Here is a re-rip of a specific track from Parasite Eve: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kni0q7uvlvr3327/216%20Someone%20Calls%20Memorias%2001.psf?dl=0
EDIT: Forgot to specify what track: 216 Someone Calls Memorias
This came about after noticing missing data in the Akao sequence in the psf currently hosted. The data in question is the missing opera vocal section which still doesn't play right now because it requires a cpu flag (or 2) to enable it which is beyond my abilities. There's probably a deeper reason for the data's removal beyond simply it not playing, but I haven't come across any noticeable issues during playback yet. As such, I wouldn't really use this rip to replace the current one. For midi conversions, however, it is much more useful as the current psf will generate a messed up sf2 (and probably dls as well).
Edit 2: as for how I know the data is the missing opera vocals? From shifting around that data and removing some others before converting it to midi.
Some progress based on an idea. It seems the flags used to enable the voice are the same as the one used to move UB's sequences along. Replacing the UB data with the "Someone Calls" data got results, although a bit earlier than I was hoping:
Tags taken from the official OST. In the case of the NDS set, strm files were converted to mp3, so would need to be replaced for the purposes of vgm.hcs64.
The OST sounds far better so I'm probably keeping that and deleting these now.
Lunar, did you tried to use the !tags playlist format with the STRMs? Using a "!tags.m3u" file, you don't need to re-encode the files and just add the artist, album, track title, etc. There are various sets using tags that way without modifying the original sources.
Yeah, converting esoteric streamed formats to mp3 is a habit I got into years ago, mainly because of metadata, but also because life is too short to mess with these formats if it isn't strictly necessary :) so it's just a case of what I had on my drive.
Even so, in my local library, rather than use !tags.m3u I use the External Tags component in foobar2000, which does a similar job.