They're not up at the moment. In my opinion they're good to go, but the label hasn't uploaded the new versions we sent them about four weeks ago as of yet.

I have an odd complaint...

I downloaded the trial of Into the Black Light. I played some of it and was on the edge of buying it and then saw that it was over 9 minutes long. I thought "whoa! nine minutes! That's a great dollar-per-minute ratio!" and then bought it. I was very disappointed when I found out that it was only about 5 minutes long.

Now, I don't know why when you click on "more info" it shows it as being 9 minutes long, but it was very annoying for the situation because not only was the song NOT 9 minutes long, but it didn't deviate from the same thing over and over again (which is fine for a 5 minute song, but not something you'd expect to see from a 9 minute song)

POINT OF THE STORY: Please put up playthrough videos more often.

That time glitch has happened to other songs also, I believe one of the Main Drag songs off the top of my head.

No idea why it would think it's a nine minute song. I'm looking at the RPP now, and there is no extra time on it, and when we play tested it, it ended exactly when it does in the released version (nor did the time remaining on the magma version when it was in audition ever pop up a nine minute remaining window.)

So yeah I have no idea what caused that at all.

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Originally Posted by ThatAuthoringGroup

No idea why it would think it's a nine minute song. I'm looking at the RPP now, and there is no extra time on it, and when we play tested it, it ended exactly when it does in the released version (nor did the time remaining on the magma version when it was in audition ever pop up a nine minute remaining window.)

So yeah I have no idea what caused that at all.

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How long are the audio files you rendered? I think it bases it off that, even if the song ends well before the audio does. (Incidentally, the preview window setting is based off that too, so you can in theory have a preview that's not part of the song at all. Really bad idea, but still.)

I just assumed it set the time off when the [end] event was. That was what indicated the end of the song, but after checking the audio files you're absolutely right.

They go on (even though it's dead space) until 9:17.

I never even realized it did this, and I'll let the team know that the songs metadata is gathered from the audio stems and not the end event.

Been doing this for almost two years now (testing before TAG), and I'm still learning new stuff >_>

Well, nonetheless it was disappointing.

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I downloaded the trial of Into the Black Light. I played some of it and was on the edge of buying it and then saw that it was over 9 minutes long. I thought "whoa! nine minutes! That's a great dollar-per-minute ratio!" and then bought it. I was very disappointed when I found out that it was only about 5 minutes long.

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A song's file size is often a good determiner of "true" song length, too. ItBL weighs in at about 47 MB - and I can't think of a 9+ minute song that's had that small a file size, even among the instrumentals.

It's not an exact science, of course, as there are 5 minute songs out there that range anywhere from 35-50 MB in size.

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Well, nonetheless it was disappointing.

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I bought the song based off the full band autoplay charts that have been on youtube for 4 months. sure they changed a bit, but it still gives you a full view of what almost all of the song will look like.

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I bought the song based off the full band autoplay charts that have been on youtube for 4 months. sure they changed a bit, but it still gives you a full view of what almost all of the song will look like.

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You can also just look up a video of the song.