As one might’ve expected from yesterday’s posting about FolderShare, I’ve spent considerable time today merging the new files into my playlist and cleaning things up. I had actually transferred more of the music on to here than I had previously thought, with less than 50% of the 10 Gigs actually being new. The most significant things missing from my collection on here were the three CDs of Lord of the Rings soundtracks, and the four CD Final Fantasy X soundtrack.

Update and Aside to justify my putting FFX pictures somewhat gratuitously in this post: A few months ago I ended up created an MP3 DVD for D&D sessions, but ultimately ended up running out of appropriate music to put on it — I started off with some ambient-ish and non-lyrical folk style music on there, as well as some soundtracks. Towards the end, though, I ended up putting on a 15 CD collection of Chopin piano music and other music that’s not really theme-appropriate for gaming sessions. I’m considering putting these two soundtracks on there, but they’re somewhat distinctive and might distract from the game.

Still, I suppose it’s better than having Chopin’s Nocturne’s come on when everyone is already getting tired. It’s actually fairly amusing because our usual play routine tends to correspond pretty well with the DVD I set up — It begins with, I believe, Alio Die, which is ambient, as everyone gets settled. That continues on for awhile until we reach the Berserk: Chapter of the Millenium Falcon soundtrack, which starts off intensely and usually corresponds to some sort of dramatic situation or combat. Then that tapers off into Chopin. We’ve been playing at a friends’ house and he has an older DVD player there that can barely play my MP3 DVD, so we usually don’t fiddle with it to fast forward, although we did change venues recently and now have a DVD player that’s much better. Last session we used the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys soundtrack, which is probably altogether more fitting for your standard D&D anyway.

Anyway, I wonder if the Final Fantasy X soundtrack really goes with the environment I want to evoke. The soundtrack definitely carries hintings of the island theme, and I’m not sure if that entirely fits what I’m going for. It’s also got those familiar melodies that I’m sure all of us in the group have heard a hundred times. I’m leaning towards not using it because of these reasons, but I’m trying to talk myself into it just because I enjoy it so much. Maybe I can slip it in on the DVD as regional background music for if my players ever travel to the islands in the campaign world. Now that would be fun…

A surprisingly large amount of my music collection on the other computer seems to be scattered tracks from here and there — Unusual because I’ve been an album completist for at least four years now and because I felt like my music library on the other computer was more organized than it is on this one. A lot of these random tracks are just songs or remixes I particularly liked, but a few have a bit more sentimental value. Here’s a track I helped some guys make a few years ago: The Hidden Loom. Though not exactly great, when I listen to it again after such a period of separation I’m slightly heartened by how it seems better to me now than it did when we were making it. Makes me want to get into creating music again … I’m sorely tempted.