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All 25GB are just the raw uncut version of Omen.

I hope we can all stop and take a moment to appreciate the wonder of so much media being generated from a game that originally occupied a grand total of 3 megabytes

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Unless Norg, Fin or Zircon have an uncut flac I think this covers both angles. Good work guys )

Thanks =D

I'd actually created it before the previous post with separate ones (and an all-in-one mp3), i just forgot to post it here

The reason I prefer FLAC in most cases is, aside from having a lossless 'master' copy to keep on my main PC, it also allows me to encode in my choice lossy format (vorbis@ q6) without having to transcode an mp3. (plus i hate mp3 for reasons technical and ethical, hah).

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I went ahead and made a gapless FLAC of the Omen suite. I just strung them all together in Audacity and removed the gaps at a magnification close enough to be working with individual samples, so when you listen to it it sounds as seamless as reasonably possible. I'll put the link to the flac shared from my dropbox for the moment, unless someone has a better solution in mind for sharing it.

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It's the same throughout, having to listened to this suite a few times recently. I believe the same happens between 3 and 4.

Yup, I confirmed at the beginning of track 3 as well - but by that point I was assuming it would be the same for 3 and 4 . The good thing about having the FLACs, though, is that a competent user of Audacity could trim the waveform and save themselves a new lossless "master" as well as a lossy copy with no transcoding drama.

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Is there a way to make Omen on Disc 5 have gapless playback in Foobar2000?

I noticed myself that this didn't play gaplessly in Winamp. And taking a look at the waveform for the beginning of Omen part 2, i can see why - it's not edited correctly :-/

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Maybe it's your copy, my tagging from looking at the properties has it fine... then again last.fm could be pulling the wool over my eyes and autocorrecting like it does with one of my InMe tracks which is spelt wrong on last.fm =/

That's not really it. My complaint wasn't that my tracks are tagged wrong, it was that whoever entered the track names for the album entry on last.fm, put in track names not consistent with the title tags of the official download. But then...

Your beef is with whatever fan decided to muck around with the metadata when he or she was putting the album up.

Yup, you're right - if it wasn't officially put up by you guys then I have no complaint here, sorry for pestering you about it =)

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Wow, how friggin' cool is that, to come across a guy randomly like that and to come across him again on an album this awesome!

Yeah, it's a small world!

Without having my Pen Drive with my copy of balance and ruin with me I can't check in full detail but it looks fine to me, unless someone else beats me to it (as I'm not going to be at my computer till Saturday night at the earliest,) I'll investigate fuller when I get home.

Basically the issue is this: all the track titles on the album (official download) are in the format "Song Name (source song name)", such as: Aggressive Blue Magic (Strago), etc. The album tracklist on last.fm is missing the parentheticals at the end (so just Aggressive Blue Magic) - this is the case with every single song, as far as i can tell. I don't know which format people around here consider as "proper", but for scrobbling consistency, the track names should exactly match the file title tags. Notice that on the album page, the "number of listeners" for each song is very low - but if you go to the song page for any of the properly-tagged tracks (like here), the number of listeners is in the hundreds.

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I just found out about this album last week and I'm in love. FFVI was the game which got me interested not only in "serious" RPGs but also in game music in general.

Incidentally, in the late '90s i randomly met a guy on ICQ and we chatted about game music arrangements as well as Hans Zimmer soundtracks; he even sent me some of his original compositions. His name was Chad Seiter... We lost touch eventually but I was super excited to recognize his name in the credits of ST2009, and I'm pumped that he has a piece on this album.

I have one last comment concerning the album - whoever entered the album's info on its last.fm page, put in track names which are *completely* inconsistent with the track name tags from the official download. As a result, at least 99% of the plays for this album in the last.fm community aren't actually counting towards plays for the album or OCRemix. I have no idea who can fix this, but someone should address it.