Soundtrack Central The best classic game music and more

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Adam Corn Oct 25, 2014 (edited Oct 30, 2014)

OK maybe that's overstating things, but I really do need you guys' help. smile  I've been hard at work on the redesign and have almost got it ready to go but there's one major problem.  Seeing as how this site goes back to the days when whole desktop displays were around 800 pixel width, I've got a lot of older album pics here that aren't big enough for a new design on modern high-res displays.

That being the case, if you guys could upload pics of some of the albums in your digital collections, or even round up a few for me online, it would really be a huge help.  800 x 800 or higher is ideal but even 400 x 400 will do.  I've made a list of the albums that need pics; once someone contributes that album will automatically be removed from the list.  Big, big thanks for any contributions!

Edit: Link removed - finished!

jb Oct 25, 2014

You can pull most of these from vgmdb, no?

Adam Corn Oct 25, 2014

Yeah, I have no problem with that, and I'm pretty sure they don't either.  Amazon and Amazon.jp are good sources too.  It's just an extremely time-consuming process to do as one person.

The_Paladin Oct 25, 2014

Some did not remove from the list when I sent them, but I sent all the covers I had on hand. I've kept with the Chudah's Corner format and so they are all 400x400 or so.  Don't need to use them but figured I would help.

Adam Corn Oct 26, 2014

That was quite the batch you uploaded, thanks for that!

Yotsuya Oct 27, 2014

Are the titles on the list still requested?

Adam Corn Oct 27, 2014

Yep could still very much use pics for what's on the list!  Unless the image is less than 300 x 300 resolution it'll automatically be removed from the list on upload.

FuryofFrog Oct 27, 2014

I'm uploading stuff but some of the titles are not  disappearing after upload.

Adam Corn Oct 27, 2014

You're right, the pics are all there but there were a few cases where they weren't being removed from the list.  It's fixed now, thanks for bringing it to my attention.  And thanks for the pics as well, I can see you've uploaded quite a few. smile

FuryofFrog Oct 28, 2014 (edited Oct 28, 2014)

No problem. I love this place and the community here, so I'm glad to help even if I'm not the most active. The remaining things on the list either have too low a resolution to upload, can't be found, or, in most cases the file is too big for me to upload and the system says it won't accept it. This is very curious because it only happens to any file above 2 megs. Everything else that is under goes through fine. Is not the limit 4 megs?

Edit: Also for the Dragon Quest London Philharmonic Soundtracks, a while ago I personally scanned my own for 1&2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 if you want them. I didn't see it on the list but if you want them all the same size scanned the same way I have them for you.

Adam Corn Oct 28, 2014

Hm there might be some server limit somewhere that is set at 2MB. Also I think I noticed before that super-high resolution images might not upload for some reason, even if they're under the file size limit.  If it's not too much of a hassle you could try batch resizing the huge ones to somewhere around 1000-1500 pixels wide and then give it a try.  Not worries if not though, you've been a huge help as it is.

I'd certainly like those DQSS images as well.  Once the redesign is done I'll tweak the script to allow uploading of images I have already.

FuryofFrog Oct 29, 2014

Awesome, I was gonna work on re-sizing those guys but looks like someone else knocked em out! I'm excited for the redesign to go live. Just wondering, what is your policy for reviews on your website? Is there some kind of style guide you would like people to utilize or anything? I was thinking of grabbing the KI Season 1 Double album and giving it a review. Most deserving I think in the vein of the Killer Cuts.

Adam Corn Oct 29, 2014

That was me that knocked 'em out. smile  Most of them anyway.  It was kind of nice in a way to take a break from all the coding.

The review policy up till now has been people submit a review (and album info if needed), then I edit it for grammar and readability and publish it.  The review submission form won't be up at launch and I'm debating whether to stop editing reviews altogether and devise a system where people submit the review, it automatically goes on the forums, and if the writing is up to snuff (I'm not hugely demanding here) it gets republished as-is on the album's page.  That's the idea anyway.

In any case if you do feel like writing a review while the album's fresh, I will certainly have a system up for publishing it at some point in the near future.

Adam Corn Oct 30, 2014

Done!  Thank you so much, Yotsuya, The_Paladin, and FuryofFrog.  After spending several dozens of hours on this redesign it was a huge help and relief to have somebody help out with pics.  It is much appreciated!

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