How to get your FF7 MP3 soundtrack to loop [as] seamlessly [as possible]

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Halloween is of course what I was referring to, you didn't think..? Oh, hahahaha I can see how you'd make that misunderstanding. No, i just like dressing up like pirates, hahaha.

Seriously though, I buy products when they're worth buying. FF7, for one example. Although.. from a certain standpoint, most of the crap you view on the interwebs counts as piracy in some form or another. Anybody who says they've never enjoyed copyrighted material for free on the internet is either a liar, or doesn't have internet (56k doesn't count).
 
Saving final fantasy related images from a website = theft. (with the exception of art that is expressly permitted to be taken.)
Piracy = aquatic theft.
therefore...
the intarwebs are made of ocean and win. (and sometimes fail)
 
Okey dokey.  Here's my ff7music folder:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OZ3WSGN3
Works solid on 7 x64, has everything you need to rock n roll.  You'll have to tweak the buffer settings on your own.  Loopfudge should be the same as your out_wave.dll config's "buffer ahead on next track" setting.  The pre-buffer should equal the difference between the buffer setting and the buffer ahead.  Don't lower the buffer too much.  I know it's set to 125 in this version but 250 seems optimal.
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The OSTRemastered profile in the ff7music.ini should look like this to make use of the loops/avoid issues in some loops.
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[OSTRemastered]aseri=07 - Hurry!.mp3aseri2=08 - Hurry Faster!.mp3ayasi=08 - Lurking in the Darkness.mp3barret=1-06 - Barret's Theme (Loop).mp3bat=10 - Fighting.mp3bee=16 - Honeybee Manor.mp3boo=3-02 - Life Stream (Loop).mp3bokujo=05 - Farm Boy.mp3canyon=01 - Cosmo Canyon.mp3cannon=4-12 - The Makou Cannon Is Fired ~ Shinra Explodes (Loop).mp3cephiros=05 - Those Chosen By The Planet.mp3chu=20 - Still More Fighting.mp3chu2=14 - J-E-N-O-V-A.mp3chase=1-22 - Crazy Motorcycle (Loop).mp3cinco=08 - Cinco De Chocobo.mp3cintro=05 - Those Chosen By The Planet.mp3condor=10 - Fortress Of The Condor.mp3costa=16 - Costa Del Sol.mp3comical=14 - J-E-N-O-V-A.mp3corel=18 - Mining Town.mp3corneo=18 - Don of the Slums.mp3crwin=13 - A Great Success.mp3crlost=14 - Tango Of Tears.mp3date=16 - Interrupted By Fireworks.mp3dokubo=14 - Underneath the Rotting Pizza.mp3dun2=09 - Chasing The Black-Caped Man.mp3earislo=12 - Flowers Blooming in the Church.mp3earis=19 - Aerith's Theme.mp3elec=07 - Electric De Chocobo.mp3fanfare=11 - Fanfare.mp3fan2=1-11 - Fanfare (Loop).mp3fiddle=12 - Fiddle De Chocobo.mp3fin=17 - World Crisis.mp3geki=15 - Debut.mp3gold1=19 - Gold Saucer.mp3gun=01 - Shinra Army Wages A Full-Scale Attack.mp3guitar2=07 - On The Other Side Of The Mountain.mp3hen=23 - Who Am I.mp3hiku=03 - Highwind Takes To The Skies.mp3horror=13 - Trail Of Blood.mp3iseki=18 - You Can Hear The Cry Of The Planet.mp3jukai=17 - Forested Temple.mp3junon=06 - Off The Edge Of Despair.mp3jyro=08 - Steal The Tiny Bronco!.mp3ketc=20 - Cait Sith's Theme.mp3kita=21 - The Great Northern Cave.mp3kurai=04 - Anxious Heart.mp3lb1=4-15 - The Birth Of God (Loop).mp3lb2=4-16 - One-Winged Angel (Loop).mp3ld=13 - Judgement Day.mp3mati=02 - Ahead On Our Way.mp3makoro=03 - Makou Reactor.mp3mekyu=22 - Reunion.mp3mura1=05 - Parochial Town.mp3oa=02 - Opening ~ Bombing Mission.mp3ob=02 - Bombing Mission.mp3odds=11 - Racing Chocobo ~ Place Your Bets.mp3over2=15 - Continue.mp3parade=11 - Rufus Welcomming Ceremony.mp3pj=14 - Jenova Absolute.mp3pre=01 - Prelude.mp3red=21 - Red XIII's Theme.mp3rhythm=13 - Turk's Theme.mp3roll=18 - Staff Roll.mp3ro=10 - The Countdown Begins.mp3rocket=15 - Oppressed People.mp3rukei=21 - Sandy Badlands.mp3sadsid=09 - Sending A Dream Into The Universe.mp3sadbar=17 - Mark Of The Traitor.mp3seto=03 - Great Warrior.mp3sea=04 - A Secret Sleeping In The Deep Sea.mp3sido=12 - It's Difficult To Stand On Both Feet, Isn't It.mp3siera=11 - If You Open Your Hearts.mp3sinraslo=19 - Infiltrating Shinra Tower.mp3sinra=09 - Shinra Company.mp3sid2=07 - Cid's Theme.mp3snow=20 - Buried In The Snow.mp3ta=01 - Final Fantasy VII Main Theme.mp3tb=01 - Final Fantasy VII Main Theme.mp3tender=23 - Holding My Thoughts In My Heart.mp3tifa=05 - Tifa's Theme.mp3tm=04 - On That Day, Five Years Ago.mp3utai=3-09 - Utai (Loop).mp3vincent=06 - The Nightmare's Beginning.mp3walz=06 - Waltz De Chocobo.mp3weapon=4-02 - Weapon Raid (Loop).mp3yado=03 - Good Night, Until Tomorrow.mp3yufi2=10 - Stolen Materia.mp3yufi=04 - Descendant Of Shinobi.mp3yume=17 - Who Are You.mp3lb2_awe=4-16 - One-Winged Angel (Loop).mp3
The only thing I can think that's left to be done with this version of ff7music is to find which tracks should use the resume functions and which tracks shouldn't.
Nice progress on your end  :roll:

Although i would gladly helped with precropped mp3's, many people do want the OST version (with already looped segments in the mp3 and fade out) so im currently doing that with The Favs.

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I presume your link ff7music folder contain the precropped mp3's?

You might be 'happy' to know that i have some mp3's updated to sound better :wink:

Opening Bombing Mission (way improved):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X5XZY892

Still More Fighting: (better guitar sound, altough the volume might be too high overall considering the rest)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1FB96T8N
 
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Alright, thanks.   :-D

Before I start trimming the OST I have to ask if I'm allowed to post it (something about copyright and immoral corporate heads getting what they want).
Otherwise I'd love to get that done.

Before I reupload my ficedula folder can I ask someone to rework the bombing mission?  I think it was Torazo last time.
I'll try to get see what he did in audacity in the mean time.

EDIT:  Does anyone know if there's a way to select a certain frequency range in audacity (so I can select a few seconds of music, then the high frequencies in that piece and delete them)?
 
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I'm not sure what you mean...the frequency of an MP3 is constant throughout the entire file. You can use the effect...amplify option to change the amplitude of the sound wave for a selected bit, if that's what you want to do...but that's decibels--"Attenuation", not Frequency.
EDIT: I'm not sure what the default waveform is measured in, now that I take a closer look because there's an option to change it to decibels...

Or do you mean, sounds with a high pitch? If that's the case then effect...noise removal or effect...click removal might help you out a bit.
 
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Okay, I was trying to do it a much hard way.  I gots it working now.

I'm having trouble getting my psf music working, but it's not exactly high quality plus the looping has the same issues and fades out at the end etc.

Any thoughts on me being allowed to post OST tracks?
 
Okay, I was trying to do it a much hard way.  I gots it working now.

I'm having trouble getting my psf music working, but it's not exactly high quality plus the looping has the same issues and fades out at the end etc.

Any thoughts on me being allowed to post OST tracks?
I wouldnt advise it... but halkun is the ultimate decision maker on that one
 
Updated my files yay!

I'd make a thread for it but there are already so many.
 
Most recent track updates, bombing mission loops better, tweaked the ini to actually work with the psf track, and the buffer settings are optimized.
 
Gotcha, might also wanna grab the new version of Makou Reactor FFT just uploaded. Apparently it was missing bells before.
 
fffffff

Okay, reuploading now.   :-D

EDIT:  Done.
 
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haha, I've updated the front page to link to your latest upload, btw.

EDIT that isn't really significant anymore:

Updated torrent link to link to direct download of more up to date version of patch.
 
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Should I be worried that my loopfudge seems to be to be default at 0? :S Still getting some delay with songs that have already been cropped.
 
Which part?! D:

Might need to tweak the ff7config, gonna try using the same values other people have used so I have some frame of reference.
 
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