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