OCR Meter Tracking Project

Gario · October 21, 2010

Darkesword (or any other mod who can do this), could you move this to an appropriate forum and help me give it an appropriate title? Thanks a lot.

Hey, OCR! Djpretzel has offered to incorporate a tracking system that is based on the meter of any source currently referenced on OCR some time in the future.

If anyone wants to compile a master list, preferably grouped by time sig & with links to OCR song pages (if available) and YouTubes, it's possible we could find a way to track this in our database at some point...

(Originally from this thread)

Level 99 and I have offered to help give him the information that he needs to complete this as soon as possible, but considering how much music will need to be analysed we're going to need all the help we can get.

Level 99 is keeping a document that will organize all of the sources that we've analyzed up to date and I've volunteered to go through all the sources that I can and give him the information that he needs (as well as review what's on there, if I can) but because of the magnitude of the project we're requesting anyone who can to post information on the meter of a source to post it in this thread. The more sources you can post, the better, but the focus is sources that are already posted on OCR. Sources that are in games that have remixed music should also take priority, so it would be nice to provide information on games in this list before we venture beyond that.

If you want to help us out, great! To make things easier and cleaner, please read below first so you understand the standard we're using to label the music.

When labeling odd meters, look at the numerator - If it's five or less, the denominator will be '4'. If it's twelve or less the denominator will be '8'. If it's nineteen or less then the denominator will be '16'. Anything higher will use the denominator '32'. This will prevent similar meters like '5/8', '7/4' or '10/16' from muddling the future tagging system - the fewer signatures Djpretzel needs to deal with, the better.

For songs that use common meters with odd subdivisions please add the subdivisions together and use that as the numerator (for example, Final Fantasy 8's '

' track would be considered 12/8, not 3+3+2+2+2/8 ). This probably won't be a problem, but for those that use the latter method, use the former instead. While the other method is more accurate, it's simply too much to ask Djpretzel to tag for any possible number of combinations.

If the meter is in common meter, cut meter, 2/2, 2/4, 4/4 or 8/8 it isn't necessary to provide the information, for now, since it will be assumed a track is in either of these meters if the information isn't provided on it. Because there are a lot of songs in common time, and because the differences between these time signature are almost nominal it would be needlessly excessive to provide these in here. Because 4/4 will not be tracked, though, 3/4, 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 will be necessary to post here, despite them being common signatures (and odd signatures will, obviously, be necessary, as well).

If multiple signatures occur in the track and it's three meter changes or less, type 'Mixed Meter' in this section and provide in parentheses the meters used, in chronological order. If more than three meters are used simply type 'Mixed Meter' without typing the meters used.

When posting, provide the information in this format.

*Game Name

*Song Name

*Time Signature

*Link to Source

*Link to OCR Remixes

If listing more than one source, simply repeat this for each source and separate each group with a space in the same post (in other words, don't multi post for multiple sources, please).

Game Name: The name of the game the source is featured. If the music is featured in multiple games (e.g. Bubble Crab from MMX2 and Tidal Whale from MMX5) then list the games in chronological order of appearance.

Song Name: Either the traditional name of the track ('Dancing Mad 3' from Final Fantasy VI) or the occurrence of the track in the game in question ('Crystal Snail Theme' from Megaman X2).

Time Signature: The meter that the source is in.

Link to Source: A YT link is preffered.

Link to OCR Remixes: Provide a link to the OCR song page that provides the OCR remixes, if available (for example, if the source is Mario Overworld theme then the OCR link would be this).

Over time I'm sure there will be refinements in this thread, so keep an eye out for updates on this post. I'll post the spreadsheet that Level 99 is working on soon, so people don't repeat themselves in this thread too much.