About the UMC Music add-on

[Huston]

Hi. I am now the maintainer of the LTD Music add-on name changed to the UMC Music add-on and i was wondering if anyone has any music files they made that they would like me to add to it. the only requirement is that it has to be in .ogg format(Since i don't know how to do this). PM me if you do.

I am hoping that this add-on may eventually contain a great number of music files(that aren't mainline of course) which UMC Authors can use in their campaigns; now that it is fixed so that they don't need to copy the miles to their campaign folder.

Regards,
Huston

I play the alto sax but i couldn't compose a good song if my life depended on it.


EDIT: Thanks to West i now know how to make mp3's into ogg's so if you want your music added all i need is a lossless mp3 version of it.

[ancestral]

I posted in the other thread, but check out http://wesnoth.org/wiki/Available_Music. Hopefully the links aren't outdated.

mp3's aren't lossless. You'll want an uncompressed, wav, aiff, flac, or similar. Of course it might just be easier for us to convert it first, unless you're goal is to also store a lossless version.

[breversa]

Craving for more Wesnoth music, I downloaded this UMC Music extension, but found that not only the files are not tagged, but not even the artist is mentionned... so who shall I give credit to ?

Huston, do you have this information available ? If yes, feel free to share.
And if you don't know how to tag ogg files (but I'm pretty sure you do !), I can do it for you.

PS :
If this reply is considered thread necromancy, I apologise in advance.

[Huston]

there isn't a problem reviving this. sad to say no i don't have any of that information available(although i do kn ow how to add the composer info). when i first took it over, i did try to find the composer info for all of the songs included, but i could not find anything.

[breversa]

Thanks for the reply, Huston.

Too bad you don't have this info ! However, maybe you could add a call to composers in your signature ? It cannot hurt, can it ?

[Elvish_Hunter]

Craving for more Wesnoth music, I downloaded this UMC Music extension, but found that not only the files are not tagged, but not even the artist is mentionned... so who shall I give credit to ?

there isn't a problem reviving this. sad to say no i don't have any of that information available(although i do kn ow how to add the composer info). when i first took it over, i did try to find the composer info for all of the songs included, but i could not find anything.

I read the posts above, so I decided to search the forum and now I'm posting the results.
a3deap series: author: Novatlan, see thread Music for Wesnoth
battlecry.ogg: title: Battle Cry author: ancestral, see thread My Take on GarageBand (was Battle Cry)
calm-before-storm.ogg title: Calm before the storm author: Tlogmer, see thread Calm before the storm (he released also Forgotten Woods and High Seas for Wesnoth, but these seem to be vanished. Maybe someone has a backup, so these may be added as well? However his site, benyates.info, is still online, and if you do a whois you'll see his email to contact him)
gameplay06.ogg (from 1.2 Ye Newe Melodies Music Pack: Name: gameplay06.ogg Origin: This was written by Aleksi and released to the Wesnoth forum in November 2006. Length: 3m 34s), see thread Gameplay 06 is here!
snowfall.ogg title: Lonely Snowfall author: Jeremy Nicoll (there is a tagged and bitrate lowered version in IftU or Sceptre of Life, SoL contains also Doug Kaufman's Wesnoth Score), see thread Song: Snowfall
tribal_war_song.ogg title: primitive war song author: hiro hito (you'll find a tagged version at tuxfamily link below), see thread My Music
If you want, at http://download.tuxfamily.org/wesnothmusic/extras/ there are some more tracks that you can add: Burin the Lost, Reminiscence, Wesnoth Score, DragonVert 1 and 2.

[breversa]

Wow, thank you SO MUCH for your time and efforts, Elvish_Hunter !

Huston, do you mind if I ask these gentlemen to give your their names to be included in your UMC package ?

[VS]

he released also Forgotten Woods and High Seas for Wesnoth, but these seem to be vanished. Maybe someone has a backup, so these may be added as well?

If you absolutely can't live without these two, I have backup...

[Huston]

Craving for more Wesnoth music, I downloaded this UMC Music extension, but found that not only the files are not tagged, but not even the artist is mentionned... so who shall I give credit to ?

there isn't a problem reviving this. sad to say no i don't have any of that information available(although i do kn ow how to add the composer info). when i first took it over, i did try to find the composer info for all of the songs included, but i could not find anything.

I read the posts above, so I decided to search the forum and now I'm posting the results.
a3deap series: author: Novatlan, see thread Music for Wesnoth
battlecry.ogg: title: Battle Cry author: ancestral, see thread My Take on GarageBand (was Battle Cry)
calm-before-storm.ogg title: Calm before the storm author: Tlogmer, see thread Calm before the storm (he released also Forgotten Woods and High Seas for Wesnoth, but these seem to be vanished. Maybe someone has a backup, so these may be added as well? However his site, benyates.info, is still online, and if you do a whois you'll see his email to contact him)
gameplay06.ogg (from 1.2 Ye Newe Melodies Music Pack: Name: gameplay06.ogg Origin: This was written by Aleksi and released to the Wesnoth forum in November 2006. Length: 3m 34s), see thread Gameplay 06 is here!
snowfall.ogg title: Lonely Snowfall author: Jeremy Nicoll (there is a tagged and bitrate lowered version in IftU or Sceptre of Life, SoL contains also Doug Kaufman's Wesnoth Score), see thread Song: Snowfall
tribal_war_song.ogg title: primitive war song author: hiro hito (you'll find a tagged version at tuxfamily link below), see thread My Music
If you want, at http://download.tuxfamily.org/wesnothmusic/extras/ there are some more tracks that you can add: Burin the Lost, Reminiscence, Wesnoth Score, DragonVert 1 and 2.

Wow. thanks alot. i'll have to add this info tommorrow. i'll also see about adding the 4 extra songs from hiro hito.

Wow, thank you SO MUCH for your time and efforts, Elvish_Hunter !

Huston, do you mind if I ask these gentlemen to give your their names to be included in your UMC package ?

go ahead and ask them if you'd like to.

he released also Forgotten Woods and High Seas for Wesnoth, but these seem to be vanished. Maybe someone has a backup, so these may be added as well?

If you absolutely can't live without these two, I have backup...

if you wouldn't mind sharing them i'd like to add them.

[breversa]

Hi Huston, here are my results so far. The bold names have been directly confirmed by PM on this forum.

Aleksi Aubry-Carlson - Gameplay 6
Doug Kaufman - Wesnoth score
Hero Hito - Primitive war song (nope, that's no typo. The author wants "Hero", not "Hiro")
Jeremy Nicoll - Lonely snowfall
Jeremy Nicoll - Reminisce
Martin Proud - Battle cry
Olivier Militon - Dragon vert 1
Olivier Militon - Dragon vert 2
[PA] NotUncleDave - Burin the Lost
Tlogmer - Calm before the storm

Tobias Escher - Don't fear the reaper!
Tobias Escher - Go for the world... again
Tobias Escher - High in the mountains
Tobias Escher - Hoist the colours
(Those last 4 tracks have been composed for an Anno 1701 remake)

[Huston]

thanks. oh and i have high seas and forgottenwoods but i hit a snag when i went to convert them to ogg vorbis encoding. appearently my executable ogg codec file has vanished. i tried reinstalling the ogg vorbis codec but to no avail. can some post the executable file for ogg vorbis for me(and no i'm not talking about the installer)?

[Elvish_Hunter]

appearently my executable ogg codec file has vanished. i tried reinstalling the ogg vorbis codec but to no avail.

Huston, did you solved your problem? If not, what about trying VLC media player? It's opensource, its latest versions can convert and tag files quite well and, at least on Windows, it didn't asked me any Ogg/Vorbis/Theora codec.

[StandYourGround]

Audacity also works fine for converting to .ogg

[Huston]

huh i'll have to use one of those then.

[breversa]

But please, NEVER EVER convert MP3 to Ogg or vice-versa, or any lossy-compressed file to any other. It will only degrade its quality !!!