Hello once again! It's been a good while since I've been able to direct my attention towards this thread so please forgive me if I get some things wrong.
I think it would be beneficial to lay out clearly where this proposal stands as of now, in March 2020 (lol)
- mp3s which have been cut down from an official version of the song by the mapper should be marked with "Cut ver."
- mp3s which have been extended from an official version of the song by the mapper should be marked with "Extended ver."
- the official metadata should always take precedence if the mp3 is official, even if two different official versions have the same metadata, unless it is found appropriate to change it ("TV size" rules apply here?) - I'm thinking of, for example, songs in DDR which have been cut down to under 2 minutes for the purpose of the game, but it is not stated in the official metadata. this is not a cut by the mapper and therefore it has no bearing on this proposal so long as the source is correctly attributed.
Let me reiterate: my entire proposal refers only to mp3s cut by the mapper or someone else made specifically for mapping in osu!. The metadata should make clear how the mp3 has been edited and go some way as to how it has been edited.
There arises a problem where an mp3 is edited somehow in between a shorter official version of the song and an existing official longer version of the song. In my opinion, a song should be considered as "Extended" if it extends the longest official version of the song. A short version is an edit of the mp3 that cuts the song to be shorter than the official shortest version of the song, within reason (if there's some random, obscure preview of the song released somewhere, that shouldn't count, and discretion should be used). Between these two extremes exists an "edit" or "unofficial" tag, maybe? anyone can feel free to agree or disagree with this if they have a better proposal. i am not sure how common this state is in modern mapping.
I think it would be beneficial to lay out clearly where this proposal stands as of now, in March 2020 (lol)
- mp3s which have been cut down from an official version of the song by the mapper should be marked with "Cut ver."
- mp3s which have been extended from an official version of the song by the mapper should be marked with "Extended ver."
- the official metadata should always take precedence if the mp3 is official, even if two different official versions have the same metadata, unless it is found appropriate to change it ("TV size" rules apply here?) - I'm thinking of, for example, songs in DDR which have been cut down to under 2 minutes for the purpose of the game, but it is not stated in the official metadata. this is not a cut by the mapper and therefore it has no bearing on this proposal so long as the source is correctly attributed.
Let me reiterate: my entire proposal refers only to mp3s cut by the mapper or someone else made specifically for mapping in osu!. The metadata should make clear how the mp3 has been edited and go some way as to how it has been edited.
There arises a problem where an mp3 is edited somehow in between a shorter official version of the song and an existing official longer version of the song. In my opinion, a song should be considered as "Extended" if it extends the longest official version of the song. A short version is an edit of the mp3 that cuts the song to be shorter than the official shortest version of the song, within reason (if there's some random, obscure preview of the song released somewhere, that shouldn't count, and discretion should be used). Between these two extremes exists an "edit" or "unofficial" tag, maybe? anyone can feel free to agree or disagree with this if they have a better proposal. i am not sure how common this state is in modern mapping.