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incandescentembers

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Apr 8, 2014, 10:44 AM
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(SO sorry for double post)

Since Violet taught me how to change the JCS names of the tilesets I am completely satisfied with my new tilesets order and now I agree that changing tilesets filenames is a bad idea.

BUT I think that music is a different story. You see, all the tilesets are made by the people in here, so the names most of the time make a reasonable composition. There are no doublets with different names, there are not too many different tilesets with the same name either. Music, most of the times, comes from outside, from bunch of different artists and websites. There are TONS of doublets with different names (to not search too far, JJ1 songs are good examples: SONG14.s3m, scraparap.s3m, scrap.s3m, binary-song.s3m, scraparap.it, JJ1SONG14.s3m, j1sng14.s3m, JJ1 Scraparap.s3m - all that is the SAME song) and TONS of different pieces with exactely the same filename (I believe I have 6 different songs under the filename castle.it)... The names a lot of times don't make any sense, and it is very hard to identify which music is that. There is no standarization, people making their episodes / level packs a lot of time rename the music files (like for example Agama did for his Night episode - each song, although existing under different names, is named "Night" + a number (Night1, Night2, etc.)).

Additionally tilesets have only 1 file extension. Music has a lot... .s3m, .xm, .it, .mod, .mp3, .ogg, .669, j2b, etc. All that creates a huge chaos in my folder and I never can find any music that I want to find.

I may be a weirdo that I'm bothered by things like that, but who knows, maybe I'm not the only one. I really try to find some solution to this situation, and so far the best idea I had was to move everything to seperate folder in JJ2 directory. At least that way all my music is in one place and I can sort that place by the filename, so the deal with different file-types messing up the searching goes away.

As a community we could easily come up with a nice standard for music. Let's say, we all would have a folder called "Music" (or just "M" - even shorter) in our JJ2 directory and each upload would include all the music files in the folder with the same name, so the music would jump there automatically. Adding "Music\" before the filename in the level properties in JCS isn't that big deal in case of a single level... And I'm sure someone could easily come up with an idea how to change that massively (draging all the level files to some program that adds that for you). The question is, is there any will to do that at all? Is that a problem in case of AngelScript (when loading music files for some scenarios)?