Misplaced songs

[mhss1992]

Well, I think that some songs are in the wrong genre.
Starwolf, for example, is a remix from a theme song in Starfox 64, it should be in Arcade, not Dance 2.
And I think it's a bit weird for Beethoven Virus to be in Dance, considering bmv.578, which is much more dance-like, is in Classic.

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: Misplaced songs

Put Starwolf in Arcade, I said that yesterday.

[Coolboyrulez0]

Re: Misplaced songs

Both songs from Hideki Naganuma are also in the wrong category, they should be in arcade (trust me)

Too bad staff is nonexistent thus it won't get changed. (Which is what Kibblre is getting at)

[wargasm1]

Re: Misplaced songs

I'm not readin all of this thread, chaos japan is from castle crashers and should be in arcade if it isnt already. Travel demon is from castlevenia.

[mhss1992]

Re: Misplaced songs

Travel Demon is already in Arcade.

[jimerax]

Re: Misplaced songs

actually I'm doing vaguely about genres, especially on those.

Arcade vs. Other Genres (due to the definition of arcade)
Misc vs. Dance 1/2 (especially breakbeat/core ones)

[Ghakimx]

Re: Misplaced songs

Stuff like speedcore should be misc, Gabba kind of stuff can fall under dance. What about Anime?

[LauraJ]

Re: Misplaced songs

shining sword is from atelier iris 2 so arcade
back to being dormant for 3 more years for my next post

[bmah]

Re: Misplaced songs

It's sad to read the first two pages of this topic - Jimerax is in charge with the organization of the genres and he's still definitely active.

That being said, I already have previously discussed the issue with jimerax on songs that truly belong in the arcade section. I'll further discuss it with him soon since the issue has been brought up again.

[The5thMoon]

Re: Misplaced songs

Jimerax ftw.

[Coolboyrulez0]

Re: Misplaced songs

Chiptune =/= Arcade imo
Arcade for me would be strictly actual videogame music or arrangements not things that sound reminiscent of vg music.

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: Misplaced songs

Those are the facts I'm afraid, but what's so wrong about making a not-of-dire-importance thread anyway? This one's almost to four pages also, I'd give this thread about a 7.

Any thread can be fun.

[bmah]

Re: Misplaced songs

Chiptune =/= Arcade imo
Arcade for me would be strictly actual videogame music or arrangements not things that sound reminiscent of vg music.

Yes. I agree on this. But I would make a modification to that statement: Arcade is videogame music or remixes/arrangements of FAMILIAR, WELL-KNOWN games. Basically, if you clog up the arcade section with Touhou for instance, it'll look less like an "arcade genre". I wasn't even familiar with what Touhou was until a few years ago. Also, rhythm games should be prohibited from being added to this section since the "gaming" aspect of a rhythm game is not important and it's rather a redundant to add such songs based on this implication*. Basically, put stuff in the arcade section that the majority of people will be familiar with, such as Mario-related songs. Add every song that could've possibly been from a game, and the whole arcade section looks that much less presentable and familiar.

*There can be a few exceptions to this, such as the B4U remix song. It's one of the most recognizable DDR songs out there.

[mhss1992]

Re: Misplaced songs

Well, I thought that any song from any game could be in Arcade.
Wow, and I'm really glad they cleaned this thread.

[jimerax]

Re: Misplaced songs

Yeah, arcade is really vague definition of genre first of all and it should be changed to the name of actual music style (unlikely to happen though).

I was putting chiptunes in arcade because it's acceptable (cause I think it can also include "arcade-like music") and I don't want to put all songs that don't fit other existing genres very well in the misc.

I think we should define (song style) -> (genre) relations to determine genres properly.

ex)
trance -> dance
techno -> dance
jazz -> misc
noize -> misc
breakcore/DnB -> dance?
pops -> dance?

also by current definitions,
arcade -> "remix of major games" + "music played only with 8-bit/16-bit intruments"
classic -> "actual classical music" + "music played only with classical instruments"