# Shinon's Music collection Retracked
**NOTICE**: I have stopped seeding this. Going to work on the collection. As such there will be changes between this and the next version to be released. It will probably not be compatible.
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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
- 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.
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> - 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.)
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