There have been a lot of updates to the Video Game Music feature since it was added earlier this month (as you can see here) and now I have it ready for staff to help out with adding music which hopefully means lots of music and a big variety of it will be added sooner rather than later. If you're currently a staff member and would like to help out, please refer to my latest thread titled 'Music Adding' in the site staff forum.

I'm also finished with adding SNES music (for now anyway, only thing left is obscure Japan exclusive SNES games) which means I'll be placing my focus on a new system soon but for the time being, I'll be adding soundtracks that I either really like, that are popular or that users request.



New Video Game Music Features
-The music pages have been optimized even more for mobile devices
-Various adjustments to CP and Viz payout for rating songs
-Lots of other little things here and there not worth mentioning individually

VGM Index Page Related:
-Various adjustments to the trending area toward the bottom
-Added a 'Latest Games' section to the trending area
-I added a 'What's Being Listened to Right Now' toward the bottom of the page which shows what users are listening to (only displays when users are listening to music)
-Drop down menu for each system that has song which lets you view and select any game that has music available and takes you straight to the soundtrack of that game
-Drop down menu that shows all user created playlists

Song Pages:
-Now display a song's bitrate

Playlist Related:
-Ability to Delete Your Playlists
-Ability to Delete Songs from Your Playlists
-Ability to choose default order of songs in your playlists
-Playlists now show accurate information (such as total duration and song count)
-Ability to see what songs you've rated (click the 'Your Rated Songs' link in 'Your Playlists')

More features will be added in the near future which will include the ability to comment on songs and playlists, more search functionality, ability to individually order songs in your playlist and more.



Video Game Music Staff Application
Are you interested in helping us add music to the site by joining the staff? If so, respond to this thread on why you think you're qualified to help. Here are the requirements:
-Willing to invest at least 5 hours into the site each week
-You are at least 13 years old
-Haven't been banned in the past year
-Be a Trusted Member or have more than 1000 Contribution Points
-Have a good internet connection



Video Game Song Request
Are there any soundtracks you'd like for us to upload? Submit your requests to this thread and we'll work on getting it added as soon as we can. You can request a soundtrack for just about any system. However, I'll be adding just about every song for every game for GBA, N64, Genesis, SMS, NES, GB, GBC and TG over the next few months and I'll be working on them in a specific order so any songs requested for those systems may not get added right away.

Eventually this will include non-retro music as well, right? I would request the Sonic Generations soundtrack, if possible. For retro systems I think prioritizing GBA would be a great suggestion since there's Pokemon music, Fire Emblem, and even the Sonic Advance titles. 

Anyways, thanks for the great feature, David! Have a happy new year!

Davideo7 : Well I'm really interested in this position as music is literally my passion and life.

I am well over 13, have never been banned, I am trusted and I have at least 10,000cp and I'm still trying to contribute more!

I will be able to invest 5 hours of work, etc into Vizzed and more.

I would say my internet connection is pretty good I can load pages and why not quickly I don't lag often. 

And I would try even if I don't get the position to help with this project as I really enjoy this new feature and want to see it grow. If I'm usually idling around on vizzed I'm stalking the music section.

Thank you for looking my application over.

Davideo7 : I am really interested in this position, as Video Game Music is basically all I listen to. I am able to access many tracks to put on the website, and have a lot of time to do it, probably over 5 hours a week for sure. I am over 13, haven't been banned in the past year, and have about 4000 CP. My internet connection is really good, and I got a brand new computer that is very fast, so I can do a lot. I would love to help this feature grow quickly and with quality. If this also includes game music outside of the RGR, that will be very quick as well. Thanks for looking over my application, and I am looking forward to hopefully earning an opportunity to be staff for a site that I have used and loved for 5 years.

Davideo7 :   How about the entire Mega Man the Wily Wars Soundtrack?

I'd like to see the Sonic Advance trilogy soundtrack added, especially Sonic Advance 2 and 3. A lot of sonic fans don't like the music in 2 and 3, at least to my knowledge. I personally like the music in those games.

Davideo7 : I'd like to apply for the music staff I love music and id be willing to spend more than enough time on this site helping out I have a great connection I can stream ps4 games on best quality with no problems,I am 14,I'm trusted have been for a long time and havnt been banned in a very very long time more than a year.I have been trying out for a staff application for over a year now,please just give me a chance.

Davideo7 :

Would this feature require recording of the RGR in order to get the music?



Or if not, how would we get the music?

danielbelitch : We're already working on modern stuff so yeap. I can work on getting the Sonic Generations soundtrack added.

vizzy900 : That'll have to wait until I get to it.

Sonic Prower : That'll also have to wait until I tackle the GBA.

SuperCrash64 : It wouldn't involve recording music manually. It'd basically involve downloading the soundtracks from various sources (that I'd provide) and then uploading them to Vizzed.

Over the past day or so I've pretty much uploaded just about every Final Fantasy soundtrack.


danielbelitch : I just added the Sonic Generations soundtrack and it's definitely awesome
https://www.vizzed.com/videogames/music.php?game=87745

I'm actually curious about the staff position. How big on average are the files that need to be downloaded and uploaded? I have horrible Internet service, but I do have access to a post office that is conveniently placed right next to a Dairy Queen that is advertising free WiFi, and the speeds are usually pretty good.

m0ssb3rg935 : Average song might be around 3 MB. Average game probably has around 24 songs.

I'd love to have Tears of the Light from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep added. It's for PSP.

It has an alternate name it's sometimes used under which is "Sad Princess" I believe.

And also maybe Dark Impetus from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

Oh, and Musique pour la Tristesse de Xion from Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days for DS

Oh and La Cloche from Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance for 3DS

Davideo7 : Heck, I'll go ahead and apply if they don't get much bigger than that. I might be able to do that from home. I was expecting each soundtrack to be in the hundreds of MBs. I'm 19 years of age, as of yet unemployed, I don't think I have ever been banned, I'm both trusted and have well over 1,000 CP and I can manage the Internet thing. In all honesty, I'm not very original with my ideas. I have tried review and guide writing, but I just don't have an aptitude for it. Compiling things, on the other hand, is something I think I could do fairly well, and I certainly have enough free time to do it. I was actually working on a guide that was going to be in excess of 50,000 words, but a lot of my information was sourced from the wiki, so I stopped making it when I read the guide making rules.

I've updated the formula used for displaying and ordering the music on the music feature's index page:

ORDER BY (rating-3) * ceil(votes / 10) DESC, votes DESC

Basically what this is doing is it's first taking the average rating, subtracting it by 3 (so that it only weighs high anything with an average rating higher than 3) and then it multiples it by the numbers of votes divided by 10. Now the reason I divide the votes by 10 (and round up) is because a lot of SNES songs have a ton of votes and I didn't want the default playlist to be full of just SNES songs (even though it currently is primarily full of SNES songs, other songs should start to make their way on there). And the reason why I chose to factor in votes is because some songs have very few ratings but have a perfect 5 (for example, if a user rated a song a 5, that's not enough ratings to determine whether that song should be ranked high). After the formula is ran, any tie breakers are based on whichever song has more votes.

That might all seem confusing but I think the formula I came up with did a great job at placing some really good songs at the top of the list as you can see here:
https://www.vizzed.com/videogames/music.php#/player1?catid=0&trackid=4

Also, when you manually order a playlist by "Best", it'll basically do the same thing that this is doing.

For those like me who wondered how to access the music room directly (rather than click the link in the first message of the thread):

- click on the words "video game room" on the top-right corner of your screen
- click on "gaming music" below your message center.

I would like to request that the entire Undertale soundtrack be uploaded. I have all of them in a zip file if you are unable to find a download for them.

TheFadedWarrior : If you want to upload it somewhere for me to download then I can see about getting it added.

Davideo7 : So I'm rating the music and I don't know how u are keeping track but I just wanted to say I'm letting the play list go through song by song that way I don't have to mess with the player while I rate the songs. Just wanted to say that in case like it doesn't show that I'm listening to them on the rate page if that's ok if not let me know and ill listen to them on the rate page. Thanks.

Davideo7 : I would like to request Dragon Ball Z Budokai's soundtrack and Sonic Heroes soundtrack for ps2