Hiatus…again…

•14 January, 2007 • Leave a Comment

Sorry, but I’m gonna have put the project on hiatus again. I’m having some problems that won’t allow me to share the collection for a while, so don’t expect me to be online to much. Also, I really have to improve the collection before putting it back up. Wonder if this will ever succeed.

~aclors

The Actual Collection

•2 January, 2007 • Leave a Comment

    I’m sure some people will wonder where all the VGM that is part of my project is. Well, the best place to access it is a Direct Connect Hubvgmcentral.no-ip.com, though to actually be able to download stuff from the hub, you have to be validated and share some VGM; look for [ADSL]SoloMyst at VGM Central. You can also try to catch me on AIM (s/n: aclors), but I’m barely ever online. Another mthod you can try is to contact me (I go by Epsilon there) at Slightly Dark and I’ll see if we can work something out.

    Also please, DO NOT ASK FOR ANY VGM ON THIS SITE. If you do, I will not allow you to post here.

    Alright, I hope you all are fine with this and thanks for your cooperation.

~aclors

.:[PROJECT STATEMENT]:.

•2 January, 2007 • Leave a Comment

    aclors VGM Collections is my own little project that I decided to follow through after truly learning about ID3 tags and the purpose of .NFO files for MP3 releases. Before I really knew anything about documentation, I would always alter the ID3 tags of any group release (i.e. #gamemps, #anime-game-osts, etc.) to fit my liking. My VGM collection (non-#gamemps) consists mostly of rips done by others and some official albums (few group releases). Anyway, upon discovering the purpose of documentation, I determined myself to appropriately tag and document all VGM that I had; I also chose to follow a #gamemp3s standard with a few modifications.

    Thus, my project became merely to modify MP3 VGM albums, rips, and doujin that were in my possesion, so that they are accurate. I do not encode any actual albums into MP3 format, though I do convert chiptune files (i.e. SPC, VGM, GSF, etc.) to MP3s. My documentation consists of altering the names and ID3 tags of the MP3s so that they are more consistent with the actual album booklets, obis, track listings, games, etc. I also produce .NFOs that exhibit information about the album/rip and the MP3 files. Nonetheless, I am not perfect and with such a huge task as this, I am bound to have errors in some of this; I also do not know Japanese. Furthermore, I am no expert when it comes to the MP3 format and thus, I do not include precise details about the encoding process and status in the .NFOs. This is all just an attempt to organize my VGM collection and to make it more accurate.

    Also, in carrying out the aforementioned procedure, I have had to once again modify the tags of those MP3s that I ruined during my first experience with VGM MP3s. In modifying those tags, I had no choice but to alter some group releases, since I could not find the original releases. In other cases, the MP3s that I had did not include any additional .TXT or .NFO files that described the encoding or the actual encoder/tagger. Overall, I have tried to accredit all original encoders and taggers in both the .NFOs and MP3s, but many albums lack this information. This is not to say that I don’t have some releases by other peopl intact, as I do have some though not many.

    So finally, the point of this statement is to make all aware that I am not trying to steal the credit of any who might have encoded and/or tagged the VGM that I worked on as part of this project. Moreover, I am not guaranteeing that all the documentation is 100% correct; in fact, I am determined to carefully check over all of my work in the future.
I hope that you find my work helpful. Enjoy. :)

~aclors

A Great Start to a New Year!

•1 January, 2007 • Leave a Comment

    Wow, 2007 already. Well, I wish you all a great new year. I know I’m off to a good start; I finally finished tagging and documenting my VGM (Video Game Music), excluding any doujin. I hope to use this site mainly for this tagging and documentation project. For now, I’ll just post lists of my VGM collection in the form text files; I was able to generate these using a handy program that SbCl3 from Slightly Dark posted called Oidua. For more information on the program, go to this link. Anyway, I’ll post all the specifics about the project tomorrow cause I’m too tired from documenting. :(

Status Update

•19 September, 2006 • Leave a Comment

    Until I finish my humongous VGM documentation project, my site/blog will have to be put on hiatus. :(