# Yasunori Mitsuda
* an cinniùint
* Sailing to the World
* Hako no Niwa
* Moonlit Shadow
I already have a rip of KiRite, so I'm good there. And I don't care too much what format it's in, so long as I can play/listen to it. If you use MP3/OGG (or whatever) though, please have a minimum of 160 bitrate (or higher if you prefer). Thanks in advance. Mouser X over.
Edit: I've started uploading. Check back every now and then until it's done.
edited 11:57 PM EST November 16, 2008
It's alright if you don't want to rip the Okami OST, but yeah, I do prefer an EAC rip of this album with proper settings ect. I'll continue my search then, thanks for offering though.
@JILost
Don't worry about the Metroid Metal CD, I understand your loyalty. :) Yeah, the Sonic music is indeed awesome! and thanks for clarifying that your CDs are indeed '100% ligit'. :)
If there where any soundtrack I would like you to do first, it would probably be the Super Mario World soundtrack. It's pretty rare from what I hear and thus it might be hard to get a lossless rip of this from anywhere else. Of course, I also love the music, especially the first disc. :D
@Mouser X
I too am interested in a lossless rip of Sailing to the World, unless of course you're not requesting lossless. But anyway, I'll look for this elsewhere then. :) I also like Yasunori Mitsuda's 'Xenosaga ~CREID~', it's a very nice Celtic mix. :D
A couple of recommendations to keep the files up longer:
Post the url address as text instead of a direct link, just in case this site is flagged or something
After you've finished the upload and the file hosting site gives you a url, use Anonym.to to make your links anonymous.
Hope that helps a little.
Really though, you're free to ignore me, as it's unlikely that I'll be downloading it anyway. I just figured my 2 cents would be worth it. Mouser X over and out.
Request.
Just thought of another awesome soundtrack that I'd like to request in (proper) lossless: Soul Calibur II and IV original soundtracks if anyone has the CDs.
Unrelated.
Please do remind me to upload soundtracks to this forum, I have many in lossless format and I'm usually home on the weekends, just mention it here so that I can remember. :)
edited 4:39 AM EST November 21, 2008
Flacs are of course much larger and will require quite more motivation on my part to successfully upload.
edited 12:46 PM EST November 21, 2008
the game has some chip tunes too, if you're ever inclined to hoot-ify those (if that's even possible... ¯\(º_o)/¯)
other than that, heroic; thanks!
EDIT: durr, actually only 2 tracks. jingoro's stage is in there. but i'm not too worried about drama stuff anyway.
edited 6:33 AM EST November 22, 2008
I believe kingshriek is the only one that knows how to rip sequenced music from CD games into HES files, you might try asking him.
http://www.snesmusic.org/hoot/kingshriek/other/KabukiIttouRyoudan.zip
It's great that the vast majority of CD games use the system card driver - makes for fairly easy ripping.
edited 2:58 AM EST November 22, 2008
Easy as in DSF or Gameboy games using GHX easy?
Cause I've noticed quite a lot of CD games that only have one or two redbook tracks. Guessing rest is sequenced, and would be nice to have them as well.
this is a bit of a deviation from the thread topic, but it's something i've been wondering for a while - what are the pros and cons of HES vs. hoot archives? There seems to be a lot more games ripped on hoot than are available in HES, though HES is my preference due to winamp playability. or am i just completely confused?
HES is music format for NEC's (and Hudson Soft's) PC Engine console.
Hoot is a music player, it handles many systems (including a replayer for HES files actually), but is mostly known here for NEC PC-88 and NEC PC-98 computer system rips (and other computers, like Sharp X1 and X68000, MSX, etc).
edited 10:42 AM EST November 22, 2008
edited 12:05 PM EST November 22, 2008
edited 3:37 PM EST November 23, 2008
Random quick questions belong in their own thread. In the interest of reducing thread pollution, if you feel the need to respond to this please create a new thread.
edited 1:49 AM EST November 23, 2008
Now taking away the question, that's just ride.
edited 9:16 PM EST November 23, 2008
OK, here's the album I want:
- Review -
Passion
It's the music of Yasunori Mitsuda and performed by Eminence Orchestra and Hopeful Weeds. Unfortunately I couldn't find a site with streaming mp3s, so there's no "Preview" like the other album requests that I've posted previously. :( Hope someone here has it. Cya.
edited 9:56 AM EST November 24, 2008
http://forums.ffshrine.org/forumdisplay.php?f=63
Thanks anyway. :)
Disc 1 www.megaupload.com/?d=9890HPMN
Disc 2 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TZX7F5FF
Marcus
Contains no cue file,log etc.. Just the tracks in FLAC format..
edited 10:23 AM EST November 25, 2008
Request!
Someone must have this soundtrack:
De Blob Original Soundtrack
I read that they were/are(?) giving this soundtrack away at Circuit City with purchase of the game, I only want the soundtrack though, and in proper lossless, as always. :)
Just tell me if you own the soundtrack and I'll show you how to make perfect lossless.
edited 10:26 AM EST November 25, 2008
Request!
I've been looking for this soundtrack for quite a long time now, it's one of my favorite orchestral scores of all time. Please, if you have the album or a proper lossless rip, please upload it. This is the album:
Soul Calibur II Original Soundtrack
Oh, and I'm also looking for this one as well:
Soulcalibur IV Original Soundtrack (2-Disc)
As always, I can show you how to create proper lossless if you don't already know how to. :)
edited 11:35 PM EST December 3, 2008
Well, here's another one:
Ragnarok Online Original Soundtrack
(Either CDs or proper lossless rip)
It has some really nice music on it, some trace too. If you have it... please. :)
I open all of my favorite forums and request the same thing at the same time. Ragnarok Online Original Soundtrack and especially Ragnarok Online II O.S.T. aren't the easiest downloads to come by appearently, I'm hoping that someone here just might happen to have it.
Thanks for the suggestion though but I'm already ahead of ya.
edited 11:48 AM EST December 6, 2008
Megaman X: Arranged Album Soundtrack
--Listen-- --Info--
Can I request an EAC lossless rip please. :) I can trade some music, also in EAC lossless, for this one. Thanks.
edited 10:52 AM EST December 15, 2008
Edit: Here it is:
27 Daiki Kasho Beastman.flac
Sorry it took so long.
edited 1:20 PM EST December 18, 2008
Mabinogi Original Soundtrack
If you have the physical copies of the CDs, I'd much prefer an [EAC] FLAC lossless rip please, I can show you how to do this. Thanks.
Linear Compi 2007
if anyone has the actual CDs, i would appreciate it if it was encoded in FLAC or at least 320kbps MP3. Thanks :)
edited 1:45 PM EST January 2, 2009
iTunes shit = no.
next all we need is a cosplaying hcs
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IHVJSX2R
some sound glitches, lack of loops/fades (lazy) and there's two missing tracks as well (out of the 35 total - also lazy), but otherwise fully tagged. i also have some recordings of vigilante 8 + 2nd offense i could upload that were done the same way years ago, though i expect those are already available elsewhere these days.
Thanks dude. :)
edited 2:13 PM EST January 18, 2009
Here's my .log (cleaned) and .cue (uncleaned) files.
I had to re-rip several trakcs on the first 4 discs: CRC values didn't match or AccurateRip reported wrong CRC values. Discs 4 and 5 aren't in the AccurateRip database, so tracks from those discs can't be verified the AccurateRip way (also some very short tracks on the first discs couldn't be found in AR db). Because of that I have to trust the test and copy CRC values, which I don't fully.. can or should I trust them if they match? (edit: I found it I shouldn't, but I don't know how to be sure if a track is read correctly or not) I could try to read the discs on another PC with a different drive, am I correct in assuming the CRC values should be the same?
hcs: I bought it from YesAsia. This soundtrack (and game) is such a masterpiece and so well mastered compared to mainstream CD's, that I found it very much worth a purchase.
edited 2:16 PM EST January 19, 2009
edited 3:11 PM EST January 19, 2009
If the tracks ripped aren't present in the AccurateRip database then there's not really much you can do other then to trust the settings that you've made and the matching CRC values.
I'm not exactly sure which day you started to used my tutorial but the most recent time that I updated it was 3 days ago, I had added some information about Overread into Lead-in and Lead-out under the Exaction [tab], I'm not sure if you read that portion of the tutorial or not.
Truthfully though, this feature will not really effect the accuracy of your rip, hence the "Optional", since all that it does is recover some null samples and therefore it makes no difference.
From what I see based on the log files and CUE sheets that you had uploaded, everything looks to be good.
If you're interested in tagging your audio files as well as editing file names and information in the CUE sheet, you can use Mp3Tag to do this. This is not part of my request as I'm willing to add the tags myself, but if you're interested in doing this for your own rips I just thought that I'd suggest it.
Looking forward to this awesome OST. :D Thanks. Cya.
I already tagged and renamed the .flac's with Tag&Rename according to the OST entry at VGMDB.net. I chose the English Game Titles instead of the English Literal Translation, but I might be crazy enough to write some batch files that work with a commandline tagger (tag.exe?) to switch between the two track naming options. I could even try Japanese if I'm really crazy. I also used the #gamemp3s tracknumber naming scheme (101 Trackname - 159 Trackname, 201 Trackname -2xx Trackname, etc.)
I also did a ReplayGain album scan on the full OST with foobar2000 and tagged those values.
So yeah, the trackname/tags still needs finishing, and the .cue's are still messed up with filenames and wrong title info. If you add me on MSN with the concealed address I posted we can work out the details to get the rip over to you so you may work on it as well. Maybe you're up for the trackname/tag batch thing as a way to return the favour. In the meantime I could do some nice scans of the artwork and stuff.
I read and followed your tutorial on January 18.
That should be good, I've only done some minor updates since then.
jelbo Wrote:
I also did a ReplayGain album scan on the full OST with foobar2000 and tagged those values.
Um, maybe I'm misunderstanding something. What exactly will ReplayGain do to the audio data? It's my understanding that adding ReplayGain, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about, will alter the audio data, in which case the audio files will no longer be 1:1 copies of the original. The recommendation from most EAC gurus is to never use ReplayGain if you're looking to make 1:1 copies. If I'm misunderstanding what you mean, please explain.
jelbo Wrote:
So yeah, the trackname/tags still needs finishing, and the .cue's are still messed up with filenames and wrong title info. If you add me on MSN with the concealed address I posted we can work out the details to get the rip over to you so you may work on it as well. Maybe you're up for the trackname/tag batch thing as a way to return the favour.
Well other then the ReplayGain thing, which I may be misinterpreting, Everything in the info that you uploaded looks good. If you want to tag the files before uploading them then that's up to you, I usually don't even ask for this because it's extra work for the uploader and really I can do this myself.
jelbo Wrote:
In the meantime I could do some nice scans of the artwork and stuff.
That actually would be quite nice. :)
edited 3:57 AM EST January 21, 2009
Jelbo, I just wanted to point out one other thing. At the very end of my tutorial, I suggest the use of the HkSFV program. Once you install it, you can use it via the context menu.
After you've made all of the changes you want to make to your archive, right before compressing/archiving the album, select all of the files or right-click on the folder itself and create just the MD5 file. This will be useful since you're sending the archive over the internet and sometimes tiny bits of data can get lost; this will allow the downloaders to check the MD5 files to see if that's the case and re-download if necessary.
Do you think the batch thing is a good idea? I'd like to make the ultimate OST rip and that would make it pretty nifty.
I could use some help though, so if you want to lend a hand on some of the things that'd be nice. On my todo list are:
-check correctness of current tags/filenames
-make .bat files that work with cmdline tagger to switch between track title naming options (effective on tags, filenames, hashfiles, playlist files and .cue sheets)
-fix .cue files based on actual filenames (different .cue file sets when the track title switching idea becomes reality)
-make scans and polish them up
-make .nfo :Þ
I'll be home in about 7 hours from now so we can set up some FTP connection or whatever is suitable.
I'm aware of all the CRC32/MD5 stuff, and I use QuickSFV for that (with some self-hacked icon resource to please my eyes on the context menu icons ;))
Indeed, that should work.
jelbo wrote:
Do you think the batch thing is a good idea? I'd like to make the ultimate OST rip and that would make it pretty nifty.
I think it's a good idea, it would satisfy the purists that prefer to have the original tags as well as the English speaking people that prefer to have tags that they can actually read. :p
LOL. Just make sure to describe the function of the batch file in the filename so that no one thinks it's some sort of virus. :D
jelbo wrote:
<u>I could use some help though, so if you want to lend a hand on some of the things that'd be nice. On my todo list are:
-check correctness of current tags/filenames
-make .bat files that work with cmdline tagger to switch between track title naming options (effective on tags, filenames, hashfiles, playlist files and .cue sheets)
-fix .cue files based on actual filenames (different .cue file sets when the track title switching idea becomes reality)
-make scans and polish them up
-make .nfo :Þ</u>
- Well I usually trust the information given at VGMdb and it has the Japanese translation as well.
- LOL. I know very little to nothing about creating batch files, I may not be able to do very much for you in that area.
- You can easily create multiple CUE sheets by opening the CUE current CUE sheet in the Notepad change the filenames data there. When you're done making your edits, save the file under a slightly different name with the extension: .cue.
Change similar information such as artists and folders by navigating within the Notepad to: Edit -> Replace (Ctrl+H) and type in the "Find what:" field, for example: Unknown artist / Unknown title and replace it with the artist(s) and title or whatever it is that you want to replace it with.
jelbo wrote:
I'll be home in about 7 hours from now so we can set up some FTP connection or whatever is suitable.
Hm, I'm not exactly sure how to setup an FTP but it should be fine for you to upload it to a file hosting site(?). Maybe someone else here might know how to do this. Sorry.
All-in-all, things are looking very good, I'm really looking forward to this rip. :D Cya.
edited 4:40 PM EST January 21, 2009
Please respond if you own that soundtrack. Thanks.
edited 2:23 AM EST January 23, 2009
The same technique is imo rather impossible to use on the .cue sheets, that'll have to be hand labour. I'd like to ask you to do the .cue sheets, you said you were fine with the tagging bits ;)
I can set up an FTP server for you, but all I ask is that you add me on MSN or send me an e-mail so I can give you the details.
Some initial tests with tag.exe were unsuccessful (all tracks got the same title :S?), so I'll have to look into that again or use a different cmdline tagger.
Shame you know little about batchfiles.. I'm pretty much a rookie on that part as well, but I know some handy search and replace tricks in UltraEdit to help me out.
Really sorry about that, I've only used a batch files once and I had to look up a fair amount of info just to add like 2 lines of commands. :/
jelbo wrote:
The same technique is imo rather impossible to use on the .cue sheets, that'll have to be hand labour. I'd like to ask you to do the .cue sheets, you said you were fine with the tagging bits ;)
Sure, shall I use the CUE sheets that you sent to me? Um, also, could you please explain in detail what it is exactly that you want me to do with them again? :p
jelbo wrote:
I can set up an FTP server for you, but all I ask is that you add me on MSN or send me an e-mail so I can give you the details.
I don't have MSN, so I guess I can set up a temporary E-mail address.
BtEO wrote:
I do have Mario Galaxy, and the English release too, so it'll have official English titles. You'll have to remind me of the link to your ripping guide though.
Awesome. :) I do prefer the Platinum version because of some of the music on the second disc, I don't mind about the titles so much. I'm just making some minor changes to the tutorial, nothing significant, just trying to make it easier to understand.
Please tell me if there's any portion of the tutorial that sounds confusing. Here's the link: How To Make 1:1 Copies of Audio CDs Using Exact Audio Copy
edited 3:38 PM EST January 23, 2009
Project Soul the Primary Sound Box -Soul Edge ~ Soul Calibur I & II-
I just found out about this one today. Soul Calibur music is some of my most favorite music to listen to, especially Soul Calibur II OST. Again, if someone has the album, please rip it according to the tutorial.
edited 8:33 AM EST January 24, 2009
Gungriffon Original Soundtrack (Motoaki Takenouchi)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IGR9TARK
download it or die >:o it's rare as heck still, so... yeah. get.
The .cue files need to be two sets of 5. The need correct references to filenames (2 sets, see above) and PERFORMER, according to the tags or VGMDb.net reference which I followed.
Not sure if this job can be scripted, don't think it's easy. Example of one track:
FILE "Unknown Artist - Unknown Title\01 - Track01.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Track01"
PERFORMER "Unknown Artist"
ISRC JPE100607410
INDEX 01 00:00:00
needs to be changed to:
FILE "101 Title.flac" FLAC
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Title"
PERFORMER "Masami Ueda"
ISRC JPE100607410
INDEX 01 00:00:00
Maybe some more technical guys like hcs or UNKNOWNFILE can think up something :) Otherwise it'll have to be done by hand.
I have some #gamemp3s scans around which will do. I could probably scan them a bit prettier, but don't want to waste time on it.
edited 4:40 PM EST January 24, 2009
The batch files have some tracks left out because they are identically named in the two track title types.
The .cue of disc 2 has wrong titles that are from freedb. The other disc .cue's have TrackXX as track titles.
Thanks in advance :)
edited 6:57 AM EST January 25, 2009
JILost, I don't know if you're still around these forums, I was just wondering if you still have those Sonic Albums that I requested?
I'm going to look for an album that I can upload here, does anyone care whether it's lossless or not? that will make a difference as to what I'm able to upload.
btw, you also ordered from YesAsia? They're indeed the cheapest I could find :)
Yeah, I ordered the Okami OST and The Black Mages while I was at it (impossible to find a non-bootleg version on eBay), just shipped today :)
Does anyone own the Ragnarok Online II O.S.T.? It sounds like such an awesome soundtrack. :) If you happen to own the CD then that would be very awesome and I'd like an awesome rip of it please. If all you have are the mp3s then I'll even take those. There are a total of 20 tracks on this disc.
edited 6:50 AM EST January 31, 2009
The MP3s floating around sound terrible.
Listen for yourself:
http://www.4shared.com/file/58371513/2024a9bd/Mother3i.html
They're 128 kbps VBR or something.
edited 5:23 PM EST February 1, 2009
You're probably better off finding a way to bypass the DRM protection (didn't iTunes discontinue that already) or, if you do burn the files to CD, rip and encode the files using LAME with V0 encoding (more info), this will allow for near-lossless sound quality form the original Mp3s but keep a small file size.
Really though, lossless is only useful when encoding from other non-compressed lossless formats such as .wav.
edited 12:34 AM EST February 2, 2009
I thought iTunes were still protected AACs. (Why would a dumb person convert to MP3 if they were MP3 originally?) Thus, the easiest way to un-DRM them would be to burn a CD. Never perform lossy encoding twice! LAME V0 is lossy and will further degrade quality. After the initial sin of lossy-ness, the best thing you can do to preserve 100% quality (other than playing the original files, which we can't do thanks to DRM) is to raw-ify, then encode to FLAC for playback/storage.
So if someone feels so inclined, that would be great.
edited 1:43 PM EST February 2, 2009
EDIT: As for the iTunes store, I don't keep up with it, but a quick look at the intro on their wiki page makes it sound like they're in the process of moving the whole thing over to unprotected 256kbps AAC, so perhaps hope for a better copy exists.
edited 2:52 PM EST February 2, 2009
http://hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php?showthread=6770&showpage=8
but the file appears to have being removed. Might any kind soul be able to reupload it?
Much thanks given in advance. Please ignore me if this happens to be inappropriate.
edited 6:46 PM EST February 2, 2009
If it's possible to preserve quality, I do it. I have the space, and then it's 100% the same as it was in iTunes AAC, except without stupid DRM.
I'm pretty sure that "iTunesPlus" garbage only applies to "select" albums. They're playing that game.
The MP3 copy I linked clips. CLIPS. That's not good. At least I think its clipping... sounds get scratchy when loud. They also have that scrumptious watery lossy sound to them.
In Japan it was apparently released to 4 different digital stores (http://www.1101.com/MOTHER3/). I don't know about the other 2 (HMV/mora), but Napster, I believe, uses unprotected mp3's. If someone can figure out how to buy from the Japanese store (I know many of them use IP filtering (easy to get around) and reject non-jp credit cards (not so easy to get around)) that might be another way to get it in decent quality - I assume they aren't shoveling anything _worse_ than 128.
As for the iTunes release, the only actual iTunes files I've ever heard (bought by an old roommate of mine) were ripped horrendously and he wound up having me just get a pirated copy of the album for him... I wouldn't put odds against the clipping already being there, I doubt LAME would've introduced it. Possibility exists, of course, that the files went through more than just that conversion though...
I don't have them all right now but, if anyone is interested, I might be able to upload it over the next few days.
edited 2:46 PM EST February 3, 2009
hcs, will you eventually get around to my .cue files, or should I go ahead with it manually? You may also explain the general idea, I'm pretty creative with UltraEdit and batch files :o)
edited 5:23 PM EST February 3, 2009