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[Frosty555]

Hi all,

I wrote a tool that does ALL of the conversion necessary to make a stepmania simfile R21-ready. It does quite a lot of stuff all automatically.

This is what the tool does all automatically:

1) Converts the MP3 to an OGG file
2) Compresses the OGG the appropriate amount to make it just under 5 megs. Long songs get compressed more. Short songs get better quality!
3) If necessary, it makes the OGG file MONO instead of STEREO. This cuts half the size off the OGG file with a minimal hit to the quality. At the arcade you don't notice that it's the same stuff coming out of both speakers . This happens when the song exceeds about 3 minutes in length. It REALLY beats lowering the quality all the way the heck down.

4) Normalizes the OGG's volume to 100%, intelligently avoiding anomolous "spikes" in the song. <-- so you don't go to the arcade and find your song is too quiet!

3) Applies the OGG Length Patch to the OGG file
4) Replaces ".MP3" with ".OGG" in the SM file
5) Copies only the necessary files (the .SM and the .OGG) to a new "ITGREADY" folder. So your original simfile is left intact and untouched

It can be executed right from the explorer right-click menu, simply by right clicking on a folder and picking "Make Simfile ITG Ready".

Or you can use the little gui I made.

Or you can run it raw from the command line.

The only caveat is you must install it in C:\SM2ITG. Nowhere else will work because the various BATCH files require that all the tools are in that folder.

So... is anyone interested in this? I'll post a link:

http://www.kleincs.com/files/sm2itg.zip

This is the first version. I expect there may be bugs. But I've tested it thoroughly on my own system and everything seems to be working fine.
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[Frosty555]

Version 1.1 is here!! With some bug fixes and new features!


I am keeping proper revision notes on RGCANADA.COM.

I'm not gonna copy myself on every forum so go here to see the revisions:
http://rgcanada.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=7185&p=200542#p200542
You can redownload the file from the same place, the same link.

[InuYasha86000]

I don't know if your doing this anymore but it would be nice if you started doing it again. I love it, it works great, but I have a couple suggestions:
1:have it convert .dwi files into .sm files
2:maybe fix up the audio aplification, I find it tends to make some files clip. I hope there's a new version out soon.
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[Frosty555]

Full revisions and modifications are being kept up to date on RGCanada.com's forums.

Here: http://rgcanada.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=7185


We're up to v1.5 now, and DWI to SM support has been implemented.

If you're having serious volume clipping issues, you can tweak the parameters to the "NORMALIZE.EXE" call in the doonemp3.bat file inside the archive. It should amplify to 98% volume level. You can tweak it to match your requirements.
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[Frosty555]

SM2ITG v2.0 - Complete Rewrite is Available with All New Features!

Download it here

Alright, a new version is available! This is a complete rewrite of the software and does a LOT more new things. DWI to SM support has been added, as well as a much more advanced audio amplification system.

Now, it will amplify the quiet parts of your song MORE, so that they are loud at the arcade. No more inaudible quiet parts of simfiles anymore.


Full features:

1) Convert music to OGG format, with the correct bitrate / sample rate that the machine expects
2) Amplify the music to 100% volume (or any volume level of your choice)
3) Amplify the quiet parts of the song extra, making the whole simfile at the same volume
4) Compress the OGG the appropriate amount to make it just under 5 megs, so it will work on your key
5) If necessary, make the ogg MONO instead of STEREO. This cuts the size in half and makes really super long songs sound a LOT better
6) Applies the OGG Length Patch to the simfile
7) Converts all images to PNG format, and renames them and resizes them to the right format
Identifies the banner/background/cdtitle and properly links it in the SM file - taking care of case-sensitivity which matters on the ITG cabinets
9) Automatic banner generator - to create banners for simfiles that are missing graphics. Completely customizable with background and font/color
10) Automatically convert from DWI to SM format
11) Copies the transliterated song name/artist/subtitle and uses that - since arcade machines can't handle romanized characters (japanese characters)
12) Strip out the BGChanges or CDTitles from songs
13) Alters the offset of the song to compensate for song conversion - stops your simfiles from being offsync at the arcade!
14) Adds blank "lights-cabinet" steps to the simfile, to prevent the cabinet lights from flashing and giving everyone seizures on expert steps



Again, go to RGCanada.com's thread to download. Since I'm keeping it up to date the most there.

http://rgcanada.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=7185


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[Solon Halwinder]

I can't believe it didn't occur to me to use this when I was converting files to hack onto a machine. Great tool.
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[Solon Halwinder]

OK, I finally got this installed on my personal machine (been using it on my parents') and I'm having trouble. The SM2ITG converter application worked for a few sessions, but now sometimes hangs at the splash screen, takes an extremely long time (half-an-hour-plus) to load when it DOES load, and lags quite badly. I'm using Windows XP Home SP3, with .Net Framework v3.0. Any idea what might be wrong? (I'm downloading the .Net Framework v3.5 SP1 now, will that help?)
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[LucaBrazi]

Well done!
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