Paulguy's Trying This

[paulguy]

Well, I was curious about the process of all this and found out that it's a lot easier than I thought.  I used Audacity, and probably will for any future ones that I might do.

Useful tools:
youtube-dl - Downloading videos from youtube and stuff
ffmpeg - .flv to .m4a (ffmpeg -i whatever.flv -f mp4 -c:a copy -vn whatever.m4a) Unecessary, Audacity imports the audio from .flv files just fine.
audacity - free, gets the job done
tracks -> stereo track to mono - don't forget!
effects -> normalize - Makes music a bit more consistently loud and helps beat finder
brown townyze -> beat finder - makes perfect loops!!
file -> export - make sure to select Ogg Vorbis!  Try multiple passes with different quality settings to find the optimal setting.

Name	Length	Size	-q	Source/Preview
Ahmad - Back in the Day	1:23.7	998547	7	Youtube
Star Trek: The Next Generation Credits	0:45.7	466976	5	Star Trek TNG Season 1 Blu-ray Youtube
Star Trek: Voyager Intro	1:45.1	926149	3	Star Trek Voyager DVD Youtube
Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It	0:55.5	669727	5	Youtube
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin and Juice	0:55.8	520865	3	FLAC Youtube
Fugees - Ready or Not	1:04.6	583567	3	FLAC Youitube
Fugees - Killing Me Softly	1:12:6	646947	3	FLAC Youtube
Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker	0:56.0	503410	3	Youtube
Marcy Playground - love and Candy	0:59.7	597956	5	Youtube
Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain	1:08.4	716789	5	Youtube
Chrono Trigger OST - 04. Peaceful Day	1:11.2	633799	3	Zophar's Domain Youtube
Chrono Trigger OST - 09. Wind Scene	1:31.5	814655	3	Zophar's Domain Youtube

I'm open to requests.  Just give me a source to work from (audio file, youtube video, etc.).  I'll try to look for high quality sources, though.

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[paulguy]

Uploaded some more sings since the original post.  Been making some progress and improving on technique for this.  Mostly been uploading kind of "nostalgic" songs, from my early childhood.

[paulguy]

Uploaded more music.  If anyone wants me to do more chrono trigger or other video game music, I'm up to requests.  Wind Scene has a bit of a click at the loop so if that really bothers anyone I could probably redo it but it'd require a lot of tweaking so for now I'm considering it good enough.

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Mostly been uploading kind of "nostalgic" songs, from my early childhood.

I greatly approve of Star Trek music being in this collection.