djpretzel Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 SUCCESS! ReMixes 1-2500 retagged! http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41730 The latest ReMix posted is the first to use our new official album art and slightly modified tagging that should make things more convenient in iTunes, etc.First, the visual: Now, the (hopefully) less sexy tagging changes: Album is now "http://ocremix.org" (no "www") Title field includes single quotes around mix title (e.g. Sonic the Hedgehog 'Love Hurts' OC ReMix instead of Sonic the Hedgehog Love Hurts OC ReMix) Track # is now populated with the numeric value of the mix ID (OCR01234 = 1234) Compilation flag is set Added Publisher, Album Artist and Album Artist URL fields (OverClocked ReMix and http://ocremix.org, respectively) We'd like feedback on these changes, but much of this has already been discussed in Larry's MP3 tagging improvements thread. We also are planning to release 2 updated torrents featuring these tagging revisions applied to all past ReMixes: OCR00001-OCR02000 & OCR02001-OCR02400 All past ReMixes will include the following updates: DONE: MP3 validation (e.g. MPEG frame consistency, length of stored VBR header) for player compatibility Added missing VBR headers Removed all non-standard ID3v2.3 tags and all non-ID3v2.3 tags (e.g. ID3v1, APE) Standardized filenames and ID3v2.3 tags (e.g. proper game titles, correct capitalization/spacing of mix titles, single quotes around mix title) Quality control & corrections of all existing fields (e.g. ReMixer name changes, missing/corrected composers/platforms/years) Added Track # (ReMix ID #), Publisher (OverClocked ReMix), Album Artist (OverClocked ReMix) and Album Artist URL ("http://ocremix.org") fields Added Compilation flag for grouping of single mixes as one album Added game to Grouping/Content Group field for sorting by game title Added ReMix titles (w/o game name prefix & 'OC ReMix' suffix) to Subtitle field Standardized URL field (OCR Artist profile URL) Added artist submission and website comments to Comments field (when available) Embedded confirmed lyrics in Comments and Unsynced Lyrics fields Removed extra silence from tracks IN PROGRESS: Higher bitrate encodings (but NO CHANGES OR REVISIONS)New bitrate/encoding requirement at either 192kbps or VBR1 (ReMixers, post your higher quality encodings here and/or send your WAVs, FLACs or HQ encodings to larryoji@ocremix.org) Lyrics unavailable for some ReMixes (HELP US OUT HERE) THINGS WE ARE NOT CHANGING: ReMixer name(s) as Artist "http://ocremix.org" as Album Title "Game" as Genre Official album art design Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt E. Waldman Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Ooh, lookin' good! Does this apply to all releases or only current and future ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulinEther Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 looks like i'll need to be getting torrenting again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NegimaSonic Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 I picked TODAY of all days to go through all my songs, OCR included, and adjust the tags in WMP... why... But, I love the new design! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZealPath Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Finally! Album art! And I have to say, very slick, worth the wait album art at that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egometry Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 I just created an account after years of listening to ocremixes to say thank you. Thank you for this update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CasualVader Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Very nice album art and the tagging changes are nice. Though I like making the album art be the title screen or box art of the game the ReMix is from. I also change the album title to the game's name. But that's just me. That album art is really nice though........... *squirms from indecision* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Mage Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 I love the new art and the quotes in the titles. I'm tempted to re-download everything, but fear I may undo years worth of rating and library building if I overwrite all my files. I am however updating the album art and album names as we speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 This looks very polished. Good work. As far as the new tags, I think it might be helpful if the tags were exported to a spreadsheet so that the community could check for any errors before it is finalized since there have been so many changes. Just a thought. There will not be any errors, because I am perfect! In any case, it seems like a headache, BUT I'll think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaxon Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Great update. I just wish there were a way to get this change without having to redo all 2000+ of my ratings in itunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Frazier Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 This is absolutely amazing! Thanks guys for this much-needed update and the art looks sweeet! No more blurry 250x250 placeholder (which was fine but getting a little outdated...). Love the track # update especially, doing these manually was getting painstaking. Now the tags will almost comport with my own variations, but they are minor so no complaints here (I change genre to "Game Remix" and add the release year to album title for my own sorting purposes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halc Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 beautiful album art. happy to see quotes around mix titles too. nice work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 I really can't wait for this to be fully implemented. It'll be extremely nice to have everything standardized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nex Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Awesome stuff. I'm sure these changes will help a lot of people. Looks great too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Souliarc Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Love it alllllll. Thank you. I hope you all get compensated well ........ >_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Love it alllllll. Thank you.I hope you all get compensated well ........ >_> My pockets are bursting with (Monopoly) money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Souliarc Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 My pockets are bursting with (Monopoly) money! D: *gives purely platonic man love hug* You know we all love you for it Larry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi QuestMaster Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Not a big deal, & I might be alone on this, but I find it awkward having the album title "OCReMix.org" as well as having that be the title on the album artwork. Why not "OverClocked ReMix" ? Surely you want more visitors to the site, but isn't there a snazzier way of doing this? Please don't kill me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 you want more visitors to the site See, you answered your own question! In any case, we've heard people suggest not to use ocremix.org as the album name, and we've never listened. It's worked out great for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 If you want to change the tags for your personal collection, you could always take MP3tag, select all of your remixes, and change the album to whatever you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi QuestMaster Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 See, you answered your own question! No, I didn't! but isn't there a snazzier way of doing this? Is it too much for people to Google OverClocked ReMix? If people like what they hear, they'll come to the source. It's not like people type in URLs anymore. Right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Is it too much for people to Google OverClocked ReMix? YES! It's too much. This is the interweb. If you don't quickly and directly give someone what they're looking for, then they'll move onto something else. Hence our URL in the album tag in every ReMix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi QuestMaster Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 YES! Wow, that's so huge, it MUST be right! Guess I can't convince you, oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Wow, that's so huge, it MUST be right! Guess I can't convince you, oh well. You guessed right. Of course, you could have saved yourself the trouble via the first post. THINGS WE ARE NOT CHANGING: Album Title will always be "http://ocremix.org" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunther Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 First, the visual: Nice to have finally an official artwork. I always used this (taken from Last.fm): Anyway I think I'll convert the new cover into a 200x200 image too, bigger covers (in mp3 files) are useless in my opinion. Title field includes single quotes around mix title (e.g. Sonic the Hedgehog 'Love Hurts' OC ReMix instead of Sonic the Hedgehog Love Hurts OC ReMix) This is way better, now I understand why last.fm fingerprinted some of my OCRs in this way... Track # is now populated with the numeric value of the mix ID (OCR01234 = 1234) That would be pretty strange, but it makes sense. I think that my WMP will now change all mp3 names with a track number of four letters at the beginning, but that's ok, at least they won't be in alphabetical order anymore . Compilation flag is set Nice We also are planning to release 2 updated torrents featuring these tagging revisions applied to all past ReMixes: OCR00001-OCR02000 & OCR02001-OCR02100 Good thing, too bad I will have to manually select good mixes and give ratings to all of them again, but there's no other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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