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[Rule] Showing composer into artist for VOCALOID songs

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arien666
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arien666
[In some of general VOCALOID miku ranked songs]

Artist: Hatsune Miku
Artist: Hatsune Miku
Artist: Hatsune Miku
Artist: Hatsune Miku
Artist: Hatsune Miku
Artist: Hatsune Miku
Artist: Hatsune Miku
Artist: Hatsune Miku



Where's real artist who are composer of the song...

Actually, this would not be rule since artist might be thought by mappers but...
At lest, we should have respect for composers of these songs...



Or, most people would forget about real artist but just remember VOCALOID character...









On SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH which songs are composed by composers who're using VOCALOID,
there's no mention about GUMI but just composer and cover illustrator are mentioned.



Like this, I think we would show composers of VOCALOID songs on artist, not on source or tag...







meow...
Noobita
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Noobita
i agree!




meow...
ziin
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ziin
There is no "one artist" to many songs nowadays. There are multiple contributing artists. The only way to let this happen is to allow for tags to be tagged themselves, perhaps like xml:
<artist>Hatsune Miku</artist>
<artist>wowaka</artist>
This way the tags are separated, could fit on two lines, and when searching for either miku or wowaka, you'll get the map. You also have wowaka in the correct place, not in the tag section.

This would also allow for custom tags like:
<featuring>Hatsune Miku</featuring>
because Miku doesn't write songs, she just sings them. poorly.

If source is unused we could put that there, or we could just stick the composer in the tags like we have been. Suffice to say, it's incredibly useful to sort all of the miku songs in the same area. Rather than force a rule on people to use the correct composer, I would rather wait until the problem is addressed by the website and submission process.
arien666
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arien666

ziin wrote:

There is no "one artist" to many songs nowadays. There are multiple contributing artists. The only way to let this happen is to allow for tags to be tagged themselves, perhaps like xml:
<artist>Hatsune Miku</artist>
<artist>wowaka</artist>
This way the tags are separated, could fit on two lines, and when searching for either miku or wowaka, you'll get the map. You also have wowaka in the correct place, not in the tag section.

This would also allow for custom tags like:
<featuring>Hatsune Miku</featuring>
because Miku doesn't write songs, she just sings them. poorly.

If source is unused we could put that there, or we could just stick the composer in the tags like we have been. Suffice to say, it's incredibly useful to sort all of the miku songs in the same area. Rather than force a rule on people to use the correct composer, I would rather wait until the problem is addressed by the website and submission process.
Maybe, XML might be helpful for that thing and...

Artist: wowaka feat. Hatsune Miku
Feels long orz
Maybe, XML on BSS... Yeah good idea orz
-Athena-
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-Athena-
Well I think this would be the same situation as crediting the composer instead of the singer for a song (replacing x artist with y composer on the album cover) and frankly though it may be a bit different with Vocaloid I still don't think it would make sense.

I would suggest that a format like "Lily(SeleP)-Scarlet Rose" be used instead.
Sakura
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-A t H e N a- wrote:

I would suggest that a format like "Lily(SeleP)-Scarlet Rose" be used instead.
This is already how it looks in-game when Lily is the source and SeleP is the artist.
-Athena-
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-Athena-
I don't really understand the request here, but why not use that format for everything? Just add the composer's name in brackets beside the singer
Natteke
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Natteke
Huh, well, Justin Bieber doesn't compose the song, but he's the artist. If you're gonna aply this to vocaloid songs, why not aply it to EVERY other song as well? 95% of the time singer is mentioned as ARTIST because it makes more sense.
Sakura
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tbh i dont even know why the Vocaloid is the artist, there was a long discussion about this with other members of the MAT and BAT but we never reached an agreement. Imo, the artist should be the composer of the song/lyrics, but people probably won't like that.

Edit: @Natteke: Yeah i agree, but the vocaloid is a program, not a person (well the one that made the sounds for the vocaloid is a person, but still it feels more like an instrument rather than a singer)
-Athena-
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-Athena-

Natteke wrote:

Huh, well, Justin Bieber doesn't compose the song, but he's the artist. If you're gonna aply this to vocaloid songs, why not aply it to EVERY other song as well? 95% of the time singer is mentioned as ARTIST because it makes more sense.
This is basically what I meant, thanks for explaining it well
Natteke
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Sakura Hana wrote:

Edit: @Natteke: Yeah i agree, but the vocaloid is a program, not a person (well the one that made the sounds for the vocaloid is a person, but still it feels more like an instrument rather than a singer).

So? The center of the song is Vocaloid's voice. Program or real person, there's not much of a difference either way. Leave the composer in tags and nuke this guideline because basically what it does is trying to fix things that work perfectly fine.
kanpakyin
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kanpakyin
As I have seen.Most of the composer of the song was written to the source.So we can know who is the composer.

like this:


hum?
-Athena-
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-Athena-
Yup, seems my idea has already been applied lol, I'm slow as hell
HakuNoKaemi
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HakuNoKaemi
the actual composers of vocaloid song are credited in source as you see...
We don't credit Motoo Fujiwara as artist in Bump of Chicken/most of the last (voiced)Tales Of songs for example
TheVileOne
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Please no.... I don't even know who makes some of these songs. sometimes it's some random person on youtube. How are people going to know you're playing a miku song or making one if it doesn't say miku in the title somewhere?

The composer for a vocaloid song could be anyone, even not specified in some cases.

If we did this, I think less people would find the songs, because it has some strange person in the title, and less people would play them.


Edit: Composer in source is fine by me.
Sakura
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The main problem then would be, that the source isn't for these things

Source is for when a song comes from a videogame, movie, etc; or when it made it famous, or when the song was made specifically for that game/song/movie/show.

This field was created to avoid needing to use the source as artist (Like for example Final Fantasy - Battle theme) and Source replaces Artist on the in-game song list at the top where it shows the song you have currently selected.
blissfulyoshi
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blissfulyoshi
I suggest using this format as a fix "AVTechNO! feat. Megurine Luka - "DYE" "

This format still lists which vocaloid it is (no confusion as who is the singer)
This format would solve the source conflict.

I think those are the only criteria that players need to care about. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Natteke
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Natteke

blissfulyoshi wrote:

I suggest using this format as a fix "AVTechNO! feat. Megurine Luka - "DYE" "

This format still lists which vocaloid it is (no confusion as who is the singer)
This format would solve the source conflict.

I think those are the only criteria that players need to care about. Please correct me if I am wrong.
This would probably work
ziin
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ziin
I would prefer to have all of my hatsune miku songs be in the same grouping. So I can easily ignore them.

I also really hate combining tags.

It's a broken system that doesn't need to be fixed IMO, but I will support whatever people here decide.

http://osu.ppy.sh/ss/301336
Perfume - Baby Cruising Love
Perfume ft. peppy - Baby Cruising Love
are not next to each other, even though they are the same song with a different singer.
peppy
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Hatsune Miku is not an artist. In fact, the guidelines of using vocaloid commercially (how most of the songs are distributed) state that you can't use the names of the characters in the song metadata itself. None of the doujin artists that produce the bulk of vocaloid tracks use the vocaloid's name as the artist, because it is incorrect. The fact it is being used this way on osu! is wrong.

"feat." is the best proposed solution thusfar. Personally I'd leave the vocaloid names in tags (possibly without a space so they can be grouped for searching).
Shiirn
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sakuzyo feat. Hatsune Miku - ChaiN De/structioN


Yeah, looks good to me.
peppy
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Keep in mind adding "feat." is butchering the song's actual metadata. Tags is a much better solution in my eyes, as long as it is searchable for those trying to find a vocaloid tracks.
Shiirn
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Shiirn
it also doesn't group them together on the songlist, unless you want to whip up some code where certain tags can group songs together (BMS / vocaloid / IIDX spring to mind)
Sakura
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Maybe if we could make tags between quotation marks "Hatsune Miku" work as a single tag that has a space on it.
eldnl
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yey.
GigaClon
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Wouldn't it work to put Hatsune Miku in the source, cause the fact that Hatsune Miku is used is the fact that its popular (reason for source?). If I want to group like songs together I just put them in a subfolder of Songs.
ziin
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ziin
As long as we get better tag searching and support, sure.

I still want "sakuzyo hatsune miku" to find all songs with those tags in the tags and or artist, and not just search for the exact match.

Will old maps be grandfathered in with osz2 or will they be changed?

Sakura Hana wrote:

Maybe if we could make tags between quotation marks "Hatsune Miku" work as a single tag that has a space on it.
Searching "miku hatsune" should pick up "hatsune miku"
NatsumeRin
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A typical title of a vocaloid song in nico is like 【GUMI】シルバーバレット【虹原ぺぺろん】, could be devided into 3 parts.

1. The vocaloid used
2. Song title
3. The producer's name/PV included/original/(maybe something i forget)

As we can see, 1 & 2 is nearly 100% followed as a rule, so why can't we put Miku or GUMI as artist here? in this system, composers are put into source so people could still know them at the time they decide to download. Also it's the way i support the most.

"feat." would also be fine imo but in fact there're few examples using a format like this.... (i could only remember that sasakure.UK once used this format...)

But only put Miku/GUMI in the tags won't be a good idea, it goes a totally different way with nico/youtube.
ziin
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ziin

NatsumeRin wrote:

A typical title of a vocaloid song in nico is like 【GUMI】シルバーバレット【虹原ぺぺろん】, could be devided into 3 parts
Just pointing out that there is no reference to "Megpoid" in the typical title. You have to know that GUMI is Megpoid GUMI, and not some other GUMI. "Megpoid" would almost certainly be in the tags.
SonicFan344
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kanpakyin wrote:

As I have seen.Most of the composer of the song was written to the source.So we can know who is the composer.

like this:


hum?
This is a good idea. Showing composer in the Source is very good
animez15
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animez15
i agree to all but if u think of a composer...that is ok for me...it doesnt mind at all.
blissfulyoshi
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I just want to say that we should come to a standard with this thread before forcing anyone to change the artist and source of their song. I don't want people all having different standards and enforcing these mixed standards.
lepidopodus
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I've seen something like this: 'Cosmo@BousouP feat. Hatsune Miku'. Mabe too long?
NatsumeRin
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The general thing for current vocaloid videos (on both nico and youtube) is the vocaloid used should be put in a very obvious place.

Also personally I don't mind a long name there.
blissfulyoshi
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lepidopodus wrote:

I've seen something like this: 'Cosmo@BousouP feat. Hatsune Miku'. Mabe too long?
I sgugested somethign similar on page 2, so I guess this is probably going to be the accepted format, but I think some people are still against having the vocaloid's name anywhere in the artist field. (Also, there are probably a few other issues that I forgot to mention from thee other pages)
NatsumeRin
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blissfulyoshi wrote:

I sgugested somethign similar on page 2, so I guess this is probably going to be the accepted format, but I think some people are still against having the vocaloid's name anywhere in the artist field. (Also, there are probably a few other issues that I forgot to mention from thee other pages)
I don't see anyone with an against attitude if we use feat. format....

ziin's "2 or more artist" would also be a good idea.
ziin
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ziin
I have a minor problem with long names.
http://osu.ppy.sh/ss/316633

The only thing I want is a better search.
Jenny
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>Composer as source as in Cosmos for example, source there is "otetsu" which is the composer
emergist
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ziin wrote:

The only thing I want is a better search.
M2.
those
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those
Bump this up. We need to get a consistent way of doing this, seeing how this was left unresolved and is appearing both ways.
Sakura
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Just quoting peppy here from earlier:

09:40 <peppy> the company behind vocaloid prohibits using the name Hatsune Miku as artist
09:40 <peppy> or even feat.
09:40 <peppy> unless you get licensing from them
Shizuroh
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Shizuroh
I don't think this should change, you can see clearly the vocaloid artist that made the song in the top left corner while selecting a beatmap
bomber34
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Sakura wrote:

Just quoting peppy here from earlier:

09:40 <peppy> the company behind vocaloid prohibits using the name Hatsune Miku as artist
09:40 <peppy> or even feat.
09:40 <peppy> unless you get licensing from them
does this mean we have to change already existing Beatmaps?
Sakura
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Any artist/title issues on already ranked maps will have to wait until osz2, so that they can be changed without requiring a redownload
Shizuroh
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new beatmap has KuroUsa-p as artist instead of Hatsune Miku

http://osu.ppy.sh/s/55941
Sakura
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SkyDevil wrote:

new beatmap has KuroUsa-p as artist instead of Hatsune Miku

http://osu.ppy.sh/s/55941
Yes we are aware of it, there was an error in the source or something and when we were discussing it, was when we decided to come back to this thread.
Sakura
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Ammending this, since i forgot earlier, my bad

Also to clarify this will affect all pending/wip/graveyarded maps regardless of submission date, Ranked/Approved can be fixed later when osz2 is out anyways.
The reason for this is that it's only an artist change, and doesnt require any gameplay changes on said maps or any extra mapping work. However changing it on an already ranked map would require all players the need to redownload the map.
Loctav
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Moved to correct subboard.
kurohana
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Hi ~

One question: What should we write at 'artist' at a covered Vocaloid song?
For example this
this
this
If that already has been discussed, I'm sorry >.<
Tenshi
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Tenshi
I think the utaite / cover artist should be labeled because, with Vocaloid composers, it would be implied that a Vocaloid was used.

Also, multiple people make covers of the same song, so it would be really confusing if all the covers were labeled with the composer.
JappyBabes
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JappyBabes


Throwing this in here because it'll probably be ignored in the other thread.
darkmiz
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darkmiz
Example of a typical VOCALOID song uploaded on niconico douga:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18925604
niconico lists these tags for this song: VOCALOID takamatt 456 かごめP GUMI 鏡音レン

These information are displayed above the video:
【GUMI・鏡音レン】 ドラゴンライジング 【オリジナル曲】

【GUMI・Kagamine Len】 Dragon Rising 【Original Song】
(VOCALOID library used) (Song name)

詞・曲：takamatt mylist/15101277
(Lyrics and Composer)

イラスト：456 mylist/32823152
(Illustrator, PV maker)

マスタリング：かごめＰ mylist/13631314
(Audio Mastering)

arien666 wrote:

At lest, we should have respect for composers of these songs...
We should also have respect for the illustrators/PV makers/Audio mastering engineers of these songs.
niconico lists these tags for this song: VOCALOID takamatt 456 かごめP GUMI 鏡音レン
I think all should be added in osu! tag information.


Currently it is common for a mapper to use/steal background pictures from sites such as pixiv without permission or citing the illustrator. People could use more respect.
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kurohana wrote:

Hi ~

One question: What should we write at 'artist' at a covered Vocaloid song?
For example this
this
this
If that already has been discussed, I'm sorry >.<
Well, I would write only the name of the singer of that Vocaloid cover song in artist.
Because in that case, He/She is the real singer and not the creator of the song anyway. :)

Just wondering because, when I write it like this it should be the same for Vocaloid.
The vocaloid is singing the song even if it is a programm, not the creator.
Well I can`t change the rules and it is only my opinion.
ultimafouina
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ultimafouina
Well, I would write only the name of the singer of that Vocaloid cover song in artist.
Because in that case, He/She is the real singer and not the creator of the song anyway.
I don't understand, Miku is the real singer of the original song too, why don't write her name as artist and write the singer's name for a cover, it's illogical.

What bothers me, is that with my 5000 beatmaps, it's really not handy to find a song. When I search Vocaloid songs, I'm going to the name of the Vocaloid in the list, and I find all her songs. I never play Vocaloid songs with other artist names 'cause they are lost in the thousands of beatmaps....

Moreover, know the creator of the song is secondary for me, I think the most important information is the Vocaloid who sings.

Since I'm on Osu, the "mapper"/creator of the song was written in the "Source" field of the map, I think it's really much better like that and really much handy to find the map. Example : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/19887

It' just my opinion, but I hope you will change your point of view on this question, 'cause that's really boring to find a map in those conditions...
those
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those

ultimafouina wrote:

I don't understand, Miku is the real singer of the original song too, why don't write her name as artist and write the singer's name for a cover, it's illogical.

What bothers me, is that with my 5000 beatmaps, it's really not handy to find a song. When I search Vocaloid songs, I'm going to the name of the Vocaloid in the list, and I find all her songs. I never play Vocaloid songs with other artist names 'cause they are lost in the thousands of beatmaps....

Moreover, know the creator of the song is secondary for me, I think the most important information is the Vocaloid who sings.

Since I'm on Osu, the "mapper"/creator of the song was written in the "Source" field of the map, I think it's really much better like that and really much handy to find the map. Example : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/19887

It' just my opinion, but I hope you will change your point of view on this question, 'cause that's really boring to find a map in those conditions...
That's why we have tags. Punch the string "hatsune miku" into the search bar, for example, and you return every map with "hatsune miku" in its metadata.
ultimafouina
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ultimafouina
That's why we have tags. Punch the string "hatsune miku" into the search bar, for example, and you return every map with "hatsune miku" in its metadata.
Yes, I know, but I think it's more handy to have similar maps together. I use the search only when I know the map I want.
Moreover, when you search by tags, you find some bullshits. Like searching "hatsune miku", I find that : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/43409 WTF?!
those
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those

ultimafouina wrote:

I use the search only when I know the map I want.
I currently have 15496 beatmaps available. What about you?

Anyway, derailing. If you have enough reason to change this rule, please start a new thread in this forum.
Scorpiour
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Scorpiour
i don't play vocaloid so don't know how much the rule affected but ..hmm..

generally we use singer but not composer as artist if there's vocal , e.g. we will use "Avril Lavegne" as the artist of the song "Take me away" but not "Evan Taubenfeld", despite vocaloid is not exactly the same, i suppose choose singer as artist is always fine.

why not consider the format like "Megpoid Gumi feats mikitoP" ?
those
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those
Because p/1767683
Flask
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Flask
I think Scorpiour is right ._.
Tenshi
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Tenshi
This is turning into a last.fm debate.

Vocaloid is different from regular music. It's a program used as an instrument, and composers can use multiple Vocaloids. When composers release an album, it's tagged under them rather than the Vocaloid.
ultimafouina
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ultimafouina

those wrote:

If you have enough reason to change this rule, please start a new thread in this forum.
Ok, but why this rule was accepted? Because we're not allowed to wrote a Vocaloid as artist or because Peppy thinks it's better to write the composer's name?
'Cause if we're not allowed, that would be useless to create a new thread about the same thing.
Sathron
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Sathron
What a silly change... Put the creator either in the tags or the source! It's the vocaloid that sings it after all, right?...
ultimafouina
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ultimafouina
I think it's quite unreadable now, the recent Vocaloid tracks are invisible now.

When you see this map : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/32565 you can eventually think that is a Miku song thanks to the picture (even if the Append voice is distrubing), but when you see this one http://osu.ppy.sh/s/49455 you're very strong if you guess it's a Miku song whithout listen it.
And that's it for every Vocaloid song since this rule, for example this one : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/58736 I wasn't expecting a Gumi song.
Or with this one : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/48368 with the new rule, we can think it's a new Souzou Forest map sung by IA, with yuikonnu as composer ..... but it's a cover...

That and what I was saying earlier. For your question, I have 5408 beatmaps, it's less than you, ok, but it's enough to be the mess if this is disorganized .
Ok there are a search function, but it's much handy to go to the Miku's block in the map list. When you have this habit, you only play with the maps in this block, so I think it's a pity to add an useless rule like that.
kurohana
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ultimafouina wrote:

I think it's quite unreadable now, the recent Vocaloid tracks are invisible now.

When you see this map : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/32565 you can eventually think that is a Miku song thanks to the picture (even if the Append voice is distrubing), but when you see this one http://osu.ppy.sh/s/49455 you're very strong if you guess it's a Miku song whithout listen it.
And that's it for every Vocaloid song since this rule, for example this one : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/58736 I wasn't expecting a Gumi song.
Or with this one : http://osu.ppy.sh/s/48368 with the new rule, we can think it's a new Souzou Forest map sung by IA, with yuikonnu as composer ..... but it's a cover...

That and what I was saying earlier. For your question, I have 5408 beatmaps, it's less than you, ok, but it's enough to be the mess if this is disorganized .
Ok there are a search function, but it's much handy to go to the Miku's block in the map list. When you have this habit, you only play with the maps in this block, so I think it's a pity to add an useless rule like that.
I can only agree with you.
It's easier to find a song by miku if they are among, not mixed. Yes i can search, but it's annoying to play a map and search then again...
I have respect to the composers of vocaloid songs, but it's still the vocaloid singing! We wrote the Vocaloid as Artist since i begin to play osu. Why change it now? Anyway, this is strange... I don't understand this new rule...
Mikarunoel131_DELETED
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Sathron wrote:

What a silly change... Put the creator either in the tags or the source! It's the vocaloid that sings it after all, right?...
I think so, too. Even if it is a program, the voaloid is singing, not the creator. Well, I will wait for what will happen.
Sakura
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Sathron wrote:

What a silly change... Put the creator either in the tags or the source! It's the vocaloid that sings it after all, right?...
Vocaloid is an instrument created by the program Vocaloid (or is it Vocaloid 2?), There's no real singer in the song, so like instrumental songs, you use the composer as an artist.
JappyBabes
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JappyBabes
Why does the artist have to be a 'real' singer? Vocaloids are a virtual entity. I'd say that constitutes as being a singer.
Stefan
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Stefan
I just want to point out, why "Artist" is the wrong definition for the Maker of Vocaloid Songs:

Definiton of Artist:
a person who works in one of the performing arts, as an actor, musician, or singer; a public performer: a mime artist; an artist of the dance.
Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/artist

Definition of Musician:
(Music, other) a person who plays or composes music, esp as a profession
Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Musical+artist

Of course, for now, you can nagging me, because Musician would be as Artist correct too, but let's continue this:

Definition of Singer:
a person who sings, especially a trained or professional vocalist.
Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/singer

Definiton of Source:
One that causes, creates, or initiates; a maker.
a person, group, etc., that creates, issues, or originates something
Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/source

It's not just that what I don't like on the new Rule. They are many songs where the creator is not active anymore and could change them for holding the new rule. And how already some/many people mentioned: The names are hard to find. For people with a high interest of the creators of the Vocaloid Songs, it won't be too hard at all to search, but things like HujuniseikouyuuP or Genjitsutouhi-P are totally retarded to set as Artist.

Some more things why I don't agree with this:

darkmiz wrote:

arien666 wrote:

At lest, we should have respect for composers of these songs...
We should also have respect for the illustrators/PV makers/Audio mastering engineers of these songs.
niconico lists these tags for this song: VOCALOID takamatt 456 かごめP GUMI 鏡音レン
I think all should be added in osu! tag information.


This is all what I can say to this. Of course, the Creator of all the vocaloid songs should not get ignored or forgotten, but it's not disrespectful, if you set them as Source. I mean, technically you can call the Source as Creator. Otherwise, Source should have to be Vocaloid, because the creator used this to creator the songs.
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Tanzklaue
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Tanzklaue

Sakura wrote:

Sathron wrote:

What a silly change... Put the creator either in the tags or the source! It's the vocaloid that sings it after all, right?...
Vocaloid is an instrument created by the program Vocaloid (or is it Vocaloid 2?), There's no real singer in the song, so like instrumental songs, you use the composer as an artist.
which is stupid, because nobody on the whole wide world considers the creator as the artist.
I don't think that you should consider Vocaloid as an instrument, it's a voice, and as such the program itself is much more of an artist than in normal synthesizers.
also, the songlisting will get messed up. you have one composer, but 5 different vocaloid, while you searched for example for all miku songs

this whole rule is just confusing, and complicated. it really should be the other way around, since most of us know the vocaloids, but not the composers.
ultimafouina
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ultimafouina

Sakura wrote:

Vocaloid is an instrument created by the program Vocaloid (or is it Vocaloid 2?), There's no real singer in the song, so like instrumental songs, you use the composer as an artist.
If Vocaloid are instruments, why the genre isn't Instrumental? There are "no singers", so instead "Pop" or "Novelty" the genre would be instrumental, isn't it?
A person who doesn't know Vocaloid would never think that is a program, he will just think it is a singer.

That wouldn't bother me if that was just for the informations of the maps, but that highly reduce the maps readability.
NatsumeRin
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NatsumeRin

Sakura wrote:

Sathron wrote:

What a silly change... Put the creator either in the tags or the source! It's the vocaloid that sings it after all, right?...
Vocaloid is an instrument created by the program Vocaloid (or is it Vocaloid 2?), There's no real singer in the song, so like instrumental songs, you use the composer as an artist.
If this rule is not about CRYPTON's copyright issues, it just won't make sense. I want to make clear of this, because vocaloid Characters are known as singers not softwares, you should know this. If not, there's thousands of examples on the internet to get you those information. And it will be a stupid change if this is the only reason to create such a rule.
Sakura
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Sakura
@NatsumeRin: it is about what peppy mentioned, im just pointing out reasons why i disagreed with it being an artist.

@Stefan: Then pray tell what is the correct artist of instrumnetal songs, like videogame music, like for example, Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu or Yoko Shikomura.
Also osu!'s definition of source is not exactly the same as wikipedia, Source is "The Videogame/Movie/Stuff that the song comes from that made it famous" when the song by itself is already famous by itself, there's no source despite if it was used in a movie or videogame or something.
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