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Originally Posted by incandescentembers
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)?
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Changing the levels is a very bad idea because you're gonna have different settings in level files that are otherwise the same, you're gonna end up with both levels using the subfolder and levels not doing so, and JJ2 will be confused and not know what to overwrite and what not and in general it's gonna be more of a mess if anything.
JJ2+ could have a game-wide setting to look in a subfolder for music rather than the main folder, though, which would be rather trivial. You'd still need to make sure all music for both old and new downloads ends up in the correct (sub)folder, but if you're so obsessed with organization that you find this important in the first place maybe that isn't the biggest of problems.
There's so many other options to filter music from the folder though... sort by file type, search, filter by extension, et cetera.
And generally people use the original file name for module music; Jazz2Online actually takes advantage of this and saves only one copy of the file on its servers, even if there's a lot of uploads that contain it. Besides, how would you want to "standardize" this? Either you use the original filename - or the filename under which you originally acquired the song, at least - or you don't. In the latter case you're probably too oblivious to heed any such "standard" anyway.
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