for allowing better encodings of smaller files. No remasters or edits are allowed; they won't be used for updates. We're ONLY looking for better encodings of existing mixes, please. Aside from existing files, which are grandfathered in, there are no exceptions to these rules: NO remasters or edits. Just reencode the WAVs/project files you have. Filesize cannot be larger than 8,388,608 bytes (8.00MB). Bitrate cannot be greater than 192kbps. (VBR with an upper limit above 192kbps is OK if the average bitrate is not greater than 192kbps.) Must be 44kHz stereo. (Not 48kHz or 32kHz.) Please mail me at larryoji@ocremix.org with either links or attachments to whatever mixes you want to replace with better encodings. If you have a lot of files, please be sure to host them. Once I compare & sign off on 'em, I'll hold onto them for when we upload the replacements onto the main site & new torrents. If any fans have higher quality versions of existing ReMixes that also qualify, please let me know as well in this thread. Thanks for your help, everyone!