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"uses themes" (also some of the other classifications in some cases, i.e. OP/ED/insert songs, arrangements and dramas within otherwise OSTs etc.) should be applied on the respective tracks once that part is realized. I generally feel a lot of track specific info should only be applied once it can actually be set for specific tracks instead the whole album as the latter approach constantly causes irritations.
Anyway I'm really liking being able to browse products now. Many thanks to everyone involved. |
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what if the single is brand-new without a tracklist to apply the op/ep thing
so how do you know if there is an op or ed for that single when we know there are singles unrelated to anime/game/etc op/ed/etc or some tricky products? bah you can't, hence the op/ed in the classification to avoid adding in the notes (very honestly, you can guess if the classification has op or ed that it's vocal) btw, if an ost has chorus, you must add vocal? |
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Secret: I noticed you added some new Platform categories recently. The ones I noticed (in alphabetical order):
Flash/Web Google Android Movie Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Wii U OVA Series Sony PlayStation Vita I propose that we add the following to Platform: Nintendo Game Boy Pocket Nintendo Game & Watch Pachinko Machine SEGA Mark III Tiger Game.com And I also propose the following for Classification: Manga Tokusatsu TV Anime Examples of Tokusatsu: Godzilla Movies (classified as "daikaijuu eiga" (Giant Monster Movies)), Super Sentai, Metal Heroes (Space Police Gavan, etc.), Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Kikaider, etc. Finally, why not subdivide Mobile Phone into different services for Japan? Examples: i-Mode EZweb Yahoo Keitai |
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I'm hoping to have some time to get back to work on this, so I should have answers to all your questions soon. In the meantime, I'm fixing up a few little inconsistencies on the product and release edit menus.
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#36
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Staff can delete releases now. You can only delete a release that's not linked up to an album. This may create some extra work editing those links first, but I think the number of cases where this will come up is pretty small.
We may need the ability to change a release's linked title, or to allow a single release to be associated with multiple titles, but this will take some more thought, and is lower priority than the rest of the plan. |
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So, when you have musically equivalent albums, only the one designated as the parent (which may be kind of an arbitrary choice if it's a simultaneous release) shows up in the list when you are linking an album. This was the main motivation. As an example, I took the 3 Castlevania Chronicles releases, and made the earliest one the musically equivalent parent. You can see the effects of this by clicking on those three releases here: http://vgmdb.net/product/812 You can also declare a parent release for any release using the release editing menu. (Note: releases aren't viewable until specific album links exist for them, but you can always edit them from their product's edit page. Look for the list of releases, with the little Edit pencils beside them, and click on that pencil.) This is experimental, so I'm anticipating more discussion and feedback from you. |
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So, I've implemented the album-product link classifications. This interface is pretty intuitive, although it does add a fourth step to the product linking process. Some of this can be alleviated by auto-guessing based on album classification, but this won't be possible when there are multiple game and multiple classifications. If an album has the soundtrack to 3 games, and an arranged track from 1 game, only that one game should be tagged with "arrange", while all 3 get "soundtrack."
I was surprised to learn that we had over 11,000 album-product links. Nice work! I've got about 90% of them tagged with the proper set of classifications. The remaining 10% will have to be done manually by checking the album. This includes a lot of vocal arrange albums, where the vocal tracks might be limited to some of the products. These will have to be checked individually. There are also some albums where I have no clue what's going on because we lack track credits. So yeah, this is also experimental, so I'm looking for feedback. If you've got some time, try finding some albums that don't have these tags yet, and test out the interface. |
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So, by the addition of "Featured" alongside of "Fan Arrange", now we could add FFI or FFII to almost every FF albums because Prelude or Chocobo themes are featured there? I was about to say it would suck, but I think it's rather fine with some color difference.
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While the Featured classification could be used for that, I don't really think it should. I think it's almost a given that the main theme and a couple other themes (like the Chocobo theme) will be reused in many of the products in a franchise. I'd say that those kinds of themes are really owned more by the franchise than by whichever product used it first. We don't, however, have a way to link it to that (and maybe we should.) I've been using Featured for instances where a theme from a game is used in a solo album (see the Gran Turismo artist albums). I'm not sure I used it correctly though, as I don't have those albums.
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Fair enough. That's about how individual tracks cross albums, rather than product relationships so perhaps we'll have to wait until each track gets its own row at tables.
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#42
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Summary of progress since last post:
On album pages, if an album is linked to one specific release, we now use that releases name, followed by the platform. The link also goes straight to the release instead of the product. Here's an example (see Final Fantasy IV): http://vgmdb.net/album/10164 I still need to work on the detailed hover display for multiple releases. |
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I didn't know this had fallen to the 2nd page. Anyway, I've had some time to make some improvements:
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