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There aren't enough different words for amazing to describe this album. I've downloaded every shred of music this site has posted since 2002, and this album is the finest example of remixing I have ever heard. I haven't finished it yet, but I have not found a SINGLE thing to complain about in 29 tracks. Furthermore, I still have nightmares and hallucinations about raising Golden Chocobos, and laughing men in black tophats, and the Chocobo song has been known to spur me to spontaneous manslaughter. The fact that it is entirely awesome is perhaps the greatest testament to the amazing job you guys have done. So, uh... thanks again Darangen, you had a chance to ruin the album and you didn't. Good job. But really. Amazing, flat out, top to bottom.

This may come as a nasty shock, but the newest generation of gamers today wasn't playing games in 1997, so the graphics of FF7 that we all call 'nostalgic' are more correctly termed 'outdated and crappy' by them. When they look at how far graphics have come, the Playstation is to them what the NES is to us, because they weren't there when it started. It's all about your point of reference. In other words, our mediocre pixels and graphics are their mediocre low polygon counts and cutscenes. I would definitely buy it just for a graphics update. It would be kind of like polishing your dirty smudgy TV screen so you could finally see what it was really supposed to look like. However, if they do remake it, I think they should let the localization team over here completely rewrite the script instead of just translating it. They've been doing that since Final Fantasy X, and I for one think it's worked insanely well. The script for Final Fantasy XII was beautiful because they weren't rigidly sticking to the Japanese translations. They never really did, but starting with 10 they were willing to completely ignore it to get the point across in unbroken English. Oh, and voice overs. Everyone from Advent Children would be fine. But I think if Tifa says anything like "Dilly-dally-shilly-shally" in a remake it's pretty much fucked.

Truly, I would find a good connection and download everything you can. You'll end up with literally years of music. When I first came to OCR in 2002, I'd never played any Final Fantasy. I think the first FF mix I downloaded was World of Piano by kLuTz... That got me interested, and over the next couple years I ended up getting every Final Fantasy Soundtrack, arrangement album and OC Remix I could get my hands on from the series, and it's all amazing. Well, most of it. Just shove it all in the pipe and download it, there's not much you won't wanna keep.

Okay. So, um... this fucking owns, completely and totally. Every last inch of it. I have to specifically call out BGC for the most amazing Bombing Run remix I could have ever imagined, but if a group of mixers can make the CHOCOBO FARM music sound awesome, all I can do is bow and stare. Excellent work guys. And girls.

Just bought it off Soundclick. I already have most of these, but I think I owe Helen for how awesome they were in the first place. So hooray Helen for finally smartening up and charging for your awesomeness! (Actually, she wasn't smartening up, she wanted to release a quality product. I appreciate it.) Kudos and keep up the EXCELLENT work.

Does anyone know a hot link where I can still download Septic Dreams from Children of the Monkey Machine? I missed that one the first time around, and Matt's stuff has always been pretty tight. At any rate, the link is dead, and Google only points to that link. Can anyone put it on Megaupload or something?

MODS: PLEASE leave this in Community. This is more a discussion than a help request, and I personally feel it should be left somewhere where people can hash it out. If it goes to Help and Newbies, it might as well disappear. Alright, so I've been wondering since iTunes 7.3 came out why in the world my playlists became such an out of order whackjob. Turns out the issue is this: iTunes used to look at the first letter, number, or symbol of an MP3 tag, and sort them in that order. Symbols first, then numbers, then letters. With the iTunes 7.3 update, MP3's are now sorted 'movie store style', meaning leading characters like a, an, and the are now ignored. So, using "The Calling" from DJ Redlight, what happens is this: Before iTunes 7.3, "The Calling" was in the T section of my OC Remix playlist. NOW iTunes sees it as "Calling, The" and puts it in the C section. Not only that, leading numbers and symbols are ignored, so files with those in the name could end up ANYWHERE in your playlist depending on the first LETTER iTunes finds in the name. Besides the fact that I think that's retarded anyways, here's the biggest issue: I retag all my OC remixes so the name of the song is the only thing in the title field. The game the remix came from is the album, the remixer is the artist, and I GROUP all the songs under OC Remix. Before anybody says anything, I know site rules don't allow me to redistribute them that way, they're only for personal use. At any rate, because of the way I tag, I have 650 OC remixes, from a huge number of albums. It also turns out that even though I've retagged all my MP3's iTunes actually 'remembers' what they used to be called. For instance, 'Visions of Kin' ends up in the W section of my playlist. Why? I changed the Name field to say 'Visions of Kin,' and it does, but iTunes still sees it as 'Wild Arms Visions of Kin OC Remix.' So it goes in the W section. That's just my remixes. Let alone the other 3400 songs. Has anyone found a better workaround for this than downgrading iTunes to 7.2? All they need to do is give me ONE CHECKBOX to turn that advanced sorting shit OFF, because I have my music pristinely tagged and sorted all by myself and I don't need them screwing it up for me, thank you. Discuss. Has anyone else encountered this?

Don't do it! Everybody knows who Sephire is, and then if you change it, everybody thinks you're a different person. It's like, there's a million Doom remixes from a mixer named TO on the site. It took me four years to realize that TO and The Orichalcon were the same person. Shortly after I came to that revelation in a thread, he started submitting mixes as The Orichalcon, and TO hasn't been heard from since. Coincidence? I think not.

That's like, 50% awesome and 50% sad.

Yeah. My computers are named Stormwind, Ironforge, Darnassus, and Exodar, all in the Azeroth workgroup. I play WoW. Just thought I'd throw that in there. My wireless network is named Skynet. I briefly considered Gryphon, but Skynet just made too much sense not to use.

I agree wholeheartedly. But... if they wanna get rid of Goliaths for these bitches, I'm game.

Oh my Jesus! Is it actually coming out!?!?!?!

What exactly is involved in seeding? Just turn the torrent on and let it go for uploading? My school will actually allow me to seed over their connection (which is maintained by Virginia Tech and FUCKING FAST), so if I'm at school I can be part of the seeding pool. Just let me know if that's workable or not.

Completely off topic, but ChaosSorceror's sig is made of God and win. Seriously.

Hwut teh fux. Yes, Nintendo can feel free to sue them up the pooper.

Happy birthday, old man! So will this year feature the standard eat-2-45-ounce-steaks-in-an-hour-while-screwing-your-waitress-for-the-first-45-minutes birthday tradition then?

Having finished the book, I must say I am supremely satisfied with the way it turned out, and I think I have just read one of the greatest works of fiction in modern history. I think in time (if it hasn't already) that Harry Potter will take its place alongside the likes of Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia in the list of modern greats. It's astounding, really, but for the first time in history a work of fiction has defined an entire generation. (Unless you choose to include the Bible as a work of fiction, which I do not, and that's a topic for PPR at any rate.) Harry Potter is to this generation what Star Wars was to the last... it defines the culture in a sense. It's been an astounding ten year journey, and while I'm sad to see it draw to a close, I could not be happier with where the journey took me. Congratulations to J.K. Rowling for her extraordinary story.

Last I checked my 20 gig iPod, I have about 4300 songs on it.

That's what I figured. But if I had the solo tracks in the first place, problem's already solved.

By the time I got to him the first time I played that, I was like "So Help me GAWD, if I have to keep 8 people alive through ANOTHER fight, I will kill somebody." I appreciated the cinematic takeover at that point.

Okay, so here's the question. Is there a decent way (decent here defined as something that takes less than a week) to split up the music and sound effects in an audio track? Obviously split track is preferable, but when somebody does a mixdown of a video for, say, an online movie trailer, that all gets mixed together. So is there any good way to split it up without losing the integrity of the entire track?

Because bad musicians think they can learn all the technical aspects of a program and magically make good music. Good musicians know that no program can make up for talent and skill, whether acquired through practice or simply a gift. Thus, the program is simply another tool, and it may not be worth learning how to use program functions that don't apply to the current creative vision of the musician.

Shut up. Quit pissing on my snowman.

That boy's got a future in concept art, I think. I like the 5 disc changer in his chest.

I saw it last night, and I was fucking amazed. This is seriously the best movie I've seen since the credits rolled on Return of the King. The CG is THE best I have EVER seen. Seamless. The editing was amazing, the score fit... but Shia LeBouf was actually a great actor. He played his part beautifully,and Bay and the scriptwriters did an awesome job of not giving in to cliches. Great stuff. AWESOME stuff.