Forum:Adding audio

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I have been taking the audio from Pikmin for my own amusement, but I thought that maybe we could add audio files to this wiki. However, I've never seen something like this on Wikipedia, and I remember reading that wikis only support .ogg files. Am I correct with that assumtion, and would adding these files be helpful? If so, it's possible for me to add pretty much every music in the games; it'll take a while, but I love the music that much that I would complete this project.--Prezintenden_(babble)

I suppose it's possible, but might be copyright infringement if it's recorded straight from the game. We would at the very least need a copyright notice thing. But it would take ages to record all the music, as it changes when you're, for example, near beasts, controlling Olimar/Louie/President, near Burgeoning Spiderworts, etc. Also, how are you recording it? Doing so off the air might be bad quality. It's a shame the music is so quiet, which means most people don't realise how great it is (I've turned music to full and sound effects down in the options).GP

I admit, It's a long process. I place the computer beside the TV, link the headphone output to the microphone, crank up the volume and start to walk around doing differen't stuff and (not always, but sometimes) switching captains. Of course, I completely turned off the effects. Still, the quality isn't perfect, but I'd give it a 8/10 (two of them are awful, though; I'll do them again). i'll do alot of testing first, and considering the copyright: we're not charging any money, so I think if anybody didn't like this, they would have warn us first, then we could remove it. Im not into laws, so I'm pretty much just gessing all of this.--Prezintenden_(babble)

What program do you use to capture the audio - I'm just interested. If I were to do this myself, I'd record to DVD and extract the audio, which is quite simple.GP

Uh, I just use the standard audio recorder that comes with windows Vista. Unlike the one from XP, it lets you record for as long as you want. If I want to record a song from the internet, I connect the headphone and microphone from the computer. Kind of primitive, but works perfectly.--Prezintenden_(babble)

I'm sure you could just set the input for the program to 'stereo mix' instead of doing that...but ok. I did research, and it seems the only output is WMA - which could be a problem if it is necessary to convert to OGG, as free audio converters/editors don't generally support WMA due to copyright issues as it technically belongs to Windows. At least, Audacity doesn't, and that's what I use for everything audio. To record, I'd recommend Audacity over that, as it's free, can edit the audio, and save in OGG or MP3.

Now, you could try a test to see what filetypes the wiki will actually accept before converting them all to OGG only to find that MP3 would have sufficed. Also, what sort of page were you thinking of having? What would make it encyclopedic and not a load of music files?GP

I'm all for this, (man you guys are editing machines!), anyway, to keep the music files encyclopedic, you could put them with a corresponding creature. For example, put a Gatling Groink's explosion sound effect on the Gatling Groink page near its image.P.S. I'm sorry that I haven't been on lately, but I've been doing a lot of stuff at home, and the school work has been killer recently.Me_just_in11:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I think Prezintenden's recording music rather than sound effects; I don't know how much use they'd be. Maybe have it with, for example, where Breadbugs having different music is mentioned on their page, or Waterwraith the same. I'll just copy my sandbox comments here in case you missed them:

First, I uploaded a new version of the file to make it smaller: I removed one of the audio tracks to make it mono, as they're both the same.

Okay, after much research I've come to the conclusion that we could either ask for an extension to be installed (example, example), or have something like:

Glutton's Kitchen, final sublevel

More research: the first extension example I gave is the one used on Wikipedia. I will ask on Wikia about having extensions installed.

GP