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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!

To help with the Support Month, I wanted to pimp our badass shirts, hoodies & stickers! Any links to good pics of yourself flying the colors are appreciated, as well as any testimonials you'd be willing to give about the quality of the clothes. Thanks to anyone who can help! I'll cobble that together and present something with that soon!

I've updated the info, so djp needs to make those updates live when he gets a chance.

Just stick to dance style recommendations. Favorites will be POLICED~!

Remixer name: Guifrog Real name: Guilherme Arcoverde Website: www.myspace.com/guifrog Country: Brazil ----- Game arranged: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Song arranged: Oil Ocean Zone (source link: )Remix name: Egyptian Nights (mix link: ) Hey! One year ago, I'd sent an Oil Ocean remix for ya. It got rejected though, due to my lack of experience in what comes to music technical stuff, I assume... =P This time, I'm sending another Oil Ocean remix (hmm...). As I'd been practicing by creating my own original songs, I decided to take a risk and make a '50% original - 50% from source' thingy. Not sure if I succeed on that point for your judgements, but I'm all open for improvement tips. By the way, I really LOVED making the breakdown! Couldn't help but include some latin beat to it. And so you might tell what made me think of the "Nights" on the mix title, apart from the obvious electronica elements... 8D Thanks, ribbits, more to come! ---------------------------------------------------------------- The string tone sounded thin, and the articulations were a bit fakey, but serviceable. The beatwork was a little too loud compared to the other elements, so the balance needs to be adjusted. The quality of the brass samples was low, and most of the elements were pretty fake-sounding, but the articulations were generally decent enough and those issue were downplayed by relatively good composition, IMO. The new writing ideas are decent, though most of them went into pretty liberal territory, with overt, distinct parts from the original being sprinkled in every so often. Offhand, the arrangement seemed too liberal, but only by a small margin, and could easily be pulled back into being OK by using the source a little more often. All in all, this is a pretty good contender for a resub once some tweaks are made. Nice start, Guilherme. NO (resubmit)

Just want to mention, we're already underway with working to automate the submissions process, though it's a lower priority than other stuff we're working on. We will not embrace a system with votes, yet no required feedback for evaluating subs. There's much less benefit to having judge feedback come after voting. Generally, when we vote on a track, we're done with it; we have a lot more material to go through, so we don't bother revisiting the old. We also DON'T encourage voting a vacuum, which is why we can read and challenge other judges votes. We don't have to write books on our votes, but encouraging voting without explanations or being able to see what others said is foolish because it lacks accountability and encourages kneejerk reactions. Having to write out your reasons and the ability to challenge others to justify their reasoning benefits the process. Also, the # of votes needed wouldn't change. We don't require every judge to vote on everything, that would slow the process. We don't want user feedback intertwined with submissions evaluations. Users are not involved in that process. Users decide what they like based solely on what they hear, and they have different agendas than judges or even people attempting to give WIP feedback (who ALSO differ from the judges). All that needs to stay separate. I'd like to see the ability to stream audio from whatever outside URL you provide, to encourage more feedback in the WIP forums. Beyond automating the posting of submissions to the panel and embedded streaming of MP3 files, I think we're fine.

Not sure what the issue was, but I removed the image from his sig. Thanks for looking out for the community.

You all should know, MOON8 was made by Brad Smith. He's got 2 Super Mario Bros. ReMixes from back in the day. http://ocremix.org/artist/4477/brad-smith

I've said numerous times, we'll be doing this. For everything. Sit tight. It's not important either way.

Less smiley faces, but I'll co-sign on that. And that's keeping in mind that everything on the album was solid.

The latter. We are not changing the song title convention. We have never been open to changing the song title convention. We AIN'T changing the song title convention. In iTunes for me (and I use Windows), it automatically adds the artist in front of the title. e.g. posu yan - "Castlevania garlic OC ReMix" Thus, I can't sort by song title alone, which would sort game by default, since the game title is in every song title. There might be something in the default preferences I'd need to change. That also may be a problem kethinov is having; I wouldn't know. Rama's screenshot of the FF7 album with his tweaks shows just the song name in the title, at it should be. Regardless, in iTunes, you should be able to sort by game now via Grouping. The update took maybe 4 minutes. Not right this second, but eventually, yes. I've already done all the legwork to update old files. We just need album artwork from djp and his approval to update the existing mixes with my copies that have improved, consistent tagging.

I'll just mention that part of the reason we highlight artists is because people overlook them. If that weren't the case, kethinov, you wouldn't have called zircon "zicron" 287 times. It's bears mentioning that services like Last.fm catalog the listening habits of our community's fans and the standard is Artist in the Artist field (obviously). Making the artist field "Super Mario World", for example, doesn't help our community's artists. There is no compelling reason to change that, and your proposal really was encouraging bad metadata for our music, no matter the goal. You need to respect our desire to properly highlight Artist credits and stop challenging that. You're weren't trying to be antagonistic, but your attitude has been presumptuous. We're definitely not going to change the core tagging system. It demonstratively has worked for us for over 10 years. OC ReMix in the song title and http://www.ocremix.org as the album, those have helped us immensely in terms of building awareness of the community from both fans and ReMixers. We know because we've heard time and time again of fans discovering us this way. However, I DO appreciate the impetus to look into this issue with iTunes, because until now I didn't realize it apparently can't sort music by song name. To me, that's iTunes not providing ME the proper user experience. I primarily use Winamp. Looking at iTunes tonight, I just realized that we're not using a standard field in iTunes called "Grouping" (aka "Content Group" in other tagging programs). "Grouping" is a column that CAN be enabled in iTunes, and we'll fill THAT with the game title so that you can sort by game. You still can't sort by song title in iTunes, but this is definitely good enough to meet the basic need to sort by game. Thanks for bringing up your issue; it led to a very beneficial update to my tagging revisions. And I did it by using basic tagging features already available to me, not by needlessly disrupting our vetted, established system.

Boooooooooooooooooooooo. (We have fired OA from the panel.)

$25 from me! I made it rain!