OGG Loop Archive - v2

UnderscoreFyreNova · Postby **UnderscoreFyreNova** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:16 pm

Fueled by a rage caused by episodes having inflated filesizes, I started work on this. It's very small as of now and not very complete, but I hope that over time, it'll grow larger. You can scroll down to learn how it works (and, if interested, how to help!), or click this nifty link (or the logo) to head there straight away.

What's in the OGG Archive right now?
Right now, we have this selection.

The (extremely expansive) catalogue so far!: show

How is it organized?
It's organized like such:

Publisher
↓
Developer (if not the same as publisher)
↓
Series
↓
Game
↓
DLC/Sidegame (if applicable)

Schedule?
I make zero promises, but I'll try to update something at least once every couple months.

How can I help?
Here's the deal- send me five high-quality OGG loops on discord (UnderscoreFyreNova™#0632) and I'll give you perms for the drive. Not even sure if anyone would want to help, but hey- offer's out there.

Something's off! How can I tell you?
In an ideal world I'd tell you to mail me, but given that I'm not on the forums often, I would, once again, implore you to use my discord to grab my attention. If organization's off, or if I mis-labelled a track, or if you're requesting a track, or if the OGG loop is frankly just shit, call me out- I'll fix it as soon as my lazy ass kicks it into high gear.

That's all, folks!
Thanks for reading this entire thing!

UnderscoreFyreNova · Postby **UnderscoreFyreNova** » Sun Oct 17, 2021 9:46 pm

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Greetings once more, ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary homies! I've come with a big, big, [[BIG SHOT]] for you [Beautiful Hongadongaroos]! For this update, these tracks have been added:

P-OGG: show

Whew, writing out that [Specil deal] took me an embarrassing amount of kRoMER! However, that pain comes with the joy of being able to say this:

We are now on v1!

Big thanks to everyone who sent contributed files! Anyways, that's it for this update; see you all soon!

ThePieSkyHigh · Postby **ThePieSkyHigh** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:42 pm

idk what i missed, but i can't fully understand what this is for (probably because i'm an idiot)

so these are music tracks in .ogg format made to make episode file sizes a tad smaller?
so you can come here and grab what you're looking for if it exists yet

yeah i'm not at 100% brain power rn sorry

Enjl · Postby **Enjl** » Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:05 am

ThePieSkyHigh wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:42 pm
idk what i missed, but i can't fully understand what this is for (probably because i'm an idiot)

so these are music tracks in .ogg format made to make episode file sizes a tad smaller?
so you can come here and grab what you're looking for if it exists yet

yeah i'm not at 100% brain power rn sorry

For the past half of smbx's lifespan, it has been using SDL Mixer X for audio, which grants it access to playing the following music file extensions: https://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/SDL_Mixer_X#Music_Formats
.ogg is special as an alternative to .mp3 due to its support for loop points, meaning that by placing meta tags you can get seamlessly playing music with just one loop of the song, rather than by downloading 30 minute extended mp3s and hoping people don't spend more time in the level than that.
By default, a 90 second .ogg is a tad larger in filesize than a 90 second .mp3 so additionally what I like to do is set the export quality to something like 4, which usually saves a couple more megabytes at the cost of an inaudible difference of audio quality.
By clever use of these file formats (using the native format like .spc for snes music whenever possible, and using .ogg when no such native format is available) you can pack more music into a tighter filesize.

ThePieSkyHigh · Postby **ThePieSkyHigh** » Tue Oct 19, 2021 4:02 pm

so all these are music tracks that were edited to be looped & archived here in .ogg?

i watched your video, it explained this pretty well.

Yave Yu · Postby **Yave Yu** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:16 pm

I love ogg, everything is better than mp3, including loop tag.

UnderscoreFyreNova · Postby **UnderscoreFyreNova** » Sun May 08, 2022 12:04 pm

What's up, hoes?

I'm back with a new list of OGGs to metaphorically feast your eyes on! (eyes? ears? eyes? eyes.) Not much to say, so take a look below!

P-OGG: show

Not quite as big as our last update, but still some bangers in there! Hope you all enjoy the new additions- next update will, hopefully, focus more on adding complete OSTs instead of individual, isolated soundtracks! Seeya then, and once again a thanks to everyone who contributed!