Sparhten wrote:
If you do not beatmap the last 20% of your beatmapset's audio file, it must be cut. The intro time is not included. This does not apply if more than 20% of the outro is occupied by a storyboard/video.
dong wrote:
if someone cuts more than 20% off the end of their beatmap in order to comply with this ruling, then my proposal will come into effect, and a denomination will be required in the title (less than 20% you'd surely just not cut the song and have an end skip, right? then it's fine)
I'm a bit confused by this answer considering last time you said that the rule would not apply in this case:
dong wrote:
yeah, I can compromise if this is done specifically because the outro is a looping part of the music and you wish to cut it to meet that 20% threshold.
Anyway, the main problem about this proposal is still the huge contradiction that would result from it. With the introduction of (Cut Ver.), players are expecting songs without any markers to be the full version, but official cuts that don't include any markers such as (Short Ver.) would not be distinguishable and therefore misleading, for example beatmapsets/964002 has the same metadata as beatmapsets/132392.
dong wrote:
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).
This is also conflicting because it would mean that cuts from the full version of a song would not be covered by the rule. Besides, cutting TV size songs or other versions of similar length is generally discouraged so this point doesn't really make sense I think.
Another problem is the (Extended Ver.) marker. Some songs have this marker in their official metadata source, for example beatmapsets/551831. How would you distinguish officially extended versions with this marker from unofficially extended ones?
This leads back to my previous point about already existing markers like (Full Ver.) needing to be removed when cutting said version. This sort of exceptions would need to be addressed in the wording of the rule.
All in all, the implementation of this rule would cause more harm than good.