Template talk:MusicNavbox

Embedding music

Would it be possible for us to embed the soundtrack on to the Wiki itself? I've seen it possible on other MediaWiki sites, for example the The Cutting Room Floor, a Wiki about unused content in video games embeds OGG files on to its pages. (e.g see this page). --Torchickens 15:10, 12 April 2012 (EDT)

Yeah, the OggHandler extension would allow that, --Starphoria ^(C·E) 18:16, 12 April 2012 (EDT)

I never knew there was an extension like that. Thanks for sharing. Does anyone have any opinion on whether we should install it? We would have to use a program to convert all the music to OGG files. --Torchickens 08:27, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

It works better for Sound Effects or short jingles (such as a Pokemon's cry or the Zelda Chime) as compared to Music. It could work, but I am not positive that it is worth the time or effort. --Starphoria ^(C·E) 19:10, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

That's true. I think Kagegamer12 (Talk) ripped the sound data for both the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS games and converted them into individual MP3 files, so if any video is taken down, then we can just re-upload the soundtrack. I suppose that we could include a list of sound effects if we wanted in a page like this, though I feel that Youtube (and the other supported sites) are more user-friendly and an advantage of sticking with Youtube videos is that it would otherwise take up additional space on the Wiki to store the music as files.

Incidentally, I recently found a debug menu in Densetsu no Starfy, which actually includes a sound test which lets you listen to all the sound effects as well as music. A user called Divingkataetheweirdo found text for a debug menu, so I looked into the ROM and found a way to activate it (I have a little bit of experience in RAM hacking and hex editing). The Music Room normally only lets you listen to music. I wrote about it on The Cutting Room Floor, but I wasn't feeling in such a good mood to talk about it... I'm not keen on the attitude of some members there, and it's also on my conscience for using ROMs :(. TCRF is a Wiki spanning off from a hacking board called Jul, which originated from Acmlm's Board. I mistakenly uploaded the box art for Densetsu no Starfy 4 (TCRF have a policy on having a title screen in their articles only) and before I had a chance to flag it for deletion, they yelled at me. --Torchickens 20:16, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

Sorry for bringing this up again, but I've noticed OGG files work well on WikiBound and Pikipedia embeds them into its pages. Does anyone think it would be a good idea to add a little 'play' button for entries on the music lists? Like, we could have an extra row here and call it 'listen'. I should be able to get OGG files for all of the The Legendary Starfy series music (apart from CD and commercial music, though I've found some extracts. The full version of Becky's Tone of Ocean is also here) --Torchickens 22:16, 14 May 2012 (CDT)