Rozovian Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Noticed it in the reviews forum. You guys have got a lot of remixes to tag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 After we finish the first pass, I definitely want to get people to come up with new tags for us and double-check certain things. I think already we're missing some mood tags that could be good to have. Just wanna emphasize this: Wait until we're done before you people start making suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flare4War Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 this could wind up being pretty awesome. Yes it could. I can see this coming in very handy for people who are new to the site, and frankly I like out it routes people to the reviews. Anyone want a kudo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dafydd Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 What is this threads tagging business? Have we finally succumbed to the general public's cravings to be able to browse mixes by genre? I seem to be able to find rock remixes by finding a thread with a "rock" tag in the reviews forum... http://www.ocremix.org/forums/tags.php?tag=rock I don't care, personally, but if this is an unwanted side effect of an otherwise very useful feature... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 That's the point. You'll eventually see the tags on the remix detail page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 We're were against doing genres, then we realized we could make tagging more powerful than that. So we decided to keep the genres pretty broad and not use that as the only classification. We'll eventually tags all of the ReMixes. Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skummel Maske Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 That's a really great initiative! I've had a hard time trying to find other guitar-driven tracks to hear how they've been mixed and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dafydd Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Ok, cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 You can also help out the staff and tag a couple of remixes yourself (though keep in mind that only existing tags can be used). I've been doing that with a number of tracks since the feature first rolled out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Favs Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I have a question: Is there an option here on OC ReMix where you can search songs by genre? I know you can search by artist, game and composer. But what if I like how one song sounds like, and want to hear others like it? Does this site have it this option? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishy Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 http://www.ocremix.org/info/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_aren.27t_the_ReMixes_categorized_by_genre.2C_i.e._techno.2C_jazz.2C_orchestral.2C_etc..3F Its in the faq, though I'm sure a few people will say we still should in this thread anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less Ashamed Of Self Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Long story short, ocremix's concept is one wherein favouritism is supposed to be hindered and diminished. If we suddenly put up a rap, metal, and techno section people would scream: "where's my breakbeat/dance/polka!?" Also; generally speaking, the songs are too varied to fall under genre specifications easily. Which genre would zelda on a Heineken bottle fall under? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moseph Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Actually, the threads on the reviews board are tagged by genre and other characteristics (view a thread and scroll down to just below the last post on the page to see the tags). And before you rush off to check, Zelda Heineken is tagged with "instrumental, winds." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palpable Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 The FAQ doesn't entirely reflect the views held by djp and other staff today... I'm in the process of tagging mixes by genre, instruments, and other descriptors. http://www.ocremix.org/forums/search.php Check out the tag cloud at the bottom of that page for some search terms. Right now, the search is not that advanced, but it can find you all the guitar mixes that have been tagged so far, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishy Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 o shi- I forgot about the tagging business. Yeah I spose that is the only reasonable alternative, give it lots of genres! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 we should pidgeonhole all mixes appropriately, thank you very much. genre should be the only sorting option, so i can get all my breakbeat polka mixes without having to see the other heretical trash on this site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 breakbeat polka I want to hear this now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Favs Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 I'm all up for broadening my horizons (you should see my iPod library: rock, classic, polka, new age, rap, etc.). It'd just be nice if I could see a song, see it's genre and say "Hey, I feel like listening to a little *insert genre(s)*. I'd still hear anything, but it'd be great help if, for say, you're looking for something specific. Makes sense, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 i'd suggest doing those genre things yourself. i use the comments field in most mp3 tags for this, so i can just search and organize by them if i want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunning alias Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Hi Iv always found it strange that there is no genre field in a songs data. It would be useful to know when searching for something new to listen to. You could also group and search songs by genre. Iv worked on sites and databases before and I don't think it would be too hard to implement (although I don't know how you have your system set up). The only issue could be getting all the artists to fill in the data themselves. Hope you think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 They're waay ahead of you. Don't think they've tagged everything yet tho, and it's not the mixes themselves that are tagged, just their review thread (and no direct link from review thread to remix, unfortunately). Tho artists filling out the tags themselves is a stupid idea. Then there'd be stuff tagged "epic" and "awesome" and "lol" and "shtyjdgfgts" and "oc" and stuff... Like on youtube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Genres officially will not be integrated into song data or the site, just the more generic tags. Here's why. OC ReMix has no intentions of categorizing pieces by genre. We've discussed this matter several times - what it boils down to is a feeling that: * There are many pieces that don't fit nicely into genres or have multiple genres, and putting them in "miscellaneous" and "multiple" categories would be kind of lame; and * Part of the purpose of the site is to open people's minds (and ears) to new horizons. Try everything. If all you want to do is download Square techno, so be it, but you'll be missing out on tons of great songs. We've decided not to implement a system that would encourage that kind of navigation. A third reason could potentially be that djpretzel would feel lonely having the only piece in the hillbilly genre, but we think the first two reasons are strong enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codebeard Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 I think this is a really good idea. I've already found several new favourite songs by deciding "I'll play songs from this tag today". Because I found the forum tag browser to be a little cumbersome (no ability to search by multiple tags, for example), I decided to write a little website to facilitate this. http://kieranclancy.com/ocrtags/ At the moment (about a day after I started writing it), it supports: - Showing a list of remixes with links to the main remix page and forum thread - Filtering by any number of tags - Ability to exclude any number of tags - View untagged remixes - Downloadable m3u playlists for any set of filters - Ability to search for 'similar' remixes to any remix based on tags I hope that this can be a sort of proof-of-concept for some cool things that tagging remixes will allow. Whether you feel in the mood for 'sad+piano' or 'guitar+chiptune', I hope you can have some fun listening to different combinations of tags. Please let me know if you find this site to be useful, or if you have any other feedback. Thanks, codebeard. PS: I manually run a script which scrapes any modified tags (in an efficient way), so don't expect any modifications to appear until I remember to run my script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 - Downloadable m3u playlists for any set of filters- Ability to search for 'similar' remixes to any remix based on tags These two thing are great. Would be even greater if they'd be integrated into the ocr site, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palpable Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Wow, this is excellent. I know djp had wanted to do something like this when we were finished tagging; maybe this is something we can integrate into the site eventually. This helps me in just figuring out which mixes are untagged! Speaking of which, I should get back to tagging... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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