# Shinon's Music collection Retracked
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## Why?
I have gathered a *lot* of anime music themes and songs over the time I've been into anime (which speaking of that... I think it has been around 5-7 years?) On Nyaa, I haven't seen anyone try to categorize and sort albums, so here we are. I'm uploading my collection along with a index. I have seen stuff like "Ohh a lot of touhou music!" "All J-Core!".... but no collection specific to anime that are big.
## How was this project started?
I suppose it happened naturally. The reason why "Retracked" is there is because I found a need to resort my music folder (It was getting cluttered you see). This collection is currently like around 2/3 of my music collection anime.
## Sources
TBH it's too many to list. But the names off the top of my head are:
- VCB-Studio [Thanks for including songs with your releases! Those that are labelled as "restricted" have been removed]
- Hayaku [Thanks for letting me in and being a part of it all!]
## Issues
I know there are issues. There is a reason this is not even version 1! Songs that supposed to romaji'd are not done yet for example, some albums are missing covers that I need add... Some are just not labelled properly... etc.
Give me time or... you can.. *breaths*... [Do It Yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOQmPx2Mjk). ~~That will tickle someone's funny bone somewhere~~
Listed issues that I know of:
- Due to an actual mistake, `Mirai Night` for seitokai yakuindomo has been edited (audio wise). I've been meaning to fix this for a while but I keep forgetting.
## Disputes
This is not a forum to impose your ideas on ideas. **Go take a shower.**
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## Structure
Folder structure is flat by design and split up by anime seasons. If an album does not fit a specific season, it get sorted into the last season.
For categorization of albums, see the `Index.md` or read on. They are optimized for foobar2000 search.
### Folder prefixes
[Character Song] -> Character Song
[Drama CD] -> Drama CD
[Voice CD] -> Voice CD
[Radio CD] -> Radio CD
[Soundtrack] -> Soundtrack/OST/Orchestra
[Theme Song] -> Inserts / OP / ED
[Remix CD] -> CD purely containing remixes
### Quality Tracking
`[OPUS]` or `[LOSSY]` Lists that the folder is saved as opus / lossy audio and needs a higher quality eventually.
`[FAKE]` Indicates that the folder is determined to be sampled from a lossy sourced and then converted to FLAC. *This is for internal tracking and there is no instances for this yet. At least for JP stuff.*
`[MemRes]` "Meme Hi-Res" aka, fake Hi-res. Or well irresponsibly upscaled from a true source sample such as 48kHz. Label to indicate this track has been resampled back to a lower sample rate. Though
### Song titles
Generally they follow the order of usage:
- Official Translations (From, etc)
- Romaji (Katakana is converted to English words if possible.)
- `ファンシー・フリー・デストロイヤー` becomes `Fancy Free Destroyer` (I haven't renamed it lol)
- Original Japanese fetched from Gracenote. [How?](http://sweetduet.shinon71.moe) (Yes this is a shameless plug lol. You can do it without using proprietary software.)
### Voice Actor / Artist Credits
My modern format follows one of the formats:
- Band name / Group name (Petit Rabbit's, YOASOBI, Rhodanthe*, Fruits Tart)
- Expanded group name only when provided. (`shami momo (Yuko Yoshida (CV: Konomi Kohara), Momo Chiyoda(CV: Akari Kito))`)
- Character + Voice Actor names in western order instead of eastern order. (`Shion Sumeragi (CV: Suzuko Mimori)`)
- Vocalist Stage name (Western Naming Order. `Inori Minase`)
This modern format *may* not be reflected for all tracks, but they generally follow the same format.
### Restricted content
Restricted content is defined as the following from the `Index.md`:
> Sourced from a non-open source, that is, a source that does not allow for free redistribution.
>
> - Typically happens for TSDM sources.
> - Overtime this will be replaced with personal rips and sources that can be shared.
As far as I'm aware of, I have removed and replaced all restricted content with content that is distributable. Going as far as buying some CDs (Which is only I think 2?) and replacing them with my own copies. Or getting the sources in another fashion.
### Album suggestions
I typically don't take these nowadays. Maybe if the anime is in my radar, I'll take a look at it... But likely your suggestion is going get ignored.
### Forks?
Sure, feel free to fork and use this as a base to format your releases.
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## Misc: Listening Preferences
I typically listen music with the following settings.
Reasoning behind some DSPs. Overall, If I can control it from my side rather than letting the system decide what to do, it would be better:
- Downmix to stereo (Typically, I listen with earpieces, so any channels more than 2 don't really have much meaning as they are eventually downmixed somewhere in the end to 2 channel. Might as well do it at the start)
- Skip Silence and Crossfader (I like my music sessions to be seamless. Should be a simple enough reason.)
- EBU R128 Compressor (Probably a contentious choice. I don't like having my ear blasted at max volume when I listen to music. [(Do read up on loudness war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war), [and see this madness someone in the audio processing did)](https://i.ibb.co/6YDNH4y/image.png) You will also notice the lack of ReplayGain in the tracks too, this is why I don't think I'll need or want replaygain.)
- Resampler SRC (Resamples to 44.1kHz / 48kHz. Anything higher than that is probably going to be extra work that is going to be lost in the end.)