The Coop Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 (edited) This thing again? Yep. Another year, another album of various songs done up in a Christmasy style in multiple genres. There are 15 remixes for you enjoy this holiday season, making for just under an hour of tunage. And on behalf of everyone involved, thanks for listening and Merry Christmas. https://williammichael.info/aocc/ Edited December 23, 2023 by The Coop colorado weeks, The Vodoú Queen, MjrGroove and 7 others 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lampje4life Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Great job everyone and thank you for pulling the sleigh Coop Merry Christmas and best wishes. The Coop and Wassup Thunder 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkNoFun Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Yay! My favorite OC tradition. Only just poked at it as I want to save this for later when I eat dinner, but I can already tell it's going to be great. Great job all! My only tiny bit of criticism are the track name seem a little generic, OC always have fun with their naming, don't just call a song "source"! BTW: Did you happen to have sources and composer breakdowns for the tracks that aren't obvious? OC used to be good a doing this, but the last several albums have been neglecting these fields... and I'm waaay to rusty myself, I can tell "Ice Paradise Zone - Act 2" is no doubt from a Sonic game, and there are a lot of traditional sings I see too, ie. "O Holy Night", "Greensleeves", etc., but also a lot are going over my head here, and I'm drawing blanks. (damn my old age!!!) Wassup Thunder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wassup Thunder Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 whoop whoop, another festive album! Always a joy to contribute and hear everyone else's work. The Coop and Xaleph 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colorado weeks Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 great work everyone! i'll be bumping this all the way up to my parents' place for christmas! Xaleph and The Coop 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyne Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 So I wanted to take a moment to say a few things. First, I want to thank everyone, all of the fans, all of the artists who've contributed to the albums over the years; you have my heartfelt gratitude and it has been an honor to help keep this album series going all these years. Secondly, about the updated site; part of the reason for the update is that I'm learning frontend development, well trying to at any rate, that said a site update has been long overdue. Going forward all of the albums will be on the main page, and they will be chronologically newest to oldest. This means no more clicking around to each volume to grab the albums you want. You can do that from the home page. This also has made my life easier and increased the speed at which I can get everything done and posted. I think I just spent about 20 minutes adding all the information onto the site itself, testing it, and then uploading it all to the server. I used to have to go to each and every page to update navigation and that was a very time consuming task. So, there's that. I've also long wanted to change the color scheme. Initially, I was going to stick with green because I love the color, but also because it featured on the original version of the site. I decided to mix it up a bit and go with a blue color scheme, and I think it's a lot nicer. The Coop should be adding the link to the site to the top of this thread soon-ish. That said, for now, I'll post the link here: https://williammichael.info/aocc Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! Enjoy volume 17! colorado weeks, Sbeast, Wassup Thunder and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaleph Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 23 hours ago, WorkNoFun said: Yay! My favorite OC tradition. Only just poked at it as I want to save this for later when I eat dinner, but I can already tell it's going to be great. Great job all! My only tiny bit of criticism are the track name seem a little generic, OC always have fun with their naming, don't just call a song "source"! BTW: Did you happen to have sources and composer breakdowns for the tracks that aren't obvious? OC used to be good a doing this, but the last several albums have been neglecting these fields... and I'm waaay to rusty myself, I can tell "Ice Paradise Zone - Act 2" is no doubt from a Sonic game, and there are a lot of traditional sings I see too, ie. "O Holy Night", "Greensleeves", etc., but also a lot are going over my head here, and I'm drawing blanks. (damn my old age!!!) I had given alternative titles but erm… Night of O Holiness Misfit Isle Little Boy of the Drum something like that Wassup Thunder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorkNoFun Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 5 hours ago, Xaleph said: I had given alternative titles but erm… Night of O Holiness Misfit Isle Little Boy of the Drum Those are sooooooo much better lol, quick Coop, it's not to late to rename them and reupload and pretend it never happened! But if not, I'm definitely renaming my copy of those tracks to those names. (and you cannot stop me!) Xaleph 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 Good job everyone who got something done this year. It'll be interesting to hear what you all have come up with. 21 hours ago, Dyne said: Secondly, about the updated site; part of the reason for the update is that I'm learning frontend development, well trying to at any rate, that said a site update has been long overdue. Going forward all of the albums will be on the main page, and they will be chronologically newest to oldest. This means no more clicking around to each volume to grab the albums you want. You can do that from the home page. This also has made my life easier and increased the speed at which I can get everything done and posted. I think I just spent about 20 minutes adding all the information onto the site itself, testing it, and then uploading it all to the server. I used to have to go to each and every page to update navigation and that was a very time consuming task. So, there's that. I've also long wanted to change the color scheme. Initially, I was going to stick with green because I love the color, but also because it featured on the original version of the site. I decided to mix it up a bit and go with a blue color scheme, and I think it's a lot nicer. About this, the server is slow, so you should probably use smaller images on the main page. We're a bit spoiled with most big sites being fast, so a lot of them don't bother will optimizing image size. But it's pretty noticeable here. I like the general vibe of the new colors, feels more wintry, though the background is a bit too bright for my liking. Overall, it's an improvement, and should indeed make updating a lot easier. I've worked with php, where you can easily update an element that shows up on multiple pages. Requires a different server setup, though. In html, this is probably the best approach, though in 17 more years the page is gonna be loooong. But by then you'll have learned javascript and can do some show/hide things. And linking to anchors/bookmarks. And more. Good job. Wassup Thunder, Dyne and Xaleph 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vodoú Queen Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 (edited) Excellent work, guys. :) :D Lovely songs all around! A pleasure--as always--to be participating in this. ♡ Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and here's to another yeah full of (possible) bangers being made. :3 Edited December 24, 2023 by The Vodoú Queen Wassup Thunder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartread Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 I look forward to this every year and a Wonder Boy tune warms my heart. I'm listening to the rest now :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyne Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 On 12/23/2023 at 2:36 PM, Rozovian said: Good job everyone who got something done this year. It'll be interesting to hear what you all have come up with. About this, the server is slow, so you should probably use smaller images on the main page. We're a bit spoiled with most big sites being fast, so a lot of them don't bother will optimizing image size. But it's pretty noticeable here. I like the general vibe of the new colors, feels more wintry, though the background is a bit too bright for my liking. Overall, it's an improvement, and should indeed make updating a lot easier. I've worked with php, where you can easily update an element that shows up on multiple pages. Requires a different server setup, though. In html, this is probably the best approach, though in 17 more years the page is gonna be loooong. But by then you'll have learned javascript and can do some show/hide things. And linking to anchors/bookmarks. And more. Good job. In time, I will iron out all of the other issues. But for now, it's an improvement over the old site. I had intended on some other method of showing/hiding the albums. But until I learn the requisite JavaScript and associated libraries necessary to facilitate that, this will do. I can adjust the background a little bit, but it does make other elements on the page pop a bit, which is intended for readability. I actually messaged The Coop about the color scheme, and made a call on the colors. Originally, it was supposed to be a green color scheme. I have some other ideas that I'd like to explore thematically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 20 hours ago, Dyne said: In time, I will iron out all of the other issues. But for now, it's an improvement over the old site. I had intended on some other method of showing/hiding the albums. But until I learn the requisite JavaScript and associated libraries necessary to facilitate that, this will do. I can adjust the background a little bit, but it does make other elements on the page pop a bit, which is intended for readability. I actually messaged The Coop about the color scheme, and made a call on the colors. Originally, it was supposed to be a green color scheme. I have some other ideas that I'd like to explore thematically. IIRC, there was a Zelda fansite that had a time-based splash image and color scheme, switching between day and night styles based on the user's clock. If you want a fun but not too complicated js coding project, you can do that. Though maybe not a day-night cycle for AOCC. Making the colors change with the seasons and turn wintry as the next release gets near would make sense, but would take a while for any changes to show. Still, it could be good practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyne Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 On 12/25/2023 at 3:45 PM, Rozovian said: IIRC, there was a Zelda fansite that had a time-based splash image and color scheme, switching between day and night styles based on the user's clock. If you want a fun but not too complicated js coding project, you can do that. Though maybe not a day-night cycle for AOCC. Making the colors change with the seasons and turn wintry as the next release gets near would make sense, but would take a while for any changes to show. Still, it could be good practice. That sounds really cool. I will have to look into that. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derezr Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 12/25/2023 at 1:45 PM, Rozovian said: IIRC, there was a Zelda fansite that had a time-based splash image and color scheme, switching between day and night styles based on the user's clock. If you want a fun but not too complicated js coding project, you can do that. Though maybe not a day-night cycle for AOCC. Making the colors change with the seasons and turn wintry as the next release gets near would make sense, but would take a while for any changes to show. Still, it could be good practice. Not too long ago, I came across a css+js library that does just that! https://seasonal-css.incoherency.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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