20th Century Music Pack (Submission Open!)

[bmah]

Well, Roar added a ton of information to every one of the cd titles in his pack, which we obviously don't need this time. The only additional detail we need other than the stepper's cd-title is the song's year of release.

Here's a few examples of what Roar had in the past:


This one had a ton of detail:
- Roar's cd title, shrunken and shown on both sides
- partitioning 4k chart(s) to the left and 6k (solo) chart(s) to the right
- difficulties of each chart
- genre on top


- Wineandbread's cd title, shrunken
- difficulty of chart
- genre on top

Obviously we don't need all of this. On SM, this amount of detail results in a pretty unwieldy cd title. But how about something like slightly shrinking the stepper's cd title and then placing the year on top (or bottom, or someplace else)? That's all we need.

[Gundam-Dude]

this pack won't be complete until someone steps some nsync

maybe I'll do it...

[soramimi]

If someone steps Moby Dick, I would love them forever.

[cedolad]

Originally Posted by bmah

Obviously we don't need all of this. On SM, this amount of detail results in a pretty unwieldy cd title. But how about something like slightly shrinking the stepper's cd title and then placing the year on top (or bottom, or someplace else)? That's all we need.

I actually like the idea of having the genre as well, maybe not as big either. The genres and years are less important than the author's cd title so they can could be a bit shrunken. I'll fiddle a bit with my cdtitle and see if I find anything I like.

[cedolad]

GD pls step nsync <3

[Arntonach]

I can actually see GD stepping NSync really well.

Question time though, how much of the century is gonna be covered? It seems like there's a lot of talk for 90's songs with a few rock tunes, but not much outside of that. Anyone gonna try touching the 50's or earlier?

[blindreper1179]

Year release should be in subtitle. One because of smo you can't see CD titles and banners and two, resteps might not have the year added, making it easier to have the right file on smo.

[cedolad]

I was actually thinking of touching up on that haha. I was thinking of stepping some older stuff, Cab Calloway (if I could sync), or maybe some Sinatra.

Here's a deal, if anyone step the oldest song, you'll get a cookie. Legit.

e: @Blind, I hadn't really taken SMO into consideration. Will take using the subtitle in consideration. I'll iron out the details by tomorrow, like I've mentioned before, I wouldn't like too much clutter amongst the files.


and it's 4am

[kommisar]

2 bad nobody can step 'nsync's pop

[blindreper1179]

Yeah, that song wouldn't make a good file no matter who tried to step it.

[EzExZeRo7497]

Originally Posted by bmah

I think it would be neat if you labelled each song (gfx, or maybe cd-title, idk) with a year when it was released. I'd really get a sense of what era I'm listening to when you have the actual years accompanying each file.

Alternatively, you can put in the year (and the album that a song debuted in) the subtitle.

For example,

#TITLE:Magewind;
#SUBTITLE:Time And Chance (1978);
#ARTIST:Caldera;

Some simfile artists I know do this, myself included. It looks a little jarring to see the year in the CDtitle, I think the subtitle would be just fine since you can look at the year that this track/song is made and also listen to it in the song selection screen as well.

EDIT: Didn't read the rest of the page, but personally I don't see that much use for the subtitle besides that and a couple of snarky comments here and there lmao.

[Arntonach]

I will not add the year of release to any of my submissions' subtitle if only because they would have large subtitles as it is and subtitles tend to look really smooshed together as it is. :/

[Fission]

i looks smooshed if you are using a theme that doesn't handle subtitles well or if you make it overly long (just include a year or something if album name and year are too long). other than that it's fine from what i have seen.

[Gundam-Dude]

Originally Posted by EzExZeRo7497

Alternatively, you can put in the year (and the album that a song debuted in) the subtitle.

For example,

#TITLE:Magewind;
#SUBTITLE:Time And Chance (1978);
#ARTIST:Caldera;

Some simfile artists I know do this, myself included. It looks a little jarring to see the year in the CDtitle, I think the subtitle would be just fine since you can look at the year that this track/song is made and also listen to it in the song selection screen as well.

One of the issues I encountered from doing this is when albums include a year in the title itself. Back when I released Solo Japan Pack 2, there were a lot of BMS of Fighters songs that do in fact include years in the compilation titles. So in this case, do I be redundant but keep the actual title of the album like this:

BMS of Fighters Year (Year)

or do I break the actual tagging consistency to be less redundant like this:

BMS of Fighters (Year)

or do I just leave it as such, while still breaking tagging consistency:

BMS of Fighters Year

Every BMS of Fighters compilation album includes the actual year in its title—I'm just using this as an example of albums that include year in its official title. If you're incredibly OCD about proper tagging, then this is an issue, otherwise you can just ignore special exceptions like this.

[cedolad]

Hmm, I see a lot of dispute about where the year should go haha. What if I put the year and album name in the subtitle, and the decade year in the cd title?

e: Also I wouldn't say I'm OCD about tagging, moreso organization in general ._.

[Wafles]

You'd better not touch my cdtitle. (if my file even gets accepted when I send it lol)

Year in Title or Subtitle is fine with me. If you put year in title and structure songs like

[1951] Song name
[1972] Song name
[1999] Song name

You'd get kind of a cool progression throughout the century effect, which I think is ballin'. Some peoople might not like the fact that the songs are alphabetical this way though.

[cedolad]

Actually Wafles that's a really good idea. Rebound did a similar idea with his dump collection, does anyone have anything against this idea? I really like the progression through the century idea.

[Fission]

please use that idea

[Wineandbread]

Free jazz step pls

[bmah]

Originally Posted by EzExZeRo7497

Alternatively, you can put in the year (and the album that a song debuted in) the subtitle.

- subtitle font is too small
- long subtitles with the year after the name will make it hard to find or see the year, making it really insignificant

Originally Posted by Wafles

You'd better not touch my cdtitle. (if my file even gets accepted when I send it lol)

The cd title idea I had doesn't mess with the design of your own cd title, it just adds a parameter besides it.

Originally Posted by Wafles

Year in Title or Subtitle is fine with me. If you put year in title and structure songs like

[1951] Song name
[1972] Song name
[1999] Song name

You'd get kind of a cool progression throughout the century effect, which I think is ballin'. Some peoople might not like the fact that the songs are alphabetical this way though.

- year becomes slightly more relevant in that it comes first in the title (or subtitle)
- however, the font of the text is still an issue for me, it's too tiny, particularly if the song name is long, and particularly if we're referring to subtitles here instead of titles
- and yes, as you mentioned, people might like the pack to be alphabetical; furthermore, this would affect your alphabetical search for one of these songs in the entire SM songlist (and I sometimes search for a song this way)


I personally still want to go for the cd title since it not only looks cool, it actually will stand out and make the years more significant than the other ideas give credit to (simply by to design of font size). And since on the whole scheme of things this isn't a huge factor in the pack, it's no big deal if the cd titles are invisible on SMO.