Titling tracks by LouieG at 12:13 AM EDT on September 29, 2016
I've been wondering lately for games that don't have ingame jukeboxes/music players or official OST releases, how are track names obtained? I assume it varies by game, but are they in game files/the track's data? Or for games with no track titles at all are they made up and become commonly accepted?
by DarioEMeloD at 12:47 AM EDT on September 30, 2016
I think it depends on the context of the game, for example "Character Theme" or "Stage Something", just like many games that do have soundtracks or jukeboxes. Sometimes fans have different names for them though (Golden Sun), even if the game has a soundtrack (Phoenix Wright).
by TheUltimateKoopa at 11:18 PM EDT on September 30, 2016
Sometimes, I think people like to give them names that sound like a soundtrack name. Of course some of these can end up being slightly odd. For example, there's a rip of Donkey Kong Land, which has very strange titles, such as, for example, instead of simply "Mountain", or maybe "Mountain Theme", or "Mountain Mayhem" (after the first stage with this music), it's "That Part That's Like A Cave, Only Higher". This is most likely because "Boss Theme" is so generic and uninteresting to them.
by LouieG at 1:09 AM EDT on October 2, 2016
That sounds about right, though I feel like for example, Pocket Card Jockey's music would be more uniquely named than Mario Golf: World Tour's music. (Though it does turn out PCJ got an OST release in Japan.) Either way, I don't really know what I should be doing for games without official sources for names.
by nothingtosay at 3:26 AM EDT on October 2, 2016
Just name them things that make sense. If a track plays in one stage only, name it after that stage. If it plays during scenes with a certain mood, maybe name it after that mood. I prefer not to get too out there when I come up with names.

Sometimes I'll download someone's rip and wonder what they were thinking with naming. Sometimes people like to go overboard with tildes, like some Japanese soundtracks do and it comes off to me as kinda trying too hard. But really, most of the time the composers don't name the tracks unless they're responsible for the soundtrack release. They'll often just be numbered or brief descriptive filenames on a game's disc, with real titles made later by someone else. So basically, it's always arbitrary.


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