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New music/VGM section
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:51 pm
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There's a new site music section now open at
http://www.smspower.org/music/ It is wiki-based so forum members can contribute, edit and correct things (we'll be keeping an eye out for abusers). I am slowly adding VGM packs, but most things are now migrated over from the old music section and somewhat updated for 2009. One thing I didn't do yet is the non-VGM section. I was wondering if it's worth keeping? What do you think? Please point out any problems you find. Known issues: - logo says VGMs on every page - IE sucks at transparent PNGs |
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:24 am |
What about another, other section for chiptunes? If we had a nice section for chiptunes people might be tempted by seeing their name in white on blue and have more motivation to compose.
I've been leaching all the Sega 8-bit chiptune vgms I can get my grubby hands on and would be happy to donate them. |
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:48 am |
Hmm, that's true. There are a lot around, but on the other hand posting leeched VGMs might cause some friction.
I'll look into adding a chiptune section. How do you suggest we categorise it? At the moment "VGMs" means game rips and "Non-VGM" means original stuff, with "competitions" placed separately. "Chiptune" doesn't quite cut it; "Original composition" doesn't cover rearrangements; "Homebrew" perhaps? |
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:45 am |
Can't get into the homebrew page | |
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:53 pm |
That's because it wasn't made yet. I made the placeholder a bit better now. | |
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:44 pm |
You are right about possible difficulties from posting vgm files without permission. We could certainly ask larger collections like Winter Chip and the more prolific composers/arrangers, who really are responsible for the vast majority of tunes.
My vote right now goes for naming the section "Chiptunes". You are absolutely right that the term is lacking - there are lots of arrangements of game music. But I don't think "Original Arrangements" has quite the zing and I think people won't be too surprised by what they get if they head over to the "chiptunes" section. But "Homebrew" also works, by that criterion. |
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:50 pm |
I think I'll stick with "Homebrew" now. It has nice parallels with the homebrew software side. I amended the index descriptions to be simpler and (hopefully) clearer.
I think it's worth contacting original authors directly to see if they're interested. Maybe we can list off-site links if they don't like the co-hosting (also, to be honest we don't have room for 1000 MP3s), I can make the listing handle multiple cases easily enough. The homebrew listing is distinctly alpha right now - would you like to suggest what info we ought to have? |
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:10 pm |
...all old "non VGM" are now listed in "Homebrew". Now I need to move all the competition entries in there... | |
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:51 pm |
...done. I also added support for external links instead of local downloads (the 2009 entries link to the forum pages). | |
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:36 am |
Maxim :P You may wanna fix this link on the index page of the website ;)
http://www.smspower.org/music/index.shtml Its dead for some reason |
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:40 am |
I fixed it. | |
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:42 am |
Just had a thought today how nice it would be to have transcriptions for the music. Do you think this would be worth adding to the wiki? | |
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:52 am |
As in sheet music or tabs or something? I don't see why not. Produce some and I'll see about fitting it in... | |
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 1:01 pm |
VGM list page doesn't show "Tintin in Tibet"'s system (Game Gear). | |
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:40 pm |
That's because there's no page at http://www.smspower.org/Games/TintinInTibet-GG yet. | |
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:16 pm |
I've added some code to the site that allows it to produce playlists for VGM packs. Page editors should see a "Regenerate" link which they can click on when the pack is updated to refresh the playlist. | |
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Playlists
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:43 am
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Playlists are a good addition. :)
However why showing so much information? There's a lot of redundancy and details. I think for the end user we would just want to display Title+Length (maybe Notes? Size?). The rest are mostly redundant and displayed once in the header. Now its perfectly possible for editors purpose to keep the full table generated somewhere as well, but showing it fully to normal user is quite dry. A short version with only Title+Length track listing would be great if displayed directly in the Games pages. |
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:11 pm |
Well, I went for "everything" first... and it's useful for checking tags. I may make it more filterable.
Edit: done. Click through for the full-fat playlist. |
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 6:58 pm |
The VGMs index now has a gratuitous CoverFlow(TM)(R) thing at the top. I may see if I can repurpose this later for cover images. | |