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In particular the stage music.

These tracks are awesome. I think they should all be in the official remixes.

Holy flaming buttnuggets, Batman! This sounds fucking awesome. Forgive me if I just dump all the tracks into one playlist in a different order but that's how I like it.

Short and sweet album, very polished. Very well remixed but still completely recognizable from the original midis. Still, my favorite is the first track in the album which is also the first map's music. Takes you back but enhanced.

There's no bad track on this album if you're a fan of the game but I wouldn't even call the two that are on official site (as of August 2018) my favorite ones in it. The first track immediately takes you back to the first map of the game, a pretty solid remix without changing the style. The selection was lean and well done, including this track. Would be nice to have tracks like these ported to Heretic running on Zandronum as fmod audio.

Really good and impressive performance. I only think it would have been better, more fitting on a harpsichord.

We see most remixes of popular games, understandably. Here are some other options, different games, maybe different music genre. I suggest a remix of Aztec Adventure for Sega Master System, especially this track: Something more upbeat, from the makers of Puzzle Bobble, Parasol Stars: And finally, Slap Fight MD. (Only the arcade was released outside Japan as Alcon):

Quite good! Nothing artistically revolutionary, just good old fashioned remixing done right.

Here are my suggestions for remixing, from Air Zonk. 3 tracks in particular. Stage 1. I imagine a remix of this like jazzy electronica, with the main instrument being a saxophone. Stage 2. This one I imagine a straight forward electronica remix, kind of 90s pop. Stage 4. I imagine this one like some kind of big brass doom jazz remix, with echo heavy electric guitars, and the instrument used for the longer notes part to be a full brass section.

I think it could have used more varied texture, but I like the general direction. I admire the oddball composers such as György Ligeti, and even more modern ones like Jasna Veličković, and I think people interested in creating this sort of music should study the work of people like those. I wouldn't listen to this sort of music all day, but it's an excellent change of pace and I'm glad it's here.

I have an mp3 from who knows when and who knows where. I can't remember where I got it, but it was probably some fan website from several years ago, possibly even before 2000. It's a Gradius 3 remix mp3 but bad quality, old-school 128 kbps with hideous sound artifacts. Does anyone know who made this and if there is a better audio quality version somewhere? The link to download below. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0JWHr6wZL6WTGR3dkg1N0h3dWs

My request is for a remix of this theme. I think one of the more exotic metal genres would work very well for a remix of this. The track name in the game seems to be "Questionable Century", but a variation of it is also the final boss, which the game calls "Self Determination". It's kind of reminiscent of the future theme in Chrono Trigger, but this has chords you can work with. Here's videos of the regular and the final boss version:

There is a violent ken in svc chaos, but as you've proven he's very obscure. Anyway, great version of the Ryu stage.

This is strange. From the cover you might expect orchestral stuff or something, but this is a nice surprise. Great sound for when you feel like a dirty hipster. I always loved that quirky muted trumpet sounding part in the game and it's a nice twist here.

Yeah, as far as Hagane, that's pretty much the idea. And on Psycho Dream, here is the chiptunes: http://snesmusic.org/v2/profile.php?profile=set&selected=14752 In particular I'm thinking of 'Title' and 'Runner'. I'm not sure if there's any appreciation for that weirdness, but if not that then I'm just giving ideas for at least another remix style to anything. Thinking of a minimalist style in electronic form. By minimalist I mean something orchestral like Arvo Pärt, which might be seen as the prototype to techno without beats. I might even try this myself one of these days.

My request is for the SNES game Hagane, stage 5-1 or any other. Also the Japanese SNES (SFC) game Psycho Dream.

The cowon iaudio e2, comparable to the ipod shuffle but not as lame. And all cowon players are one of the few known for supporting more than inferior formats like mp3. The sandisk players seem nice, too, but I never tried one and are afraid to try. I don't get the point of large portable players. I say if you want a nice screen, carry a smartphone around, and it does more stuff. The biggest I'd go is an ipod nano, even if they do have a battery-wasting screen, but I don't like ipods because they force you to use iToons.

The lame manual says -q 0 is just slower but not usually better, but no harm in anyone setting that. Oh and besides CBR and VBR there is also ABR. MP3 really is a mess but research led me to believe successful resistance to improvement is $ and not much else (mp3 equipment shills, etc). There is no point in going against that with technical improvement. http://jthz.com/mp3/ That is an old page, but to this day VBR is barely used compared to CBR. I also remember the crazy talk against Joint Stereo.

itunes will encode to aac by default but it can play mp3, at least last time I tried. It's a terrible program. I'd just like to say one more thing. You could insist people use lame and encode with the tags -h (higher quality) and insist on -V 1 (I say this because I see you are now accepting VBR 1)

Which parts? I think the issue with file size downloading is more about bandwidth than space. And the major problem I see with forming a collection with mp3 (if you don't deny its flaws) is that once it's 'published', and if the creator disappears from the scene, that's it, flaws and all. A lot of the older files you see here are 128 kbps and have pretty terrible artifacts if they are a certain type of music. Why continue the trend with newer files when options are available? I understand the thinking of "just because it is" reason, but don't agree with it. Well, at least the albums are flac.

It's a consensus, not the consensus. There will always be people that disagree with something. But from my view it's a matter of empirical evidence. I can hear the flaws in mp3 just like the guy in the article. The article said no such things. It was very specific about its claims. Again, that wasn't the point of it. For one, some people can hear the flaws at that bitrate (you just have to know where to look). Second, there's the low bitrate problem of going too low (128), then there's the general inefficiency of needing to go to 320 when other codecs achieve quality at smaller sizes and are better at mitigating artifacts. The article mentions this. In either case, ocr doesn't seem to release 320 kbps mp3s. Isn't this an obscure target if this is all there is? The only other one I can think of are some die hard club djs using mp3s, but that's still just a few individuals. The question is why bother with such inefficient compression if you're trying to retain quality? If size is no object might as well release everything in flac.

But I'd be willing to bet that the amount of people relying on these mp3-only environments are even less than those using vorbis. If that is true it's an obscure environment to cater to, and things can be transcoded into mp3 as easily as to vorbis. I can't think of any examples first hand where aac audio support was absent.

Yes, as the link I put up shows it's not a hard thing to learn what to listen to. I can't go back to mp3 after that. I guess. I know my post was moved here but I was never really advocating open source. My argument against mp3 is purely technical quality. AAC is in a similar boat as MP3 as far as patents, but still technically better than mp3. And any current portable that supports mp3 also supports aac. I don't think I ever held an mp3-only portable in my hands, although I'm sure they exist, just not so much anymore. Software players certainly support aac/m4a as commonly as mp3.

Wouldn't it be better to make the files available as a better lossy files, such as vorbis or at least aac/m4a? There is a lot of consensus that mp3 causes sound quality to suffer and should be retired. http://productionadvice.co.uk/why-mp3-sounds-bad/